Class is in session! The fiscal cliff is looming. Homework on my desk. I should be around today for the long haul.
Recondite
When someone on parole is arrested for a crime and sent back to jail they are a re con dite.
The fiscal economics are recondite
And Obama loves a fiscal war to fight
To blame the other party
And laugh, loud and hearty
The last laugh would be if we could indict
As I read “The Gulag Archipelago”, I am reminded of the recondite, arcane language of some of our more recent legislation here in the USA.
For the past 3 days I have been plodding through an essay (actually Chapter 4 of a book called The Great Heresies) by Hilaire Belloc that I find recondite, but interesting. The subject is The Great and Enduring heresy of Mohammed. It purposts to trace the history of “Mohammadism” from its rise through present day. Since Belloc died in 1953 — “present day” is before a lot of the members of this class were born.
I am left wondering what Belloc would think today, since many of the gains of “Christondom” have slipped away in the last decade. I found this piece posted on Free Republic and printed it for reading and before I realized that it is 26 pages long.
And what is teacher’s reason for being late today? Is it a storm?
As close as I plan to get to homework can be read in my tagline, updated for this post: