On CNN, [Utah Governor Spencer] Cox labelled the War Room host [Steve Bannon] a “conflict entrepreneur” and encouraged Americans not to listen to voices that profit off of division.
“Look, there are conflict entrepreneurs out there who benefit from radicalizing us. And I’m not one of those. I don’t know that that’s particularly helpful,” he said.
Kinda law “war profiteer” only less honorable.
Finished Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness. 📚 Glad I read it for more reasons than I’ve sorted out just yet.
Context matters.
Wife from next room: Who is Charlie Kirk?
Me: (Formulating just the right withering put-down …)
Wife: He’s been shot and killed.
Me: (Mute, with thoughts I shouldn’t oughta been thinking, not even for a few seconds …)
He won’t be the last. We really are a mess.
This indifference to owning the very latest tech is a novel experience for me.
I’ve been discounting the theory that Trump is avoiding l’affaire Epstein when he wags dog after dog after dog. Today, I won’t discount it.
[Proper noun], [Pronoun] [verb] ….
Is this a new, cretinous stylesheet for local television news?
Examples:
The students, they say …
Caitlyn, she says …
I must have heard it a dozen times in ten minutes just now.
The modern West is said to be Christian, but this is untrue: the modern outlook is anti-Christian, because it is essentially anti-religious; and it is anti-religious because, still more generally, it is anti-traditional; this is its distinguishing characteristic and this is what makes it what it is.
René Guénon Guénon , The Crisis of the Modern World
The uncomfortable truth about watching (American) football. Boxing, too. MMA, too-to-the-Nth-power.
I don’t have to think through it. Somewhere along life’s way, I just ceased enjoying most “contact sports” (legitimate wrestling excepted, as it’s not especially injurious).
Damon Linker has a longish, and I think fair, critical analysis of Bari Weiss’s The Free Press, which rumor has it is being bought for a very handsome price. Bari Weiss Conquers the World.
He’s not enthusiastic at the thought of Bari, with her biases, getting a high sinecure at CBS.
I ran across this dystopian sentence in the New York Times: “Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters.”
Even if you are not what you should be, you should not despair. It is bad enough that you have sinned; why in addition do you wrong God by regarding Him in your ignorance as powerless. He will receive your repentance.
Saint Peter of Damascus, Philokalia vol. 3, p. 160
Pay no heed to the Ezra Klein show today. If it is as billed, it’s mostly wrong.
Trump has been winning in SCOTUS because he only appeals those losses where his legal team advises “I think we could actually win this one in SCOTUS.’
Otherwise he takes the loss, defames the judge, and moves on.
Reading Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness. 📚 I had no idea this existed and was almost as iconic as Merton’s Seven-Story Mountain.
Finished James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room. 📚 My first Baldwin fiction, I think, so I decided to jump in the deep end.
The nation’s capital has become so lawless that you can actually get away with throwing a sandwich at obnoxious federal agents! Grand Jury Nullification in the District of Columbia? - Reason.com
Nobody should take literal lessons from fairy tales: If you come across an unconscious young woman in a forest and your first instinct is to kiss her, you’re a creep.
