Sep 27, 2020 President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale was hospitalized Sunday following reports of a suicide attempt at his Florida home, CNN has learned.
The propaganda schools in Moscow learned an important lesson in international politics from the Sacco-Vanzetti agitation. Griefs and discontents, properly stimulated and directed, were more effective than armies in the world struggle for power. Old Friends cut you on the street. [...] This sort of controversy wasn’t in my line. For one thing I could never convince myself enough of the rightness of my own opinions properly to take out after my opponents. I could never quite get used to people I thought were friends getting sore at me personally instead of at my reprehensible opinions. I kept remembering a motto lettered over the entrance of the Carcel Modelo in Madrid: “Abhor the crime but pity the criminal.” ... The ideological rumbles around the Sacco-Vanzetti case and the New Playwrights’ Theatre got my head to spinning so I decided to pull out of New York for a while. I craved fresh air and I had to have some sleep. After a short visit to my halfbrother James down in the Northern Neck of Virginia, I started on a walk through Gotham Pass in the mountains west of Lexington. An early snowstorm hit me crossing Warm Springs Mountain. It was a delight to discover, arriving there footsore, weary and wet, that a little inn was operating in the old Warm Springs courthouse and that you could swim in the mineral pools across the road. Swimming alone at dusk in the warm clear water of the deep pool was an unforgettable pleasure. The octagonal frame spring house looked as if it dated from the time of Jefferson. Snowflakes drifted in through an opening in the roof. Nobody in the Virginia mountains had ever heard of Sacco and Vanzetti or Marx or expressionism in the theater. If they had they didn’t give a damn. What a relief!
Never been so happy as when I turned off my social media for three days and started reading books again.
Sep 27, 2020 President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale was hospitalized Sunday following reports of a suicide attempt at his Florida home, CNN has learned.
The propaganda schools in Moscow learned an important lesson in international politics from the Sacco-Vanzetti agitation. Griefs and discontents, properly stimulated and directed, were more effective than armies in the world struggle for power. Old Friends cut you on the street. [...] This sort of controversy wasn’t in my line. For one thing I could never convince myself enough of the rightness of my own opinions properly to take out after my opponents. I could never quite get used to people I thought were friends getting sore at me personally instead of at my reprehensible opinions. I kept remembering a motto lettered over the entrance of the Carcel Modelo in Madrid: “Abhor the crime but pity the criminal.” ... The ideological rumbles around the Sacco-Vanzetti case and the New Playwrights’ Theatre got my head to spinning so I decided to pull out of New York for a while. I craved fresh air and I had to have some sleep. After a short visit to my halfbrother James down in the Northern Neck of Virginia, I started on a walk through Gotham Pass in the mountains west of Lexington. An early snowstorm hit me crossing Warm Springs Mountain. It was a delight to discover, arriving there footsore, weary and wet, that a little inn was operating in the old Warm Springs courthouse and that you could swim in the mineral pools across the road. Swimming alone at dusk in the warm clear water of the deep pool was an unforgettable pleasure. The octagonal frame spring house looked as if it dated from the time of Jefferson. Snowflakes drifted in through an opening in the roof. Nobody in the Virginia mountains had ever heard of Sacco and Vanzetti or Marx or expressionism in the theater. If they had they didn’t give a damn. What a relief!
Never been so happy as when I turned off my social media for three days and started reading books again. Ciao, losers!