Zuby's Twitter Thread: 20 Things I've Learned (Or Had Confirmed) About Humanity During The 'Pandemic'
The pandemic is over but the leader and expert's despicable response to it must not be forgotten, so herewith . . .
Eric Scheske
Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813): Left-Hemispheric
McGilchrist writes about the left hemisphere's love for abstraction. Because it is the hemisphere of action ("it's tasked with tasks," is my (oh-so-clever) way of putting it), it prefers abstract ideas that give it guideposts for action. It keeps things simple, which makes things
Dorothy Parker's Brilliance and Other Sundries to Fascinate Your Friends at the Bar Tonight
The godfather of modern libertarianism, Albert Nock, was in his prime during Prohibition. Needless to say, he railed against it, noting once that it's absurd to regulate something that, in nature, flows as freely as water.
He's right, of course. And the fact that it flows
50-Year Anniversary of The Gulag
Gary Saul Morson at The New Criterion
Day Drinking
Dani Blum at the New York Times
A Dominican, a Neuroscientist, and Computer Scientist Walk into a Bar . . . or Maybe a Library
A.G. Sertillanges (the Dominican), Andrew Huberman (the Neuroscientist), and Cal Newport (the Computer Scientist) on the Need for Focus
Hemispheres in the Garden
The left hemisphere plans, incidentally. The right hemisphere flows.
Carol Deppe draws an autobiographical distinction in The Tao of Vegetable Gardening between "Planning Carol" and "Doing Carol." PC lays out elaborate plans that DC later disregards as she gardens. I can relate . . . big-time. Deppe's
The Utopian Gardener: An Autobiographical Incident
Rational ideas create hell on earth. Just ask a kulak. Or just ask the lettuce plants in my garden.
I had a great gardening idea a few years ago. I called it “wild gardening.” The idea was simple and based on U.S. foreign policy over the past 75 years.
Misshapen Creatures that Live in the Earth Can Give Us Sage Advice?
Well, no. But: Don't Fear the Gnome
The first philosophical event in the Greek world, the selection of their seven sages, gives the first distinctive and unforgettable characteristic of Greek civilization. Other people have saints, while the Greeks have philosophers. They are right when some state that a
Six Potential Apparition Conclusions
From the conclusion of the Vatican's new norms for discerning apparitions