“Having It All; A History of Global Consumption”
Book Reviewed by Victoria de Grazia:
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, From the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First by Frank Trentmann. Harper, 2016, 880 pp.
Read Foreign Affairs, July/August 2016, vol. 95, no. 4 at 70, “The Case for Offshore Balancing” by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt.
https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/06/23/delegating-management-in-the-wake-of-brexit-vote
1974 Sundown, you better take care…I get feeling better when I’m feeling no pain. “You don’t have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore!”
“I’m sorry.”
“How you doing today?” asked the son, two gold earrings, one bright one in each ear.
“Not that bad, not that good.” I didn’t want to give up my two dollar croissant sandwich at Burger King, the raison d’etre for my being there. Coupon $1.49.
Who did they learn to flirt from I wonder?
https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/06/22/i-learned-how-to-flirt-from-young-women
Don’t believe the Brexit premise, but have noticed Britains [sic] are often verbose and wandering like a country road.
The computer and twitter, like the Gutenberg press before it, have standardized American prose into shorter, less Alfie-like digressions.
Perhaps being hung out to dry with one’s own words in the U.S. “Whatever you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.” 5th Amendment downside: when you do say something dumbshit, we’s gonna fry you wid it. NIGYYSOB: Transactional Analysis for Now I’ve Got You You Son of a Bitch. The Queen tolerates Brits and me too. Amazing land of freer speech. Aldous Huxley and George Orwell made a difference.
https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/06/22/a-brexit-from-eu-would-mean-u-s-uk-rapprochment
“It’s not where you’ve been, but where you are.”
“It’s not where you are but where you’re going!” –Leonardo DaVinci
“Be here now.”–Ram Dass
“What we have here, is a failure to communicate.”–Country Joe
“Diversity is overrated?”
“Be here now.”
“Hear hear! Now what about factions with guns.”
“Militias are enumerated in the Constitution.”
“What about enemy combatants?”
“We just take their guns away.”–Rudy Giuliani
“My beef is not with you Michael.”–Speculative Fiction, Charlton Heston to Michael Moore.
Some women are said to have penis-envy. Methinks Michael Moore, a Canadian, may have Second Amendment envy.
https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/06/22/michaelmoore-liberal-barbarian-at-the-gate
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