Month: July 2003

Earlier I said that if you talk about Vincent Foster, you don’t get invited to cool parties. Check out the house in this essay (“Ardrossan”): I went to a funeral reception there and I was just so blown away that there is still a place like that with a member of the family still living…

Catching up with the Classics Sometimes I get so caught up in current events (and distracted by immature ideas about peace) that I forget all about Classical Values. Now I see that while I was doing that, one of the most recent bloggers to link to me, Tim Sandefur has been doing a better job…

Frankincense, sausage offerings, and other LINKS for PEACE Si vis pacem, para bellum: If you wish for peace, prepare for war. Cicero Much as I try to practice the Classical Values, I can’t keep up with the kids these days. I really can’t. This Frank J. stuff, frankly, is beyond me. Last night I saw…

Think Globally, Blog Locally! Idi Amin died recently — in Saudi Arabia. Where else? I have seen very little about this monster cannibal — the “Butcher of Africa” (also notorious for his comradely sponsorship of terrorism at the Entebbe airport), reported anywhere except by blogs like Mike Silverman and Little Green Footballs. What made Idi…

Eyes Only! This post will self destruct in 60 seconds! Glenn Reynolds links to this report about possible secret involvement — by Saudi government operatives — with the September 11 hijackers: The report is sure to reignite questions about whether some Saudi officials were secretly monitoring the hijackers?or even facilitating their conduct. Questions about the…

This is a test…

Prelude to war?.in a world gone mad Accurate scholarship can Unearth the whole offence From Luther until now That has driven a culture mad, Find what occurred at Linz, What huge imago (sic) made A psychopathic god: I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in…

Prelude to war?.in a world gone mad Accurate scholarship can Unearth the whole offence From Luther until now That has driven a culture mad, Find what occurred at Linz, What huge imago (sic) made A psychopathic god: I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in…

In Whose Image? Let me remind readers of the test I took last night which called me an atheist. If only life were that easy! And life can be made almost that easy, if you simply turn off all inquiry into the nature of stuff, and either accept someone else’s beliefs about God (regardless of…

NOTICE TO ALL VISITORS I am in the process of moving my blog from blogspot to Hosting Matters. There will be some inconvenience, which I hope will be minimal. As of right now, https://classicalvalues.com is temporarily DOWN, but you will still be able to get here by using http://classicalvalues.blogspot.com. In another few days, that too…

Balance? Having been tested and found to be a liberal asshole, I am relieved to find a ray of hope. I like to think of myself as a Classical liberal (definitely not liberal by modern standards). Now comes Victor Davis Hanson on Classical Values (not my blog, just the concept, which I like to capitalize):…

War in our time? How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing! I would not hesitate to pay even a third visit to Germany, if I thought it would do any…

Is there a right to be wrong? This question is often posed by philosophers, some of whom maintain that there is no such right, usually because of the duty to the good to which all men must aspire. Certainly, there is no moral right to be wrong, particularly if such a state of wrongness is…

Quote of the day (not that I need a quote of the day; it’s just that I found one) “I just let people assume. Its not my fault their assumptions aren’t always accurate.” From this site via AgendaBender — who also displays his artistic contribution to the war effort. AAAAGENDABENDER HU AKHBAR! I could use…

New Emanations, Old Penumbras? Be not afraid of any man, no matter what his size. When danger threatens, call on me, and I will equalize. Colt pistol advertisement, 19th Century. Nobody likes new ideas, but I want to raise a legal question and I can’t find much law in support of my position. I was…

URGENT UPDATE: I posted this yesterday, but there may still be people coming here from Instapundit‘s link. If so, please read this before you do anything else. To anyone who is here today because of Glenn Reynolds’ link, I would rather have you immediately visit my blogfather’s home page, scroll down on the left hand…

Legalize WHAT? (Permissiveness can be carried too far, you know….) Wow! Instapundit reports that Senator Biden may be experiencing second thoughts about his anti-RAVE legislation. Does that mean WATER may become legal again? I kid you not! Yes, dear friends, pure, simple, water is yet another casualty of the War on Drugs. (Biden discovered that…

A Good Archetype The Arch of the Minneapolis Train Station (featured in today’s Bleat) reminded me of that gaping hole left by the savage destruction of the Twin Towers New York, and the nagging problem of what to put in it. While Lileks is not happy with the pointless nature of the Minneapolis arch (nor…

Are You A NERD? Test yourself at home! This is the FOURTH one of these silly online tests I have taken. The first one said I was a wolf, the second gave my blog a very lame rating of only PG-13, the third said I was going to the Seventh Level of Hell, and now…

A Deadly Silence Arthur Silber has taken on war advocates for not acknowledging the human costs of the policies they advocate: I find it reprehensible that these people seemingly addicted to war cannot even take a few minutes to acknowledge the terrible costs incurred by those people their policies have placed in harm’s way —…