Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
More Johnathan Haidt at http://tinyurl.com/6auynmg (and a lot more).
Careful, Tailspin, a few more academic links like that and you’ll brand yourself as of those “pin-headed intellectuals” who can’t “park their bikes straight” let alone maintain wings level, and we’ll be forced to jerk your beer-swilling pilot’s wings and kick you out of the club for using too many big words…
Or was that “pointy-headed?” Better Google….yup, “pointy” it is..
Well, it won’t be long before HE’s drummed out of polite society.
Amen Brad.
How dare he question that monolithic and inviolable dogma of open-mindedness that is the sole guardian of liberal thought? Academe is dedicated to the exploration of new ideas and thoughts, and will not tolerate any deviation, nor countenance any dissent from anyone!!!!
Double AMEN to you both. Remember Robert Caro and his less-than-flattering portrait of NYC builder Robert Moses in his meticulously-researched book “The Power Broker?” He was the toast of all the “right” (read: lefty) upper-west side cocktail parties for pointing out the foibles of a conservative Jew they believed to be a traitor to their cause, but when he turned his research sights on Democrat LBJ and exposed in minute detail exactly how he stole the election that kept him in Congress by 13 (hence the sobriquet “Landslide Lyndon”) votes (all in alphabetical order on the election roles) and portrayed him warts and all as a fraud whose ultimate Presidency was without a shadow of a doubt built on a blatantly stolen election, Caro suddenly became personna non gratta in many leftist quarters and polite Donkey-party company.
I should add that a similar thing happened to the sociologist Robert Putnam. He was showered with accolades when he published his much-praised and publicized work “Bowling Alone” in which he tracked the loss of sense of “community” in American present-day culture because the left drew from it the implication that this (very real) “problem” could only be rectified by more govt programs (natch) and so Putnam was lionized by everyone on the left from President W. Jeff Clinton (who hosted a seminar with Putnam as speaker on this problem–a problem to be “worked on” by govt–at Camp David) on down. But when he published his follow-up work “E Pluribus Unum” which concluded that”ethnic diversity” actually increased anomie and social isolation by decreasing people’s sense of belonging to a shared community. For THAT indiscretion, Putnam has also been disappeared down the collective leftist public memory-hole.
I always have to hearken to Ken Starr, who, when investigating Bob Packwood, was the very embodiment of fair, just, thorough investigation. But, when it came to Bill Clinton and his versions of Mambo Number Five (a little bit o’ Monica in my life, a little less o’ Hillary my fat wife…), THEN Ken Starr was evil incarnate. And racist, too, for unjustifiably persecuting our first black president….
A true heretic. I’m surprised they haven’t turned him into a Crispy Critter yet. Maybe they’re still gathering the faggots to pile around his feet.
Would those be flaming faggots, eventually?
Indubitably. Unlike a good Boy Scout, however, it will take a large number of matches to start the BBQ.
Consider a similar bombshell dropped by aniother liberal 30 years earlier…
On July 25, 1981, Michael Kinsley published an essay in The New Republic called “The Shame of the Democrats.” The Democratic Party, the young Kinsley wrote, is viewed “with growing indifference.” It is run “by lawyer-operators with no commitment to any particular political values.” It is filled “with politicians who will do or say anything for a word or a dollar of support.”
According to a joke reference in Time, Kinsley’s first words out of the operating room were, “Well, of course, when you cut taxes, government revenues go up. Why couldn’t I see that before?” In May 2009 Kinsley revealed in the New Republic that he had been fired by Time.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy, methinks. I remember Kinsley on Crossfire with Pat Buchanan. He would snear all the while Pat took him apart into little pieces. he’s a preening little twit that knows a lot that just ain’t so.
I almost met him once in Ohio. If he hadn’t gotten called away I was going to thank him for being such a good target for Buchanan all those years. But, alas….
Mr. Quartermaster,
Was it Buchanan as the opposite side when that GOP Rep from LA called Kinsley “A little worm” or something like that? Kinsley always reminded me of what ASL enthusiasts call a “Rules Lawyer”.
I can’t remember. I would say the GOP Rep insulted worms, however.