A lot to stomach

It was hard to stomach David Cameron preaching austerity from a golden throne | Ruth Hardy

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This is one of those rare (unfortunately), true, insightful pieces intuitively grasping things as they are - but - which undoubtedly will be rationally explained away by one systematic apologist after the other insisting we mustn't let ourselves get caught up in aesthetics, semantics, or shortsighted emotion: the system necessarily must contain its formal rituals which in the large perspective are irrelevant in the overall picture... blah blah... don't get hung up on mushroom soup...

Nevertheless, we end up with those standing hungry in the drizzle, waiting for the bus to take them home, after hours, their backs sore, their accounts emptied.

(This Cameron-occasion, of course, plays out in every corner of the globe, needless to say.)

Humors, all is humors

Anyway these are my humours, my opinions: I give them as things which I believe, not as things to be believed. My aim is to reveal my own self, which may well be different tomorrow if I am initiated into some new business which changes me.
-Montaigne, On educating children, Screech 41