Tuesday
Miscellaneous Rambling
Welcome to the first day of summer. Okay, not really. Summer apparently starts at 12:24 tomorrow morning. But we're really close.
Wow, finally, a sports franchise stands up to the LGBTQIXYZ whatever brown shirt community: St. Louis Cardinals Resist LGBTQ Outcry Over 'Christian Day.' I've always been a Tigers fan and have long relished the '68 Tigers' 3-1 World Series comeback over the Cardinals, but you can color me a Cardinal fan now.
Apt observation from Theodore Dalrymple's latest at Taki: "There is no better or more salutary way of reminding yourself of your own profound and irreparable ignorance than to browse in a well-stocked secondhand bookshop."
Man, the Thomas Sowell Twitter feed is killing it: 102,000 followers. It's not unusual for it to garner thousands of retweets. And it's no wonder, what with quotes like this:
“It is hard for me to sympathize with young people who are trying to “find themselves.” When I was their age I was trying to find the rent.”
— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) June 18, 2017