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Derek Parfit: philosopher of special benefits for worst philosophers.

There’s the Golden Rule, sometimes affirmed as “Do unto to others as you would have them do unto you” (Matthew 7:12, see also Luke 6:31). For every public (and private) impulse or legislation should unto all creatures be shared. LET US HAVE PUBLICLY FUNDED DOMES FOR EVERYONE! What about the costs of removal?
HOUSTON — Memories likely soon will be all that's left of the Houston Astrodome — the world's first multipurpose domed stadium.
Voters on Tuesday rejected a referendum that would have authorized up to $217 million in bonds to turn the stadium that once hosted professional baseball and football games into a giant convention and event center and exhibition space.
Houston-area leaders have said the so-called “Eighth Wonder of the World” likely would have to be torn down if the ballot measure failed. While there wasn't an organized effort against the referendum, some opponents had said the money to refurbish the Astrodome could be better spent on other projects.
Studies in recent years have estimated the cost of demolishing the Astrodome at $29 million to $78 million.

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Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 10, 2013 at 3:15am: Stampfree day? Oh no! My sisters would complain. & others probably. However, tomorrow's stamp is generically not supposed to be very good, so you won't miss much. It is all about ugly geology.

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 10, 2013 at 3:12am: Whatever works. I make up words in all the languages I know.

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 10, 2013 at 2:53am: What did I learn at the Goethe Institute? Most of the students were back in Kindergarten and not planning much of anything. Some were just collecting a stupendium. One was a colonel in the Algerian army--he showed me all his bullet holes. After Fasching he disappeared with a barmaid. The wealthy students bought cars and rummaged the countryside as far as Greece and Spain. The technical students, hoping for medical or engineering degrees, worked slowly and quietly. Those finishing some commercial training--often girls from Italy--didn't need to read, only to learn greetings, and meet people, boyfriends especially. GERMAN WAS THE LAND OF FAT OPPORTUNITY.

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 10, 2013 at 2:21am: Well, now you know what a Wagnerputsch is (get those tickets in advance or suffer) and Wagnerputz (all the fancy clothing you wear on stage).

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 10, 2013 at 2:18am

I went to all the operas, in Berlin, Wien, Milan, Rome, Paris, London, Leningrad etc. My favorites were the Felsenstein productions in E. Berlin or when he did something in the West. I was a painter-theorist rather than a music marvelist, so the production, staging, color and story were at least as interesting.

I got to see that Felsenstein Othello production: it was the best I have ever witnessed. There were no lights in the orchestra pit for the first five or ten minutes of the opera. Everything was done as if in darkness busted open with canon fire and gun shots.

The Work of a Misty Legend, the Opera Director Walter ...

www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/arts/music/18davi.html

[May 18, 2008] Walter Felsenstein, center, the opera director who founded the Komische Oper in East Berlin, directing “Otello” in 1969. Multimedia. Video

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 10, 2013 at 1:55am: My German is like my stamp titles: it's both Wagnerputsch (look what he did to music, and now we have to sit and listen to these slow Bayreuth productions) or Wagnerputz (look! what he did to the German language by writing his own libretto!)

I came to Germany with zilch German: I couldn't even tell the difference between Ankunft/Abfahrt to get the right train to Radolfzell. I was 23, a graduate in political philosophy and actually well read in all the byways of human social planning. I was also a passable ethologist and could see how most theory works best for things like the RNA and ferrets (little Stoic virtue individualists).

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 10, 2013 at 1:19am: I just picked up a libretto, maybe had a tiny flashlight, or maybe just the theatre light and slogged along. Since the sing is usually slow, I had plenty of time to slurp around with the syllables. "Das ist mehr Wagnerputz, Gell?!"

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 9, 2013 at 3:46am: Wagner's poetry was awfully strange, but great for learning odd turns of phrase. I would mix in a Gel!?

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 9, 2013 at 3:32am: It took me about 5 months to get the texts and the speaking familiar. Then I would go to the theater, especially the Berlin Opera, and read the libretto as the sing songed. Haha!

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 9, 2013 at 1:02am: I went to the Goethe Institute to learn German in Radolfzell. That was 2 months. I spend another 2 months in Rothenburg oT, and then enrolled at the U Berlin Freie West. I practiced reading German with Hegel, Kant, the Frankfurter Allgemeine, Die Welt, and a history of painting.

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