Never Mind the Poltroons, Here's Arthur Silber

Help Arthur Silber. Please donate to him here, he desperately needs whatever assistance you can offer. I "unretired" from blogging in large part to write this post.

Arthur is simply one of the most generous and beautiful people I've ever had the pleasure to converse with on this here internets, and I hope to hell that he is doing alright. No one writes with his power or clarity, and on a myriad* of subjects to boot. No one.

I'm just gonna cut and paste Chris Floyd's post from last week in its entirety:

Arthur Silber has been silent for quite some time, and his last post spoke of horrific problems with his health -- which has been declining for a long time, and now seems to have taken a deep plunge.

I don't know his precise situation at the moment, but it is likely to be dire. I imagine too that in addition to the health problems, he is facing the usual crush of bills at the end of the month. He is one of our strongest and most thought-provoking voices, yet is forced to live at the margins of society, while witless poltroons and egregious time-servers swim in gravy.

I am not authorized to speak for him, and am not speaking for him -- but just on my own volition, I would urge you to go to his site and, if you have anything to give, give what you can to support Silber in this difficult time. We need his insight, we need his wit, we need the disturbing, productive fire in the mind that he can light.

And while you're there, avail yourself of some of the "Major Essays" listed on the side; this is powerful stuff, and you won't see anything like it anywhere else.

Please donate. Even if it is just a few dollars.

Thank you.

*Hey Smilingdork, if you're reading:

usage Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective. As the entries here show, however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century. The noun myriad has appeared in the works of such writers as Milton (plural myriads) and Thoreau (a myriad of), and it continues to occur frequently in reputable English. There is no reason to avoid it.

PS - Arthur, I promise to write soon. And guess what, it's mom's birthday today!