when the moon hits your eye
like a big-a pizza pie
that’s m-m-amore
when the world seems to shine
like you’ve had too much wine
that’s m-m-amore

when the stars make you drool
joost-a like pasta fazool
that’s m-m-amore

when you dance down the street
with a cloud at your feet, you’re in love
when you walk in a dream
but you know you’re not dreamin’, signore
‘scusami, but you see
back in old napoli, that’s m-m-amore

p.s. lovely lysander sunders the con-stitution, so is one of the top coaches for establishing correct m-m-amore…..

Great column, and I agree.

Why vote for Rombama? B/c he might accidentally do something not malicious and nasty. That’s my best answer.

“O” will do anything to destroy the “monsters” and the “evil” he believes we are. Rombama will not simply let the left-wing bureaucrats continue running and ruining our lives rather than working to make our lives more miserable: This is b/c Rombama believes we are morons, racists, and dipsticks who need the nanny state to tell us when to wipe the snot from our noses.

That’s why he’s go to run to the middle; and lose more likely than not. There’s no affirmative reason to vote for him.

We must vote for him to stop “O” – a bad choice for the worst reason….

In my lifetime, I’d like to be able to vote for at least one politician I do not think should be scrubbing toilets – either in hotel or in a prison… which just about describes our choices now.

see ryan mcmaken’s essay, “the ‘founding fathers’”, over at lewrockwell. see warren harding’s coining of the phrase “the founding fathers” for use during the 1916 repub national convention (repubs & dems & progressives – oh my!). see yourself dreaming. see yourself waking up. there’s a good muscle memory to start building up…..

logical, factual, implication of what the buddha said: one’s present reason/common sense may not be adequate to the task. it may well be necessary to do some work; in fact, the work never ceases. that hurdle eliminates many. as for attachment, one eastern apotheosis (besides b hisownself), were the samurai, & in the west, the stoics. comportment in relation to the central truth of mortality with, essentially, the deprioritizing, detachment from, all ‘lesser’ truths is the core of these philosophies. that core could deprive canal-diggers their soil & fluid (& the western version got closer to that – see epictetus’ beard…). odds are that it will always be the canallers’ world, with everybody else just living in it. a zen master also said, “if you meet the buddha on the road, kill him”…see scratch/sniff, above, for one possible application.

“no matter if god said it”….

“founding fathers”…*

the recent column on rr’s day at the coliseum (circuses)….

see how insidious mytho-intuitivism is, toeholding even within writing that is wont to oppose it…just not categorically.

a good analogy, & better explanation/definition, for intuition is “muscle memory”. intuition is no more “independent” of reason (which includes emotion…dichotomous separation is false) than ‘encoded’ physical movements are independent of previous practiced movements (or, very interestingly, mind’s eye practicing of movements, visualization). so, perceptions, channeled & directed from malleable youth onward, “behaviorized”, are made correct in relation to the canal banks – chutes – devised by “irrigators”.

never heard of galambos before now; will have to look him up. but “everything you think you know (believe) is wrong” is the prima facie conclusion of every thoughtful person…over time, the discard pile just grows & grows.

“belief”, however, is a refuge. from reality. correcting beliefs is incorrect impetus; a lose-lose proposition. “I believe” ___________ is idol worship, little blue pill erection of deities: ersatz form, but compromised – if not completely absent – functionality…neo’s choose the RED pill, lol…..

Nonetheless, I hope Dr. Sowell does not increase his gray hair count fretting over whether or not the RINOcrats counter the kommie klown koven’s cries for taxing the rich. At best they will only negotiate a doubling of the tax rates instead of tripling it.

There is nothing wrong with the Constitution of 2012 that minor tweaking won’t cure. The problem is assuring that no judge has the power to interpret it unless his judgement has Judge Andrew Napolitano’s imprimatur.

The minor tweaks would be restoring election of U.S. senators to the state legislatures and repealing the income tax.

I may be too optimistic about our future.

One possible political silver linning in this otherwise depressing sky full of storm and stress: chances are very good that whoever wins the election in November the US economy will crash sometime in the next four years in ways that will make George W. Bush’s crash look like a very gentle set-back. If Romney and the Republicans are in office they, (and the market economy they sometimes mention), will get the blame. If Obama and his Marxist friends are in charge…well, the Republicans will still get the blame but perhaps some voters won’t believe it. In any case the socialist welfare state both parties have built over the past 80 years will be out of business and those who don’t work won’t eat unless they have good neighbors who work productivly or productivly working family to help them. Who knows, at some point maybe Americans will want to return to constitutional government; a constitution as of about 1900 that is. We can dream, can’t we?

Speaking of paradigm-shifting, the next evolutionary step for social man may well be Larken Rose’s The Most Dangerous Superstition. Get a copy.

Thanks, Robert, and please sample any of the above that you may not have experienced. All right down your alley. (I have no interest in any of the above recommendations beyond personal and societal survival).

also a nonwoven fabric – or notional ideation – of wool, fur, or hair, matted together by heat, moisture, and great pressure… lol

I’m reading John Stossel’s book right now, and I have come to a conclusion: This should be required reading – taught in every high school and college in America.

Of course, that would require another rule. Not good. So… how about if every teacher who cares about America assigns it to their history/government/sociology classes just because it’s the right thing to do?

Or maybe they could start a new class: “Thinking 101″ and assign books by every author who encourages people to think for themselves. (Like you!)

Willett, your question as to “why” globalisation of America is HUGE! Why, indeed. I can only believe it’s part of the global elite’s end game strategy.

When a majority are cleverly conned, having bought the “equality” myth … and enough are poor together … it’ll be easier to serve the coolaid

Individual citizens do indeed act in their own self-interest, but so do the individuals that run our Federal, State and local governments. Many public officials will be reluctant to remove the checkbook of the American public from their grasp.

A change in our societal intuition will be a generational undertaking. It will require private and public citizens to determine that a government should not and cannot be the provider for their every need.