“We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us… but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?”  -JG Farrell

I would like my kid to go to a school where they paddle but I don't think that's a thing.

It’s unnerving how many things lasted from Christ (or longer) until twelve minutes ago.

The death penalty.

Spare the rod spoil the child.

Marriage being lifelong.

Marriage being exclusively hetero.

Swift criminal punishments.

Etc

"No doubt Christianity has much to answer for in its long history, but the sight of an age-long tradition treated in this way filled me with disgust. It is one thing for traditions to die out of themselves; it is quite another for them to be killed by men who think they know everything, by men whose vengeance extends even to the past, even to the dead."  –Theodore Dalrymple

People think the opposite of being a feminist is being a misogynist but it isn't.  The opposite is being happy.

Leftists are congenitally miserable.  It's the price they pay for winning all the time.

Tucker Carlson has parted ways with Fox.  I offer some thoughts.

And he’s not even that great. He just never stops trying to be.”  @theantiherokate

“When Charles Wurster, the chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund, was told that banning DDT would probably result in millions of deaths, he replied, ‘This is as good a way to get rid of them as any.’” -Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism

In 1989 a mask-off moment occurred. It was erroneously reported that fusion had been cracked: Limitless, almost free energy was humanity's immediate future. But environmentalists, far from jumping for joy, lamented the breakthrough. That's when it became clear: They hate us.

“Frustrated with the incessant claims that the Earth would run out of oil, food and raw materials, the economist Julian Simon in 1980 challenged the established beliefs with a bet. He offered to bet $10,000 that any given raw material – to be picked by his opponents – would have dropped in price at least one year later. 

The environmentalists Ehrlich, Harte and Holdren, all of Stanford University, accepted the challenge, stating that "the lure of easy money can be irresistable." The environmentalists staked their bets on chromium, copper, nickel, tin, and tungsten, and they picked a time frame of ten years. The bet was to be determined ten years later, assessing whether the real prices had gone up or down. In September 1990 not only had the total basket of raw materials but also each individual raw material dropped in price. Chromium had dropped 5 percent, tin a whopping 74 percent. The doomsayers had lost.

Truth is they could not have won. Ehrlich and Co. would have lost no matter whether they had staked their money on petroleum, food-stuffs, sugar, coffee, cotton, wool, minerals or phosphates. They had all become cheaper.” -Lomborg, Skeptical Environmentalist

"Perhaps the strongest case against the predominance of discrimination as an explanation of economic disparities would be a comparison of blacks in Haiti with blacks in the United States.  Since Haiti became independent two centuries ago, Haitian blacks should be the most prosperous blacks in the hemisphere and American blacks the poorest, if discrimination is the overwhelming factor, but in fact the direct opposite is the case.  It is Haitians who are the poorest and American blacks who are the most prosperous in the hemisphere-- and in the world."  –Thomas Sowell

The latest racial uproars are underway.  But much of the angst, to say nothing of the rioting and beatings, would be avoided if everyone waited for all the facts to come in.

“My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, or the present aspect of affairs, do I despair of the future. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.”  -Robert E. Lee

“It is a poor center of man’s attention, himself.” -Theodore Dalrymple

I'm bad with names. So I say nobody gets a new name until I've learned everybody's first.

A man on Twitter claims we are all secretly attracted to a very niche kind of adult film.

Bud Light's CIA CEO issued a nonsensical statement which disappointed the left and did nothing to assuage the anger of the right. lol

“It is a belief that seems particularly to beset modern society that believing deeply in something, and following that belief, is the most important thing a person can do….I am here to tell you that it is much less important how committed you are than what you are committed to.” –Antonin Scalia

“As Hitler’s vision expanded, in the heady days of 1941, it came to embrace all Europe.  Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, the whole of France north of the Somme were to be incorporated in a Greater Germany, the names of the cities being changed – Nancy would become Nanzig, Besancon Bisanz.  Trondheim would become a major German city and naval base of 250,000 inhabitants.  The Alps would be the boundary between ‘the German Empire of the North’, with a new ‘Germania’ as its capital, and ‘the Roman Empire of the South’.  The Pope would be hanged in full pontificals in St Peter’s Square.  Strasbourg Cathedral would be turned into a giant ‘Monument to the Unknown Soldier’.  New crops, such as perennial rye, would be invented.  He would forbid smoking, make vegetarianism compulsory, ‘revive the Cimbrian art of knitting’, appoint a ‘Special Commissioner for the Care of Dogs’ and an ‘Assistant Secretary for Defence Against Gnats and Insects’.”  -Paul Johnson, Modern Times

26 October 1920:

"Now Hitler turned to the right and left. The national right lacked a social concept, the social left a national one. He admonished the right-wing parties: if you want to be national, then you need to come down to your people's level and do away with all this class conceit! To the left he called: you who have declared your solidarity with the whole world, first show your solidarity with your own national comrades, become Germans first!… You who are truly revolutionaries; come over to us and fight with us for our whole nation! Your place is not over there as drovers for international capital, but with us, with your nation! (Hitler, 1980a, p. 250)

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things."  –GK Chesterton

Lee Harvey Oswald probably shot JFK.  It's overwhelmingly likely in my view.  Like 1,000,000:1 or more.  I'm going to present to you 28 relevant facts to this case, most of which you won't know.

BTW Crepidarian told me after the show he had too many beers haha

But Thomas Massie isn't.

quotes:

“When you read in the newspaper that the government has taken Walter Williams' guns, then you will know that Walter Williams is dead.”

-Walter Williams

‘a whisper

Which Memory will warehouse as a shout.’  -An unpublished poem by Owen Barfield

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” -James Madison

President Trump has been indicted. This spells the dawn of a new era in our politics.

“Socialism is certain to prove, in the beginning at least, the road NOT to freedom, but to dictatorship and counter-dictatorships, to civil war of the fiercest kind. Socialism achieved and maintained by democratic means seems definitely to belong to the world of utopias.” -W. H. Chamberlin