Was out of town for a wedding this weekend, which was nice: a little break-up of the routine, a chance to put on my summer suit. Left Darling Daughter with the Mother-in-Law and spent the night at a hotel. The ceremony and reception were on a converted manor, with trees and a creek. A lovelier… Read More Profitable Exhaustion
I don’t know anything about the UK Independence party, but Russel Taylor casts it in very Tea Partyish terms. The Tories have responded by insisting UKIP has no real policies, to which I would say that this hasn’t held them back. Their ragtag combination of Keynesianism and liberal dogma doesn’t represent a coherent response to the mess… Read More Russell Taylor – In praise of UKIP
Victor Davis Hanson reminds us that nothing is new under the sun, and the old books remind us that we’ve been here before. (via Ace) We can learn from classics that most of us are more likely to resent superiority than to reward it, to distrust talent than to develop it. With classical training, our… Read More Why You Should Read the Classics
I am probably racist for passing this along. (Via HotAir) Why do I work again? Happy May Day, Comrades.
Our Ruling Class is So Eminently Deserving Of Their Powers. Two police sources—a former gang investigator and a veteran detective—bluntly acknowledge that even if the police know of dubious dealings between an alderman and a gang leader or drug dealer, there is little, if anything, they can do, thanks to what they say is the… Read More Chicago: Where “Alderman” means the Same as “Godfather” means the same as “Baron”
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The picture at the top is better than the article, but the article’s not bad. Fame on that level closes as many doors as it opens. Few superfamous actors have ever seemed as uncomfortable with superfame as Ford always has. (Actual Google hit count for “Harrison Ford reclusive”: 28.7 million.) Maybe it was that the… Read More And Now For an Article in Which The Writer Pretends to Prefer That Harrison Ford had Stayed a Carpenter
Like a majority of college students, I didn’t belong to a frat or sorority. And like a majority of those, I had attitudes and prejudices about those that did. They weren’t terribly original, and I won’t recount them. I don’t have them anymore. Looking back with a bit of wisdom, Greek Life has a certain… Read More What Raging Rebecca Martinson Should Have Written
(Dirk Gently reference.) Periods of time come when the thought of adding content to a blog puzzles the will. The evergreen political nonsense saps the spirit. Repeating the same arguments to the same applause sounds agonizingly dull. Besides, it’s springtime outside. The human animal was not meant to remain inside shut up with People Being Wrong… Read More Where the Hell I Have Been, or 70 is a Suffusion of Yello
That’s a pretty obvious statement, but Michael Totten’s article about the End of Hezbollah (his lips to God’s ears) underlines it wonderfully: Part of Hezbollah’s support used to come from the fact that they were perceived as not being corrupt, but that’s over now, too. “Even my family members who are big Hezbollah supporters are… Read More We Do Not Understand the Middle East
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