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…
The other day, Your Humble Blogger went to see a Major League Baseball game. I’d tell you more, but on the back of the ticket it says: By the use of this ticket, the ticket holder agrees that: (A) He…
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…