“The purpose of college was the making of cultivated men and women who would understand the world to the extent that it has proved willing to be understood. This meant the liberal arts. “Liberal” didn’t mean “lefty” or “nice.” It implied a broad grounding in languages, literature, history, the sciences, mathematics, economics, philosophy, and art and music.”
Source: College Then and Now: Letter to a Bright Young Woman | Fred On Everything
“These atheists tell us we don’t need religion, yet everyone seems to be creating flimsy substitutes to replace it. Rehab is just Lent. Meditation is just Latin Mass. Seeing a therapist is just talking to your priest.”
Source: Surrendering to Death
“Since Donald Trump effectively wrapped up the Republican nomination this month, I’ve seen a lot of critical self-assessments from empirically minded journalists — FiveThirtyEight included, tw…”
I read this and couldn’t help thinking of the rise of the Mule in Isaac Asimov’s book ‘Foundation and Empire’. The Mule wasn’t predicted by Hari Seldon in the book and the pundits and pollsters didn’t predict Trump. Panic ensued in the book and now in real life.
Source: How I Acted Like A Pundit And Screwed Up On Donald Trump
“The truth is, it was Socialism that has damaged the markets, not the free market system – because we have not had a free market in nearly 80 years.”
Source: Reality vs Government Mandated Overtime, “Living” Wages and other Mandates | Virginia Right!
“President Obama and the Democrat Party care nothing for traditional Americans and their families, but a very great deal for tiny, noisy identity groups aligned with Democrat ideology. Thus are Mr. Obama and his Obamites determined to put men in women’s bathrooms and locker room, the better to teach girls the wonders of transvestites and pedophilia.”
John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ gave us a fantasy vision of socialism. Venezuela is showing us the brutal reality.
“Now we can see the results: socialism literally kills babies.”
“As Micky Dolenz put it to the youngsters in the crowd, “I was singing this song long before Shrek.””
I still have the Monkees Greatest Hits I got in 1967. First music album I ever got.
Source: The Monkees Still Giving Fans Good Times 50 Years Later | The American Spectator
“Feminism confuses many people who do not understand that the movement has a political philosophy — a theory — and that this theory is fundamentally incompatible with human nature.”
Source: The Feminist Abyss
“Trump may be kind of thuggish, but he’ll leave me alone. Hillary’s going to come looking for me, and she’s foolish and clueless enough to push and push until we normals get tired of it and start to push back. I, for one, prefer my country not to be sucked into a second civil war because some former president’s angry wife is playing out a freakish psychodrama revenge fantasy against all the guys who have rejected her, from her father to Bill…”
