Monthly Archives: October 2009

Rethink in Review: October 2009

My apolo­gies that I didn’t blog more on polit­i­cal phi­los­o­phy this month — I didn’t really read that much offline, just Plato’s Charmides (and a dense com­men­tary on that by Benardete) and a reread of Xenophon’s On Tyranny (fin­ish­ing up the com­men­tary by Strauss right now). I also think I com­pleted a reread of the …

October 31, 2009 – 7:39 am | By ashok | Posted in blogging, links | Comments (0)

“Ivywall of Sparrows,” Amy King

Ivy­wall of Spar­rows (from MiPOe­sias) Amy King for Rob Davis I missed you at the cof­fee shop before sun­rise, so I went along with a to-go in hand all the way to Clin­ton and Jerole­mon, where the sub­way juts up from the earth’s eye socket, & from the cor­ner of my own, I twisted toward the …

October 30, 2009 – 9:41 am | By ashok | Posted in poetry | Tagged | Comments (6)

A Sample of What American Political Life Needs Far More of

NRO’s Jim Ger­aghty reports that the two major can­di­dates for gov­er­nor in Vir­ginia, McDon­nell ® and Deeds (D), were asked the fol­low­ing by a mag­a­zine [orig­i­nal]: Can you name one good rea­son that some­one should vote for your oppo­nent? I’ve put their responses in the block­quote below: DEEDS: [Long pause] You know, I can name you …

October 29, 2009 – 10:35 am | By ashok | Posted in links, politics | Comments (3)

Links, 10/28/09

First two links are from aldaily.com. His­to­ri­ans Reassess Bat­tle of Agin­court — The older view, fta: Based on chron­i­cles that he con­sid­ers to be broadly accu­rate, Clif­ford J. Rogers, a pro­fes­sor of his­tory at the United States Mil­i­tary Acad­emy at West Point, argues that Henry was in fact vastly out­num­bered. For the Eng­lish, there were about …

October 28, 2009 – 9:38 am | By ashok | Posted in links | Comments (0)

Soaked

It’s soaked out­side: it rained on and off all day yes­ter­day, and that is con­tin­u­ing today. I love the color of the sky, but it is a blank with no sense of tex­ture, noth­ing for the eye to wan­der to. How­ever: look­ing at the soggy ground and the soggy objects all around makes things seem gloomier …

October 28, 2009 – 9:03 am | By ashok | Posted in personal | Comments (2)