Category: navel gazing

Did y’all miss Loyalty Day? If you did, are you any less loyal? May First (in addition to being the beginning of the Outdoor Sex season) is, as we all know, International Workers’ Day. I didn’t know that it was…

Before the server crashed, Your Humble Blogger was picking up the Conservative Tenets where we left off, with: 8. The rights of man as something earned rather than given. This involved defining the Rights of Man (Human Rights or Natural…

There were three entries demolished on Monday, one of them (as I’ve said) was a note on Conservative Tenet # 8; I will write a new one, soon. One of the others was a link to the Who Owns What…

Here’s a trifle of a column by Sean Gonsalves. It’s quite nice, in that proud parent way, and although it isn’t what I would call a logically persuasive argument, its anecdotal rhetoric is compelling. And what do you want to…

… and now you don’t. Due to a server emergency, evidently unrelated to the actual content of this blog, my entries from 28th April have vanished. They were, of course, witty, timely, provocative, and insightful, and they are gone forever….

I happened recently to be near a seven-year-old boy, who, on seeing the morning newspaper, said to his mother “Isn’t the war over yet?” No real comment. He was born in peacetime. Thank you,-Vardibidian….

For those of you just joining us, Your Humble Blogger is going through a list of aspects of Conservatism to see where I agree and where I do not. So far I’m up to 7. The consequent desirability of diffusing…

Your Humble Blogger is back, and, having replied to a few comments, finds himself with a new toy! Yes, it’s the Blue Letter Bible, a Really Useful concordance and commentary collection. I don’t endorse their theology (I barely endorse my…

Your Humble Blogger is going walkabout for a few days; talk amongst yourselves. Thank you,-Vardibidian….

So I’m reading Spinoza, or at least the first fifteen pages of the Theologico-Political Treatise, and I’ve already come upon a question. What is prophecy? I don’t mean the everyday, casual sense of the word, where Omni has an article…