No dog in the fight yadda yadda…
Last week, there was a kerfuffle as the initiators of the Rosetta Stone Project for Col. West were suddenly informed of being naughty, naughty people and bashed about the head with copyright claims. The claims appear to be legitimate, but they were handled about as badly as they could [...]
I keep preserving these, whether or not they’re any good. They feel like some of my best writing.
This one was on whether the comparison of the current UK government to the nazi state is valid, written a couple of weeks back.
Sure, the government isn’t killing jews and gypsies but, the indoctrination of youth into the [...]
From a comment on Gates of Vienna.
A person, especially one not trained to consider what one sees with at least a bit of dispassionate skepticism, can simply absorb ideas passively by watching films or television.
More true than you even realise. When I was doing my undergrad, part of the course on media analysis included information [...]
That treaty. That damn treaty. Constitution in all but name. I’ve avoided EU issues for quite some time (as there are people better covering it than I) but it inevitably intrudes in every aspect of life.
It’s a done deal. A fait acomplis. No way out of it In the process of this constitution treaty becoming [...]
I’m not much of a fan of Cromwell for various reasons (he banned christmas!) but the man sure knew how to make a speech, as Helen szamuely reminds us. (also at EU Referendum).
“…It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt [...]
The unacknowledged resentment against Islamic imperialism. I have to admit this is the first time I’ve heard about a muslim “protest” being so completely wiped out by my fellow countrymen.
In the last few years the British peoples grew polite to the point of obsequiousness in the face of Islamic terror. We didn’t want a row, [...]
A little ways back I made a few predictions. “Why we won’t matter” it was called.
To a certain extent I was right, but in important ways I was wrong. As is perhaps obvious I completely failed to predict the current, escalating labour situation in the UK that is threatening to be a repeat of [...]
Conversation with the wife over birth rates brought up a little mini-rant of hers that surfaces now and then. The short version goes: the elderly are complaining that the young aren’t being “responsible productive citizens” and paying for the pensions of the elderly by having kids and that they should butt out and let the [...]
Nationality
na·tion·al·i·ty n – \ˌna-shə-ˈna-lə-tē, ˌnash-ˈna-\
1: national character
2: nationalism
3 a: national status ; specifically : a legal relationship involving allegiance on the part of an individual and usually protection on the part of the state
b: membership in a particular nation
4: political independence or existence as a separate nation
5 a: a people having a common origin, [...]
I’ve been reading up on my philosophy and various other things recently, in an attempt to get my brain ticking over at a faster speed. It hurts.
I’m developing a real appreciation for C.S. Lewis. His writings are reminding me why I remained a Christian when others had given it up, and quite what Christianity is [...]
