Category: Culture
The Last Playboy of the Riviera — Taki Theodoracopulos
The mere identification with a tribe establishes that the tribe has a distinct identity, but for others to recognize that identity? It’s considered an outrage.
And Miscellaneous Other Matters I guess I really, really don’t like soccer The Galatians were Irish? Did they drink themselves blind, too? The weekday Mass readings this week went …
Socialism, including its manifestation in certain forms of liberalism, wants to re-make society and the world along atheistic lines.
If the Too Much Information Age has a pagan saint, it might be Pyrrho of Ellis.
“God is dead.” Anyone who graduated eighth grade has heard that famous Nietzsche pronouncement. It makes Christians cringe, but Nietzsche meant nothing by it. He was merely pronouncing what …
BYCU If you haven’t spent a lot of time with Zmirak’s Bad Catholic series, you’re missing out. The material is flat-out brilliant. Content, prose, humor: it’s all there. I …
I haven’t devoted nearly enough attention to drinking literature, but from the books I’ve read, Kingly Amis’ collection of essays, Everyday Drinking, is some of the best. Sure, he’s …
Ranking the Cities We took a day trip to Chicago on Saturday. We went to the Shedd Aquarium, ate at Uno’s (over-rated), walked/shopped the Miracle Mile, then decided the …
Letters to Children Living in the Present I The nineteenth-century Scottish fantasy writer, George MacDonald, lived in intense poverty. He wrote fairy tales in order to eke out a …
On Sleep I ran across one of the most interesting and helpful articles of the year this weekend: “Cuckoo: Our body clocks have social jet lag. And it’s making …
Best Vocalist While drinking and enjoying some old tunes late yesterday afternoon, I pondered this question: Who’s the greatest pop/rock male vocalist of the 20th century? Jim Reeves? Marty …