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Posted by The Happy Tutor
Overidentification with an ideology calls it into disrepute, surely this is the satirical strategy of The Good Soldier Schweik? By contrast, irony is a way of staying sane while conforming, giving oneself the illusion of independence, while remaining transfixed by the object of the irony, and wholly within in its orbit? Great post at Charlotte Street.
Smoky Joe, JD, in Defense of Freedom
Cold world. What is it coming to when you cannot even hire an honest plagiarist? Honor among thieves is breaking down. What will become of speech writers and think tank thinkers if we take the money and welsh on the deal? The write for hire hack owes a duty of the utmost good faith to his or her client. We violate this norm at our peril, jeopardizing the honor of our craft and the high repute in which we are held by our clients, the media, and the public at large.
Posted by The Happy Tutor
As writers say, "I could have made it shorter if I had more time." Assume that God feels that way about the Ten Commandments, particularly about, say, coveting, since it is essential to the Market through which God enters History. But pick a Commandment, any Commandment, that appeals to you and makes good sense, given your sinful Lifestyle.
How would you increase the percentage of times that you observe that Commandment and reduce the percentage of times that you violate it? Do we fail for lack of knowing what the Commandment means? Or it is weakness of will?
Contemporary Theory tells us that Truth, particularly moral truth, is hard to find. No, it is hard to live by, and the evasions of Theory are among the best proofs of moral frailty. You find truth at the foot of the Cross, or in other uncomfortable places. The demands it makes are not intellectual. We fail not for lack of brains, but courage. We keep one another more honest through satire, sermons, and moral example. Spanking works too.
Posted by The Happy Tutor
To what are we called? To what truth are we called by the Cross? AKMA's Good Friday sermon brings me to my knees, not in faith, but in the fervent hope of faith. How without faith can we be true? Or bear the truth and what it demands of us? AKMA may have preached the sermon to a particular congregation, but huddled outside the door his words reach us too. Maybe you can't ask for a blessing, except inside the sacred princints, but a blessing has leaked out through the cracks, nonetheless. Thank you, Father, for it.
Posted by The Happy Tutor
What lives on, through us? Through our children, students, blogger friends? What traditions inhabit us? As Tom Matrullo shows, the best and the worst of which humankind is capable propagate through blogs. As an Ancient of sorts, I still believe deeply that writing like any signficant action must be judged by ethical standards. Writing well is more than acheiving with elegance an intended result. Good writing cultivates what is best in us, and pulls out the weeds, shrieking, as in myth the mandrake does, when pulled from beneath the gallows where it grows.
Posted by Candidia Cruikshanks, CEO of Wealth Bondage
Best practices of corporal punishment in the well ordered state. (Caning pictures from Singapore.) Societies that suceed have the stomach to do what failed cultures don't. Liberals coddle the poor. In Wealth Bondage we whip them into shape for their own good. And they love their Masters and Mistresses, because they know their place in the Great Chain of Being. View slaves happily at work. Or struggling for power.
Freedom is hierarchical. Mind over buttocks. CEO over employee. To impose this system, patterned on God's relationship to man, is the destiny of a Free Nation under God in Wealth Bondage. It starts with Family Values.
Posted by Candidia Cruikshanks, CEO of Wealth Bondage
As reported in Pravda:
The whipping therapy becomes much more efficient when a patient receives the punishment from a person of the opposite sex. The effect is astounding: the patient starts seeing only bright colors in the surrounding world, the heartache disappears, although it will take a certain time for the buttocks to heal, of course, Sergei Speransky told the Izvestia newspaper.
Wealth Bondage is based on sound science. Buttocks heal more easily than a broken heart. Those like Billmon, grieving for so-called "democracy," take note. The Pravada cure awaits, little man.
Posted by Captain Blowtorch in Hot Pursuit
From the TX TAKS Test. (With thanks to Rush Limbaugh)
Losers know the only way they will ever have anything is to band together and enact laws requiring winners to provide them with handouts.The environment is not fragile. Liberals have more rules than Leviticus. Do not separate your trash.
The Civil War was not caused by slavery. The Civil War was caused by Liberals.
Feminism is how ugly women get good jobs.
Joe McCarthy was right.
Poverty is not the root cause of crime. Poor people are.
There is a simple way to solve the crime problem. Eugenics.
God loves America.
Liberals hate God
Liberals hate America.
God hates liberals
There is something wrong with America when people question Rev. Jerome Jowells.
Our cities have been poisoned by dependency funds.
Death Taxes sap the will of heirs to work.
Liberals worship the earth.
Liberals are pagans.
Liberals are gay.
Satan loves liberals.
After the Rapture, liberals will rule the earth.
Christ will come again to destroy the earth
Liberals go to hell.
Well, my kid is home schooled and she got 100% on TAKS. She is a Commended Scholar.
Posted by The Happy Tutor
Maybe the tragedy of the commons is our unwillngness to steward, as God required Adam and Eve to do, his Creation. Instead, driven by the selfishness and egotism of the Market, eggged on by Satan, we pillage and pollute his Garden, leaving only Sin and Death.
Posted by Joseph McPatriot
Via the terrorist symps at NPR,
Milan authorities investigate whether CIA agents broke Italian law in an act of "extraordinary rendition.
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