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It is a stereotype without foundation in reality that all stereotypes lack a foundation in reality.

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The Dems are a species of necrophiliac: they love dead voters. Not only that, they have the power to 'raise' them.

In the Judeo-Christian tradition, man and man alone among living things has a higher origin and a higher destiny. Made in the image and likeness of God, and the only creature so made, he comes from God and is called to return to God for his ultimate felicity and fulfillment. He is, to be sure,…

Peter Geach on the Real Distinction I

Here: Horowitz destroys the argument for reparations, and in a second chapter, he challenges the victimization logic that offers white racism as the excuse for any "underperformance" by the black community.  There is no one alive today who held any slaves or personally was a slave.  Many black Americans in the country today have no ancestors in…

"A torch song is a sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments an unrequited or lost love, where one party is either oblivious to the existence of the other, or where one party has moved on." (Wikipedia) Sarah Vaughn, Broken Hearted Melody.  Nostalgic video. Fine understated guitar work. Timi Yuro, Hurt.  When I first heard…

Judy Collins, Cravings: How I Conquered Food, Doubleday 2017, pp. 112-113: . . . and writing Albert Grossmann that no, I did not want to join a trio of women he was bent on calling the Brown-Eyed Girls. He had put Peter, Paul and Mary together, telling me that I was the fallback choice if…

Here. But aren't such values racist by definition?

Kurt Schlichter: . . . Nazis are so bad that you have to devote all your hating capacity to hating Nazis such that there's no room left to hate anybody else. Those hammer and sickle flag-carrying Communists? Well, you must love the Nazis if you hate them, because you have got to hate the Nazis with all your…

Bending to popular demand, here is some more about the Summer of Love, now 50 years in the past. A re-do and clean-up of an entry from five years ago. ……………… Nostalgia time again.  Scott McKenzie, famous for the 1967 anthem "San Francisco" penned by John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas, died at…

The Who, Pictures of Lily Paul Simon, Kodachrome. Simon was an English major whose early efforts were sometimes a bit on the pretentious side. Dangling Conversation, for example. (Still and all, a great song.) Later on he found his groove. Safaris, Image of a Girl Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition The Band, When I Paint…

I wonder what went though Fidel Castro's mind in his last days and hours.  Did he remain firm in his materialist faith? Such a faith unshakably maintained would be a great consolation to a mass murderer in his last moments.  But Fidel was educated by Salesians and Jesuits and so it might have been that…

Does it make sense to ask how probable God's existence is?  I don't think so.  God is more like truth than like a truth. One can sensibly ask after the probability of, say, The Dems will take back the House in 2018.   It would make sense to say that this is likely, unlikely, more likely…

Mark Steyn (HT: Bill Keezer): "The object of Parliament," observed Winston Churchill at election time in 1951, "is to substitute argument for fisticuffs." How's that holding up after November 8th? The object of at least a proportion of those on the streets is to substitute fisticuffs for argument, and indeed for Parliament: The less self-aware…