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Egoism Individualism Sovereignty Splendor (These ideas are explicated in this sloppy manifesto) SplendorQuotes: Splendor is the interior experience of being so enthralled by the act of creating the values that contribute to and ultimately comprise your idealized perfect self that, while you are experiencing it, you are your idealized perfect self. Living is what you're doing when you're too enthralled to notice. Dying is what you're doing when all you can do is notice. Man is the only animal capable of comprehending what his life requires, and he is the only animal capable of failing to do what his life requires. Self-love is the joy and reverence you earn and deserve by the relentless pursuit of your deepest desire. Self-esteem is the high regard in which you presume to hold yourself in appreciation for the accomplishment of absolutely nothing. Greg Swann's writings Wild Cochise Gang: Our family pages and Christmas cards Read my free e-book about love, splendor and philosophy, The Unfallen My Myers-Briggs type is ESTJ: Administrator--Much in touch with the external environment. Very responsible. Pillar of strength. 8.7% of population. Take a free Myers-Briggs personality test. War with Iraq: The Cain Doctrine The 'wrest' of the story Taking a better grip Why the Bush Doctrine will prevail--and fail A Just and Libertarian war... Persephone's second coming... presence of the recent past Nick and Norm drive the point home A Costco family Christmas Hang tough The season's greetings Curing the incuriosity of the East A canticle for Kathleen Sullivan Colloquy with a goat Back-handing the sinister American left To Condi, with sweetness Reds Sacrificing Diana Defusing the Unabomber Let 'em eat steak Shyly's delight Anastasia in the light and shadow Archives Join the email update list 
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Friday, June 11, 2004
Desdemona wants to go for a ride... My wife and a bunch of other people have sent me links to this article, a deathgrip-on-the-obvious piece about the talent dogs have for pattern-matching to words--or hand signals, for that matter--as anyone who has ever trained a dog can readily attest: The team noted that dogs have evolved with humans and have been selected for their ability to respond to the communications of people.Duh. What is interesting to me about dogs--and other mammals--is not words but will. My girl Desdemona has fractional control over her ears. She can listen with extreme--and very becoming--care when she anticpates she might be about to hear words that signal forthcoming events she really, really wants to undertake--and the important word in that sentence is not "listen" or "words" but "wants". Animals express wants by willful actions, and this, not pattern matching to consistent--but to them essentially random--cues, is the way that they are most like human beings. Tuesday, June 08, 2004
But exactly... We're going to 'honor' Ronald Reagan by giving the Federal apparatchik leech mafia a three-day weekend with pay. Monument builders all over are straining at new boondoggles to splatter the man's name on. Per newsmax.com, some of these idiots want to replace Alexander Hamilton, the Founder of the American Branch of Rotarian Kleptocracy, with Reagan's mug on the ten dollar bill. And all of this should recall to us all that, whatever his huge virtues, Ronald Reagan was still a Republican, a socialist-on-the-cheap. And so we have this: An alternative being floated: keeping FDR on the dime but adding Reagan to the other side.In the end, flip sides of the same coin. A thoughtful people wouldn't need such a blunt reminder... Sunday, June 06, 2004
BetterVegas: BiggerVegas... I've been bubbling with this all weekend. I expect that few people share my fascination for all things Vegas, but this is huge: In what would be a marriage of gaming industry titans, MGM Mirage announced late Friday that it has offered to buy Mandalay Resort Group for $7.65 billion.MGM Mirage would control three of the four corners of Tropicana at the Strip: MGM Grand, New York-New York and Excalibur. The article speculates that MGM might implode Excalibur, an immense piece of land. Circus-Circus also joins the Deathwatch, an even bigger piece of land. Mandalay still has one more parcel of land on the Mandalay Mile, South of Mandalay Bay at the Russel Road exit on the Freeway. And even now Boyd Gaming and Coast Casinos are merging, which should bring high explosives to the Stardust, another huge piece of land. All of this could bring really big changes to the Strip over the next ten years. Very exciting stuff. |
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