Nock Notions

Nock and Socrates If you spend any time reading about Albert Jay Nock, you quickly learn two things: (1) He was an intensely private man, perhaps the most private man in the history of the United States, battling with Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski for that top spot. (2) He thought

Expletive

So I come home for lunch and click on Fox Sports 1. It's 12:05. What are they showing? A dog agility competition. Un-freakin' believable. So I reluctantly switch over to gushing-gay ESPN, which shows, you know, sports stuff. SportsCenter is on. Front and center?

Frustrating

H.I.F. From Oregon State University Twitter phenom Zach Williamson [https://twitter.com/Zilliamson]: "ESPN needs to stop talking about Michael Sam 24/7. It's annoying as hell, hes [sic] a great athlete and he likes to bang men, cool. Move on." Amen to that.

TIL

Some good "Today I Learned" entries at Reddit [http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/]: "[A]fter Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals in the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Adolf Hitler sent Owens a commemorative inscribed cabinet photograph of himself. Honors were not bestowed upon Jesse Owens

Monday

"[I]t is common for it to be thought that the possession of an opinion on a subject, which is active, is deemed more important than having any information on that subject, which is passive." Theodore Dalrymple [http://www.skepticaldoctor.com/importance/]. Great observation, but isn't

Interesting

H.I.F. "Three times more Americans gave up on America in 2013 than in 2012. As The WSJ reports, last year saw a record number of US taxpayer expatriations. While 'exceptionalism' and living the American Dream remain cornerstones of maintaining the US citizenry's view

Sunday Miscellany

Pope Francis is on the cover of the Rolling Stone this week. The MSM still loves him, while comparing BXVI to Freddy Krueger. Jim Davis breaks it down at Get Religion [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/getreligion/2014/02/francis-is-the-right-kind-of-pope-at-least-for-rolling-

Saturday

Miscellany Dare I hope it? The Accuweather 15-day forecast says this terrible cold will stop this coming Wednesday, then temperatures will climb steadily for the following ten days . . . with temps in the upper forties from February 18 through February 22. At that point, we'll be a week

Conan

"There are 12 new events in this year's Winter Olympics, 12. The new events include women's ski jumping, luge-team relay, and finding a working toilet."

Historical BYCU

According to the LR blog [http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/buckleys-highfalutin-words/], this anecdote comes from a 1931 entry in Mencken's diary: > William Faulkner, the Southern author who has been visiting New York for six or eight weeks past, has gone home at last, leaving