Other People Are Always the Problem
“Money in politics was not necessarily corrupting. However, other people’s money in other people’s causes was most definitely corrupting, and was a corruption not to be tolerated”
Ecochondriacs, p. 159
The Content Cluster Muster (07.01.21)
Some Moscow Opportunities: So housing in Moscow is a thing right now. Houses are selling in just a few hours—for over asking price—as the supply is not keeping up with the demand of numerous folks moving into town. But help is on the way! Edington is a new housing development on the edge of town …
Book of the Month/July 2021
What an informative book this is. If you have been living in a normal part of the world, off in some backwater where people have been continuing to do ordinary people things, you may have wondered why our ruling elites have suddenly been afflicted with such strange spasms, jerky movements, and why, furthermore, their left …
Or Maybe Two Oriental Despots
“And since that time, the three of them had enjoyed the kind of life that an oriental despot might envy. Peeled grapes, tapestried barges on the Nile, a long line of nubile activists, the lot”
Ecochondriacs, p. 158
An Apologetic for the Fourth of July
Introduction: And, of course, notwithstanding the meme, my central point is going to be that far from being treasonous, the events celebrated by the Fourth of July were precisely the opposite of treason. In this respect, the Robin Hood background is helpful, as it is actually in the same category. As the story goes, Robin …
Their Favorite Kind of Lazy River
“He had only been a true believer for a couple of years at the beginning because he had been intelligent enough to figure out what was going on with the numbers. But by the time he figured it out completely, he was already floating on an inner tube down a lazy river of cash grants, and he realized that if he told the world what he now knew, that lazy river of cash grants would go flow somewhere else”
Ecochondriacs, p. 157
Letters Thrown Over the Transom
Letter to the Editor: Two dear friends introduced me to Douglas Wilson and Moscow, Idaho. Praise be to the Lord for my friends and the ministry of Doug. Since that introduction, I have viewed ...
There’s a Double Meaning in That
“His slip was starting to show, which meant that his slips were starting to show”
Ecochondriacs, p. 157
The Novare Cul de Sac
Introduction: Last fall, one of my No Quarter November pieces critiqued the use of the Novare curriculum for science that is being used in a number of classical Christian schools. That post ...