Monday Potpourri, 8/27/18
Humanae Vitae revisited, Alan Jacobs on why Trump and Francis are going nowhere, and response to "do GMOs go to heaven?"
View ArticleClippings and comment, 1/22/19 pm
1 David Brooks: [I]n the age of social media [polarization is] almost entirely about social type. It’s about finding and spreading the viral soap operas that are supposed to reveal the dark hearts of...
View ArticlePotpourri, 2/11/19
Distinguishing narrative sh*t from Shinola, pro-Islam blather, socialist blather, the great moral crisis of our time, #TeslaFail and more. Continue reading →
View ArticleSurprised by food for thought
… I was continuing to make my way through Shoshana Zuboff’s great new book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. It’s not an easy book to read, in part because the things Zuboff, a former Harvard...
View ArticleMiscellany
Surveillance capitalism creeps me out. I don’t control my lights, door locks, or anything else by speaking commands to my 1st-generation Amazon Echo. Indeed, I shut the microphone off about a year ago...
View ArticleA banquet of tasty morsels
Leah Libresco Sargeant on the need for an illiberalism of the weak; Peggy Noonan brings back Margaret Chase Smith to accuse today's feckless Trump toadies; Jonah Goldberg explains why conspiracies...
View ArticleMostly political
I've cut way back on reading about politics, but gradually some sharp observations build up to where it's time for sharing them.
View ArticlePotpourri 5/27/21
It's interesting, when a public figure "converts" in a major life aspect, to comb the archives for foreshadowings. But there's other stuff here today, too.
View ArticlePoke them in the axioms
"People get unbelievably upset when you poke them in the axioms."
View ArticleAmazing: No Politics
Shibboleths, novelistic solipsism, the real experience of faith, and a provoked provocation. Even a bit more than that.
View ArticleMonday potpourri, 12/13/21
WARNING: You may feel like a pinball if you read this. It is not very linear.
View ArticleNewsfasting
I have not, it appears, totally lost the ability to blog without wallowing in news.
View ArticleLike a pinball, bouncing all over
I managed to organize chaos into some loose headings. You're welcome.
View ArticleSaturday, 7/9/22
Too much about Orange Man, but it's good stuff as is the rest of the blog (unless I overestimate your capacity for legal detours and frolics).
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