As a lifelong political conservative, I have grown profoundly annoyed with the "Trump wing" of the GOP. I cannot think of anything less conservative - or less American, really - than believing folks should have to kiss a specific individual's ring to have a career in politics. Lest anyone forget, we fought a war in … Continue reading Matt Gaetz’s Wild Story Fits a Bad Pattern in the GOP
Tag: Politics
Fear-Mongering All the Way to the Bank
It is amazing what you can get away with when your political party owns the mainstream media and turns it into a relentless propaganda machine. Andrew Cuomo's policy decisions destroyed people's lives. He ruined businesses, drove massive numbers of people into abject poverty, turned public education and higher education into a farce. His administration got … Continue reading Fear-Mongering All the Way to the Bank
The Financial Experiment Behind President Biden’s Pork Spending Spree
Photo by John Guccione on Pexels.com Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles. Harry S. Truman These days, I find it incredibly difficult to talk to politically conservative friends and impossible to suffer through conservative-leaning “news” programming. This has nothing to do with agreeing or disagreeing with their principles. I just … Continue reading The Financial Experiment Behind President Biden’s Pork Spending Spree
Fake It Until You Break It – Erving Goffman and Cancel Culture
Photo by Luis Quintero on Pexels.com [Note: I originally posted this on my Substack profile, but I am not sure I am cool with that platform or the folks posting on it now. I may write on that topic at some point. But as it stands, I do not want to lose the things I … Continue reading Fake It Until You Break It – Erving Goffman and Cancel Culture
Orare est laborare, laborare est orare
An 8th-century copy of the Rule of St Benedict. When my father returned from his tour in Vietnam, he didn't know what to do with himself. He came from an upper-middle class family, and his parents likely would have pushed him into college had he not been drafted. He tried attending classes under the GI … Continue reading Orare est laborare, laborare est orare
Moral nutrition
Lately, I have been reading The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity by Douglas Murray. The book is a brilliant critique of identity politics and the war on freedom of speech in western democracies by an established journalist who also happens to be openly gay. Murray believes that progressives' identity politics ultimately undermines the … Continue reading Moral nutrition
