No quotes this episode as I read a really long excerpt.

I shoveled my driveway and so I can't stop eating.

It's so odd that at the precise moment when it became EASY to only have children under ideal circumstances (the introduction of the pill), everyone decided to have illegitimate children.

I read the introduction to my favorite nonfiction book "Life at the Bottom" by Dalrymple.

The conflation of victimhood with virtue was a grave mistake. –(Psychotherapist) Seerut Chawla

NY Governor Hochul says Buffalo is "a war zone."

Brittney Griner's story has, mercifully, ended. But it is a pretty funny one.

Joe Biden's White House has lobbied to have Americans deplatformed.  This is a major scandal.

“When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.” ―Frank Herbert

The left does not condemn violence until it hears it pounding on its door. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Jane Goodall and the environmentalist left.

American belief in God is at (probably) an all-time low. This fills me with apprehension though I'm not religious.

A cultivated soul is one where the din of the living does not drown out the music of the dead. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary…” -Thomas Jefferson

1) FBI gets hunter laptop in 2019 2) Spends the next year warning Big Tech about disinformation specifically involving Hunter Biden 3) In August 2020, the computer store owner gives up on hopes the FBI will charge Hunter Biden with crimes and tips off Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani was under FBI surveillance at the time. 4) In September 2020 twitter’s Jim Baker, former FBI employee, was asked for a private meeting with two FBI agents with no other Twitter employees present. 5) When the Hunter laptop surfaces the next month, Baker “repeatedly insists that the Hunter Biden materials were either faked, hacked, or both, and a violation of Twitter policy.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.” -William Shakespeare

"It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves." Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Where did peer review come from and haven't we had enough?

"Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment." Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don’t like to have another point of view in the room that they don’t squash and the way they try to squash it is by character assassination and name calling. — David Horowitz

I reflect on TwitterFiles parts 2-5

“Men ... are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially when some one is heard denouncing the evils now existing in states, suits about contracts, convictions for perjury, flatteries of rich men and the like, which are said to arise out of the possession of private property. These evils, however, are due to a very different cause — the wickedness of human nature.” -Aristotle

Douglas was everything in this Munk debate. And, deservedly, won the largest victory in the history of that debate.

Besides, don't trust the media.

"The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins." -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

I criticize Tucker Carlson for no apparent reason and then discuss the recently revealed "Twitter Files."

"Prior to the 2020 election, tech companies including Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, Wikipedia, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Verizon Media met on a monthly basis with the FBI..." -The Intercept

“Every man becomes what he teaches others to be. Those who gain victory over themselves will gain victory over others." -Dhammapada

"Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you." -Jesus, Luke 6:27-28

Kanye West has said some unusual things. Let's discuss them.

"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." -Ingersoll