tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post4040261312406902310..comments2024-03-28T00:01:43.037-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: On the Gilets JaunesGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-33835057038170089692018-12-17T11:15:37.639-05:002018-12-17T11:15:37.639-05:00It'd be kinda cool to design the T like one of...It'd be kinda cool to design the T like one of the yellow vests, a T-shirt version of the vest, basically. Then have the text printed in bright red, maybe.<br /><br />An alternative might be a gray-scale version of the yellow vests, then the text itself in yellow, or white.Tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-63851503442088503622018-12-15T04:24:11.980-05:002018-12-15T04:24:11.980-05:00"Overcentralized authority produces incoheren..."Overcentralized authority produces incoherent, spontaneous protest."<br /><br />I think that I would by the T-shirt that had that imprinted. I may have to make one myself. Much as I hate fluorescent yellow, that might be the correct color for said shirt. Or maybe just the text, on a dark grey background.douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03241790925053112959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-33840293980865878052018-12-13T12:35:23.817-05:002018-12-13T12:35:23.817-05:00Adam Gopnik's article would probably be more p...Adam Gopnik's article would probably be more practical for the incoming Congress to read than Aristotle.<br /><br />But equally likely they'll read neither.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-88449193020139670082018-12-12T19:06:54.412-05:002018-12-12T19:06:54.412-05:00Just ordered it on Audible! I need vast hours of a...<i>Just ordered it on Audible! I need vast hours of audio books to fold a million Moravian stars by.</i><br /><br />I hope you enjoy it - I was introduced to it by the library's mystery book club. Next up, the mystery book club is reading <i>Girl Waits With Gun</i>. And I'm working my way back through Charlaine Harris' Aurora Teagarden mysteries (cozies that turn dark somewhere in the series) with a surprisingly enjoyable side-trip to her <i>An Easy Death</i> (Wild West with a heck of a twist). Elisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594477709835944165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-27507199441143355152018-12-12T12:55:01.353-05:002018-12-12T12:55:01.353-05:00"Overcentralized authority produces incoheren..."Overcentralized authority produces incoherent, spontaneous protest."<br /><br />When I was a college freshman, there was a minor controversy over our dorm rules which I nevertheless remember feeling extremely strongly about, in the way of 18-year-olds chafing under adult restrictions. I geared myself up into protest mode and got a meeting with the house master, a faculty member assigned to administer that dorm, one of 8 on campus. He listened to my impassioned outburst, then observed mildly that I seemed to have very strong feelings on the subject. (He was really a very nice man; on another occasion he comforted a fellow resident whose father had died suddenly, and got her back from shocked collapse to an ability to make arrangements to travel home and deal with the tragedy.) Anyway, to this day I remember the stunned sense of relief I had upon the experience of simply being listened to. Suddenly I became rational again. We reached a simple accommodation that fixed the problem without having to escalate to the Board of Trustees or anything equally silly, like campus-wide riots.<br /><br />There's a lot to be said for decentralized power and rational local solutions crafted face-to-face. It's one reason I ran for local office. I think it's the job of local governments to resolve local disputes so successfully that no state or federal authority need ever intervene.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-16954430041319227632018-12-12T12:35:18.761-05:002018-12-12T12:35:18.761-05:00Just ordered it on Audible! I need vast hours of ...Just ordered it on Audible! I need vast hours of audio books to fold a million Moravian stars by.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-89327195073755351822018-12-12T11:24:25.048-05:002018-12-12T11:24:25.048-05:00There is a nice little book by Martin Walker: Brun...There is a nice little book by Martin Walker: <i>Bruno, Chief of Police Investigation</i>. It's set in the Perigord region of France and a part of Bruno's duties is to help the street market vendors of his town get early warning of the food inspectors from the central government, sent to enforce the EU rules about cheese and eggs and wine and every other food the local French make, sell, buy, and enjoy.<br /><br />Much of the resistance to these rules is peaceful (shutting down food stalls when the inspectors are spotted, lying about what the unstamped eggs are for) but some is more violent (slashed tires on the inspectors' cars, sugar in the engines). It reads like the current and, according to the second article cited, previous, protests, writ small.Elisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594477709835944165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-61388575505462836802018-12-12T02:19:46.180-05:002018-12-12T02:19:46.180-05:00That's for sure.That's for sure.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-45607102409234408582018-12-11T22:03:10.842-05:002018-12-11T22:03:10.842-05:00Yellowjackets sting above their weight class.Yellowjackets sting above their weight class.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.com