All posts by Eric Robert Nolan

Eric Robert Nolan graduated from Mary Washington College in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. He spent several years a news reporter and editorial writer for the Culpeper Star Exponent in Culpeper, Virginia. His work has also appeared on the front pages of numerous newspapers in Virginia, including The Free Lance – Star and The Daily Progress. Eric entered the field of philanthropy in 1996, as a grant writer for nonprofit healthcare organizations. Eric’s poetry has been featured by Dead Beats Literary Blog, Dagda Publishing, The International War Veterans’ Poetry Archive, and elsewhere. His poetry will also be published by Illumen Magazine in its Spring 2014 issue.

“Authoritarianism: The political science that explains Trump” (Vox)

This video explains so much.

 

Cover to “Time,” Edel Rodriguez, January 22, 2018

“Year One.”

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“The Rich Want to Keep You Dumb,” Francesca Fiorentini (Newsbroke)

I’m not sure I agree with all of the points presented here …  Precisely what does it mean to be “educated?”  A university education is a formal education.  What about people anywhere along the political spectrum who are self-educated?

Furthermore, I submit that the value of any college education would vary according to the institution, the student’s course of study, and his or her academic success — not to mention the graduate’s ability to retain and apply what he or she has learned.  It seems to me that the people decrying formal education and the people who are defending it are both oversimplifying things.

Nevertheless, most of points that Fiorentini makes here are pretty compelling:

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“Marie Madeleine dans la Grotte,” Jules Lefebvre, 1876

“Mary Magdalene In The Cave.”  Oil on canvas.

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“Hell is other people!”

“All those eyes intent on me. Devouring me. What? Only two of you? I thought there were more; many more. So this is hell. I’d never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the ‘burning marl.’ Old wives’ tales! There’s no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is other people!!”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

 

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Cover to “Death: The High Cost of Living” #1, Dave McKean, 2011

DC Comics.

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Allegory of Death, circa 1600

Etching.  Death holds a scroll while standing at an open grave.

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Roanoke’s first snow, January 2018

These are from the winter’s first snow on Wednesday.  I believe those tracks you see were made by a raccoon.

 

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“Poe on the High Bridge,” Bernard Jacob Rosenmeyer, 1930

Today is Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday.

Rosenmeyer’s lithograph below depicts him on one of his characteristic solitary walks; this one is on the High Bridge between Manhattan and the Bronx.  For a little interesting background on it, see this entry at the Ephemeral New York website.

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Ever have that weird feeling that you’re being watched?

I just can’t shake it.

Cue that Rockwell song.

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