Th’ dead ar-re always pop’lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an’ refuse to help his fam’ly, all in wan night.
Finley Peter Dunne
Orion's Cold Fire
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
Th’ dead ar-re always pop’lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an’ refuse to help his fam’ly, all in wan night.
Finley Peter Dunne
This isn’t about the quote, just trying to get a request in. Didn’t you have your email on the site at some point? I curious about your perspective on Andrew Cuomo’s defense on the latest allegations from the AG’s investigations: “I’m old and Italian and I touch people.” Is there any validity there? I know there are cultural variations on personal space and contact. In my Germanic/Northern European American Southern modified culture, invading personal space is verboten. The images of Biden (for example) getting in close and smelling those women’s (or girl’s) hair was fingernails-on-a-blackboard to me. From an Italian… Read more »
Tom, the site e-mail is orionscoldfire at charter dot net with the obvious replacements. While I freely admit Italians and Mediterranean peoples are more emotional and demonstrative than Northern Europeans that is more in the context of family interaction. If he is claiming to be an old fashioned Italian then he knows that appropriate behavior toward women who aren’t related to you is strictly enforced by their brothers, uncles and even cousins. If some old pervert started groping women in an Italian neighborhood he would at the very least have earned a pretty good beating from the offended family. Now… Read more »