Locked Out
Aug 02One of the triumphs of government schooling is that most educated English-speakers nowadays cannot read this sentence from Locke’s Thoughts Concerning Education: The age is not like to want instances of this kind, which should be made land-marks to him, that by the disgraces, diseases, beggary, and shame of hopeful young men thus brought to [...]
The Incredulous Shrinking Man
Jul 17Richard Armitage knows what the word “incredulous” means; but the folks who write the headlines at TheOneRing.net don’t.
His Days Like Crazy Paving
Jun 24When you’re selling a book of poetry and you offer a sample poem as an enticement, you will presumably pick one of the better poems in the collection, not one of the worse ones. And so if the sample poem is unbelievably wretched, that would tend to bode ill for the book as a whole. [...]
Jim Crow Returns to Alabama, Part 2
Jun 17For a giggle, check out this critique (CHT Brandon) of my recent immigration post, by a “John J. Ray, M.A., Ph.D.” (Yes, he’s one of those.) The best bit is when the guy infers my deranged mental state from my picture. Yes, this picture. René Allendy, move over!
Why Context Matters
Jun 05“The true life, the life eternal has been found – it is not merely promised, it is here, it is in you …. Everyone is the child of God …. As the child of God each man is the equal of every other man.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist “There is no God. … Yea, [...]
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