It worked for my grand-pa Bertie, and it works for me, on occasion. And this year is one of those occasions.
Nicholas Vincent on the Magna Carta
Did an 800-year old piece of parchment really change the world? Nicholas Vincent of the University of East Anglia talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Magna Carta, the founding document of English law and liberty. The Magna Carta was repudiated just ten weeks after King John issued it. Yet, its impact is still with us today. In this conversation, Vincent explains what led to the Magna Carta and how its influence remains with us today in England and elsewhere.
A delightful exploration of the roots of English law on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the signing of this vague promise to behave. A promise that needs renewing.
Behave out there!
And if you are finding neither currency nor constitution constitutional, how about some suet?
And yes, it is all for the birds:
😡 I broke my other hip! Geez Louise. Actually my femur. Yesterday at noon and now I have a plate and screws in my thigh. A very simple accident at the sailing club and I got the ground hard. A very different kind of pain I might add. Very specific. I have never broken anything bigger than a toe. Things were just going too well. 😡
for inspiration…
i read the text of the podcast. then i read some Locke and Hobbes. didn’t find what i was looking for. but it is apparent in these later writings that the Magna Carta set some major precedent, even if it simply defined a date in time in the formation and direction of prevailing opinion.
hope you are doing well Xty. do you have any details to share? what about pictures? i do know that you have a guitar in the house, or at least you did. 🙂
If you are squeamish, just don’t look. Here’s the incision:
And here’s the bruise. Normally I wouldn’t think of posting a picture of my inner thigh, but somehow this just doesn’t look like an inner thigh:
I cannot play, being a lefty … [I hope you all realise that I know Hendrix was a lefty].
And yes there might be a guitar or 6 in our house … do I have to try to learn? Outclipsed completely already by son and hubby … and it might be quite painful for them to witness.
And the initial X-ray:
And this morning:
ouch! i know that is understated, maybe even lame, so i will be back later with something better. and yes, i realize already that i just made a lame pun.
Good Morning. You know it is going to be one of those days when the best thing that has happened to you is someone placing a pillow case full of ice cubes down your virtual pants.
Btw, I think you need to read Calvin and Hobbes not Locke and Hobbes to find what you are looking for. Locke was one of those people I managed to dodge at univpervercity.
pro·fun·di·ty
prəˈfəndətē/
noun
deep insight; great depth of knowledge or thought.
“the simplicity and profundity of the message”
great depth or intensity of a state, quality, or emotion.
“the profundity of her misery”
a statement or idea that shows great knowledge or insight.
plural noun: profundities
“Calvin and Hobbes is a daily comic strip by American cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995. It follows the humorous antics of Calvin, a precocious, mischievous, and adventurous six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his sardonic stuffed tiger. The pair is named after John Calvin, a 16th-century French Reformation theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century English political philosopher.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes
🙂 🙂 🙂
And Bill Watterson didn’t have children … he must be Calvin.
Now I know it is a standard joke, hospital food, but honestly how do you insert cardboard into individual kernels of corn, make them into teeth, extract them from 100 year-old corn-bots and then serve them to me? I think it might need carbon dating:
Home sweet home …
this song is so weird that i had to play it. and it sort of works…
and then i found this. ditto on weird, and sort of works…
get well Xty. i will hold off on playing Zappa for now. won’t risk that until you tell us what type of pain dope you are taking.
it is never too soon to start, nor ever too late to quit.
i really, really, really hope this works.
dang it.
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son of a
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10 fuck it.
20 go to 10
Doses of Dylan.
Just to drive you crazy – but I simply went to the picture and clicked on “Get Embed Codes” and this a screen shot of the html url that shows up for blogs, etc.,:
You need the whole string …
As to pain meds, thank heavens for my solutions to my other ongoing nonsense. And the kindness of strangers (not actually strangers) which has got me some Tylenol 3#s. Just enough to take the worst of the pain away and while they did give me stronger narcotics in the hospital I am okay without and the doctor had no intentions of prescribing them to me anyway. Not often one runs into aloof judgmental people, but I unfortunately did. Everyone else was a peach, except for one nurse who would simply vanish after promising to be right back but you could hear her voice all over the ward. I can tell that it is getting to me though as my mood keeps trying to shift into wallow.
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i do cut and paste the entire string. after i click post comment what you see above is the result.
happy first day of summer.
when i have normal text in the comment, like right now, if i paste the imbed string, my comment posts but the entire imgur string simply disappears. that is what happened in my very first attempt above.
below this is the imbed code…
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above this is the imbed code.
well, sometimes at least, it just disappears.
maybe that is because i did not remove the “greater than, less than” signs. now i am not sure. but the issue presented above is preventing me from posting pictures using Imgur.
can you have someone else try to post a picture so we can eliminate my computer, and/or my log in as the problem?
i still need to refresh to get the emoticons and the edit feature also.
that embed code is too short … and yes the “<>” signs make things vanish …
you need this second part of the url:
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when i copy and paste the url from Imgur, the entire string does copy. when i then post my message, the 2nd part of the string disappears, the beginning part of the string posts, but i get no image to post.
i am somewhat familiar with HTML stuff. there is a bug, but i doubt it is at my end. that is because 44 has confirmed the other goofy stuff going on with the emoticons, and the edit feature.
i am going to try one last time. below is exactly what pastes, but i have changed the greater, less thans to pluses and minuses…
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so following is the image link with the first “less than” and the last “greater than” removed. and now i hit post comment.
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