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Interesting Times – Katie Jones

Interesting Times – Katie Jones

Some days I would really like to kick whomever originated the phrase, “May you live in interesting times.” I would much prefer that I lived in far less interesting times than today. I am looking out at a world that stands on the brink of yet another world war, trying to suss out who all the players are. The economy of the world is fragile at best, and every developed nation is drowning in debt. Europe is in the process of finding out what happens when you commi...

Finding Memory Lane

There are days when a certain quality of the light takes me right back to the village and childhood. I can’t figure out why today is one of those days,w hen you consider it’s snowing and it rarely snows in the place I grew up in.

However, it is often overcast, sharing that with the British isles. It’s rarely overcast in Colorado (out of the year we only get something like 20 days without sun, which, yes, is likely to happen only when you have out of state visitors.)

And today there’s that fee...

The Cold Slap of Reality

Caligula, while Emperor, commemorated a whole lot of “victories” which he decided he had achieved because cheese and also radioactive penguins. Or rather because he knew the Roman people were a war-like and proud people and needed victories and triumphs.

The most notorious of these were victories were Neptune which consisted of having of the mighty Roman legions collect sea shells. BUT there were also “victories” over the Germans and Britain.

One wonders what exactly was going on through Roma...

Occupied! A blast from the past 8/14

Occupied! A blast from the past August 2014

We’ve talked about this before, but in fact, I don’t think there has ever been a country like ours, where our elites are deliberately taught – in our best schools – to hate and despise everything that we are, everything that makes us unique. I don’t think there has ever been another country where our elites are taught to be ashamed to call themselves by our national name.

Or rather, there have been countries like that – but they were countries which...

A Pause For Thanks

So much to give thanks for in this very difficult year that I can’t fully articulate it.

I’m thankful my issues proved not to need chemo-therapy.

I’m thankful my working on the house during recovery did not cause major problems.

I’m thankful older son has moved out and is pursuing his vocation.

I’m thankful it hurts a lot not to have him around, because if it didn’t, what would that mean for our family?

I’m thankful I have younger son for six months more, at least. And I’m thankful he’s — aga...

“Shut Up They Explained”

Or How To Deal With Turkeys

Possibly the biggest celebration in this household is the fourth of July. We used to have massive parties for it, stopped because last house not suited to it, and will resume again if current bid comes through.

Thanksgiving is, for us, an odd holiday. First of all, neither of us has family near. Second of all, even if MINE were near, they don’t celebrate, since it’s a very American Holiday.

And then there are complications, because the Hoyts can never do things in...

Cultures and Lightbulbs – Alma Boykin

Cultures and Lightbulbs – Alma Boykin

There’s a joke that asks, “How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?” Answer: “Only one, but the light bulb really has to want to change.” The same is true of cultures, fictional and actual. It is possible to change culture, but it takes time, and if the majority of members of that culture prefer the old ways, things are going to remain static, especially in the deep-rooted, “90 percent of the iceberg” aspects of culture. So what does m...

The Dumbest Idea In History

You know, recently we have been hearing a lot about how this or that or the other thing — authentic foods, yoga, certain fabrics and attires — are “cultural appropriation” and therefore a manifestation of racism and should be stopped.

This goes hand in hand with the weird and rock bottom stupid idea that culture is inherited in the genes. This is what gets the stupid-left (yes, there is a smart left. Mostly they pull the strings of the dumb bunnies) all in your face and screaming when you cri...

Prepare to be Assimilated

Yesterday I was surprised when Dave Freer sent me a post that echoed almost exactly what I’ve been thinking. In a late night (for me. He has temporal privilege, living in Australia) conversation last night, I found that we agree in more than one thing, including how nasty things are going to get if we don’t get at least a partial course correction soon. That is a post for another time — how the fact that the left’s escathology and the belief history comes with an arrow and that they are the i...

Birds of Passage – Dave Freer

*This is Sarah. Sorry to be so late posting this. I took meds before bed and they zonked me out later than usual. Yeah, I’m better, but I think the sinus infection has “evolved” into a bout of the common cold. I’m not sure what it means, and this should be a post for tomorrow, heaven willing, that write best when I’m just too sick to control it, but well enough to write. I’m approaching the edge of this. Interestingly, if I weren’t so out of this, I would have written a post on assimilation....