I want to follow up on the concept of cool-shaming. As we are in the process of airing this place out, this word is a key that can unlock a lot of the rooms, especially the mildewed ones. After my post on cool-shaming, I was contacted by an alert reader (thanks, Eric), who pointed me …
Cool-Shaming
Most of the really big problems in the world are caused by the smartest guys in the room. Having a high intellectual rpm is not necessarily a good thing. This grim reality reminds me of William F. Buckley’s famous comment about responsible governance. “I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first …
Out of the Reach of Sarah Palin’s Enemies
Progressives have a very tenuous grasp of the basic realities of causation, but they have an uncanny awareness of the need to control the narrative. If anything whatever happens, of a significance that is worthy of comment, they fit it into their narrative, and they do so immediately. They are marvelous at staying on message. …
Priests With Spears
It has been 35 years now, and when Nancy and I were first together we decided that if we had anything to work through, we would do it together. We determined that we would not ever share any problem with outsiders unless it was by mutual consent, and it was for the purpose of getting …
The Reformed Card and Gift Shop
So the sexual socialists found a few craven Republicans and jammed a sea change bit of legislation, the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” through a lame duck Congress. Instead of the president having to leave town in humiliation over the high-handed antics of a discredited Congress, this, and a few other passed and signed …
How Social Policing Works
The antithesis is foundational to any right understanding of social order. From the beginning of our history, God has placed antipathy between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent (Gen. 3:15). The human race is divided into two races, those who love holiness and those who do not. The former are …
The Transfat Community
And so now we come to see that the repeal of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell law for the military does not cover transsexualites, or transgenderites. Neither does it cover transfats, but that is a separate issue for a separate jeremiad. Some other day perhaps. One searches in vain for an explanation for this indefensible …
Our Fumblo-Rulers
The debate over “don’t ask, don’t tell” reveals that virtually no one understands what is going on. The absence of discipline is impossible in any society, still less in the military. This means that the question is a “not whether but which” question. It means that it is not whether we will discipline servicemen in …
A Short Course in Economics
Obama’s presidency is already a failure, approximating the size of the Bailly Crater on the Moon. If the details of your high school study of astronomy elude you, that lunar hole in the dirt is about 26,000 square miles in size. The great theologian Jonathan Edwards believed that typology was embedded in the natural order …
Special Parking Privileges
So, a professor at Columbia has been charged with some kind of incestuous relationship, and everybody was apparently a consenting adult, and so we are, again, face to face with the public incoherence of our rudderless sexual ethic. How is it possible, given all that we as a society have already granted, for us to …