Thursday
I've long been fascinated by Nietzsche, in the sense that I've always found him
wildly wrong and wildly right, wildly reckless and wildly insightful. That being
said, he's enough of a nut that I've taken the time to read only one of
Eric Scheske
GKC Wednesday
Chesterton Short(s)
Petty good piece at the Imaginative Conservative on GKC and Norman Rockwell
[http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/06/gk-chesterton-norman-rockwell-and-the-world-turned-upside-down.html]
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"Humility is particularly necessary in the case of Norman Rockwell, because his
work itself has become trite. We think we know the pictures, so we do
Tuesday
Dosoyevsky, Brownson's junior by eighteen years, would write on a theme similar
to Brownson's concerns about humanitarian democracy. Just as Brownson worried
that North American progressives would sacrifice men on the altar of the
abstractions known as “Man” and “The Rights of Man,” Dostoyevsky feared that
Everybody Out!
Monday
Miscellaneous Rambling
Strange days indeed: Detroit casino sponsors garden to produce seedlings for
Detroiters to replant throughout the city
[http://detroitagriculture.net/the-farm/]. * * * * * * * I'm stunned at the
growth of urban gardening. Last week while driving home from northern Michigan,
I saw a billboard for a "rural urban
Sunday
Free Lunches
Related to yesterday's rant: “Children are creating their own black markets to
trade and sell salt due to First Lady Michelle Obama's school lunch rules." Link
[https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/06/pater-tenebrarum/would-you-eat-official-lunches/]
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It's a good article, highlighting the folly
Saturday
A Rant
"The whole world groaned," wrote Jerome, "and marvelled to find itself Arian."
I returned from vacation and marvelled to find the world gay.
And found the Supreme Court, led by conservative John Roberts, had again
judiciously bent over backwards to save the Affordable Care
Friday
BYCU
Whenever I think of Australian beer, I think of Foster Lager. Because it was my
Dad's beer of choice back in the 1980s, it was my beer of choice ("If it's free,
it's me"). I loved those big oil cans. When
Kimmel
The world's oldest person has died. Again. Third time this year. Someone is
killing the world's oldest people and we do nothing about it.
Fallon
The Obama administration announced that a woman will replace Alexander Hamilton
on the $10 bill starting in 2020. I want to be the first person to congratulate
Caitlyn Hamilton.