Saturday, July 13, 2013

A Random Assortment



~ As I was preparing for my own wedding around the Fourth of July, I came across the homily from Myrrh and Warren's wedding, which was on the actual Fourth of July several years ago. Good stuff; I hadn't realized it was online.

~ Alan Jacobs: "On Intellectual Triage and Not Writing People Off." Excellent.

~ Sunset Gun on, as always, Marilyn Monroe: "...and the story of how Marilyn and her early roommate, Shelley Winters, got drunk with Dylan Thomas, who then crashed into Charlie Chaplin’s tennis court."


~ Valerie Eliot's art collection will be up for auction this fall (via Hopkins). 

~ As part of our discussion of Montesquieu and the separation of powers, I had my students read this piece accusing Obama of overstepping his executive power. Thoughts?

~ For Francisco: DC monuments that might have been

~ By perhaps the best writer alive: "Tomb of the Four Freedoms." (My pictures of the memorial here.)

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