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Category: Varia
A Little Unsolicited Advice for the Mature Members of the Distaff Contingent
Warning: 'Sexist' content up ahead! Snowflakes to your safe spaces!
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Your sag and bag
Won't hurt your charm
But no man wants
A hag or nag
Upon his arm.
Happy Thanksgiving
To all Stateside readers, and best wishes of the season to the rest of you. Let's make it a politics-free day, shall we? I'll do my best, and you do yours.
I am indeed grateful for your readership!
If you care to read my Thanksgiving homilies and such, go here.
Facebook Update
Some of you have messaged me to say that you are unable to send me a FB friend request. That was my fault. I had the software set to accept friend requests only from friends of friends. I have fixed that. You should be able to get through now.
I apologize if I don't get around to responding to all your kind messages. There is only so much time . . . .
Amazon Pricing
Bezos and the boys are asking a paltry $3,214.79 for a hardbound copy of The Incarnate Lord: A Thomistic Study in Christology, but a whopping $34.95 for the same book in paperback.
Now I'll grant you that hardbounds are superior to paperbacks in point of longevity, but 100 times better?
There is something screwy about the Amazon pricing algorithm. But what do I know about such things?
Note to Correspondents
Please don't take it amiss if I fail to respond to your missives or do so in a cursory manner. I must be selective.
Philosophia longa, vita brevis.
The clock is running, and I have a lot to finish before the flag falls.
Madonna to Portugal
Dale Tuggy’s Letter to a Former Student
A remarkable document.
A former student is fixing to swim the Tiber, and Dale is "mildly discouraged."
Note to Professor Tuggy's students: you are lucky to have such a sharp philosopher and good man as a teacher.
The Big Unplug 2018
The 2018 Big Unplug starts now.
I hope to be back in about three weeks. I will be incommunicado during this period so please don't send me any e-mail or leave any comments.
Bang on the link below for a little of the 'theory' of the Big Unplug.
Sick of politics? Take a gander at Maverick Philosopher: Strictly Philosophical.
All the best to my readers!
As I Have Been Saying For Years . . .
The Philosophy of Furniture
Edgar Allan Poe, 1840.
No Day Without Cultural Appropriation
Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
From the Pretty to the Pedestrian
Philippa Foot's maiden name was 'Bosanquet.' Her grounding of the normative in the natural, however, is decidedly Aristotelian, and thus peripatetic, and therefore pedestrian, in keeping with her married name.
Running with the pun, my Foot notes are accessible here.
Beware the Ides of March
"They are come, but not yet gone."
Thus spoke the soothsayer to Caesar when the dictator perpetuus said to the soothsayer that the Ides of March had come and he was still alive.
Dictator perpetuus has an overly confident ring to it much like tausendjähriges Reich.
Some history here.
The Death of Caesar (1798) by Vincenzo Camuccini
The House Mate from Hell
The moral of the story: never let anyone into your life whom you haven't vetted. It seems that all the people Jamison Bachmann tormented were liberal do-gooders. So a little blaming of the victim is in order here.
I can't expect a liberal to understand it, but one has a moral obligation, to oneself and to others, to do one's level best to not allow oneself to be anyone's victim.
More on this topic to tee off liberal knuckleheads in On Blaming the Victim.