Comments on: Common Sense: an elegy http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/05/11/common-sense-an-elegy/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:59:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Gaffe Prices http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/05/11/common-sense-an-elegy/#comment-17638 Gaffe Prices Fri, 22 May 2009 11:39:54 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=997#comment-17638 I think that the blow from which common sense itself could not recover, was the news that he'd been replaced by what Dennis Prager calls The age Of Stupidity. That and the fact that opinion polls showed a declining interest in.., oh I forgot, from today's younger, more savvy set. But it must be remembered as well, that the doctors did everything they could do for him (her? Sophia perhaps?), but in the end, there was nothing they could do. I think that the blow from which common sense itself could not recover, was the news that he’d been replaced by what Dennis Prager calls The age Of Stupidity. That and the fact that opinion polls showed a declining interest in.., oh I forgot, from today’s younger, more savvy set.

But it must be remembered as well, that the doctors did everything they could do for him (her? Sophia perhaps?), but in the end, there was nothing they could do.

]]> By: Ed Driscoll » Then: How Will This Play In Peoria? Now: How Will This Play In The Village? http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/05/11/common-sense-an-elegy/#comment-17037 Ed Driscoll » Then: How Will This Play In Peoria? Now: How Will This Play In The Village? Sun, 17 May 2009 05:25:15 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=997#comment-17037 [...] progressive presidential advisors giving interviews to taxpayer-funded radio, Common Sense slowly withered away and died, Roger Kimball eulogizes. Filed under: Bobos In Paradise, Hollywood, Interrupted, The New [...] [...] progressive presidential advisors giving interviews to taxpayer-funded radio, Common Sense slowly withered away and died, Roger Kimball eulogizes. Filed under: Bobos In Paradise, Hollywood, Interrupted, The New [...]

]]> By: Bob & Karen Wolters http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/05/11/common-sense-an-elegy/#comment-16728 Bob & Karen Wolters Tue, 12 May 2009 16:56:55 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=997#comment-16728 Hate to miss your meeting in Chicago as we are at our vacation home in Portugal. Chicago appearance Probably partially arranged by our mutual friend Dr. Joe. If you don't remember us we were the owners of the pinnacle center in Effingham until we sold earlier this year. Hope to catch your next talk or maybe on a cruse ship. I am a big KINDLE user but have not found your materials. Hate to miss your meeting in Chicago as we are at our vacation home in Portugal. Chicago appearance Probably partially arranged by our mutual friend Dr. Joe. If you don’t remember us we were the owners of the pinnacle center in Effingham until we sold earlier this year. Hope to catch your next talk or maybe on a cruse ship. I am a big KINDLE user but have not found your materials.

]]> By: John Frary http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/05/11/common-sense-an-elegy/#comment-16646 John Frary Mon, 11 May 2009 16:10:15 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=997#comment-16646 Bureaucracy is unreceptive to common sense. It lacks regularity and objectivity. It responds to specific circumstances and conditions while a proper set of rules, regulations and proceduree recognizes only statistical averages, i.e., familes with 2.1 children. Bureaucracy is unreceptive to common sense. It lacks regularity and objectivity. It responds to specific circumstances and conditions while a proper set of rules, regulations and proceduree recognizes only statistical averages, i.e., familes with 2.1 children.

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