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26 Apr, 2021

Picking Next Book, May 2021

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It’s time to pick another book.  I propose either a selection of Tennyson’s Arthurian Idylls or else Gulliver’s Travels, which I have been intermittently rereading. My wife and I have been working through Herodotus after breakfast and have at last hit Book V, where we can turn from Scythians and Libyans and read about Macedonians and Greeks on the eve of the Ionian Revolt that leads to Darius’ invasion of 490.  This week I’ll be welcoming expressions of preference on any of the above.

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26 Apr, 2021

Perspective on the Chauvin Verdict

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The main problem began last May when the death of George Floyd led to widespread riots, not only in Minnesota, but across the country. Such pusillanimous politicians as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey let the rioters burn down large parts of the city. The same thing happened in Portland, Seattle and elsewhere. 

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21 Apr, 2021

Wednesday’s Child: Good News from Hell

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Just as there is the irony of fate, there are ironies of nomenclature.  One such is writ large in the name of Alexei Navalny’s “Anti-Corruption Foundation.”  As I pointed out in this space on a recent occasion, corruption in Russia is largely what stands between the Kremlin and world domination, as villains preoccupied with plundering the nation’s wealth have little time left for villainy. 

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13 Apr, 2021

Biden’s Gun Grab

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After Xerox copiers were invented in 1959, a few trickled into the Soviet Union. The regime immediately mandated each had to be registered with the KGB, including a copy of each copier’s unique “fingerprint.” That way those using the machines for samizdat – self-publishing – of dissident materials could be identified and sent to the gulag. The Biden regime is seeking to impose something similar with his Executive Ukase on gun control.

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FF / Free Content

12 Apr, 2021

Sloth, Spandex, and Goose Cassoulet-A Neophyte’s Hunting Adventure, Part One

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I have a chronic reluctance to get up before dawn to perch myself in a tree-stand at first light in the middle of deer season, but, as I faced  the final week of hunting,  my sloth yielded to an insatiable venison-jones which drove me, regardless of moon phase or feeding schedule, temperature or precipitation, to go out early every morning of that final week, shivering in wind and rain, before work hoping for the arrival of a doe into my kill zone.

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12 Apr, 2021

The South–and the Kennedy Brothers–Still Right, Part One of Two

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The first time I personally witnessed cowardice at high levels was upon the occasion of the first edition of The South Was Right being introduced into my high-school library.  In 1993 my father and I joined our local Major John Pelham Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in Jacksonville, Alabama. It was at a meeting of that camp that I spoke with a man (whose name I cannot recall) who told me he was a past principal of my school. He spoke to me about a new book by a pair of Louisiana twins that was a scholarly and...

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12 Apr, 2021

The Seven: A Digression on Sex

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Greeks were not squeamish about discussing sexual matters, though their degree of frankness depended upon circumstance and genre:  What could be said in a comedy or put on a vase was not the same as the treatment of sex in tragedy or religious sculpture.

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8 Apr, 2021

Lithuania. Why? by James Patrick

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At present Lithuania is a tiny Baltic country wedged between Latvia and a small Russian enclave on the Baltic and Poland, with Belorussia on the southeast. There are 2.8 million Lithuanians plus another 200,000 Lithuanian-speakers outside the country, a population about the size of Dallas if the suburbs are included.