Category: Virtues and Vices
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Calvinball, Big Balls, and the Age of Balls
A couple of ballsy articles for your cojonic delectation. Jonathan Turley, The Judicial Calvinball of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson An excellent piece that ends on a weak and decidedly unmanly note: "I truly believe that Jackson can leave a lasting legacy and bring an important voice to the court." I'm guessing that the erudite and…
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The Theological Virtue of Hope
RCC Catechism: 1817. Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ's promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit. Now listen to Pope Leo: The pontiff [Leo] said…
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The Moral Horror of Murder
One man takes from another what neither can give: life. It is passing strange that leftists do not share with us this moral horror, as witness their casual attitude toward even the most vicious modes of criminality.
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Lunar Virtue
The Moon shares what she has received with all, not fully, but in phases. She waxes and she wanes, but regularity rules her diversity.
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Solar Virtue
The Sun sheds his light on all and sundry and from none does he expect a return.
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Brazen Lies and Big Lies
1) Brazen lies. Here is an AI-generated definition: "A brazen lie is a bold and shameless falsehood, often told without any attempt to hide or conceal it." The AI-generated definition is on the right track, but it is not quite right: it blurs the line between a falsehood (a false statement) and a lie. A lie…
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Shakespeare on Lust
Sonnet 129: Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till action, lust Is perjured, murd'rous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust, Enjoyed no sooner but despisèd straight, Past reason hunted; and, no sooner had Past…
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Kamala the Plagiarist
She follows in the footsteps of Joe and Jill Biden, Claudine Gay, and so many others. Christopher Rufo exposes her. At the beginning of Harris’s political career, in the run-up to her campaign to serve as California’s attorney general, she and co-author Joan O’C Hamilton published a small volume, entitled Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s…
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Man Does not Live by Bread Alone
Or by bed alone. Top o' the Stack.
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Good Societies and Good Lives
A Substack post on state-run lotteries.
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The Racism of Reduced Expectations
To tolerate and excuse Harvard president Claudine Gay's plagiarism has been cited by some as an example of the so-called 'racism of reduced expectations' (RRE). For what you are then doing by your toleration and excusal is lowering the standard for blacks when, or rather on the assumption that, they are as capable as any…
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“He be Good for the Hood”
I have some mind-numbingly substantive posts in the works, but for now here are three items from the (non-fake) news you may want to opine about. 1) The mug shot heard or rather seen 'round the world and its appeal to blacks. "He be good for the hood." "The more they indict, the more we…
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Virtue, Vice, and Mastery
Substack latest. An note on akrasia in reverse.
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Continence
There is continence sexual and gustatory. Custody of the eyes and of the heart are forms of continence. Continence should also extend to rebuttals, replies, ripostes, rejoinders, responses, and reactions. Deny yourself the desire for vindication, and getting in the last word. Better retraction than self-serving reaction. The self denied is the ego; the self that…
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Odd Man Out
Among the cardinal virtues, courage is the odd man out. It is almost always prudent to be prudent, temperate, and just, but not often prudent to be courageous.