“We must go home to be happy, and our home is not in this world. Here we have nothing to do but our duty.”

― John Jay

I discuss the landmark SCOTUS decision eliminating racial preferences in higher education, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's historic blunder, and smear enjoyers of Catcher in the Rye.

Horace - "Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, / In ruin and confusion hurled, / He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, / And stand secure amidst a falling world."

Where religion is compulsory, I am an atheist; but where religion is forbidden, I am a believer.  –Theodore Dalrymple

Saira Rao is an antiwhite bigot.  So what?  Well, Andrew Yang endorsed her.  Antiwhite hatred is a zero to the left.

Just as a man can commit suicide due to guilt, so can a nation.

“Modernity is so overwhelming, from school, advertising, print, video, movies, politics, etc., all things push human life and thinking one way. One way to find another opinion, perhaps the only way, is to reach into the past.”  -Clay Garner

The fire and brimstone leader of the first Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards, warned children in 1741:  "And you, children, who are unconverted, do not you know that you are going down to hell, to bear the dreadful wrath of that God, who is now angry with you every day and every night?"

The deceased CEO of OceanGate previously sniffed at the idea of hiring "a whole bunch of 50-year-old white guys" in favor of demographics he found more "inspirational."  I do not know if a strict merit focus when hiring would have saved his doomed passengers and himself, but if it would have I'm sure they are not the first human sacrifices on the altar of diversity.

"Their foot shall slide in due time."  —Deut. 32:35.

"Virginia had actually voted to ban slavery early in the century, but the government of “Good Queen Anne” overruled the act because of the royal treasury’s dependence on revenues from British slave traders.  At the time, only 25,000 slaves had arrived in Virginia, and an outright ban might have permitted most, if not all, to sail home to Africa, thus aborting the growth of slavery in America.  In the next half century, however, Virginia’s many appeals to end slave importations brought nothing but rejections from the three Georges who mounted the British throne in succession.  By 1770, more Africans had crossed the Atlantic – albeit involuntarily – than Europeans, and Virginia’s slave population grew almost eightfold, to nearly 190,000, the equivalent of 20 percent of the white population.  The slavery issue had grown insoluble.”  -Harlow Unger, Lion of Liberty (Patrick Henry biography)

I've decided to not celebrate Juneteenth:  I'm celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day instead.

“only the wise man knows who are worthy to be loved.”  - Antisthenes, disciple of Socrates

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

Sometimes the AP is very descriptive about suspect descriptions and sometimes it is as tight-lipped as a mafia witness.  You know when, don't you?

The ---- is the cancer of human history.  -Susan Sontag

"I really don't think these guys know what they're talking about.”  -Richard Feynman on the “Nuclear Winter”

"Stanislav Petrov, the man who saved the world from nuclear disaster, on this day in 1983, 39 years ago today, saw the word "LAUNCH" flash across the Soviet Union's attack early warning system. His screen stated with high reliability that a total of five American intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) had been launched and were headed toward the Soviet Union. Petrov had to make a decision: should he report an incoming American strike, or should he hold off, confident that what they were seeing was a false alarm?

If he reported it, Soviet nuclear doctrine called for a full nuclear retaliation. There would be no time to double-check the warning system or seek negotiations with the U.S. This occurred during the Reagan administration, which had taken a firmer stance against the Soviets compared to previous administrations. The Reagan administration was deploying Pershing I nuclear-armed missiles to West Germany and Great Britain, capable of striking the Soviet Union. Given these circumstances, Petrov had reasons to believe that Reagan's brinkmanship had escalated to an actual nuclear exchange."  -@historyinmemes

It’s simple to seek substitutes for competence—such easy substitutes:  love, charm, kindness, charity.  But there is no substitute for competence.”  -Ayn Rand

“Fame is fleeting; popularity an accident; riches take wings.  Only one thing endures:  character.”  -Horace Greeley

A Syrian refugee in France has stabbed several babies.  I read men nearby ran away.  I think I know why.

“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.”  -Friedrich Nietzsche

“You can lead a man to Congress, but you can’t make him think.”  -Milton Berle

"Many cities have used federal COVID-relief money to hire more police officers, and there is some evidence—albeit preliminary—that adding police officers helps to reduce homicide..."  -The Atlantic

"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."  -George Orwell

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”  -Eric Hoffer

“The drive to reopen schools is rooted in racism, sexism, and misogyny”  -Chicago teacher's union

"If you were sitting here in Manhattan back in 2007, or in San Francisco, and you told me the average rent would double in the next sixteen years, I would say that’s completely impossible. People would just move..."  -Peter Thiel

“In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals that the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.”  -Jerry Pournelle