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Thursday, October 05, 2017

Help Wanted: External Enemy, Must be Existential Threat

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We'll start with some arresting passages from Who Are We? , until one engages my blogging gear and we take off from there. Maybe we can ...
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Wednesday, October 04, 2017

You Had One Job, Assoul

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Man has one job. Or three, rather: know truth. Cultivate virtue, AKA do good. Create and love beauty (or at least refrain from making th...
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Tuesday, October 03, 2017

Random Thoughts on Randomness

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I wasn't planning to post. In the wake of yesterday's horror story, I am reluctant to say anything, because most anything one says ...
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Friday, September 29, 2017

The Globalist-Barbarian Axis

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Back to who we are . Or were , rather; I'm afraid that train has left the station, and that now we're just dealing with the conseque...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

God Has No Baby Mamas

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Well. There was no time for a proper post. But I thought there might be time to lay a foundation and get some preluminaries out of the way....
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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

What Is We?

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That is the implicit question in the title of Samuel Huntington's last book, Who Are We?: The Challenges to American's National Iden...
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Thursday, September 21, 2017

Diabolical Division and Satan's Blender

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It's desk clearing time. I've got books and notes everywhere, and I need to reduce the chaos to some kind of mere disorder. At the...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Mathworld and Mythworld

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We've finished the book on Thomas, and I'm pretty much left with nothing to say this morning, and no compulsion to say it. The end ...
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Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Let the Dead Bury the Tenured

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"All beings naturally strive towards God -- not explicitly but implicitly" ( Thomas ). Since atheists are beings too, this goes f...
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Friday, September 15, 2017

On the Rights of Man and Obligations of God

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No doubt an ill-sounding formulation and not to everyone's taste, but it is meant somewhat ironically, and is more or less half-true bes...
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Thursday, September 14, 2017

Satan is Always Working on a Better Louse Trap

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Let's return to the Human Wisdom of St. Thomas . A couple posts back we pointed out that there can be no such thing as pathology in the...
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Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Leftism: Come for the Messianic Fantasies, Stay for the Sadism

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Regarding spiritual sickness, we agree with the Aphorist that Conservatism should not be a party but the normal attitude of every decent man...
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Friday, September 08, 2017

Psychopathology and Pneumopathology

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An annoyingly rambling post that asks more questions than it has time to answer. In my defense, it's a Big Subject, perhaps the biggest...
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Tuesday, September 05, 2017

Innocent as Ted Kennedy, Wise as Maxine Waters

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Let's begin with some metaphysically sound bites from Thomas that have a bearing on the Demon in Democracy. For example, Man cannot...
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Monday, September 04, 2017

Why You Oughta

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Just finished a book called The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies . I skimmed a lot of it, so I'm not sure...
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Friday, September 01, 2017

All the Left is Saying is Give Piss a Chance

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Short book. Long exegesis. I mean The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas . In this regard, it is similar to other highly condensed tracts such...
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