One of the more intriguing new blogs I've seen: Old World Swine by artist Timothy Jones, whose interests include Catholic faith, fine art, hiking, camping, brewing, bread and cheese, the usual dead British suspects (Chesterton, Belloc, Tolkien, Lewis), old movies, and pipe smoking. He's also a TDE reader and one of its more clever combox users.
__________
Trying to do "24" in 1994. Get past the first 60 seconds, then it's hilarious.
__________
A friend sent me the link to the "Paleoconservative" entry at Wikipedia. It's pretty good. I especially liked the "Southern tradition" sub-entry. Excerpt:
The Gettysburg Address was brilliant oratory, but it was also political subterfuge. As H.L. Mencken pointed out, it was the Southerners who were fighting for the consent of the governed and it was Lincoln's government that opposed them. They no longer consented to being governed by Washington, DC. Lincoln's admonition that government "of the people, by the people, for the people" would perish from the earth if the right of secession were sustained was equally absurd. The United States remained a democracy, and the Confederate States of America would have been a democratic country as well. Lincoln's notion that secession would "destroy" the government of the United States is also bizarre in light of the fact that after secession took place the US government fielded the largest and best-equipped army and navy in the history of the world up to that point for four long years.
