Jacob Dickinson

これを見ると、時々、辛いラーメンを食べたくてたまらなくなり、サーモンが添えられた辛いラーメンを食べるために、

This reminds me how every so often the craving builds up and I have to run, not walk, to the nearest Hokkaido Ramen Santouka for the spicy ramen with salmon on the side.

The diligence and affability of their judge rendered him popular, the impartial wisdom of his decrees obtained their voluntary obedience, and the reign of Syagrius over the Franks and Burgundians seemed to revive the original institution of civil society.
(1179) #edwardgibbon #declineandfall

(1177) #edwardgibbon #declineandfall

The Gauls were endowed with all the advantages of art and nature; but, as they wanted courage to defend them, they were justly condemned to obey, and even to flatter, the victorious Barbarians, by whose clemency they held their precarious fortunes and their lives.

Your imaginary freedom would be insulted and oppressed by a savage master; and the expulsion of the Romans would be succeeded by the eternal hostilities of the Barbarian conquerors.
(1176) #edwardgibbon #declineandfall #tacitus
Tacitus, paraphrased by Gibbon.

The fall of Rome would be fatal to the provinces; and you would be buried in the ruins of that mighty fabric which has been raised by the valour and wisdom of eight hundred years.

“Congress will not be needed”

GOP Congress claps like obedient seals

Fascism For First Time Founders Over the last year or so I’ve seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump t…

You know, it's funny. Earlier this week I had started to write a follow up to my "Fascism For First Time Founders" post that tried to explain to Silicon Valley how embracing fascists would destroy innovation... but now I need to spend the weekend rewriting the whole thing with a new Exhibit A.

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

Tacitus, paraphrased by Gibbon.
Trying not to think about how close this came to “the solitude of their woods and molasses.”

It is for your sake, not our own, that we guard the barrier of the Rhine against the ferocious Germans, who have so often attempted, and who will always desire, to exchange the solitude of their woods and morasses for the wealth and fertility of Gaul.
(1176) #edwardgibbon #declineandfall #tacitus

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has six panels. A caption at the top says "History, Rhyming." PANEL 1 A close up of someone's hand lying limply on the ground, in sepia tones. CAPTION: August 20, 1965: Civil rights activist Jonathan Daniels put himself between a deputy sheriff and the black teen the deputy was attacking. The deputy shot Daniels to death. PANEL 2 A close up of a gloved hand lying limply on snowy pavement, a cell phone lying nearby. Drawn in blue tones. CAPTION: January 24 2026: Anti-fascist activist Alex Pretti put himself between border protection agents and the woman the agents were attacking. The agents shot Pretti to death. PANEL 3 This panel is divided in two, sepia on the left and blues on the right. On the sepia side, a man inn a suit sneers. On the right side, a man in a border patrol uniform sneers. BOTH (in unison): He was intended to commit a massacre! CAPTION (sepia side): Arthur Gamble: Corrupt prosecutor who threw the case. CAPTION (blue side): Gregory Bovino: Border Patrol Commander. PANEL 4 Another panel divided into sepia and blue sides. On the sepia side is a cheerful middle-aged man in a suit. On the right side are two masked Border Patrol agents. ALL THREE (unison): I was in fear for my life! CAPTION (sepia side): Tom Coleman, Daniels' murderer. CAPTION (blue side): Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez, Pretti's murderers. PANEL 5 On the sepia side, three people with 1960s haircuts are angrily yelling. On the blue side, same thing except with current-day hair and clothes. ALL (unison): If he hadn't put himself where he didn't belong he'd still be alive! Cops have to make split-second judgements! Law! Order! Bark bark bark bark woof! CAPTION: Boot-licking stooges. PANEL 6 In a clearing, surrounded by grass, trees, and shrubs, two men talk to each other. One, wearing a clerical collar, is "Jonathan Daniels, 1939-1965." The other, wearing a winter jacket and baggy jeans, is "Alex Pretti, 1989-2026."

History, Rhyming

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The inability to cultivate the vineyard one desires is widespread; but this reminded me first of the Republican attitude toward science policy in particular and government in general. YMMV.

The Arian clergy surpassed, in religious cruelty, the king and his Vandals; but they were incapable of cultivating the spiritual vineyard which they were so desirous to possess.
(1168) #edwardgibbon #declineandfall

How ‘homeland’ put America on the path to illiberalism A phrase from the 1990s altered America’s sense of itself — and its political trajectory

Steven Simon on the Un-American spell cast by the word "homeland"

www.ft.com/content/f073...

Gotta say, I’ve always felt that choice of words was creepy. I’d LIKE to think the agency was named by some well-intentioned person somehow completely innocent of war movie stereotype bad guy talk; but really, how likely is that?

They excite the flame which they labor to extinguish; and it soon becomes necessary to chastise the contumacy, as well as the crime, of the offender.
(1167-1168) #edwardgibbon #declineandfall

It is incumbent on the authors of persecution previously to reflect, whether they are determined to support it in the last extreme.

They might work; but the vanity of spiritual perfection was tempted to disdain the exercise of manual labor, and the industry must be faint and languid which is not excited by the sense of personal interest.
(1155-1156) #edwardgibbon #declineandfall

Study is the resource of solitude; but education had not prepared and qualified for any liberal studies the mechanics and peasants, who filled the monastic communities.

(1155) #edwardgibbon #declineandfall

Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate; a special licence of the abbot regulated the time and duration of their familiar visits; and, at their silent meals, they were enveloped in their cowls, inaccessible, and almost invisible, to each other.

The monks themselves passed their lives, without personal attachments, among a crowd, which had been formed by accident and was detained, in the same prison, by force or prejudice.

I confess that I was unaware of this novel. Putting it on the list! (I can’t die while there’s anything good to read left, right? That’s the plan.)

Iowa House bill would impose new restrictions on minors at public libraries, create criminal penalties for librarians - Little Village Despite some librarians and advocates’ warnings that a bill passed by a House subcommittee Thursday would endanger the continued existence of public libraries across the state, supporters said the mea...

"The measure also establishes that “willfully” disseminating or helping a minor access material deemed “harmful” without their parental consent would be a crime... possibility of imprisonment of up to a year, and a fine between $500 and $2,500."

I. TOLD. YOU.

littlevillagemag.com/iowa-house-b...

(1156 note 37) #edwardgibbon #declineandfall

I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: “My vow of poverty has given me an hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince.”—I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity.

Wow.