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Random observations about human experience from a curmudgeonly nerd.
I am a sucker for allegorical Flemish art. The banner that appears at the top of my blog is a detail from Hieronymous Bosch’s The Ship of Fools (circa 1500). Here is an uncropped image:
Hello, fellow Flemish-art-sucker. I thought I was alone on the planet.
When I read your extraordinarily perceptive and keen-eyed posts, I am astounded by how well-written and dispassionate they are. You are an historian and a politicist of the first order.