Ball Diamond Ball

I had a great chat with Nanda last night.  Totally didn’t watch the debate.  I am just enjoying the heck out of my time in the States.  Have a Navy buddy coming up to visit this eve.  Will try to get on the Nightcap AMU.  We really *should* do one of our own.  Well, the schedule should be more friendly for that sort of thing in a bit.  My job will *not* be nine-to-five anymore, so I should be able to come up with a decent time that lines up with the States.

Virginia is just beautiful.

Nanda is doing great.  We spoke for over an hour I guess, and it flew by.  Funny, talking to her, Ricochet seems a lot like LGF as it made the turn. … Continue reading →

Lemme try to start a fight here.  Have you thought about what it would take to be a domestic enemy of the Constitution?  I’ve written about it here and there.  As the Obama administration draws to a close, it becomes easier (let us say) to speak about this in the abstract, or at least without worrying overmuch.

What do you think?

Titus has a new piece up on The Imaginative Conservative. I’m going to need more coffee! (Looks like you need to open this post to get the link to show up.)

How do we love you, let us count the ways!

Nanda, it’s good to have you on Ricochet, even on a temporary basis, & it’s great we’ve got the chance to talk to you here. Let us know a bit about the upcoming celebrations.

Happy Birthday!

You’re the top!

Whatever. My wife brought me salt cracker and hommous.  That stuff is delicious!  It’s guacamole for people who don’t even avocado.

From Albion’s Seed to Mr. Trump, a Tocquevillian tour with Mr. Poulos–race is in it, religion is in it, & democracy. It’s really good writing. I’m now listening to Democracy in America on audiobook–the first English translation is on librivox, by the way–& I was thinking about the difference between the politics & religion of North & South only to run into this column. I guess I don’t have to bother writing. I’m just here to recommend it.

Wow! No one with anything to say. And we have such rich material to talk about.

Must be SOMETHING someone wants to put up. Nanda has celebrated her first anniversary as an honourary Marine. That’s noteworthy.

I am still working in Albuquerque. NM medicine seems kind of sad – at least to me. I had become accustomed to better. Seems a lot of basically lazy or avaristic docs. Kind of mean of me to say, but that’s how it looks from the outside.

?Anyone have anything interesting in their lives.

Mr. Lawler writes about redefining conservatism in light of the Trump phenomenon:

What too many Republicans have missed, in fact, is that lots of Americans have experienced this “progress” as loss of the secure safety nets that have cushioned them from being merely part of a meritocracy based on productivity.  On the Republican side, the name given to these Americans is “Reagan Democrats.” That means those who vote Republican but aren’t particularly libertarian or all that defined by “religious identity politics.” For them, being conservative means conserving what they now have and maybe regaining what they’ve lost. That means being for unions, the existing entitlements, the bonds of citizenship (that have been eroded by “the coming apart” of middle-class America into two classes isolated in every way from … Continue reading →

You may get some fails or delays or something.  Going to update some stuff so I can upgrade other stuff.

Here’s my new essay on Heinlein & it’s secretively saying all sorts of things about American freedom!

America was supposed to be a land of philosophy or a race of philosophers. American government was founded as a government of philosophers: It is the only government that prohibited tying a man’s legal standing to his confession of faith. American courts & all other public institutions are forbidden from requiring an oath by God. This is done on the assumption that God does not enforce those oaths. American government is no more guaranteed by God than the truth of the official speeches of any American citizen–or the good or bad that might come by that truth. Instead, a man speaks merely because is it natural to him to speak. Whether … Continue reading →