If You Can Successfully Get SNAP Out of KFC, I'll Listen
Until that obvious and flagrant and massive fraud is remedied, I'm afraid any argument for more government action is laughably absurd
Eric Scheske
A Tip to the Right Hemisphere
I agree with Modern Drunkard Magazine's observation that, if you can't afford to tip the bartender, you can't afford to drink in a bar. Just buy a six-pack and stay home.
Me? I prefer to stay home with the six-pack, but I love bars.
Happy Birthday, Front Porch Republic
Bill Kauffman at Front Porch Republic
Why I Subscribed to Encylopedia Britannica
I subscribed to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
It was difficult. I didn't much mind the $75 annual subscription price, but I've spent early 2024 weeding subscriptions out of my wallet—about $1,000 worth annually. Last week, I discovered I could watch March Madness this year for
Why Are We So Metaphysically Beleaguered?
A review of Bradley Lowell Stone’s Robert Nisbet: Communitarian Traditionalist (ISI Books, 2000)
Episode 262: The Quest for Community by Robert Nisbet | National ReviewJohn J. Miller is joined by Luke Sheahan of Duquesne University to discuss Robert Nisbet’s book, The Quest for Community.National Review
G.K. Chesterton’
Night Train: An American Legend
The tent city crisis continues. It was even the subject of a recent Econtalk episode, in which the guest explained that the tent cities result from fentanyl-laced meth, which makes users paranoid, so they want to be in an enclosed space (a tent), but when they’re not under the
George MacDonald: Grandfather of Middle Earth?
Fantasy literature wasn't even "a thing" until George MacDonald came along. Timothy Larsen flushes it out.
One of my favorite "browsing books" is C.S. Lewis' Anthology: 365 Readings of George MacDonald writings.
I've also long believed that the fiction of
The CCP and Me: Once Upon A Time in Today's Hollywood
Michael Clark at Epoch Times
China Controls Hollywood?
"The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." Lenin (might be apocryphal)
Vermont is the New Texas?
Ice BacksThe folks fly into Canada then trudge into Vermont and North Dakota. In 2023, compared to 2020, it’s up five-fold and is on pace in 2024 to crush the 2023 numbers. Graph. And like the new immigrants coming across the southern border, these folks appear to be well-funded.