tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post7395062796668512801..comments2024-03-22T10:51:23.567-05:00Comments on Faith, Fiction, Friends: Do You Know Where the First Amendment Comes From?Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-72154751211379909252013-01-03T10:09:45.168-06:002013-01-03T10:09:45.168-06:00Marcus - I think the bowing down before the golden...Marcus - I think the bowing down before the golden calf of search engine optimization is resulting in some crazy stuff going on. It's not only journalists and news publications doing this, but also companies, bloggers and just about everything else online. SEO is not going to save bad writing, blogging and journalism.Glynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-78313358723146464262013-01-03T08:40:20.736-06:002013-01-03T08:40:20.736-06:00Also, I read an interesting article about journali...Also, I read an interesting article about journalism in Forbes. It complained that online papers were chasing pageviews so much that they were allowing google popular search terms to dictate the coverage. Thus too many apple and google articles, not enough substance. So said the article. Do you agree?Marcus Goodyearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07255781957722144278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-72300987586699373332013-01-03T08:40:16.629-06:002013-01-03T08:40:16.629-06:00I've always read Paradise Lost as his indictme...I've always read Paradise Lost as his indictment of the Cromwell years. Satan rebels against the king and decides to make a heaven of hell, because continuing the fight is better than admitting he was wrong.<br /><br />It all sounds very political to me.Marcus Goodyearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07255781957722144278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-41477205351989890912013-01-02T22:05:58.714-06:002013-01-02T22:05:58.714-06:00Great hisstory post.
history (n.)
late 14c., &q...Great hisstory post. <br /><br />history (n.) <br />late 14c., "relation of incidents" (true or false), from O.Fr. estoire, estorie "chronicle, history, story" (12c., Mod.Fr. histoire), <br /><br />from L. historia "narrative of past events, account, tale, story," <br /><br />from Gk. historia "a learning or knowing by inquiry; an account of one's inquiries, history, record, narrative," from historein "inquire," <br /><br />from histor "wise man, judge," <br /><br />from PIE *wid-tor-, from root *weid- "to know," lit. "to see" (see vision). <br />Related to Gk. idein "to see," and to eidenai "to know." <br />In Middle English, not differentiated from story; sense of "record of past events" probably first attested late 15c. <br />As a branch of knowledge, from 1842. <br />Sense of "systematic account (without reference to time) of a set of natural phenomena" (1560s) is now obsolete except in natural history.<br /><br /><br />One difference between history and imaginative literature ... is that history neither anticipates nor satisfies our curiosity, whereas literature does. [Guy Davenport, "Wheel Ruts," 1996]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-49937741136065681442013-01-02T13:48:15.813-06:002013-01-02T13:48:15.813-06:00Very interesting. I didn't know that Milton w...Very interesting. I didn't know that Milton worked for Oliver Cromwell, who was indeed a Puritan zealot. During the Puritan Interegnum, Cromwell and his gang would not allow celebration of Christmas. Ok it is not in the Bible, and there is pagan syncretism.<br />The thing that strikes me about current discussion of the first amendment is that it is used to prevent suppression of violent video games of the sort that Adam Lanza used to learn his pathological killing behavior.Michael Dodarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10218455310804805561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-70492610487247988562013-01-02T07:49:58.167-06:002013-01-02T07:49:58.167-06:00We must be in sync. I wrote about the 14th century...We must be in sync. I wrote about the 14th century today... :)<br /><br />and I love this description of John Milton -- the far right fundamentalist wacko who worked for Oliver Cromwell! Louise Gallagherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13522775693728655487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-39452811385362350762013-01-02T06:31:34.689-06:002013-01-02T06:31:34.689-06:00I was surprised as well. Thank you for enlightenin...I was surprised as well. Thank you for enlightening me. "The truth will prevail."Jerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04874006676004790578noreply@blogger.com