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Vaughn Vreeland of the New York Times |
We are living through a great turning point in the history of the world. The sunlit world of peace, prosperity, and progress - on the whole and in the main, despite all its flaws and failures - that our fathers fought for is disintegrating before our eyes. Instead, hateful right-wing dictatorships are arising all around the world, hand in hand with fundamentalist religion, willful ignorance, arbitrary cruelty, and the worship of Mammon. Liberty has dropped her lamp, and Justice her scales.
The human race, led by fools, frauds, and fanatics, seems to be in a race to the bottom, sinking back to a lower level of civilization that we thought we had left far behind us. And worse is to come, perhaps. I fear that the 21st century will make the 20th look like a Sunday-school picnic.
No one should take my words as a counsel of despair, but rather as an urgent warning. In any case, I can't do anything about it, and right now I need to come up for air and clear my head. So I'm taking a break from nausea, disgust, and political blogging - for how long, who knows.
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In this mortal life, we have to take the bitter with the sweet, and we should certainly enjoy the sweet parts while we can. It just so happens that a certain foodist in New York has got a sweet shade of orange for you to try - oh, Mary, don't ask!
We both love carrot cake, but I don't care for raisins. M.P., however, thinks it would be super.
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2 comments:
I do like carrot cake. I just gained ten pounds watching.
P.S. I don't think my Social Security check would buy me that jersey.
?? - I'm not sure what you mean. unless you think it came from one of those high-hat stores they up there, like Nieman Marcus down here. When my first husband and I were in Boston in '92, we wandered through one of them in some mall - $400 shirts, $100 ties! Outrageous!
The shirt looks very plain and ordinary to me - like one of those Ban-Lon shirts so popular in the 1960s (I had a red one). It's not worth $400 or whatever the price may be. But you know what they say about fools and their money.
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