There are a lot of people dispensing life advice these days. Not many are worth listening to. (Most of them should be advice consumers rather than producers, but that’s a subject for another screed.) But there are a few who deserve attention – and no, I’m not referring to myself. Encountering one of …
Category: early-morning thoughts
Aug 28 2024
A Truly Horrid Early-Morning Thought
Yes, I have them. This brief article has stimulated one of the worst: Supreme Court Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson has said she is preparing herself to rule on the outcome of a disputed presidential election. In an interview with CBS’s Norah O’Donnell, Jackson said the court must be prepared for such an …
Aug 23 2024
Pie In The Sky By And By
Given how many of us Baby Boomers there are, there’s always someone whose 50th anniversary of something has come around. And there are quite a few old rockers and folkies available to reminisce about their golden years. The combination can be cloying, if not worse. For example, not everyone’s memory of certain musical …
Aug 11 2024
Unmasking The Rulers
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” – misattributed to Voltaire, but we’ll get to that later. [James Taggart] “What I mean is, there are practical problems to solve, which…For instance, what was that matter of our last allocation of new rail vanishing from …
Aug 04 2024
Liberty Versus Liberties
France fell because there was corruption without indignation. – Romain Rolland Two graphics from WRSA today: Let’s add a famous quote from Founding father John Adams: Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Without a fair …
Jul 13 2024
Cue Napoleon’s Maxim
The mess called California has had several architects, but none more prominent nor proud than Gavin Newsom. Yet Democrats are pondering whether he should replace Joe Biden as their 2024 presidential nominee. Let’s not interrupt them as they do so. Twenty years ago, California had passed a law, the Defense of Marriage Act, …
Jul 10 2024
Insanity Or Deliberate Political Malfeasance?
You really have to wonder: After securing the majority of seats in Sunday’s election, the newly formed left-wing government in France has revealed plans to impose a ninety percent tax on its “wealthier” citizens. The left-wing coalition known as the New Popular Front (NPF) shocked French politics this past weekend when it …
Jul 09 2024
Plainly Stated
And by one of today’s most eloquent commentators and thinkers, at that: If someone wished to destroy America, could he do anything more catastrophic than what we currently see and hear each day? What would an existential enemy do that we have not already done to ourselves? Fair use restricts me from …
Jun 24 2024
Early Morning Thoughts
Quoth Stephen Kruiser: Donald Trump is going to places where, according to traditional wisdom, he doesn’t have a chance. It’s the kind of fight we never see from most Republicans. Trump’s desire to fight where it matters is the reason that people who have delicate feelings about him should just shut the …
Apr 17 2024
Trials: An Early-Morning Meditation
“It is part of the discipline of God to make His loved ones perfect through trial and suffering. Only by carrying the Cross can one reach the Resurrection.” — Archbishop Venerable Fulton J. Sheen The older I get, the more wisdom I find in Sheen’s statement above. It’s a sermonette on the requirements …
Mar 19 2024
A Diagnosis
Here’s the diagnosis: Good morning. Shared from a friend…couldn’t be more true DAVE RAMSEY… “This morning, I realized that everything is about to change. No matter how I vote, no matter what I say, lives are never going to be the same. I have been confused by the hostility of family and… — Carissa …
Feb 27 2024
Saying It Straight Out
Stephen Kruiser does so: Anyone claiming to be vehemently anti-Trump because of principles is willfully aiding and abetting the rapid leftist destruction of the United States of America. If these people do have principles, they’re commie principles. That’s a Twenty-First Century version of this famous utterance: If ye love wealth greater …
Feb 22 2024
Something We’ve All Done
Have you noticed how often other people are wrong? It’s amazing! Where did they come up with so many misconceptions and delusions? How can they live with such murk in their heads? How do they cope with the challenges of life? The italicized word in the above is a kind of shorthand. A …
Feb 19 2024
Sometimes, you are only limited by yourself
Many years ago, when I was still a teen, my brother was auditioning to be accepted into a musical school. He played bass. I say “played”, but in reality he made that instrument sing in ways that most people won’t understand, and I’m not about to try to explain it. My brother has more musical …
Feb 10 2024
Troubling Trends In Marketing
Being “of a certain age,” I have fond memories of a few things younger sorts might not be aware of. For instance, I remember the Lynda Carter series Wonder Woman. Now, that wasn’t High Art…but it had two things I enjoyed greatly: A love of America; Lynda Carter’s boobs. At around the same …
Feb 09 2024
Truer Words Were Never Spoken
This spoke to me so powerfully that I could not refrain from snagging it: Every writer wants to believe that his books are good. How many believe they’ve produced even one book that’s great? How many would even want to? If only…sigh. (Applause to The Feral Irishman.)
Feb 04 2024
Property And Security
First, I found this at Moonbattery: …and then I was reminded of this bit of insight, courtesy of WRSA: What if the Federal Government grossly violated the Constitution? Could states withdraw from the Union? Lincoln said no. The Union was “indissoluble” unless all the states agreed to dissolve it. As a practical …
Jan 29 2024
Politicians And Importance: A Coda
Politicians are important only because others – people who actually do things – sometimes do their bidding. But what if we were to stop? Bidworthy approached to within normal talking distance and asked, “Can you understand me?” “Can any person understand another?” inquired the farmer with clear diction. Bidworthy found himself …
Jan 27 2024
Something We’d Rather Forget
Authoritarian impulses are not confined to any political party. Indeed, politics is a magnet for people who want power over others. But what conduces to the increase of power? What could persuade ordinary, supposedly freedom-loving Americans to accept a fascist in the White House? Tucker Carlson will tell you: That is absolutely …
Jan 23 2024
Said But Not Heard
Much of the evil perpetrated upon the world could have been averted had people paid proper attention to critical statements made by key public figures. The potentates of interwar Europe dismissed nearly every indication that Adolf Hitler meant to conquer Europe, including Hitler’s own words to that effect. How many lives were lost because …
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