Commenter “Lee Also” writes this: I have always felt that, as doctors take the Hippocratic Oath when they receive their degree, Portia’s Speech should be administered to freshly minted JD’s as an oath: “The quality of mercy is not strained; … Continue reading →
Victor David Hanson: The point of the 1960s, again we were taught, was to tear down the rules, the traditions and customs, the hierarchies of the old guys. The targets were supposedly the uptight, short-hair, square-tie, adult generation who grew … Continue reading →
Leonard Cohen songs keep coming to mind – and not just any Leonard Cohen songs, but the ones he wrote in the late 1980s and early 1990s, during an especially dark period in his musical oeuvre. Cohen had a lot … Continue reading →
From a coment by “Eris Guy”: The Left/Communist/Democrats have been calling Republicans “Nazis” since Wendell Willkie. (Can you imagine claiming — or worse believing — Willkie is a Nazi.) It’s a slow, steady drip of hate until the water becomes … Continue reading →
Commenter Richard Aubrey wants to know something: Why so many people buy in with all the fervor of a drugged-up bolo fighter in the Philippine Insurrection – original simile, you may use it without attribution – puzzles me. If, by … Continue reading →
History tells us that leftists are not what you’d call magnanimous in victory. And now they feel very victorious indeed. Whether the main perpetrators of the Capitol incident were actually from the right or whether it was some sort of … Continue reading →
From commenter “Nancy B”: In my family it doesn’t make sense to call either my mother or sister “leftist” — they aren’t political in the sense that they have never really thought about politics philosophically or participated practically. But my … Continue reading →
I began blogging sixteen years ago, and almost from the start I would hear from people – privately, in emails – about how they had to maintain a false front in their jobs about their conservatism in order to maintain … Continue reading →
One of the consequences of the COVID restrictions is the alarming and destructive effect it has had on the elderly in nursing homes and other facilities. Yes, they are at risk for COVID and some may even die from COVID. … Continue reading →
We sometimes think – or used to think – of professors and/or philosophers and/or intellectuals as people living in ivory towers, and that most of their battles are over arcane matters that matter not all that much to the rest … Continue reading →
I imagine it will be a few months before I have the chance to get a COVID vaccine. I’m oldish but not mega-old, I’m not a health care professional, and I’m going to assume that places me in a group … Continue reading →