“There are some encouraging signs of polarization.” -Dr. Israel Shahak

Some thoughts on Roe and on public prayer.

“We fight for and against not men and things as they are, but for and against the caricatures we make of them.” -J. A. Schumpeter

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you." -Eric Hoffer

I do not think it’s likely that the Clintons have ever murdered or had murdered their associates. Don't be thin-skinned. You'll be miserable.

SCOTUS has ruled that New Yorkers can carry guns! Wow!

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I do not believe in returning good for evil. I believe in returning justice for evil. I do not believe that I can put a man under a moral obligation to do me a favor by doing him a wrong. The doctrine of non-resistance is to me absurd. The right should be defended and the wrong resisted. Goodness should have the right to protect itself… Poverty is not a virtue, nor is wealth a crime. ” -Robert Ingersoll

Maybe vegetables aren't actually good for you.

Forget Gandhi and MLK: I'd be happy if people quit committing revenge violence against the perfectly innocent.

A woman in Florida was attacked by a gator. And her imported neighbors sided with it.

“Wickedness, when you examine it, turns out to be the pursuit of goodness in the wrong way.”  -CS Lewis

https://amgreatness.com/2022/06/17/alligator-lives-matter/

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“Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an idea, too meaningless to be positively false…” -Charles Sanders Peirce

There have been a rash of anti-Asian hate crimes since Trump left. Know who woulda been blamed had he won in 2020? Me too.

Tupac would have been 51 this week. He is, and was, celebrated. But I'm going to tell you what I really think of his culture.

A man who was once on the left has left it because they allow no dissent. It's airtight.

"If food deserts truly exist—and they cannot in these times of easy transport be very extensive—the explanation lies in demand, not in supply. And demand is a cultural phenomenon." –Theodore Dalrymple

https://gurwinder.substack.com/p/why-i-stopped-being-a-leftist?s=w

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“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”  -Marcus Tullius Cicero

My power is out.  My dad doesn't take his cell phone places.

I tagged a five-year-old.  You should too.

I can’t believe how poorly President Biden has done.  I thought Trump was exaggerating.

“At first the Japanese watched the train fearfully from a safe distance, and when the engine began to move they uttered cries of astonishment and drew in their breath.  Before long they were inspecting it closely, stroking it, and riding on it, and they kept this up throughout the day.”  -Irokawa Daikichi

"Very often in my experience, the extraneous or irrelevant complexities are inserted when a matter of elementary justice or principle is at issue."  -Christopher Hitchens

Ohio is considering a bill to allow teachers to carry guns with "little" training according to ABC.  24 freaking hours is little to ABC!

"I think there are these four ages about nearly everything. Let’s give them names. They are the Unenchanted Age, the Enchanted Age, the Disenchanted Age, and the Re-enchanted Age. As a little child I was Unenchanted about bicycles. Then, when I first learned to ride, I was Enchanted. By sixteen I was Disenchanted and now I am Re-enchanted."  -CS Lewis

“Among the slaves [there was] a maxim, that a still tongue makes a wise head. They suppress the truth rather than take the consequences of telling it.” -Frederick Douglas

Lena Dunham has publicly displayed a great deal of her flesh. The reviews are in... lies!

Dave Weigel, a Washington Post Reporter, has been suspended for a joke. I'm torn.

It's ok to generalize about American Indians provided you're saying something (you think is) nice.

Andrew Jackson had shoot in his eye.

"The world is like a drunken peasant. If you lift him into the saddle on one side, he will fall off again on the other side. One can't help him, no matter how one tries." -Martin Luther roasting Earth, 16th c

My kids' pediatrician won't see them unless someone without Covid can bring them in.

My three year old makes increasingly insane demands at night.

Johnny Depp won his case against disgraced actress Amber Heard.

A man in the news recently was diagnosed with ALS.

Why I don't need a gun, almost ever.

Why isn't BP upfront with us?

Canadians can no longer buy, sell, or transfer handguns.

“All those who appear fools are, along with half of those who don’t.” -Baltasar Gracian, 17’th century