Friday, July 28, 2023

Silent Submissive Women. Baptists and Serial Killers are Keeping Me Up At Night

 

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Christian, Patriot, Conservative, Feminist

 

Baptists and Serial Killers Have Been Keeping Me Awake at Night

 

I used to be a leftist. Many life experiences, including a lecture by David Horowitz, turned me into a former leftist. I never thought I'd vote Republican, then I did. I went from being the bleeding heart teacher who bent over backward for my students to being a drill sergeant. Two things have not changed. I was a Catholic before, and I'm a Catholic now. I think I was probably a feminist in the womb. I'm a feminist still.

 

"Bra burner!"

 

There's debate about whether or not bra burning ever happened. If it did, it was a small number of women.

 

"Man hater!"

Friday, July 21, 2023

"Regime Change: Toward a Post Liberal Future" by Patrick Deneen. Book Review.

 

Regime Change : Toward a Postliberal Future by Patrick J. Deneen

A Catholic Integralist's Prescription for a Very Different Western World

Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future was published in June, 2023, by Sentinel, a conservative imprint of the Penguin Group. The book is 269 pages, inclusive of end notes and index. Author Patrick J. Deneen received his BA and PhD from Rutgers. He has taught at Princeton and Georgetown. He has been at Notre Dame since 2012; his faculty bio reports that "his teaching and writing interests focus on the history of political thought … liberalism, conservatism, and constitutionalism."

Friday, July 14, 2023

"Judeo-Christian": Why I Use this Phrase

 


Why I Use the Phrase "Judeo-Christian"
 It's Not Why Some May Think

 

I use the phrase "Judeo-Christian." When I use it in a published piece, at least one disgruntled reader will shoot me a grumble of protest. "Judeo-Christian" is a controversial phrase. Since it raises hackles, why do I use it?

Thursday, July 6, 2023

Beauty and Ugliness: Rescuing Controversial Concepts from Woke Totalitarians

 


Beauty and ****ness
Rescuing Controversial Concepts from Woke Totalitarians

Garret Mountain was formed from a lava flow 190 million years ago. It is now an isolated plateau, rising to about 500 feet, which doesn't sound like much, except that the surrounding cities, Paterson, Clifton, and Woodland Park, are in the Passaic River Valley and are at more or less sea level. From that vantage point, Garret Mountain's altitude makes a statement.

Today Garret Mountain is a public park, a green oasis surrounded by the urban sprawl of the Boston-Washington corridor. The air above Garret is the Atlantic Flyway, a migration route that billions of birds have been using for at least hundreds of thousands of years. In May, birdwatchers come from around the state and in some cases other countries. In gritty and dangerous Paterson, NJ, they witness the miracle of migration. Eagles, ospreys, and peregrine falcons punctuate skies usually monopolized by jets approaching Newark airport. The red-carpet stars of this show are the warblers.

Warblers are tiny, usually about five inches in length. The smallest weighs less than a quarter of an ounce. Don't let that tiny size fool you. The blackpoll warbler covers a route that could awe any Olympian. "Blackpoll warblers undertake an astonishing non-stop flight over the Atlantic, ranging from 1,400 to 1,700 miles … in just two to three days."