Monday, July 31, 2023
Quite a guy …
…and a greater painter: Filippo Lippi: Artist in an Age of Piety — Maureen Mullarkey:. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Hear, hear …
… This is why governments can't be trusted to regulate "misinformation".
My point here is that the government isn’t really a neutral party. They’re not some entity devoid of opinions or goals. If the government is in charge of silencing misinformation, it’s going to do so in a way that best serves the government’s interests.
Hmm …
… July 31, 1869: Local newspaper not happy about Philadelphians in Duluth. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Sunday, July 30, 2023
Not what you might think …
… The Christian View of Death and Immortality.
Having studied philosophy (Thomism and existential phenomenology) under a wise and wonderful Jesuit, I find these pieces a joy to read.
What nonsense …
… Campus Reform | Prof: Algebra, geometry perpetuate white privilege.
This white guy was asked by his algebra professor in college to drop his course. My average was 10. The were five problems on the weekly test and ou got 10 points for writing them down, which was as far as I ever got. Luckily, I could switch to Greek, which I did. I’m good at arithmetic, but couldn’t get the slightest handle on algebra.
Appreciation …
… A Good Word for Macaulay. (Hat tip, Dave Lull)
For Dom David Knowles, who was fond of translating Macaulay’s speeches into Latin, he was not only the most distinguished historian Cambridge had produced, an orator of the first rank, the prince of English essayists, a narrative poet with the rare distinction of being read continually for pleasure and committed effortlessly to memory (which continues to this day)—he was also, in a sense, the inventor of the paragraph, in the modern sense of a unit of prose composition made up of sentences “in which a topic or an idea is taken up, dismissed, or discussed.”I’m
Just so you know …
…Why 'Oppenheimer' is a Bad Film - Mail Online - Peter Hitchens blog. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Something to think on …
No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law to discover. No Treasury official told Fleming to discover penicillin. Nor was Rutherford instructed to split the atom by a certain date.
— C. Northcote Parkinson, bor on this date in 1909
The state of the Church today …
… The Shame of the Cowardly Shepherds - The Catholic Thing,
There are shepherds among us who should be kings and generals – the tallest among us – who cringe and have become slaves to a fallen world and suppliants to the way of the flesh. They deny the very battle for which they were raised up and for which they should lead the charge. Their lack of action, sins of omission, and absence of courage are their lasting shame.
Saturday, July 29, 2023
Dr. Johnson after all these years …
… The Lamp Magazine | Saint Samuel of Fleet Street. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
I cab still remember watching an adaption of Boswell’s life of Johnson on Omnibus in the 1950s . Peter Ustinov played Johnson.
What about you?
… only yesterday : Ah, yes, this was one of my favorite TV shows..
Paar’s Tonight show was far and the way the best version of them all. It was a late-night TV salon, what with Alexander King, Genevieve, Charlie Weaver, etc. I first saw George Carlin and Jonathan Winters on that show. I did like Johnny Carson, but even he wasn’t Jack Paar.
Something to think on …
I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something,and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.
— Dag Hammarskjöld, born on this date in 1995
Friday, July 28, 2023
My sentiments exactly …
… Paul Davis On Crime: Yeah, Try That Stuff In A Small Town.
The Babylon Bee went on to state “Country music star Jason Aldean released a controversial single this month called ‘Try That In A Small Town’ in which he laid out his belief that crime is bad. He has since been forcefully condemned by the music industry since being against crime is now considered a racist dog whistle.”
An unlikely theologian …
… The Far Invisible | Theological Variations | Issues | The Hedgehog Review.
Whatever his religious belief or unbelief, theological elements are central to his imagination, and over the course of his long career have assumed a distinctive shape that is worthy of our closest attention, above all because these elements so powerfully address American culture today: a culture that wants to be thought spiritual but never religious, to use history as a weapon but never acknowledge it as an inheritance, to worship its own technologies while simultaneously lamenting their tyrannical power.
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Get real …
… Get Out of the Cave and Enter the Real World - Crisis Magazine.
Even sin was more real in the past. If a man wanted to commit adultery or fornicate, he had to do so with a real woman; but today, he can do so with a moving image of a woman on a screen that receives information through ethereal frequencies from a satellite tower. He does not even know if the woman is dead or alive, or, with AI imaging, if she is even real to begin with.
Something to think on …
To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins, born on this date in 1844
Thursday, July 27, 2023
A most intriguing tale …
…. Theophilus: The Prelate Who Sold His Soul to the Devil.
Many years ago I happened to be at a gathering of Satanists. I listened to what they had to say, but I couldn’t help breaking out into laughter from time to time. They accused of irreverence and I told I couldn’t help it and I left. I just couldn’t take seriously. I learned later that the Devil doesn’t like to be laughed at. Well, maybe he shoukd stop recruiting damned fools.
It’s a great song …
… and it’s the truth:HART: Jason Aldean Is Right About My Small Town | The Daily Caller.
Something to think on …
Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
— Hilaire Belloc, born on this date in 1870
From the heart …
… Pietists vs. Confessionalists | Brandywine Books. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
The heart of my own theology, for many years, has been the Incarnation. The Word became Flesh. Somehow, through the power of God, body and mind came into harmony. Justice and Mercy kissed. The absolute and the subjective cooperated perfectly in the one perfect Man.
Back in the day …
… Photographs of People Making Books at The Collins Factory in 1960s Glasgow - Flashbak. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Authentic journalism …
… (11) The Inky editorial board hears a dog whistle.
Ralph and I both worked for the Inky. He is a great reporter and a great writer, as this piece amply demonstrates.
Just so you know …
… What David French Gets Wrong About the Culture War - Return to Order.
Some time ago, Mr. French got into a heated debate with conservative journalist Sohrab Ahmari, who made him the unwilling founder of a philosophy he dubbed “David-Frenchism.” It might be defined as this mania of choice over what is chosen. It is the dogma of emptying out beliefs to the point that all might exist peacefully.
In case you wondered …
… Was King David Mythical or Historical?| National Catholic Register.
New archaeological findings support the truthfulness and historical trustworthiness of the Bible.
Q&A …
… Walter Kirn on How America Lost the Plot.
Over the years, it has caused me great consternation that the heavy aversion to totalitarian, dictatorial, and top-down systems that was implanted in me is now kind of useless—and even dangerous. As I discern trends in our society that seem to resemble those I was warned against and raise my hand to say that I don’t like this, I’m told that, somehow, I’m out of step, I’m overly alarmed, and I’m maybe even on the wrong side.
Blogging note …
Got off to s late start today because our phone was out. No phone, no internet. A few minutes ago it came back on. I will soon have to go for my daily walk (doctor’s order). But I’ll be bloging again when I get back.
Something to think on …
I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern in the individual has at its disposal the greatest transforming energies of which life is capable. Find this pattern in your own individual self and life is transformed.
— Carl Jung, born on this date in 1875
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Well worth knowing …
… Experts Say Decades of Recycling Hype Has Backfired Dramatically.
In two nationwide surveys in the U.S. that we conducted in October 2019 and March 2022, we found that people overlook waste reduction and reuse in favor of recycling. We call this tendency recycling bias and reduction neglect.
In case you wondered …
… How Do You Know When It's Time To Flee A Deep-Blue Hellhole?
Fight by Flight has been praised by Megan Basham of The Daily Wire and Steve Deace of Blaze TV. This slim book is one of the most interesting reads I’ve come across in years. Part theology, part memoir, it’s a reminder that simple ideas can carry much weight. Webbon has a gift for distilling time-tested values for use in many contexts.
This is not good …
… (11) The scariest poll you'll see this summer - by Alex Berenson.
The support for government suppression of “false” speech clearly violates the First Amendment, which does not distinguish between “false” and legal speech, or online or traditional platforms for speech and debate.
The way to deal with “false” speech is to refute it.
Very interesting …
… When Poland's Greatest Poet Met James Fennimore Cooper—and the Passion for Liberty That United Them.
James Fenimore Cooper was one of America’s greatest literary figures of the 19th Century, and a passionate lover of liberty. His masterpiece, The Last of the Mohicans, is still well-known to Americans today, both in novel form and as a celebrated 1992 movie starring Daniel Day Lewis. What few Americans likely know is that Mickiewicz and Cooper became close friends in Italy over a six-month period in 1829-30. They spent many hours in conversation about Poland and Polish history.
Why they’re not worth paying attention to …
… 10 Corporate Outlets That Pooh-Poohed Biden-Burisma
I hear the Jeff Bezos, who has owned the Washington Post for about 10 years, wants to pay more attention to it. Well, Jeff, here’s an idea: leave on your employees’ desks the memo that great Warren Phillips, the man wh made the Wall Street Journal what it, sent to every WSJ staffer the day he became publisher:News is news and opinion is opinion, We have sections for both.NEVER SHALL THE TWAIN MEET AS LONG AS I AM PUBLISHER OF THIS PAPER.
Something to think on …
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
— Eric Hoffer, born on this date in 1902
Good question …
… Does any country hate itself like America? | Not the Bee.
What I'm legitimately curious about is whether there is another society on the globe where a significant portion of the population makes a living - a healthy living - doing nothing but publishing their hatred for the complete ethos and history of their own civilization. Is there a country where people rise in prominence solely based on their fervent dedication to amplifying every fault, magnifying every mistake, downplaying every virtue, and minimizing every contribution of their national legacy?
Monday, July 24, 2023
Mindless quantification …
… The Professor-Student Non-Aggression Pact.
If I were a student today, though, I would object tomwoke professors.
Something to think on …
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
— Robert Graves, born on this date in 1895
Indeed …
… The new Oxford Poetry Professor A E Stallings: 'I actually think most people like rhyme a lot'. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes …
… Is Catholicism 'Inadequate'? - The Catholic Thing.
Cardinal Mueller has confirmed that, while he ran the CDF, there was a file on Fernández himself. And on the basis of the Argentine’s view of recent Catholic history, it’s no wonder.
Sunday, July 23, 2023
Blogging note …
Debbie and I just got back the ER. She had bad fall in the garden. Fortunately, not so bad as to require hospitalization.
Everyone have a blessed night.
In case you wondered …
… The Based and Hilarious Reason Gen Z Bros Are Flocking to the New Barbie Flick.
We’ve reached the point where it’s no longer possible to take the Woke seriously. They’ve gone so far around the bend that their gibberish has transcended parody and reached the inconceivable level. “They’ve got to be kidding,” anyone who still has a shred of the ability to think analytically says. “They can’t possibly believe that. It’s got to be a joke.”
Something to think on …
The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.
— C. S. Forester, born on this date in 1899
No mean feat …
… The Unique Challenges of Translating The Brothers Karamazov Into English. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
I chose not to follow the translations of my predecessors; however, on occasion I did engage with them critically, especially in the particularly complex passages, believing that literary translation is in reality an enterprise in which a translator builds on the work of his/her predecessors. If Garnett could come up with the perfect English counterpart, who was I to reject it and use a less appropriate phrase?
Take a look at these beauties …
… Horse play: elegant equines in the American landscape – in pictures. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)
Saturday, July 22, 2023
Poetry and truth …
… Jane Clark Scharl delivers artful truths in Sonnez Les Matines. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
The Christian tradition, however, construes the notion more dramatically. The commandments of God are inscribed not only in the Bible but on each individual conscience; in the confessional, a man must accuse himself and prosecute the charges himself. To an eavesdropper — as for the audience of a verse play, if we accept John Stuart Mill’s assertion that all poetry is “overheard” — such an arrangement is as tantalizing as it is recondite. For even if we knew what was said in the confessional, we could nowise know that it accurately reflects the state of the soul.
Hear, hear …
… Rage against the baseball machine. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
The cost of this dehumanization will be measured in stories untold, lore foregone, enlivening arguments unmade. Robo-umps, supplemented by replay reviews, will kill off one of the sport’s idiosyncratic delights: the rhubarb — the heated disputation of an umpire’s call by the manager, oft accompanied by tobacco-spitting, finger-pointing and dirt-kicking, and ending with the manager’s ejection from the contest to a lusty chorus of boos. On a less clamorous but even more important note, individual spectators are deprived of the pleasure of grousing, grumbling or just bantering with neighboring fans over any of that game’s 200-plus ball or strike calls.
Friday, July 21, 2023
Making philosophy readable again …
… The New Hellenism. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
In effect, every aspect of philosophy is being transformed or reimagined today, just as Epicurus produced letters or Epictetus aphorisms rather than Aristotelian treatises on logic. The basic forms are not the 20-page journal article with 123 footnotes or the bristlingly dry and difficult 400-page monograph, one-third of which is “scholarly apparatus.” Rather, what you get from Agnes Callard or Justin Smith is a sharp, unexpected 2,500-word essay in a blog or newspaper.
Albert Camus
I've just finished Camus's The Fall, and let me say at the start: I did not enjoy it. Which surprised me, actually, because I remember having a favorable impression of The Stranger. For one, I found it difficult to follow the plot of The Fall. And, true, you might argue that the very idea of plot is secondary to a novella like this one: but be that as it may, I struggled at times to track the main character and his descent. But more than that, I felt the philosophies introduced here did not fully crystalize: ideas of honor, shame, and sacrifice are there, and I recognized their tension. But beyond that, I was not sure that I grasped the fall itself: the self-judgement and penitence, especially. There are philosophical novels and novels which engage certain philosophies, and I'm sure much has been written about that distinction. For me, though, this was not a novel of ideas: neither was it a philosophical novel. It was an essay of sorts, charting one character's frustrated quest for moral supremacy. That pursuit is the target of laughter: not from outside, but from within. And here, perhaps, Camus makes his strongest point: in the end, objective judgement may be impossible, but we still have a nagging sense of right and wrong. Despite my critique, the last line is for Camus: "Death is solitary while servitude is collective."
Blog note …
My wife’s aide just took her to a nearby urgent car care center. Blogging will resume eventually.
Something to think on …
World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.
— Marshall McLuhan, born on this date in 1911
Thursday, July 20, 2023
Hmm …
… Toleration Misunderstood - by William F. Vallicella.
I think Archbishop Chaput had a point. Who wants to be merely tolerated? I have not merely tolerated my gay friends. I love them. They are dear friends.
Something to think on …
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
— Paul Valery, who died on this date in 1945
At least some are …
… Americans are captivated by heritable guilt - The Spectator World. (Hat tip, Dave lull.)
The handing down of grudges generation after generation inculcates a dismaying moral helplessness in so-called culprits who were supposedly born into sin but never themselves did anything wrong, while stoking an unappeasable resentment in the descendants of long-dead ancestors whose injuries can never be healed. Sound like a world you recognize? The left increasingly embraces the highly un-Christian principle of heritable guilt
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Latter-day hero …
…IRS Whistleblower Says DOJ Waiting To ‘Pounce’ In Retaliation Over Hunter Biden Investigation.
We the people need to stand with these guys. We have the most corrupt federal government in our history. And we foot the bill, No wonder the great Franklin Roosevelt, when his staff proposed unionizing the federal workforce said that would never happen as long as he was president. But he was a real president.
Blogging note …
I must leave shortly. I have appointment to have SynVisc shots for my knees. Blogging will resume later.
Something to think on …
Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.
— A. J. Cronin, born on this date in 1896
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Something to think on …
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
— Jessamyn West, orn on this date in 1902
Undefeated …
… Borges Dealt With His Anxiety About Going Blind by Learning a New Language. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
In the newness of Old English, Borges found an almost tactile relief in the unfamiliar words, as though they were “carved,” like the raised print in those first books for the blind printed in Paris nearly two hundred years before.
Monday, July 17, 2023
Bear in mind …
… these are the people who govern us: Paul Davis On Crime.
Of course, I’m just a guy who made hisliving reading.
What a phony …
…. Bruce Springsteen crosses the picket line | Washington Examiner.
And I saw him in concert back in the day and thought he was great.
RIP …
… A Saver’s Grace, (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Jim was a local legend known for his penny pinching. When he died, the outpouring of community affection for this eccentric character was astounding.
Something to think on …
The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.
— Erle Stanley Gardner, born on this date in 1889
Sunday, July 16, 2023
Good idea …
… Alaska prisons drop policy banning Catholic Mass - The Spectator World.
Can’t say I’ve ever seen anybody get drunk at Mass.
It really is a shepherd’s song …
… In the Valley of Shadow — A Reflection on Psalm 23, “The Lord Is My Shepherd” (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Something to think on …
I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.
— Anatole Broyard, born on this date in 1920
Saturday, July 15, 2023
Hmm.…
… Victor Davis Hanson on Tribalism - by William F. Vallicella.
As ‘minorities’ become more tribal, whites, the least tribal group, will inevitably become more tribal in self-defense
Something to think on …
The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.
— Walter Benjamin, born on this date in 1892
Hear, hear …
… How It All Smells - The Catholic Thing.
The snobbery of the modernist is almost axiomatic, for what is modernism if not the rejection, usually with contempt, of traditional forms, or even of form itself? But why should the prelates of the Church ever have gone along with modernism? That is not hard to explain. People in charge of things want very much to appear to be in the know, to be on the cutting edge, to be leading a charge.
Well worth pondering …
… (11) Free Will, Children, and the Great Filter.
The thing is, it’s a lot easier to encourage people to do things that are easy and fun – like have sex without having kids – than to do things that are difficult and sometimes unpleasant, as raising kids certainly can be. So my suspicion is that the global population bust is going to go on for quite a while.
Friday, July 14, 2023
She is one of my heroes and deserves to be canoniized .
… Love, Sex and Dorothy Day | America Magazine:.
Day’s witness offers practical insights into how one might begin to sublimate and transform sexual desires. Never stuffing away her longings, nor indulgently giving way to them, she received her sexuality as a gift from God to be offered and used for his greater plan for her life. When making painful sacrifices, she trusted that God would fulfill her desires—though perhaps not in the way she saw best fit, but rather in a way that far surpassed any of her dreams or calculations.
This does not surprise …
… Real Journalism in an Anti-Journalism Age | RealClearBooks.
“The Press Versus the President” does not acquit Putin, and it often gives explicit credence to claims that the Russians were attempting to meddle in the election. But as its title makes clear, the series offers a thorough account of the many ways in which mainstream corporate media outlets (the Times and the Washington Post get particular attention) operated hastily and sloppily in their coverage of the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russian state operatives, and it highlights many specific instances in which editors and newsrooms elided nuanced fact in favor of the congealing narrative that Trump and his team had made deliberate attempts to conspire with Russia and secure the presidency. The report says little about what Russians did or did not do (as is true of Durham’s report, as well), focusing instead on the reasons why many news outlets owe the American people an apology for their role in stoking a false panic over deliberate collusion. Bob Woodward, no friend to Trump, put it best in a conversation with Gerth, quoted in part one: newsrooms need to “walk down the painful road of introspection.”
I’m an old journalist and in my day the idea was to keep yourself and your opinions out of what you were reporting (a good way to learns, actually. As my late friend Warren Phillips informed the staff of Wall Street Journal when he became its publisher — news is is news, opinion is opinion; we have sections for both; never shall the twain meet as long as I am publisher of this paper. Too many of today’s journalists want to determine the news, not report on it. Too bad. Accurate, impartial reporting is really of great value.p to our republic. Of course, you often have get off your ass and do real reporting, and not just rely on the internet..
Something to think on …
God did not create us to abandon us.
— Irving Stone, born on this date in 1903
Thursday, July 13, 2023
Don’ t monkey with this kid …
… Teen with 2ft-long tail is worshipped as 'Hindu monkey god' – but he wants it gone.
Actually, I’m with him. I’d want it gone too.
I don’t get this …
… The Supreme Court’s Disorienting Elevation of Religion.
Here is the opening clause of the First Amerndment: “ Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”Now, you’re going tell me that forcing me to produce something that I feel violates my religious beliefs or to work on the sabbath is not government violation of the First Amendment? There are plenty of other websites that can cover your wedding, and what’s so hard about scheduling your employees so as not to interfere with their going to church? I could be wrong, but I suspect the author of this piece is not well-disposed toward religion and wouldn’t mind seeing the Amendment revised and edited accordingly.
Something to think on …
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
— Kenneth Clark, bor on this date in 1993
Exploring the sky …
… Stunning star nursery is latest JWST image to amaze astronomers.
It was only one generation ago that the seeming unbreakable stranglehold of communism over this part of the world came to an abrupt and unexpected end in the events of 1989 and following. And the martyrs of Auschwitz are today venerated as reminders of hope and goodness even in the midst of unspeakable evil. The history of this place is full of reminders that salvation comes, not in the empty promises of ideologies, not from the powerful of the world, but from the One who subjected Himself to death and who calls us each to follow Him up Calvary.
Well worth pondering …
… If God is With Us - The Catholic Thing.
It was only one generation ago that the seeming unbreakable stranglehold of communism over this part of the world came to an abrupt and unexpected end in the events of 1989 and following. And the martyrs of Auschwitz are today venerated as reminders of hope and goodness even in the midst of unspeakable evil. The history of this place is full of reminders that salvation comes, not in the empty promises of ideologies, not from the powerful of the world, but from the One who subjected Himself to death and who calls us each to follow Him up Calvary.
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Hardly surprising …
… Gallup: Americans' Confidence In Higher Education Hits All-Time.
The most recent survey found Democrats were the only subgroup where a majority remained confident in higher education. Fifty-nine percent said they were confident, although that number is down nearly 10 percentage points from eight years ago. ... Republicans showed the sharpest decline, dropping by nearly 40 points to 19 percent from 2015, the lowest confidence over all.
Something to think on …
Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.
— Henry David Thoreau, born on this date in 1817
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Maybe the greatest piece of literary criticism ever …
… D.H. Lawrence on Walt Whitman.
Whitman, the great poet, has meant so much to me. Whitman, the one man breaking a way ahead. Whitman, the one pioneer. And only Whitman. No English pioneers, no French. No European pioneer-poets. In Europe the would-be pioneers are mere innovators. The same in America. Ahead of Whitman, nothing. Ahead of all poets, pioneering into the wilderness of unopened life, Whitman. Beyond him, none. His wide, strange camp at the end of the great high-road. And lots of new little poets camping on Whitman’s camping ground now. But none going really beyond. Because Whitman’s camp is at the end of the road, and on the edge of a great precipice. Over the precipice, blue distances, and the blue hollow of the future. But there is no way down. It is a dead end.
Something to think on …
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
— E. B. White, born on this date in 1899
The new persecution …
… British Social Worker Deemed 'Unemployable' Due to Christian Beliefs.
“I was told I was the best candidate for the job, then they suddenly said I was unemployable because they discovered that I am a Christian,” Ngole said. “The reasons they gave for withdrawing the job offer were an attack on me and my faith. They made it seem that 100% of the people I would be helping would be LGBT and that I had to pledge allegiance to the LGBT flag and forget about my Christian beliefs.”