A tall man standing in front of Mary’s strip club steps purposely to the curb and leans into an automobile grill. As if he’s trying to be heard through a hole in a wall he shouts, no, screams into the car’s impassive plastic faux-metalwork.I head upstairs. The wood steps feel solid but still creak plaintivelyContinue reading “Diary: Yesterday Afternoon”
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Dark Prophecy
“And you, systematic Utopians, who make an abstraction of human nature, fomentors of atheism, fed on chimerae and hatreds, emancipators of woman, destroyers of the family, genealogists of the simian race, you whose name was but lately an outrage, be satisfied: you shall have been the prophets, and your disciples will be the high-priests ofContinue reading “Dark Prophecy”
Diary: Fragmentary Life
I passed a man and his young son on the street. I turned to look and caught a glimpse of the boy looking up at his father, having asked him something, with a look that was all trust and expectation. Nothing profound, nothing special; the scene was commonplace. But so much was told on hisContinue reading “Diary: Fragmentary Life”
Because you have to keep repeating yourself, apparently
Originally posted in January, after that month’s Muslim atrocity on the streets of France: The “No True Scotsman fallacy” goes like this: Smith: All Scotsmen are loyal and brave. Jones: But McDougal over there is a Scotsman, and he was arrested by his commanding officer for running from the enemy. Smith: Well, if that’s right,Continue reading “Because you have to keep repeating yourself, apparently”
The Brown Inquisition
And why stop at the point fixed by the honorable Member for Oldham rather than at the point which would have been fixed by a Spanish inquisitor of the sixteenth century? When once you enter on a course of persecution, I defy you to find any reason for making a halt till you have reachedContinue reading “The Brown Inquisition”
The Brilliant, Stunning, Perfect, Glorious and So Cute Mashably Buzzfed Style You’ve Got to See!
Respectable media has coalesced around a liberal-progressive consensus that brooks no challenge from the right on “social issues”. Social media is dominated by youth and conflict. Maybe this is all we need to explain the trend toward the language of wholly unwarranted hyperbole at lefty sites emphasizing the “viral”–so perfectly, stunningly, adorably satirized in thisContinue reading “The Brilliant, Stunning, Perfect, Glorious and So Cute Mashably Buzzfed Style You’ve Got to See!”
Bill Keith, 1939 – 2015
Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, Bluegrass Breakdown
Leadership!
At this rate ¿Jeb? will soon become the greatest leader of all time: Jeb Bush says he’s not reducing his presidential campaign, he is simply refocusing it with an eye toward the early caucus and primary states.“We’ve made an adjustment in our campaign,” Bush said Saturday before conducting a town hall in the pivotal stateContinue reading “Leadership!”
Quote of the Day
Born-Again Sexuality “Dreams of self-destruction, and probably many cases of suicide, are desires or attempts on the part of narcissistic individuals to give themselves a new birth by attacking themselves and thus bringing about self-fertilization.”–Theodore Faithfull, The Mystery of the Androgyne: Three Papers on the Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis, 1938We’re not allowed to speculate anyContinue reading “Quote of the Day”
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