Perhaps (note only to myself) Brooks, during his teens didn’t understand the fronline interview… did not understand the genius of the poet ginsberg. came from a place where you have to like someone to understand them. came from a fear that to understand someone you will like them, will become them. so he took the easier path to the other guy in the interview, the moderator. buckley was easier to understand. the OED holds all the meanings, unlike the frames that poets use, the dictionary contains, explains or so it seems.
Category: on TV
remarks about TV, both the what and why
Easy To Understand: Inflation
The Six Million Dollar Man TV series was fiction that placed an exorbitant price tag on surgery. Today 6 million dollars can be spent without a diagnosis, let alone a TV series.
Cutting Tax
Tax cuts work. They raise revenue, at least of some. Those that argue that tax cuts raise the US (or any other) economy are correct, or at least we should pretend they are. Next time you are asked about tax cuts, say you are in favor. In fact begin advocating that tax cuts should be given to every man woman and child in the US (or any other country). This time, begin at the bottom of the tax ladder. Reduce taxes beginning with the lowest tax rate, lowering it to zero. If the economy doesn’t revive or achieve, then move up a ladder, lowering the taxes, again to zero if necessary. Continue this until we have achieved the necessary growth, or the theorists have shut up, or cried out that that isn’t what they meant. Of course it is what they meant, just not whom they meant.
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