[Magdalen] Dick's Farewell.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Hmm. I wonder -- if we were to move the context to Israel (setting aside
all other political considerations, of course) -- if one would see arrows
pointing to the left as moving forward, since their written word goes right
to left.

There's no rational reason to see a right-pointing arrow as moving forward,
but that our language moves left to right (today, anyway. Some early
biblical Mss are boustrophedonic -- written as the ox plows, that is, going
right to left and then in the next line, left to right, etc.  They didn't
invent the idea; the Hittites (clever folks) did the same. The main reason
we today tend to see a left-to-right arrow as "progress" is purely related
to our assumptions about writing.

If Bernie were able to get the nomination, it would be interesting.
Although I am sure Hil would bring a heck of a lot more skills to the Oval
Office, she has been a lightning rod for all sorts of negativity too.
While it's obvious that many (most?) anti-Hil folks are just unable to
tolerate a woman of power and skill (they will never forgive her for being
uppity), We have not yet developed a process for throwing out votes of the
unqualified (any who would base their vote on such rubbish), so the bigots
and sexist hicks get to vote too -- for the time being.

It's especially tragic that while most know Hil's skills, they don't seem
to get it that she is also a woman of grace and character.  The
professional swiftboater jerks have made Hil look bad (e.g., just like
them).

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/18/1248523/-You-won-t-see-Hillary-Clinton-in-the-same-light-ever-again#

If your browser can't cope with that:
http://tinyurl.com/nomwy56



James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu>
wrote:

> But if it pointed left, it would be pointing backward.  I say onward,
> forward, not back!  And I love Bernie, but the election would lose the
> presidency for the Democrats.  That would be hard to bear, considering the
> Republican field.
>
> Ann
>
> The Rev. Ann Markle
> Buffalo, NY
> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
> blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It really bothers me that Hilary's arrow points right, not left.
> Symbolism
> > is important.
> >
> > Run, Bernie, run! He has huge crowds!
> >
>