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The Daily Eudemon: Essays for the restless mind in a crumbling age (Public). Its Scrolling Blog: A throwback to TDE's early days in 2002.
An American Tradition: A Guy Can Never be Too Safe
“President Peña of Paraguay is here. President. President, thank you very much. Young, handsome guy. It’s always nice to be young and handsome. Doesn’t mean we have to like you. I don’t like young, handsome men. Women, I like. Men, I don’t have any interest. Good. That’s right." DJR
This Lent: Resolving without Resolving
Paradox lies at the very roots of existence; we are all born the children of paradox . . . G.K. Chesterton
There, in the gate, before the bar raises to let those spiritual horses run, sits the left hemisphere: all grinning and shit, holding a pole at your horse's feet,
"Frank Rich and John Simon are the Syphilis and Gonorrhea of the Theater."
That’s a quote by the great David Mamet, back in the days when he was a “brain-dead liberal” (his words), in the late 1980s.
I gotta believe his view of Simon has softened considerably since then. Simon was no red-hot conservative partisan, not remotely. He was merely a critic
The Roaring Twenties
They roared with alcohol
Get Outside and Walk
A local man told my son-in-law, "We call your father-in-law 'The Walker.'"
He might as well have said they call me "The Well Hung," I was so pleased.
When Wittgenstein quit Cambridge and moved to Ireland, he walked. And walked. Then walked some more.
We've All Become at Least a Bit Monstrous Because Our Culture is Very Monstrous
Abnormality pumped Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire's nads. The 19th-century French natural scientist was fascinated by things like a two-headed calf and a stillborn pig fetus with a single eye at the center of its face.
They were "monsters" in the medievalist's Latin jargon: monstrare: to show,
The Federal Government is So Numb and Bloated, It Doesn't Even Know When It Gets Raped
Nellie Bowles nails it this morning when discussing ethnic groups' tendency to defraud the government:
In general, I appreciate all the grassroots efforts to eradicate public services fraud. I went all in on DOGE, guys. I was defending Big Balls till the shrinkage. We need a national anti-fraud movement.
Fighting for One's Soul in the Digital Age
The Savonarola Option