Miscellaneous

H.I.F. A Lutheran allies with a Jewish atheist in support of slavery. And they're fighting against some Catholics. I'm siding with the Lutheran-atheist-slaveholder axis. Sure, the Catholics are exaggerating and are guilty of intellectual dishonesty (the axis doesn't support slavery)

BYCU "When George VI and the queen visited Christ Church on the 400th anniversary of its founding, Trevor-Roper, in a letter to his friend Solly Zuckerman, wrote: 'I signalized Their Majesties visit by extreme intoxication. My hand still trembles, my mind is cloudy, and I am crippled

Funny Quotes On Aldous Huxley: "The stupid person's idea of the clever person." Elisabeth Bowen. ******* Melville on Emerson's gaping flaw: "It was the insinuation that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.

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

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?

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.

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

"[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

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

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-