All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
Determining who has style may be too subjective, but I get his meaning about men who have lived and thought as opposed to just scribblers.
“To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.”
Aldous Huxley
So, I got a surprise YouTube plug by Captain Capitalism where I advertise. Thanks Aaron. I figured it out when the site traffic spiked to stratospheric levels. Aaron is a fan of the Southwest landscape photography so I reposted a Zion photo collection to go along with the every other day Grand Canyon Photos of the Day. Hello Captain Capitalism readers and viewers.
I’ve been guiltily spending too much time reading the Leftists hyperventilate over Kennedy’s retirement and the subsequent mouth-frothing over Kavanaugh. I’ll have to light a candle at the shrine of Saint Schadenfreude, the Patron Saint of Spiteful Bastards.
But now back to work. I’m about half way through the fourth volume of the Galaxy’s Edge series. It took me a little while to make up my mind about this series but I’m convinced now. The combat scenes, and those comprise a good chunk of the books, are first rate. The question is where this story is heading. The Galaxy has been cracking up for the whole length of the series so something’s gotta give soon.
My next foray into Trump humor, I think, will have a literary or historical flavor, perhaps touching on a Roman or Athenian theme. I always imagine President Trump as akin to the Steinbrenner character on Seinfeld. Some might think this disrespectful but I feel a kind of ownership over the man as if he were some kind of comic book character that I can summon up to amuse me while also befuddling my enemies in real life. It’s an odd paradox I have built up around him but I have nothing but affection for the man who basically saved us single-handedly from slavery under the Clinton Crime Family.
Listening to ZMan’s guest spot on that podcast a few days ago has gotten me thinking about what I actually believe is the correct way to think and act in the increasingly hostile world that we live in. He made some very good points about what is important and what is a waste of time and I want to try to sort through the options and come up with a rational approach to interacting with friends, enemies and neutral parties. I don’t know if that’s one post or a few but I’m getting started on it.
And finally, I have some more macro photos of bugs and flowers and stuff and more shots from the Grand Canyon. Tonight, I caught a Polyphemus moth and I want to take some photos of it before letting it go. Maybe I’ll get lucky and it’ll lay some eggs. The caterpillars are really cool looking.
So stay tuned.
Jesse Merriam (link below) says Kavanaugh is the best pick for the Right because he thinks in terms of effects on regulal Americans. Merriam says:
“As I wrote for Real Clear Politics last week, Kavanaugh was the right pick, because the other candidates, though strong conservatives, “have thin or questionable records on the defining issue of the 2016 election—whether American sovereignty, and the forgotten American worker, will once again play a critical role in our polity.”
Brett Kavanaugh was the only one of Trump’s candidates who has repeatedly interpreted American statutory and constitutional law against the background of our national sovereignty. In case after case, Judge Kavanaugh has sought to understand our immigration law, trade regulations, and constitutional guarantees in light of how they affect average Americans.”
I don’t know much about the surety of judicial rating systems so I hope he’s right. We have been disappointed before. But I’ll say for now I think we’ve gotten an upgrade from Kennedy.
Americans should distrust puffery Someone should have told this to Obama when he went on about it’s not who we are.
“Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‘we.'”
Mark Twain
Feminists Clash with Transgenders at London Pride Parade
I quote that great healer of rifts, Rodney King, “Why can’t we all just get along?” So apparently the only place where L and T get along is in a BLT. A group called “Get the L Out” wants lesbians to opt out of LGBTQ because they hold transgenders responsible for “Conversion Therapy and Rape Culture.” What does it mean when even other deviant groups don’t want to include you? Is the enemy of my enemy just really confusing?
https://pjmedia.com/trending/lesbians-blame-transgenderism-for-conversion-therapy-and-rape-culture-at-london-pride-parade/
ZMan was on a podcast with a guy named Luke Ford (link below). It was almost three hours long! But there was some very good information if you are looking for ZMan’s take on the way the future of a multi-racial America should be addressed. A participant named Ecce got into a dispute with Z about what could be done about the changes taking place in America. Ecce talked about running for elected office and some other ideas for turning around the demographic changes. ZMan basically said that the only important action was to get the white population “woke” to the fact that they needed to vote their interests as white people in order to thrive. The other take-away I heard from him was that he did not believe that republican democracy was going to be a workable political system in a minority-majority America. So that was the gist of it. He had a funny idea for helping wake people up. He said we should leave little slips of paper in bookstore books that said “It’ alright to be white.” Interesting idea.
So, it’s a very long podcast and I’ve given you the main ideas but it is an interesting discussion. And the ZMan can get testy when he thinks someone isn’t saying something constructive. My one thought is that what Trump is doing on immigration and the fight to get non-liberal judges can actually do a lot to help people on our side change conditions in America to something less unfair to the white population. So I see the Trumpocalypse to be an outcome of white backlash against the Leftist attack.
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=14338#comments
But sometimes it’s difficult to distinguish between belittling and sane caution.
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.”
Mark Twain