When historians consider the 20th century as it turned into the 21st, what will they find unique. I’m looking forward to others’ opinions. What are deep and permanent changes? What are minor and transient ones? I’ll throw out my opinion, though it isn’t original; Henry Adams posited it as the last century began.
Month: November 2017
What’s With Alabama and Other Stories
Frankly, the kerfuffle regarding Roy Moore’s alleged dalliances with just barely legal teenage girls four decades ago smacks to this observer as a put-up job by out of-state media and out-of-state politicians of both parties who apparently regard his candidacy for national office as an affront to the Ruling Class. Suspect scribbles in an old school annual and Gloria Allred in full-throated accusatory mode are, as in the words of Gilbert and Sullivan’s character Pooh-Bah, “Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.”
Worthwhile Reading
A law professor writes about undoing the dis-education of Millenials.
Small liberal arts colleges: self-destruction via runaway administration.
Ammo Grrrll doesn’t share the obsession about ‘people who look like me’.
Are we living in the dystopia that Young Adult fiction warns us about?
The Assistant Village Idiot has some thoughts about local aristocracy and the nationalization of culture.
Bolshevism and Militant Islam. Some thoughts about historical parallels from Niall Ferguson, with comments by Stuart Schneiderman.
The current Senate tax bill draft contains some very bad ideas about taxation of employee stock options and restricted stock grants.
New! – Your Photo-Illustrated Urban Haiku Mini-Slam
New, free, city bus –
Late, slow, inconvenient route.
Got what I paid for.
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In a restaurant,
Saw cockroach crawling on seat.
Ignorance was bliss.
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Weekend night drivers:
Ten under limit, weaving.
Better to stay home.
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Your Chinese toaster –
Inexpensive, doesn’t work.
That’s how things are now.
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(Feel free to add your contributions in the comments.)
A Seemingly-Safe Target
I’ve written previously about the level of fear, contempt, and anger that many educated/urban/upper-middle-class people demonstrate toward Christians and rural people (especially southerners.) This complex of negative emotions often greatly exceeds anything that these same people feel toward radical Islamists or dangerous rogue-state governments.
A rather classic example of this was recently observed by a commenter at a post by Sarah Hoyt:
One of my relatives posted a snarky meme during the day or two that the Dreamer program being ended was trending showing some hillbilly/redneck types saying they were going to get a tech job now that the Dreamers were out of the way. The meme was presented in a way that you were supposed to say “Ha ha, look at the poor, ugly, unintelligent peasants thinking they can get a tech job”
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