Category: Varia
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Linkage
The Unhinged Among Us (VDH) Flannery O'Connor: A Life The Destruction of the Middle Class The Human Costs of Pornography Attack on Elon Musk is About Freedom of Thought Roots of Hamas Lie in Hitler's 'Final Solution' HEINRICH HOFFMANN COLLECTION Adolf Hitler met Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, Nov. 28, 1941, in Berlin. Al-Husseini…
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Happy Thanksgiving?
The last four horrible years make my annual Thanksgiving homily ring somewhat hollow, especially the penultimate line: And don't forget the country that allows you to live your own kind of life in your own kind of way and say and write whatever you think in peace and safety. This is no longer true. We are…
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“Here I (under)stand, I cannot do otherwise.”
I found the above witticism in an essay by Kelly James Clark. It works in German as well: Hier (ver)stehe ich, ich kann nicht anders. In German the allusion to what I allude to is transparent to my class of readers. I'll book this quickie under Varia.
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Cat Blogging Lives! Tuxies at the Door
The tuxedo cat is the most 'iconic' of cats; so it is only fitting that Max Black and his brother Manny K. Black should guard the entrance to the inner sanctum. Felix was a tuxie as was Sylvester. And who can forget Socks the presidential pussy when the Clintons occupied the White House? Like all…
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How to Write a Good Comment
I offer a comment of mine as an example. It is a brief response to a Substack entry by Elliot Crozat. Here is the comment: Very nice post, Elliot. Your reconstruction is valid. You say that (2) is "solid." It is, but it is not self-evident. For one epistemically possible view is that the dead…
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More on the Dumbassery of ‘Smart Homes’
Here: Amazon locked a Microsoft engineer out of his smart home devices for nearly a week after a delivery driver accused him of uttering a racial slur. Via Malcolm Pollack, who is always worth reading.
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Those Useless Masks Now Have a Use
Did you throw away your useless made-in-China COVID face masks? Yes? Too bad. They now have a use in places like New York City. If someone is firing a shotgun at you it would be futile to take cover behind a chain link fence. But if you are being pelted by baseballs, the fence would…
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Best Amazon Comment I’ve Read So Far This Year
While poking around for a reliable, powerful, bicycle tire pump to keep my mid-sized mountain bike tires up to around 65 psi, I found the following. Comments enabled for anyone who has a pump to recommend. The reviewer is recommending this device. Andy's Reviews 5.0 out of 5 stars This pumps me up more than DJ…
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How to Leave a Call Back Number on the Eve of WWIII
Don't make me re-play the message a dozen times. Pronounce the string slowly, clearly, and distinctly, numeral by numeral. You are not in a competition to see how fast you can spout it. And then repeat the string. Don't say 'o' if you mean 'zero' (0). 'o' is a letter, '0' is a numeral. Confusing…
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1984 Bumpersticker
It read: 1984 is not an instruction manual. True, but it may be that some of the novel's dystopian ideas can be turned against the Left.
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Albert Camus: He’s a Rebel!
You'll enjoy it. If you don't, you are not MavPhil material. Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, tr. A. Bower, Vintage 1991, p. 15, French original published by Gallimard in 1951: Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees. Good advice if one can take it without false heroism and…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
The last three horrible years make my annual Thanksgiving homily ring somewhat hollow, especially the penultimate line: And don't forget the country that allows you to live your own kind of life in your own kind of way and say and write whatever you think in peace and safety. This is no longer true. We are…
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MaverickPhilo@Twitter
Here I am. Pay me a visit. I don't quite know the ropes yet. Who will be Facebook's Elon Musk? Hats off to the latter. Middle finger to the former. Without free speech, republics collapse. Our republic is collapsing and there may be no stopping the slide into the abyss; but as the saying goes,…
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John Pepple’s Last Post and a Look Back
I stopped by John Pepple's place this evening and found not his latest, but his last, post. A twinge of nostalgia tinged with sadness ensued. We bloggers form a loose fellowship and when one of us moves on, whether by quitting the blogosphere, or, more drastically, by quitting the sublunary, certain emotions arise. So long,…