So, the Libertarian Conservatives Were Right Again?
They lost Massie in the attack by Conservatism 1.0 ("CINO's" . . . "Conservative in name only") but Conservatism 2.0 was right about the Iranian War . . . or so it seems.
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A Heavy Drinker Goes Sober
But he rails against teetotallers, reminding me of an Irish man who "took the pledge" and, when congratulated on becoming a teetotaller, looked shocked and said, "That's a filthy Protestant notion. I took the pledge." (BYCU Blog Post)
A Micro-Paean to County Highway
Today's journalism at the highest artistic levels. That, I think, is what County Highway is up to. (Blog Post)
Welcome to the Internet's Longest-Suffering Blog
The Daily Eudemon: Essays for the restless mind in a crumbling age. Its Scrolling Blog: A throwback to TDE's early days in 2002.
We're Storing Over One Billion Pounds of Surplus Cheese
Under the Clintons, the Democratic Party took up dwarf throwing: seeing how far they can toss the little guy for votes. No one's been protecting the little guy since. Consider the small dairy farmer.
Soho in the Eighties
I'm 5% of the way through this book and I'm not sure what I'm reading, but I'm pretty sure it's an abject waste of time and delightful. (Mini-essay)
Nothing Gets My Bile Going Like a College Graduation Ceremony
College administrators' pretentiousness-to-intelligence ratio is higher than pederasts' perversity-to-temperance ratio. It's bad enough that they both pollute the youth. At graduation ceremonies, they make us watch. (Screed)
An Anti-Abortion Drunk
Jeffrey Bernard (long-stumbling literary drunk, long-standing author of The Spectator's "Low Life" column, subject of the long-running play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell) dedicated a column to "the heroes of 1985." One of them, the "late lamented Michael Dempsey."
Last week a colleague
Resist Tech Zeus!
Technological Progress is the Zeus of our culture. One moment, William Blake was warning that Francis Bacon’s essays are for Satan’s kingdom. The next moment, your cell phone is buzzing against your genitals while you’re trying to get laid. (Essay)
Electric Vehicles Give Joy to the Left Hemisphere
(Essay)