Category Archives: Values

Family Privilege:  Some Thoughts

By | October 6, 2023

[October 6, 2023]  Steve Hayward of PowerLineBlog has a good article out yesterday (link here) that attempts to explain why “utopian socialists since Plato” and the political “left” hate two-parent families.  The reason, he says, is that intact is that a two-parent family is the greatest privilege today, practiced mostly by whites. Steve includes three charts that are… Read More »

Letters to My Granddaughter, No. 27

By | October 4, 2023

[October 4, 2023] “For the hundredth time, Douglas, stop picking your nose while eating.”  Mom was a stickler for good manners because she was interested in civilizing us kids.  She knew that well-mannered children who say “please” and “thank you” and know how to shake hands, present a genuine smile, and listen politely to adults, then adults will… Read More »

France Proposes to Destroy Tourism

By | October 3, 2023

[October 3, 2023]  France proposes crushing the world’s economy (and their own), one stupid idea at a time.  Emmanuel Macron’s government is actively trying to reduce carbon emissions, which they are doing in peculiar ways.  France is looking to restrict air travel within their country and for everyone radically.  Maybe France hasn’t figured it out yet, but tourism… Read More »

Finding a $5 Dollar Bill

By | September 30, 2023

[September 30, 2023]  I was only six years old, living in a poor area of Louisiana where money was scarce, and you were rich if you had a spare dollar.  Walking along with my best friend Wilson, we came upon a $5 Dollar bill lying in the street.  “Lookie thar, Douglas, thar’s a Lincoln just sittin’ without nobody… Read More »

Fat Liberation: an Ideology of Personal Destruction

By | September 21, 2023

[September 21, 2023]  Action without consequences.  “No consequences” is at the heart of the fat liberation movement in America.  Zyanha Bryant, a morbidly obese woman community organizer and BLM activist is now the face of fat liberation.  As I understand it, she wants to remove the stigma associated with being fat. “So when I think about what fat… Read More »