“Besides, becoming the American president would involve catering to all the rubes and cornpones in the fly-over section of the country, and Felix didn’t think he was up to that. His skin twitched just thinking about it.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 110
An Odd Combo
“But he was also an ugly man. But this ugliness—of the plain kind, not the grotesque freak show kind—was combined with uncanny amounts of personal charisma. He could talk virtually anyone into virtually anything, and this was a function of that charisma sloshing out of him whenever he made any sudden movements whatever.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 108
In Which Idaho Starts to Revert to Factory Settings
Introduction: There are some early developing signs that Idaho has had quite enough, thanks. When news of the pandemic first set in, nobody quite knew what was going on. There was a stir and a bother, and different governors started to order lock downs. Idaho came late to that move, thus missing her real opportunity …
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Avoiding Extremes
“Look—the libertarian men can be roughly clustered into two groups. There are the party commandos who are largely interested in women and pot and with no one telling them what to do, and then there are all the economics majors who were Murray Rothbard nerds. I had no interest in being the 500th woman for any of the first group, and even less interested in being the first woman for any of the second.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 96
Yet Another Epistolary Event
Letter to the Editor: I think there is one thing that Mr. Renn missed; that very thing, I think, is foundational. I think that "men" (from back when that word had an objective, meaning sort ...
As Seconds Amble
“The next thirty seconds at their table were truly awkward, and walked slowly by, trying to act like ninety seconds.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 94
In Which We Have An Opportunity to Talk About Ourselves in the Third Person
Introduction: I have previously used this space to commend a newsletter called The Masculinist, written and distributed by Aaron Renn. He provides a lot of trenchant analysis of the sort that you won’t find among the approved but gelded evangelicals, and hence it has a lot more explanatory power than what you usually get. If …
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Which Is Sorta Tight
“Because I am not blind, I do know that if she had put a quarter in her hip pocket, I would have been able to tell if it was heads or tails.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, pp. 92-93
More Approachable
Which Sometimes Happens
“Well, let’s state the facts accurately. I wasn’t leering. I merely glanced at her. I simply wanted to get her attention to find out if they put my cinnamon roll on the wrong train.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 91