Sane remarks on the subject, over at Acculturated, from Mr. Postmodern Conservative. And you also learn that he reputedly plays guitar in a band called Black Hi-Lighter! We’ll believe it when a link is provided . . . My own fantasy band is called The Cicadas. . . . . Continue Reading »
Pete speaks of Romney’s toughness—a toughness learned through a Senate challenge to a Kennedy in Massachusetts in 1994. Repeat: A challenge to a Kennedy in Massachusetts. I’m not so sure the current election is easily analogized to 1994, even if it is meant only as a mere . . . . Continue Reading »
No, I’m not trying to sell you a piece of property; these are all bands featured in the latest Carl’s Rock Songbook below. Because sometimes, two titles are better than one. . . . . Continue Reading »
The last five or so years there’s been something of a renaissance, something of a new charge, rippling through indie rock. Quite a few college radio stations seem to be playing an awful lot of good stuff as far as rock goes . . . at least, to my ears much of it sounds as good as what was on . . . . Continue Reading »
I always enjoy “American conservative” outrage. So in my second heresies post below, I explain how an American Puritan would find something, if maybe not much, to admire in “Wilsonianism.” For one thing, I wasn’t giving my own opinion, but an heretical one . . . . . . . Continue Reading »
Once again I’m overwhelmed by the heartfelt excellence of recent posts. Instead of commenting on each of them as I should, I only have time (studies show that you should never believe a sentence that begins that way) to, quite self-indulgently, post something about our Puritan heresy from a . . . . Continue Reading »
Another of Tocqueville’s possibilities, that is, that sometimes it’s the “laws” that shape the “mores.” For never did laws/regime/ideology degrade mores more than in the communist countries. Kopplekamm’s stunning slide show of East Berlin buildings . . . . Continue Reading »
Ampontan has some nice juxtapositions, jumping off Victor Davis Hanson among others, highlighting the culture-and-mores-rooted FACT that Greece, Southern Italy, Detroit, and urban Britain are simply more difficult and troublesome places to live than Germany, Northern Italy, Switzerland, and of . . . . Continue Reading »
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