Tag Archives: Monty Python’s Flying Circus

HAGGIS & HIGHLANDERS: POETS and PLOWMEN

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Dave

…”Early on, James ( Boswell ) had served notice that he was not cut out to follow in his father’s strait-laced footsteps. Scots are well known for being torn between dour conformity and impetuous rebelliousness, a contradiction emphatically personified by … Continue reading →

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ADAM SMITH & PONZI NATION: WEALTH OF RATIONS

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Dave

Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776 – not as a textbook, but as a polemical cannon aimed at governments that were subsidizing and protecting their merchants, their farmers, their manufacturers, against “unfair” competition, at home or from … Continue reading →

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HATTER'S SHAKES': GOING GAGA FOR ROYALTY'S SAKE

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Dave

Wearing a hat can make you a bit mad. Or so tradition has it, and British royalty are known to be sticklers for tradition. The felt hat industry has been traced to the mid seventeenth- century in France, and it … Continue reading →

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VENTRILOQUIST ITCHING FOR REVOLUTION: STEPPE BY STEPPE

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Dave

Been away so long I hardly knew the place Gee, it’s good to be back home Leave it till tomorrow to unpack my case Honey disconnect the phone I’m back in the USSR You don’t know how lucky you are, … Continue reading →

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BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Dave

The possession of private property is very often extremely demoralising, and that is, of course, one of the reasons why Socialism wants to get rid of the institution. In fact, property is really a nuisance. Some years ago people went … Continue reading →

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SELL-OFFS & SELL-OUTS

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Dave

”In an interesting side note to the much more publicized businesses involving John Paulson, Greece, and whatever else Goldman is currently getting tarred and feathered for, the bank was quietly slapped on the wrist by the SEC for violations related … Continue reading →

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HOUSES OF CARDS

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Dave

”In a series of damaging emails released yesterday, Tourre also compared the products to a “Frankenstein” monster that had “turned against his own inventor”. Other emails that emerged yesterday showed Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman’s chief executive, boasting about the money the bank … Continue reading →

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TO BE and NOT TO BE: Outwitting Destiny

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Dave

”Since the death of Picasso, Francis Bacon has more than any other painter provided the age with an image, in Ezra Pound’s phrase, of its accelerated grimace. The key to his work is its ambition. He has taken on the … Continue reading →

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Jung & the Monty Python Flying Complex

Posted on July 11, 2009 by Dave

Absurd. To create a comedy show, that would redefine the idiom and defy imitation. The Monty Python Flying Circus television series actively offended against the limits of moral code in terms of content and style of presentation. Most of the … Continue reading →