Miscellaneous

"[Justice Ruth] Ginsburg once said that Scalia was 'an absolutely charming man, and he can make even the most sober judge laugh.' She said that she urged her friend to tone down his dissenting opinions 'because he'll be more effective if he is not

Back in my teenage and young adult years, I was an avid National Review fan . . . and loved the Misanthrope column by Florence King. I didn't know she was kind of a lesbian. "She called herself, at least once, a conservative lesbian feminist, and she was not to

These are the days of politics (the primaries) and religion (Lent). So when I ran back across this great quote, I decided to past it here: “The Virgin and St. Thomas are my vehicles of anarchism. Nobody knows enough to see what they mean, so the Judges will probably not

Miscellaneous Rambling: Day Two Long-time TDE readers know that my weekly Miscellaneous Rambling column sometimes runs to two days. This week is one of those weeks. * * * * * * * Is that alright? Do people like the Miscellaneous Rambling column? It's probably my longest-running feature, but I've never gotten any

Miscellaneous Rambling Mardi Gras is here. The New Orleans parade schedule is here [http://www.mardigrasneworleans.com/schedule.html]. * * * * * * * You'd think some cable channel would televise the parades. Talk about cheap programming for an event many people are curious about. * * * * * * * I went to Youtube, thinking maybe I could

Here's how I spent my Saturday morning Office at 6:15 AM: Office at 10:00 AM: It's far from perfect, but at least I can find everything on my desk now. Brutally-busy year this far. But hey, it beats starving.

Some Amis, with my commentary: "Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food. Get one of your own and have it fitted with racks the thickness of a bottle apart." Kingsley Amis. Amen to

Brownson said, on a speaking tour on “The Church and the Republic” that every society is exposed to two opposite dangers: absolutism of the state and absolutism of the individual. In order to mediate between the two dangers, and give each, the state and the individual, their due, there must

The social critic Lewis Mumford found the space program “anti-human.” Space travel, he argued, requires “the total mobilization of the megamachine, commanding to the point of exhaustion all the resources of the state: it is both a symbol of total control and a means of popularizing it and extending it

I always get a bit of blowback when I say I'm not voting in state and federal elections. Just so I'm clear on this: I have always voted. There is nary a vote--whether local, state, or federal--that I haven't voted in. I stood in