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Primus.
cu-ri-a, n., pl. cu-ri-ae.
 [Latin cu-ria, council, curia.]
cu-ri-al, adj.

Secundus.
car-di-nal, adj., n.
 [Middle English, from Late Latin cardina-lis, principal, pivotal, from Latin, serving as a hinge, from cardo-, cardin-, hinge.]
car-di-nal-ship n.

Tertius.
Assorted statements have been made that one should not discuss politics, religion, or class, or even things like administration, 'an even some other stuff. . . . . Therefore,

Two MacAvitys, Cassiel Cardinal MacAvity, and his associate, Temujin Felix MacAvity, so choose to discuss here those horrible topics that one does not discuss, in all the detail that they occasionally get around to . . .


Currently His Eminence isn't here, but you can leave a message.



Politics
. . . Well, actually, Money, or more specifically, tactical economics and why administrators decide what to do.

Religion.
And Not Religion. And both. And neither. And all of the above. And None of the above.
Do remember that "faith" remains a different concept, which others discuss elsewhere under "Mathematics" with other terms and examples for "innumerable" and "as many totally separate examples as there are those to profess".

Class.
How the Upper, Middle, and Lower classes are, how everyone in the 21st Century chooses his or her own class in America and a few other places as well, and why The Common Plebeian, aka Plebe, Yuppy, Preppy, Chav, Gatsby, hoi polloi, Sloan, InsertCodeNameHere, absolutely and vehemently keeps him and herself beneath the rest of us.

Administration.
Being The Boss, which to the horrified shock and denial of all non, wannabe, and willneverbe administrators can sometimes mean not being seen, not getting in the way, and many times not taking credit.

"One of the disadvantages of being a Patrician is that occasionally you are obliged to act like one."
--- From Spartacus

Other stuff.
Various and assorted that don't quite manage to fit in the above . . .


Politics

Castor And Pollux

Child Abuse, Alcoholism, Enlightenment

Clueless

conservative and liberal

The Conservative Manifesto

Khublai Khan/Chinghiz Khan

A New Cause!

On a constitution for an independent Scotland

Once more, from the bottom

On the private ownership of firearms


An interesting offsite link;
The Political Compass

On 04/20/2003, The Cardinal got a result of Economic Left/Right: 0.00 Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.26

On an other hand, some of the questions are quite ambiguous, and one of them to be ambiguous to the point of being unanswerable.

Other Recommended Reading:
The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics By Ted Halstead and Michael Lind

Religion

An overview of the buddha-dharma---A work in progress, and a Really Large File

The Buddha-dharma, Advertising, And Reality


The First Church of the Last Laugh
The World's Oldest Religion. The World's Largest Church.
A lite religion with 150 per cent less dogma. One High Holy Day and April 1st Is It!

Other Recommended Reading:
Buddhism Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen

Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs by Steve Hagen


Class

Marionettes

On Film, Tasteless Fad, And Fashion,
Or,
How the Nineteen-Empties Became The Undoubted, Bar Nothing, Butt-Ugliest Decade Of The Entire 20th Century.

Quality,
the direct opposite of "Upscale", plebeian, tacky, tasteless, tawdry, the lowest of the middle class, yuppy-preppy type . . .


Other Recommended Reading:
Class By Jilly Cooper

Class: A Guide Through the American Status System By Paul Fussell

Administration

A Modest Proposal;
On the Proper Care and Feeding of a Viable Renaissance Faire
A RenFaire is an improvised and somewhat rehearsed theatrical recreation of a 1500s back-country English harvest festival. Here is a selection of short tutorials on how to run one, inspired by a quickly insolvent producer of pay-to-enter LARPs and that company's vehement hatred of RenFaires.

"Once more behind the history lectern, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our ---Well, you all know the drill."
A Few Observations . . . . .
The Book of Laws
Bugger the Laws
Communication is a good thing
Emily's Law
Organization is a good thing
The Law of pieces


An Open Letter And Challenge

Canaries In Our Coal Mine
Greetings; abandon all hope ye who read here . . . .
The files listed here are the record of a large scale pop quiz which was administered over a five year period, where none of those being tested were aware of being tested until after it was over.

Scars
email
Emily Cadigan, In Memoriam
Emily's Law
The Names
Breeders; e.g. creatures that merely breed, as absolutely distinct from parents, e.g. those who actually raise children.
in a dream . . . ---7/19/98
Consultation---9/17/98
Echoes; a Thumbnail Briefing
Summary, 7/10/99
A Matter Of Politics
Postscriptum
MindGame


On the administration of mailing lists of the Society For Creative Anachronism (SCA)


Other Recommended Reading:
Further Up the Organization: How Groups of People Working Together for a Common Purpose Ought to Conduct Themselves for Fun and Profit By Robert Townsend

Other Stuff

On card gaming with a tarot deck.

On three parts of the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism)

Three views of Shakespeare



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