"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."
--Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944
Just change anti-Semites to whatever phrase you prefer to fit the present.
The Continuing Resolution is a healthcare travesty on the least of our citizens. We exclude the poor and the marginalized from access. Did I say the marginalized? Who has marginalized in a free democracy and the wealthiest country in the world? Why are they marginalized?Racism kills, both fast and slow. Health Inequity. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/health-inequity
The story about the national parks resonated hard with me as my wife and I just returned from the national parks out west. We went from Mid-May through mid-June. And that trip did cost us close to $10,000 for all of it. The writer is correct in all of it. In order to get a reservation to stay in those parks, you have to wait to jump on the website within minutes after they open or you won't get one. They only allow reservations from six months to up to a year in advance. If you don't secure one within minutes of when they open reservations, you'll have to wait to try again the next year. We drove an RV so our costs are not reflective of other peoples. Our campground reservation fees ranged from $37 for a primitive, no hookup campsite to close to $300 a night with full hookups at parks like Yellowstone. The guided tours run for a minimum of a $100 a person for most parks, most times, it was a lot more. We opted to unhook our RV tethers and drive ourselves around most of the parks to try and save a little money.
After our epic trip to Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Yosemite, Sequoia, Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce Canyon and The Arches, we told ourselves that we would never do that again. One, because of the expense but mostly, it was dealing with the sheer mass of humanity all crammed into these parks and trying to navigate (both in our vehicle and walking) around all of these people without getting into trouble. We timed our reservations to within a couple of weeks of the parks opening for the season and they were still overcrowded, as least to me anyway. Never again. They're not worth the money or the aggravation anymore. I will spend my vacation money on lesser known national parks from now own.
"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."
--Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944
Just change anti-Semites to whatever phrase you prefer to fit the present.
Hell is, in fact, other people :)
My fotog had that Sarte quote pasted to his computer monitor in the newsroom. We were such a literary bunch :)
The Continuing Resolution is a healthcare travesty on the least of our citizens. We exclude the poor and the marginalized from access. Did I say the marginalized? Who has marginalized in a free democracy and the wealthiest country in the world? Why are they marginalized?Racism kills, both fast and slow. Health Inequity. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/health-inequity
The story about the national parks resonated hard with me as my wife and I just returned from the national parks out west. We went from Mid-May through mid-June. And that trip did cost us close to $10,000 for all of it. The writer is correct in all of it. In order to get a reservation to stay in those parks, you have to wait to jump on the website within minutes after they open or you won't get one. They only allow reservations from six months to up to a year in advance. If you don't secure one within minutes of when they open reservations, you'll have to wait to try again the next year. We drove an RV so our costs are not reflective of other peoples. Our campground reservation fees ranged from $37 for a primitive, no hookup campsite to close to $300 a night with full hookups at parks like Yellowstone. The guided tours run for a minimum of a $100 a person for most parks, most times, it was a lot more. We opted to unhook our RV tethers and drive ourselves around most of the parks to try and save a little money.
After our epic trip to Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Yosemite, Sequoia, Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce Canyon and The Arches, we told ourselves that we would never do that again. One, because of the expense but mostly, it was dealing with the sheer mass of humanity all crammed into these parks and trying to navigate (both in our vehicle and walking) around all of these people without getting into trouble. We timed our reservations to within a couple of weeks of the parks opening for the season and they were still overcrowded, as least to me anyway. Never again. They're not worth the money or the aggravation anymore. I will spend my vacation money on lesser known national parks from now own.