We’re All Rockford Now
People in Rockford have an inferiority complex. In the nearly 40 years I have lived here, the city has broken into the national news on very few occasions, and virtually every one was a source of shame.
Category: Fleming
Seven Against Thebes
This is not a one-dimensional play, but looked at in moral and social terms, Aeschylus’ trilogy shows what happens when family relations are out of joint: The entire city suffers.
America, a Captive Nation: The Destruction of Monuments
The first American oubtreak of political iconoclasm took place during the Federal government’s “reconstruction” of the South. The euphemism “reconstruction” is a typical tool of all despotisms, which use words like patriotism, human rights, people’s republics, reeducation camps, and social justice to cover vast confiscations of property, mass murder, and the corruption of children
UFOs, Dinosaurs, and Groundhogs , a Podcast
America’s superstitious obsession with forecasting the future.
A Pagan Reads John, V: The Kingdom of God
Joannes tells us that many Jews at this time, seeing the signs, put their trust in Jesus. I asked a Roman friend, familiar with the sect, what they meant by “put their trust,” and he used the Roman verb “credere,” but that rathe begs the question. I don’t have to tell you that our word pisteuo does not mean simply to think something is so, as in, “I believe you are right” or “I believe Socrates is wise” or “Zeus is god.”….
A Pagan Reads John, IV: The First Sign
I do not know how much you have heard about this Jewish savior Jesus. Like others of his calling, he is said to possess magical qualities. In the stories I have heard about wonder-workers, the point of the miracle is usually to show how powerful the divine teacher is, and there is not much more to it.
Shakespeare Against the Whigs
Part II added 2 February
In the bad old days, so the argument runs, there was no equality of rights, and people were judged on the basis of status. All that was eliminated in the quest for law, and we now live in a country where people cannot claim privileges and advantages on the strength of their sex, gender, race, religion, or ethnicity. It is a wonderful thing to understand just how much better we are today than all those funny old people in the Dark Ages.
WW III PODCAST
Who in his right mind wants to ignite a World War between America’s NATO Empire and Russia? In addition to the obvious motive of blind greed, the masters of war always use crisis to consolidate their power and subjugate the American people.
Ukraine: Deja Vu.
Ukraine will never be an independent nation–or even any kind of nation. It is nothing more than a sandbox where NATO and Russia play their games. Where a line is drawn between the two subject spheres is not a matter of right and wrong but of who is to be master.
America in Chains: Emigration, Immigration, and Alienation
Umberto Bossi, when he was the head of the Italian Lega Nord, scandalized the developed world when he pointed out that “la classe dirigente” welcomed waves of illegal immigrants precisely because the problems they create require the constant expansion of the state and, thus, of their own power and wealth.
The Wrongs of Rights