Monday, September 11, 2023
Sunday, September 10, 2023
Appalling …
… MSNBC columnist demands Trump 'must die in prison' to protect democracy | Fox News..
Who the hell designated this asshole as judge and jury. He needs to be fired and henceforth shunned.
Do no harm …
… The trans kids madness needs to stop. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.
Gotta hand it to these doctors: “gender-affirming care” is genius branding. Usefully, “gender” has become a nonsense word. What could possibly be wrong with “affirming?” Why, the adjective exudes niceness, solace and esteem. And no physician or parent could oppose “care.” Yet the euphemism translates to “sex-denying medical experimentation.”
Something to think on …
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
— Franz Werfel, born on this date in 1890
Saturday, September 09, 2023
Wokeness at its most ludicrous …
… Actor Dylan Postl Slams 'Snow White' Remake for Replacing Dwarfs | Newsmax.com:
“The 'magical creatures' are a mixture of races and genders, and we all applaud that," he added. "But they're sacrificing the careers of short people to achieve diversity. And that does not sit right with me. The studio doesn't seem to be aware that dwarfs are also born in all races and genders."
Something to think on …
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
— Leo Tolstoy, born on this date in 1828
Friday, September 08, 2023
I quite understand
… Why I’d Rather Consume Good Writing Than Porn.
Many years ago, when Deep Throat was the first porn movie to make it to regular theaters, a friend of mine and I went to see it. Dave was a clinical psychologist. I was a freelance writer.
It didn’t take long to figure out that it going to be be all blow jobs for the next couple of hours.
I turned to Dave to ask him if he wanted to see any more. He was sound asleep. We left and had a drink.
The scene in Zorba the Greek when the beautiful Irene Pappas drops her gown in front of Alan Bates is wondrously erotic.
Indeed …
… Caldara: Lessons learned from school's Gadsden flag debacle - Complete Colorado - Page Two.
Why are so many ignoramuses involved in education these days?
Another load of crap …
… California prof: Heterosexuality is ‘tragic’.
A lot of women seem to like me. And I sure in hell like women.
Faith and doubt …
… Joseph Epstein: Opinion | Pious Agnosticism as a Form of Judaism. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
After all the worst has been said against religion, one can’t deny the comfort it has brought. I had a neighbor, a woman 10 or so years older than I, unmarried, a former schoolteacher, a serious Catholic, who told me she wasn’t in the least afraid of death. She wished to avoid a painful or sloppy end, but death itself held no fears for her, for she had a good sense of where she was going. As she told me this, I can recall feeling a stab of what I can only call faith envy.
Something to think on …
God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity
— Alfred Jarry,, born on this date in 1873
Thursday, September 07, 2023
Very important …
… I Left Out the Full Truth to Get My Climate Change Paper Published | The Free Press.
You might be wondering at this point if I’m disowning my own paper. I’m not. On the contrary, I think it advances our understanding of climate change’s role in day-to-day wildfire behavior. It’s just that the process of customizing the research for an eminent journal caused it to be less useful than it could have been.
Something to think on …
An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.
— Elinor Wylie, born on this date in 1885
Wednesday, September 06, 2023
God bless Karlyn …
… Meet the Avowed Marxist Who Decides What Books Go in Your School Library.
The disguise — including “Kelty,” an alias — was necessary because Borysenko had been “preemptively banned” from the conference after gatecrashing the Socialist Reproductive Justice conference earlier this year.She might just be our real-world Sherlock Holmes — what an impressive young lady.
if I still had kids in school I would make it plain to the people in charge that I want a say in what want my kids to read. An I have credentials. They may not.
Something to think on …
You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; He is interested in you as if there were no one else on earth.
— Julien Green, born on this date in 1900
Poetic realist …
… (12) The Poetry of Ernest Hilbert - by Micah Mattix - Prufrock. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
One of the things I appreciate about Hilbert is the understated realism of his work. He tries to capture—without theatrics or moralizing—what it feels like to live in the contemporary world. In fact, realism is a kind of ethic for him. His work is, in many ways, about facing the suffering and cruelty of life with honesty and courage.
Sure looks and sounds that way …
… Something’s Wrong in Rome.
The Pope, of course, is only the Vicar of Christ. A stand-in. Jesus remains its head. And there have been plenty of lousy Popes.
Tuesday, September 05, 2023
As well she ought …
… Mother Sues School District Over Secret Gender Transition That Led to Her Daughter Being Trafficked.
These clowns have to be made to bigtime. That’s the only way they’ll ever wise up.
Tracking the decline …
… Review of "The Fourth Turning Is Here" by Neil Howe | City Journal.
Howe’s prediction rests on a model that at its core is timeless and simple. In fact, it can be summed up by a four-line Internet meme: “hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times.” Howe’s version manages to fill most of 500 pages with further nuance, however
I fear so …
… The new age of agitprop - spiked.
The results for consumers have been disastrous. In the new media world, all news coverage is geared towards upholding pre-established narratives. Actual reporting has become exceedingly rare.
Something to think on …
Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.
— Frank Yerby, born on this date in 1916
Watch and listen …
… Author Richard Rodriguez on the burden of intellectual development. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Monday, September 04, 2023
Peculiar …
… What Really Happens When Americans Stop Going to Church.
I am a cradle Catholic and I still practice the faith. We have been together since birth — though. I suspended observance during my self-indulgent years. I am a sinner.
Something to think on …
Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
— Richard Wright, born on this date in 1908
Sunday, September 03, 2023
Well, let’s see …
… Could Any Other Jazz Trumpeter Match Up with Louis Armstrong in the 1930s?. (Hat tip, Dave Lul.)
In case you wondered …
… Whatever Happened to Light Verse? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
In his introduction to a collection of McGinley’s verse, W.H. Auden places her in the company of Jane Austen, Colette, and Virginia Woolf. Versifiers like McGinley were often held in high esteem by sophisticates like Auden and also managed to entertain millions of readers who had probably never been exposed to the works of Woolf, Colette, Austen, or even Auden himself. Auden was in fact an excellent writer of light verse. He became an American citizen at the age of 39, so much of his verse can be categorized as American, at least technically.
Saturday, September 02, 2023
Then he’s breaking the law …7
… Snek in the grass: KY gov may not follow law if McConnell retires
Maybe he can’t read. Wouldn’t surprise me.
Something to think on …
All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.
— Eugene Field, born on this date in 1850
Friday, September 01, 2023
A poem …
… written by my daughter, Jennifer Knox.
Summer Lightning
What were you doing when the lightning came,
When the world fairly glistened with fireflies?
And then there was thunder, like God at the door.
Your heart did not stop, though maybe it tried.
And what were you doing when the lightning came?
Thoughts of my true-love, a flash of his eyes.
And then came the thunder to snuff us like ants,
Come to your senses, this lady-bug flies!
And what were you doing when the lightning came,
To shatter the glass of the jewel-cleaved sky?
A heartbeat, a heartbeat, then thunder came.
My children lay sleeping, and never a cry.
By light of lightning my lover I see
A pause, then thunder; he's crying for me
This is wonderful …
… My Summer With Leo Tolstoy. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
… At some point I understood I hadn’t made a commitment of time but entered a world. It is about life—parties and gossip and thwarted elopements in the night, religious faith and class differences and society, men and women and personal dreams and private shames. It is about military strategy, politics and the nature of court life, a world that exists whether the court is that of Czar Alexander in 1812, or the White House or a governor’s office today. And of course it is about the Napoleonic wars, and Russia’s triumph after Napoleon’s invasion.
Something to think on …
The single fact of existing is already a true happiness.
— Blise Cendrars, born on this date in 1887
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