On Selfishness
Dec 14, 2022
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“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for
Be Careful When You Cast Out Your Demons That You Don’t Throw Away the Best of Yourself.
Mar 28, 2021
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Friedrich Nietzsche
I Tell You, We Are Here on Earth to Fart Around, and Don’t Let Anybody Tell You Different.
Mar 18, 2021
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Kurt Vonnegut
God, Government, and Getting Things Done
Dec 5, 2020
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“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn
From Wizard’s Hall
Nov 20, 2020
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By Jane Yolen “One of our original members was a wizard named Nettle from Overton-Across-the-Waters. Though he was an accomplished magician, he
Robin Williams
Apr 9, 2020
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“The only thing lonelier than being alone is being around people that make you feel alone” Robin Williams
“Conservatism Consists of Exactly One Proposition, to Wit: There Must Be In-Groups Whom the Law Protects but Does Not Bind, Alongside Out-Groups Whom the Law Binds but Does Not Protect.”
Apr 7, 2020
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Frank Wilhoit To this I’d add a note that Conservatism is also based around advocating against the one constant in this universe — change. Which is
On Identity
Feb 27, 2020
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“It seems to me sometimes that I do not really exist, but that I merely imagine I exist. The thing that I have the greatest difficulty in believing
On Why, Seriously, Why
Feb 14, 2019
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In 1945, esteemed American psychologist Captain G. M. Gilbert was assigned to the Nuremberg trials: “In my work with the defendants (at the
On Common Sense
Feb 13, 2019
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“A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can
“For the Observation That Prison Fails to Eliminate Crime,
Jan 28, 2019
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one should perhaps substitute the hypothesis that prison has succeeded extremely well in producing delinquency, a specific type, a politically or
“First, Capitalism Is a Pure Religious Cult, Perhaps the Most Extreme There Ever Was.”
Jan 28, 2019
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— Walter Benjamin
on ideas
Jan 27, 2019
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“We must be ruthless with ideas, but gentle with people” – Robert Sirico
On Power, and the Resistance Thereof
Jan 27, 2019
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“In a sense, I am a moralist, insofar as I believe that one of the tasks, one of the meanings of human existence—the source of human freedom—is
on anacondas
Jan 27, 2019
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“If the cast seems large, reflect that some, perhaps many, of these characters are required so that they can be eaten by snakes” - Roger Ebert1
“I Told Him to Be Himself. That Was Pretty Mean I Guess.”
Jan 27, 2019
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Roger Sterling