thoughts in and out of season
In the ’60s we had the “television generation,” the first generation to grow up watching TV. Today we have the “Internet generation.” The change in ways of finding out about the world ought to mean something, even though the effects are diffuse and so hard to interpret. Still, other people have theories on the subject, … More ...
AN APPEAL TO THE FREE NATIONS
Chorus
YAA KHELAAWAAT’E GOOR’E
oh great powerful nations
MELCH’E[1] GAABAAR’E[2].
mighty[2] kings[1].
HELOON ARRATAN[3] QAATAAN
give us -our land-[3]
MARRMAAKH’LA AATAAN[33].
and we shall raise -our flag-[33]
SHOOQOON QAAT OOMPTAAN[4] KHAAYAA
let -our nation-[4] live
KHAYOOTAA BAAYAA
it wants to live
OOMPTAAN KHAYOOTA BAAYAA
our nation wants to live.… More ...
Over at MarriageDebate.com Maggie Gallagher has been dealing with one of the standard arguments for “gay marriage,” that there can’t be an essential connection between marriage and procreation because after all 70-year-old women are allowed to marry even though they can’t have babies. Miss Gallagher handles the question very well, but there’s a lurking point … More ...
… I have a link which Mr. Kalb and Turnabout regulars may find inspirational – actually, I’ve posted it already, but just in case anybody missed it, I’ll link my previous comment, where one can follow the link to the essay I’m referring to, [url=http://antitechnocrat.net:8000/comment/reply/1199/4050]here[/url]. I’m sure you’ll find it a blessing, as I have.
I just finished reading Rene Guenon’s The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times. It’s an interesting display, by the French Traditionalist metaphysician (and mathematician), of what can be done through systematic application of simple concepts.
In Guenon’s system, which is heavily influenced by Hindu speculations and traditional metaphysics generally, the concepts … More ...
More signs of the times:
Here’s a claim that 99.8 percent of FCC indecency complaints were filed by a single activist group. The facts seem a little confused, but the evident general inactivity on the conservative side of the issue is the sort of thing the “conservative trend” in American life amounts to. The truth is that there isn’t … More ...
A simple question: how many professed christians will give the monies allocated for ‘xmas’ pleasure and presents to the poor this xmas? Give and not question the giving(no rationalisation about what I have earned is mine). The answer is 0.
Why do American Conservatives keep changing their minds about what constitutes conservatism? By no stretch of the intellectual imagination could George W. Bush be classified as a conservative.Is the fact that he is considered to be a conservative an indication of the herd mentality of Democracy; that is, a failure on the part of the … More ...