Miscellaneous

> Actual wall where Capone carried out the massacre pic.twitter.com/DRLxAJnwEO [https://t.co/DRLxAJnwEO] > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) April 9, 2016 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/718599646441041920]

I just returned from a week in Sin City. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but I'll tell you all about it shortly. In the meantime, here's a picture of my kids (the five who could make it), standing outside the New York New York

From the Notebooks When the first anti-liberal thinkers started publishing widely-acclaimed books–Friedrich Hayek's Road to Serfdom in 1944, Richard Weaver's Ideas Have Consequences in 1948, William F. Buckley's God and Man at Yale in 1951–liberalism had by and large come to control

How would a cat react if deprived of sleep? How does a car perform when deprived of oil? What happens to babies if no one holds them? I don't know how the cat would react, but I bet it would grow highly irritable and eventually violent. The car,

Never a truer passage about contemporary politics has been written (a slight, but only slight, exaggeration): > Richard Hofstadter in The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964). Hofstadter ascribed all dissent from the Cold War-Great Society consensus, whether on left or right, to mental illness. This was a gentler version

From the Notebooks To understand how liberalism's ejection of God contributes to aimlessness, it helps to understand the “genealogy” of the institutional permanent things as found in the Christian tradition. First, there is the Triune God, the very first Permanent Thing. From God comes what I call the

"I get so impatient at times that I have to go off by myself and read St. Francis de Sales' letters to calm myself." Dorothy Day, Diaries. Great idea. I don't have his letters, but I do have Pauline Books' nifty Courage in Chaos,

From the Notebooks The liberal intuitively wants aimlessness and the resulting banality. Aimlessness is the opposite of rootedness, and rootedness is the trait of a person whose feet are in the soil of the permanent things, and the permanent things ultimately stem from God. Liberalism, by definition, is the effort

Just a minor sidelight of the major socio-economic rape-disruption that was the English Reformation: > When Henry VIII dissolved monasteries monks applied their trades commercially, including monastic distillers & created commercial distilling > — Drunken History (@DrunkenHistory) March 29, 2016 [https://twitter.com/DrunkenHistory/status/714962889661157376] Neat: > Ketel One Vodka

Amen. And it pertains to every governmental welfare program: > When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel. > — HL Mencken (@HLMenckenBot) March 30, 2016 [https://twitter.com/HLMenckenBot/status/715181824729870337] Kinda tough but accurate: > “To be a Christian