Showing posts with label Random snippets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Random snippets. Show all posts

Friday, March 1, 2024

Envy and the Easy Life.

I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Theodore Roosevelt, 1910

Well. . . having lived a relatively difficult life, but perhaps not well, I don't know that I can endorse this one.

Monday, February 26, 2024

Lex Anteinternet: Drill sergeant shoots first perfect score at Army ...

Lex Anteinternet: Drill sergeant shoots first perfect score at Army ...:   Drill sergeant shoots first perfect score at Army marksman course

Why can't this be big news in The American Rifleman instead of how we need to all bow to the wishes of Donald Trump or how Stalingrad is going to break out at the Loaf and Jug? 

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

The Cheney Maxim and MTG.

Trump is the one that gave shock and awe to the whole world when he walked across the DMZ line, hand extended, shaking hands with Kim Jong Un, ending Little Rocket Man’s reign

Marjorie Taylor Greene 

Kim Jong Un is still the Communist monarch of the Stalinist theme park, North Korea.

He's a bigger problem now, then he was then.

He still has nuclear weapons.

Trump's shacking hands with him probably did nothing more than cause Kim Jong Un to run back to the latrine and wash his hand thoroughly.

What on earth is wrong with Greene's district that they return this person to Congress?

Sunday, January 21, 2024

A headline from Fox News:

 Playboy model Crystal Hefner admits she was never 'in love' with late husband Hugh Hefner.

Gosh, what a shocker. 

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Older fashion.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

G.K. Chesterton

Monday, January 15, 2024

The happy life which all men desire.

The happy life which all men desire cannot be reached by any who does not cleave with a pure and holy love to that one supreme good, the unchangeable God.

St. Augustine

Saturday, January 13, 2024

Secrets.

 If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

David Nicholls, One Day

I've come to despise secrets.

Friday, January 12, 2024

The Economist: "Western values are steadily diverging from the rest of the world’s." Geez, with "Western Values" being no values at all, given as we've dumped our values, should we be surprised?

From the Economist:

Western values are steadily diverging from the rest of the world’s

With the Western World's values increasingly being valueless, if not downright goofball, who can blame the rest of the world?

It is, however, something worth remembering.  Or at least noting.



Wednesday, January 10, 2024

The dying West.

I'm afraid that the West will die. There are plenty of signs. No more childbearing. You are invaded, still, by other cultures, other peoples, who will progressively dominate you by their numbers and completely change your culture, your convictions, your morality.

Cardinal Sarah

Sunday, December 24, 2023

The Reformation as unmixed evil.

I am firmly convinced that the Reformation of the sixteenth century was as near as any mortal thing can come to unmixed evil. Even the parts of it that might appear plausible and enlightened from a purely secular standpoint have turned out rotten and reactionary, also from a purely secular standpoint. 

By substituting the Bible for the sacrament, it created a pedantic caste of those who could read, superstitiously identified with those who could think. By destroying the monks, it took social work from the poor philanthropists who chose to deny themselves, and gave it to the rich philanthropists who chose to assert themselves. By preaching individualism while preserving inequality, it produced modern capitalism. It destroyed the only league of nations that ever had a chance. It produced the worst wars of nations that ever existed. It produced the most efficient form of Protestantism, which is Prussia. And it is producing the worst part of paganism, which is slavery.

G. K. Chesterton

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Sunday, November 19, 2023

Frankly, Billie Eilish probably could use a good hamburger and a beer, and maybe hang out at some community college for a while.

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

The business of progressives and conservatives.

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.

G.K. Chesterton

Saturday, November 11, 2023

Random Snippets. The bitch that bore him is in heat again.

 If we could learn to look instead of gawking,

We'd see the horror in the heart of farce,

If only we could act instead of talking,

We wouldn't always end up on our arse.

This was the thing that nearly had us mastered;

Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men!

Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard,

The bitch that bore him is in heat again.

Bertolt Brecht, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Monday, October 30, 2023

In the nature of a truly random comment, I had no idea that Matthew Perry and Justin Trudeau were schoolmates.

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Echoes in eternity.

Quod in vita facimus, in aeternum resonat (What we do now echoes in eternity).

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

The idea of a vocation.

The idea of vocation attaches to work a cluster of other ideas, including devotion, skill, pride, pleasure, the good stewardship of means and materials. Here we have returned to intangibles of economic value. When they are subtracted, what remains is ‘a job,’ always implying that work is something good only to escape.

Wendell Berry.