The ever versatile monkey is today’s Falstaff, and I of course am using monkey incorrectly to include apes such as chimpanzees as most Americans do.
Dennis Miller’s new conservative talk show on CNBC will feature a “monkey,” according to David Bauder of the Associated Press:
The show will feature interviews, a rant on a selected [...]
“Whole continents and whole races do not take well to imaginary roles, roles assigned to them by minds they find it difficult to understand, and which look quite strange to them. Thus they finally insist, if necessary with violence, on asserting what is least imaginary—and least acceptable to our collective imagination. ‘Here,’ they say, setting [...]
“Better paint your house your own complexion: let it turn pale or blush for you.”
—Walden and Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau laments the division of labor that prohibits man from building his own dwelling. By the personal investment of constructing a house “the necessities and character of the indweller” become revealed in its timber, and [...]