In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Stable
[stey-buhl]
adjective, sta·bler, sta·blest.
Heresy! Gator--go back to the swamp. Well, communitarians, I have been exploring the swamp much of my life, and I can tell you is that you got your assessment mostly incorrect. Yes, Herr Drumpf's domestic policies are ruinous, callous, and environmentally destructive. Yes, his scheme for national privatization will fill the coffers of the 1%. This makes him a nogoodnik, not an idiot.
Donald Trump has never been accused of over-modesty. His recent Tweet that he’s a “very stable genius,” however, seems over-the-top — batshit crazy, even for him.
Strangely, and for once, he’s actually right. Some very smart, shrewd people — Nobel Prize-winners, certified geniuses — agree with him. Read on, and here’s why they may be right.
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George Martin had quite the career! After getting out of the army and then going to the Guildhall School of Music, he got a job at the BBC and then moved on to Parlophone.
In discussing his life you kind of have to focus on the records he helped make. Although he wanted to be the next Rachmaninoff he found himself producing whatever was given him, like this classic (for those of us old enough to remember!)
