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Once you water the soil let it dry first and when lot process at marijuana plant to grow in a healthier way. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#67891 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#67891 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 08:06:49 EDT What is it like to teach black students? by BROSIMIAN http://pastebin.com/fCjPz1BX This reminds of Anthony Daniels/ Theodore Dalrymple's writing especially Life at the Bottom. Pyhllis http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#32848 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#32848 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:39:08 EST Ah come on Ted. The closing ceremony was a celebration of British popular music, which is (with a nod to out American cousins) the best in the world. No other country can claim this, and few would dispute it, even if you don't appreciate the genre. If you don't like rock music it doesn't make it invalid. I was brought up with it and for me, the LP is the dominant art form in my life. I love LP records. Others like paintings or plays or concertos. More, in purely numerical terms, love records. For me it was totally appropriate that we finished with The Who (although possibly The Stones would have been marginally better). http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#19029 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#19029 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:48:28 EDT Why are people like Mr. Wimpydripple so sour? I loved the closing ceremonies and, like Royal Weddings and Queen's Jubilees, Britain does do it right. Theodore Wimpydribble should be criticizing the U.S. MSNBC coverage of the games on TV. It only showed American participants. It was a shame, an utter disgrace. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#18153 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#18153 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:06:04 EDT Theo, why do you own a television (I assume you do since you watched the Olympics)? I haven't had a TV (excuse me, telly) in 15 years and in that time have avoided much angst at the vulgarity of the culture. I protect myself from the trash around me. Now as to your indifference to sports: I hope you mean spectator sports. Participant sports are essential to health, especially in middle age. I took up lap swimming for heart health a year ago, after 30 years of never going near water. I can't recommend swimming laps highly enough. It increases your stamina, you walk with a spring in your step, and as a doctor, you know it is very good for your heart. It also reduces cholesterol. So I hope you take up an exercise program of your choice, non-impact, and work up slowly to gain stamina. I changed my life when I became a swimmer. Spectator sports exercise only the athletes; participant sports are the key to good health, taken of course in moderation. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#18087 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#18087 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:40:32 EDT I usually like Dalrymple's articles, but this is a little much. Cheer up, Teddy! The games were good fun, and were a great advertisement for Britain. Not everything calls for examination with a critical prism. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#18085 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#18085 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:27:17 EDT Richard Clark - And for the obligatory anti-America remark! Thanks Richard from the back of the very dark and stinking pub somewhere in the Midlands. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#18077 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#18077 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:41:21 EDT Are you familiar with the concept of the nodding dog? http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#18001 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#18001 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:08:42 EDT I agree with TD but have to admit that the comments are as entertaining as the column was informative. How dare Dalrymple criticize our mountain of wasteful schlock! http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17944 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17944 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 13:21:31 EDT Generally I am sympathetic to Mr Dalrymple's views, but he is so wide of the mark with this article. The Olympics were a celebration of excellence, and the British people embraced the games wholeheartedly. Sure, the closing ceremony was one of the weaker features of the event but I wonder what he say of the Superbowl entertainment? If Mr Dalrymple was tired of these London Olympics, he really is tired of life. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17931 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17931 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 03:20:13 EDT Richard Clark would have be wiser to note that the writer was British before he tried to attribute (purported) American flaws to him. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17920 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17920 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:39:51 EDT I get the impression that the younger element are getting around to comment,fair enough, it`s them and their children who will be paying for it all http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17915 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17915 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 05:05:28 EDT I'm surprised to find ungrammatical gibberish and meliorist whining among the comments here. Maybe City Journal should restrict the comments section to subscribers. . . http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17909 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17909 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:28:00 EDT Miserable old git http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17908 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17908 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:18:48 EDT The Good Doctor seems out of sorts. Maybe he should section himself. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17907 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17907 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:37:12 EDT I missed the Olympics entirely. Didn't watch the opening ceremonies, didn't watch the closing ceremonies, missed everything in between. You know, if you put your mind to it, you can ignore anything, and if you ignore it long enough, it will go away all by itself. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17906 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17906 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:19:37 EDT jealousy is a terrible thing in a grown man, get a life, Paul , London http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17903 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17903 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:40:59 EDT maybe Theo should get down to the gym - they say exercise makes you happier :-) http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17900 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17900 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 03:49:54 EDT The Olympix was fun, but largely in the sense that Britain 'won' more medals than anyone expected (though most are in the sitting down events of horses, cycling, rowing). After the sheer banality of the opening ceremony featuring a promo for the NHS (without any mention of lack of beds, MSRA infections and the vast bureaucracy involved) and the fact that London was militarised to make sure it the sponsorship packages would not be threatened, it had to end shoddily. A cheap, mimed pop and fireworks closing party was the swiftest way to get rid of it. The bill will linger for years of course, as they do, and last long after the medal achievements have been forgotten. As someone said, the state pays for the training, etc, but the athletes get to keep the rewards. But I think London gets to keep the athletes who absconded after the events. After all, with a no-questions-asked benefits handout system with guaranteed free housing, better than going home to Africa, hey? http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17893 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17893 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:24:10 EDT Always funny seeing someone take careful aim and shoot himself in the foot. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17892 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17892 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:05:44 EDT I feel for the athletes but the Games are so politicalized and commercialized that any sense of sport is all but lost. Plus all I could see in some of the contests - beach volley ball, badminton, water polo et als was humor - why not pitching pennies, johnny on a pony or ringalevio? And why bother with basketball - give the USA a special platinum medal and let everyone else fight it out for the gold. All that being said, the Games are what they are - to be ignored, endured, or entertained, whatever. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17891 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17891 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:47:33 EDT Congratulations, Doctor. A superb summary of the fruits of this disgusting fraud. The most telling piece of news was buried in a piece by Matthew Engels in the "Financial Times". The British Treasury estimates of the true costs of the 2012 Olympics are apparently going to be buried for years - because all 3 major parties were complicit in the deceit. It is a silent admission that the true cost is way north of the £10 billion usually quoted; more likely £30 billion plus. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17886 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17886 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:14:45 EDT Hear, Hear!! http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17885 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17885 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 07:48:06 EDT I agree...I started to watch the closing ceremonies and thought it was so bad, so tacky that I sut it off. Has to be one of the worst ever. It.simply did not reflect them class and greatness of great Britain on any level. They could have just used the zillions of lights and have been done with it. An amazing waste of money at a time when the can least afford it. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17884 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17884 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 07:43:17 EDT In my youth I loved the Olympic Games, and would have gone to great lengths to watch the athletics especially. I still remember the heroes of the 1960s: Herb Elliott, Peter Snell, Michel Jazy, Kip Keino, Bob Hayes, Bob Beamon, Ron Clarke, David Hemery... What has changed? First, sport has become professional. It was unfair that amateurs could be given no prize at all, no matter how small. But we have gone to the opposite extreme, and anyone who wins an Olympic medal is fairly sure of becoming a millionaire. Also, in the 1950s and 1960s we used to criticize and mock the Communist nations for making athletes full-time employees of the State. Vladimir Kuts beat Gordon Pirie (most of the time), but Pirie was an amateur and Kuts a professional. I heard several people closely connected with "Team GB" boasting about how competitors are now outnumbered by doctors, scientists, coaches, and all manner of "support staff". Apparently the many medals won were a pure function of the heavy government "investment" - in other words, medals are now seen as some sort of national asset worth paying large sums of money for. As for the opening and closing ceremonies, it is true that they were designed to appeal to the "broad masses", and thus to a certain extent were bound to feature popular (as opposed to high) culture. Nevertheless, I was struck not only by the poor taste and mediocre quality of the music, but even more by its age - and that of many of the performers. The golden age of rock and roll was in the 1960s, and today we seem to be left clutching and treasuring the burnt-out stick long after the firework has burnt out. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17883 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17883 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 07:15:50 EDT At least the summer Olympics have the advantage of being less silly than the winter Olympics, which are mostly about creative ways to fall down. I would still like to read the good Dr.'s opinion on particular events, such as "womens" gymnastics: performed by children whose careers are over by the time they actually become, you know, women. And as long as beer is not on the list of banned substances, I cling to the hope that nine-ball may be entered in a future Summer Olympics: a creative combination of javelin and shot-put, it begs to be included as a track-and-field event. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17882 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17882 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:59:16 EDT Hear,hear, We endured it for the duration in the vague hope it would improve. Its a very sad reflection in what is deemed to be culture in Britain today. I put on some Haydn piano music next morning and our 2yr old grandaughter stopped and listened carefully and when finished, asked "Who made that music". Haydn I replied. For sometime after, she walked around saying to herself, "Haydn made that music". Surely there is hope we thought. Tom & Anne Kember http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17881 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17881 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:29:10 EDT I couldn't agree with him more. I went to Canada during the games to escape the ridiculous hype surrounding the games, which, at this time of recession, we could not afford. He mentioned the aging George Michael but not the even more aging Paul McCartney, I cringed and felt embarrassed about his performance in the opening ceremony; unfortunately Paul would probably not understand why. This was capped with the ridiculous buffoon of a London Mayor who had to get in on the act. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17879 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17879 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 03:04:42 EDT and American's love trashing anyone enjoying them selves, the culture of mean is becoming the bottom line of America. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17878 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17878 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 02:57:35 EDT Dear Dr, I agree with you and I am surprised by the negative comments, here at CJ. How strong the propaganda and the brainwashing are ! http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17877 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17877 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 02:52:13 EDT You are far too critical, Mr Dalrymple. I watched both the opening and closing ceremonies and some of the games. The Olympics are a carnival for the youth who competed and the hoi polloi of Great Britain. The closing ceremony was designed as a crowd pleaser and I think it achieved that. It also gave the athletes a chance to run around and meet each other and I think they enjoyed that. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17876 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17876 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 02:14:44 EDT An orgy of self-loathing misanthropy. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17875 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17875 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 01:07:11 EDT Were Dr. Dalrymple to have been present for a week's worth of gladiatorial battles and animal slaughters at the height of Imperial Rome, he might have written the same sort of critical complaint, and also left out the feats of the contestants and bravery of the beasts. Not having seen, after 11 pm more than one or two events, out here in Los Angeles, I missed most of what Dr. D. detests, but feel for the youth and beauty that strove to excel in extraordinary ways after years of terrifically hard work. The rest is hoi polloi mad exuberance and commercial venality. J the K http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17874 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17874 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:26:16 EDT Dalyrymple should get on anti-depressants. Why does City Journal hire such a horribly chronically depressed misanthrope? All too predictable from him. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17872 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8420#17872 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 22:56:04 EDT