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California Nut Jobs

California "is a renowned haven for faddists, individualists and nuts of every kind. . . There's always some screwball out here who's got some new cult or ism working and a band of happy unrealistic acolytes around him who are now convinced that they've discovered

High Time Preference and Class

I remember my Dad telling me that time preference is the best measure of class. Class isn't based on race, nationality, religion, or money. The single-best determining factor of class is the ability to forego short-term pleasure for the sake of long-term gain. He told me that a

Pressure Mounts on Tolkien Estate to Finish Legolas-Gimli Tale

LGBTQI+: “It's time to make explicit what everyone has always known” Januay 25, 2023 PORTLAND. The greatest love story of Middle Earth has been repressed long enough. So assert members of the LGBTQI+ Tolkien community who believe the love affair between Legolas the Elf and Gimli the Dwarf

Tolkien's Beorn New Symbol of the LGBTQI+ Movement

Golden Bear Gazette July 21, 2021 SACRAMENTO. A huge werebear created by JRR Tolkien after WWII has become the improbable emblem of the LGBTQI+ movement. “He's just perfect,” says Bruce Byrnes, local gay community activist. “He's a bear, but he's a man.” Beorn is

How the Establishment Went Radical Left

“Having set out from unlimited freedom, I have ended up with unlimited despotism.” Shigalev (the intellectual of the revolutionary group in Dostoyevsky's The Devils). In The Devils, Dostoyevsky tells the stories of young revolutionaries who are children of Socialists. Their parents wanted change. They passed their views down

The Leek: Catholic America's Finest News Source

"The Real O'Neals" Simply Points Out that Catholicism Sucks Executives at ABC are encouraged by criticism leveled at the network's upcoming sitcom, "The Real O'Neals." "It's not like we say the Pope denies climate change or opposes

The Three Ideals of the Enlightenment

Isaiah Berlin summarized the Enlightenment ideals in these three premises, which Enlightenment thinkers held with religious-like fervor (to David Hume's amusement and, later, to Dostoyevsky's disgust): 1. Every genuine question can be answered. If it can’t be answered, it’s not a genuine question. 2.

Wild Gardening Notes

Note One: I need to come up with a better name than "Wild Gardening" I'm greatly encouraged by my wild garden experimentation. But I need a different name. "Wild gardening" is already being used, and it generally denotes something different (lots perennials, edible weeds,

Diabolical Ontological Monism

The best description I've found about the historical, practical, and logical hell that is ontological monism is provided by Warren Carroll, The Founding of Christendom (Christendom Press, 1985). In the first chapter, he writes about the Harappan civilization: its doctrine of reincarnation, cult of Thug stranglers, horned gods,

The Chicken Heart that Sucks Out Our Souls

Photo by Changbok Ko [https://unsplash.com/@kochangbok?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral]The great Stoic Epictetus pointed out that education is the means to freedom. Unfortunately, education today frequently becomes the means of slavery. Everyone