Atlanta, GA January 23, 2022 I think I understand how Christians felt when in 1303 the French king imprisoned a beleaguered pope, hand-picked an obsequious successor, and precipitated a seven-decade papal encampment in Avignon on the Rhône. A subsequent schism created rival “popes” based in Rome and Avignon, with a third claimant coming from Pisa […]
Atlanta, GA January 17, 2022 A couple days ago, I revealed how I failed a test for drugs…because I refused to consume one. Regarding the pharmaceutical elixirs themselves, I’ve given reasons for reluctance countless times during the last six months, and I need not re-hash all of them here. But I will provide a few more. It’s interesting that despite the dominant […]
Atlanta, GA January 14, 2022 Yesterday we received a decision from nine people as to whether another person can tell hundreds of millions of different individuals what drugs they must take. While many of us had reasons to cheer or jeer the results, not enough found the scenario disturbing. How did Americans come to blithely […]
Atlanta, GA January 10, 2022 Chesterton observed that the modern world is insane. Not so much because it admits the abnormal, but because it cannot recover the normal. We’re now at a point where normality not only appears incapable of being recovered; most people don’t even seem to remember what it was. We think we’re […]
Atlanta, GA January 7, 2022 We know a lot of people who took vaccines for Covid. I guess it worked…because many of them now have it. After two years of neurotic germaphobia, authoritarian lockdowns, economic destruction, unhinged hypochondria, useless mask mandates, irrational fear, catastrophic school closures, never-ending nasal swabs, idiotic floor stickers, unwarranted travel restrictions, […]
Atlanta, GA January 1, 2022 We awoke today to another in a series of damp, unseasonably warm mornings. A layer of fog hugs the ground, like mist engulfing Baskerville Hall. That’s appropriate. The path ahead is rarely clear. But on this New Year’s Day, where we’ve been seems as enigmatic as what’s to come. For […]
Tampa, FL December 25, 2021 The search for universal essence began…as so many things did…in ancient Greece, on the shores of Ionia. The first philosophers sought the primary substance that sustains the world…what St. John later called The Word, which was “in the beginning with God”, without which “nothing was made that was made.” Thales thought […]
Atlanta, GA December 20, 2021 Recent years have resurrected a rhetorical cudgel that despots have historically used to silence dissent. Throughout history, but particularly since the “Progressive” Era, sanctimonious busybodies wishing to capture rhetorical high-ground have claimed the mantle of “science” to shield them from opposing perspectives in the arena of debate. It’s self-righteous sophistry, […]
Atlanta, GA December 16, 2021 Nobody knows how to make a pencil. But many people probably think they could. Just wrap some wood around some lead, add a rubber eraser, a touch of metal, and a coat of lacquer…and voila!…you’re ready to take a standardized test or tackle The New York Times crossword puzzle. But building a pencil […]
Atlanta, GA December 13, 2021 Much as there’s a nonsensical perception that “unvaccinated” equals “infected” (and vice versa)…as if one can spread Covid even if he doesn’t have it…many people seem to think that if someone opposes vaccine mandates, that person must be unvaccinated – or is, at the very least, “anti-vaxx”. People have been […]