..........................and we might make a dent in this. Worth trying anyway.
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Showing posts with label Cigars. Show all posts
Saturday, August 10, 2024
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
If I could have after-dinner cigars and drinks........
.................with ten people I only know from the Intertunnel, Martin Gurri would be on the list.
And, when you think about it, the news media itself is something like an anxiety dream being dreamed by the articulate classes. Nobody should confuse the news with reality. Attention is fixed steadily on the predatory violence of the human animal, the record of war, crime and exploitation: with journalism, we are always a moment away from snapping awake, screaming. Sometime during the Trump years, that mood swallowed the internet. Once the gathering place of a peasant revolt, the web took on the rage, pettiness and mendacity of elite media and has since degenerated into the dictatorship of the rant.
-Martin Gurri, as culled from here
Saturday, August 18, 2018
Sunday, June 19, 2016
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Writer................................
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was a busy man. He was a world traveler, polo player, soldier, war correspondent, politician, member of Parliament, government official (President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, First Lord of the Admiralty Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Air, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and lest we forget, Prime Minister), statesman, historian, writer, speaker, author, painter, and noted aficionado of cigars. He was Adolf Hitler's foremost opponent, a symbol of determination and defiance, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and pretty much a walking contradiction. While politics, public service and leadership in time of war may be what Churchill is best known for, the man never stopped writing (or giving dictation, if you prefer). His output was considerable. While this list may not be complete, it will give an idea as to his fascination with the written word.
The River War (1899)
Savrola (1900, serialised 1899 and published USA 1899)
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (1900)
Ian Hamilton's March (1900)
Mr. Brodrick’s Army (1903)
Lord Randolph Churchill (1906)
For Free Trade (1906)
My African Journey (1908)
Liberalism and the Social Problem (1909)
The People’s Rights (1910)
The World Crisis (1923-1931)
My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)
India (1931)
Thoughts and Adventures (Amid These Storms) (1932)
Marlborough: His Life and Times (1933-1938)
Great Contemporaries (1937)
While England Slept: A Survey of World Affairs, 1932-1938 (1938)
Step by Step 1936-1939 (1939)
Addresses Delivered in the Year 1940 (1940)
Broadcast Addresses (1941)
Into Battle (Blood Sweat and Tears) (1941)
The Unrelenting Struggle (1942)
The End of the Beginning (1943)
Onwards to Victory (1944)
The Dawn of Liberation (1945)
Victory (1946)
Secret Sessions Speeches (1946)
War Speeches 1940-1945 (1946)
The Second World War (1948-1954)
The Gathering Storm (1948)
Their Finest Hour (1949)
The Grand Alliance (1950)
The Hinge of Fate (1950)
Closing the Ring (1951)
Triumph and Tragedy (1953)
The Sinews of Peace (1948)
Painting as a Pastime (1948)
Europe Unite (1950)
In the Balance (1951)
The War Speeches 1939-1945 (1952)
Stemming the Tide (1953)
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956-1958)
The Birth of Britain
The New World
The Age of Revolution
The Great Democracies
The Unwritten Alliance (1961)
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