Your Humble Blogger will get back to the rambling, links, and general Tohu Bohu soon; now it’s time for the Conservative Tenets 12. The essential role of religious feeling in man and organized religion in society. As usual, we start…
By the way, in addition to the Daily Howler, liberals with too much time and bandwidth should probably put Working for Change on their daily checkum list. In addition to hosting a variety of syndicated columnists (and a few cartoons),…
The Money Factory has announced the design of the new Henrys. They don’t look as much like Fonda as the last ones did. Thank you, -Vardibidian….
Your Humble Blogger has just came across the Daily Howler, a particularly vicious and vituperative site about the iniquities of Our Only President, his cronies, and the “store-bought butt-boys” of the media, particularly the so-called punditocracy. Some of y’all will…
At this rate, Your Humble Blogger will finish the Conservative Tenets before he forgets why he started them… 11. The indispensability and sanctity of inherited institutions, values, symbols, and rituals. OK, can we assume, for the sake of sanity, that…
Mr. Harry Barnes, the MP from North-East Derbyshire, asked in the Prime Minister’s Questions the other day, The Prime Minister will be aware that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has issued an appeal to the International Labour Organisation and to…
The obsessive among you may have noticed that Your Humble Blogger wrote about Spinoza from the advanced vantage point of page fifteen, but not in the four weeks since then. Well, I’m on page 77, now. I don’t have much…
I’ll press on with # 10 of the Conservative Tenets. I’m really happy with the convo on # 8, but I would still really like a Conservative to show up and defend these. Not because I’m waiting with a cream…
Here’s a quote from Nelson Mandela’s tribute to the late Walter Sisulu: In a peasant society a person walking with a stout stick, a stafflonger than an ordinary walking stick and lesser than a poleis a common sight. One always…
Your Humble Blogger has been enjoying the discussion about Tenet # 8 so much, # 9 is irresistible. 9. The duties of man-service, effort, obedience, cultivation of virtue, self-restraint-as the price of rights. Again, this is a conception of rights…