To find there but the road back home again
And then last night I slept ten hours. I hope I haven't broken something. Have some links.
1. Courtesy of a friend who is not on Dreamwidth: Unleash the Archers, "Northwest Passage." Otherwise known as a female-led power metal cover of Canada's unofficial national anthem, wherein Stan Rogers is surprisingly well served by blast beats. I kind of want to hear them take on "Barrett's Privateers." I like the many-worlds band-tour video, too.
2. I knew of several female scientists of the Manhattan Project, but somehow I had missed Elizabeth Rona until her insistence on buying her own PPE—and surviving more than one radioactive laboratory explosion because of it—came up relevantly elsenet. I'd love to get hold of her professional memoir, but I suspect that was a project for the days when I had access to academic libraries.
3. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
moon_custafer: an important PSA about left-wing anti-intellectualism. Includes a nice recommendation for an Egyptology blog.
4. To be honest, since he had been involved in the premieres of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960) and War Requiem (1961), I had no idea until his obituary that harpist Osian Ellis had still been around, but I was absolutely delighted to learn he had also played for The Goon Show (1951–60).
5. Courtesy ofspatch: regarding the death of Rush Limbaugh, it's time once again for these valuable words.
1. Courtesy of a friend who is not on Dreamwidth: Unleash the Archers, "Northwest Passage." Otherwise known as a female-led power metal cover of Canada's unofficial national anthem, wherein Stan Rogers is surprisingly well served by blast beats. I kind of want to hear them take on "Barrett's Privateers." I like the many-worlds band-tour video, too.
2. I knew of several female scientists of the Manhattan Project, but somehow I had missed Elizabeth Rona until her insistence on buying her own PPE—and surviving more than one radioactive laboratory explosion because of it—came up relevantly elsenet. I'd love to get hold of her professional memoir, but I suspect that was a project for the days when I had access to academic libraries.
3. Courtesy of
moon_custafer: an important PSA about left-wing anti-intellectualism. Includes a nice recommendation for an Egyptology blog.4. To be honest, since he had been involved in the premieres of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960) and War Requiem (1961), I had no idea until his obituary that harpist Osian Ellis had still been around, but I was absolutely delighted to learn he had also played for The Goon Show (1951–60).
5. Courtesy of
spatch: regarding the death of Rush Limbaugh, it's time once again for these valuable words.
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“You obviously did not look any too carefully at what was actually written there, or why. You are welcome to try again: You might get the message this time.”
… But now I doubt it. Minds, like parachutes, only work when open.
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You must have been banned by another commenter, since I have not banned you from my journal. I am just now seeing this conversation, which feels a little as though a grenade has gone off in my living room.
You have said many gracious things about the quality of my mind over the course of your comments on my journal, so I hope you can take its judgments seriously. I too found little of value in Limbaugh's shock-jock language of feminazis, false flags, and slippery slopes; I am not sure it was ever necessary to establish the discourse of fake news as a political tactic. I would have said as much originally. Since the conversation seems to have moved on from Limbaugh, however: I can take what seems to be the point of your alternate history that had the Civil War ended in full division, racism might have carried the day even more violently in the Union than did Reconstruction in our actual history and the Confederacy might have ironically found itself the more ethnically diverse of the two halves of the once-United States, but since it is still a fantasia in which there are no Black Americans, I cannot imagine it was any more pleasant for
In the seventeen years I have had this journal—first on LJ, then on DW—I have banned two people, both times for stalking me. I leave it to you whether you wish to continue interacting in my space. You have been supportive of me and I have appreciated it; I don't wish you to hurt people I care for and I am distressed and somewhat disenchanted that you have. If they no longer wish to interact with you, it is not a failing on their parts. None of these words is a warning. I recognize that if you consider me a closed parachute, I cannot change your mind, either.
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The context of that ‘alt history’ was a trendy required “diversity” assignment on a dictated topic that I found racist and offensive. (As you have mentioned it, imagine being required to write of what poisonous toadstools Jews are! Right.)
My response was along the lines of “Be careful what you ask for” - if I'm to write only of what damage whites have done, allow me to acquaint you with some little-known history… (“Lynching” was a Northern practice, as in New York in 1864 among many others, and unknown in the South - until it was imported at bayonet-point.)
But NONE of this is relevant here! It should never have appeared here! I did not start this problem and your censure should be on the one who did.
That is all I have or wish to say on this. Let this pass with its instigator - away.
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I am glad it is your last word on the subject. I suspect you are correct that you should have stepped away from this conversation sooner: it is not a concession to choose not to escalate. As it is, your continuation has insulted—ad hominem—someone who may be a stranger to you, but whom I count among my friends. The people who appear in my comments generally are. Please give that consideration when it comes to your methods of disagreement. I have studied honor cultures, but I prefer not to live in them.
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