Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Sunday, December 28, 2025

Attractively Packaged Lies

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     Have a brilliantly compact observation from a brilliant source: Any memetic structure that inhibits biological reproduction must nece...
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Dynasties

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     I just saw this graphic over at X:      ...and it put me in mind of one of my favorite bits of wisdom from the Great Lawgiver:     ...
Sunday, January 3, 2021

The Foundation Is Gone

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     “Politics is downstream from culture.” – Andrew Breitbart      A few years ago, I wrote a pair of essays on the deterioration of male...
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Sunday, June 21, 2020

For Father’s Day 2020

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     Just a few thoughts. Not entirely pleasant ones.      Happy Father’s Day.
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Saturday, August 24, 2019

When Smart People Say Foolish Things

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     “I do not need protecting,” she said. “I can take care of myself.”      “You are a fine fencer,” I said. “Unfortunately, life is more ...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2019

The Form Of Our Destructor

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     Many look; far fewer actually see.      I’m going to do a terrible thing here: I’m going to quote from an explicitly Marxist website: ...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

Faith And The Familiar: A Sunday Rumination

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     Regular attendance at Mass confers a number of benefits on the communicant. Yes, the Church says it’s obligatory to be there on Sunday ...
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Sunday, February 4, 2018

The Disappearing West

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     The “birth dearth” in the First World nations isn’t exactly news. Virtually every industrialized nation has felt it to some degree. Eur...
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Monday, November 20, 2017

When One Gap Closes, Another Opens

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     Sarah Hoyt’s dissection of a fatuous article about “closing the gender gap” got me thinking afresh about the irrelevance of good inten...
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Sunday, May 14, 2017

Mediatrices: A Mothers’ Day Rumination

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     Many who disparage the Catholic Church for a wholly imaginary misogyny would do well to study the immense importance of Catholic women ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Dynasties And Establishmentarianism

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     Today’s bit of mandatory reading issues from a Bernie Sanders supporter who advocates voting for Trump. The heart of his argument:  ...
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Sunday, December 27, 2015

Family, Proximity, And The Smartphone Plague: A Sunday Rumination

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     Today Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family, wherein Christ was nurtured and prepared for His three years of ministry among ...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

The Roots Of Antifamilism

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     Yes, yes, there I go again, making up words – we pretentious types call them neologisms -- so I can decorate one of my relentlessly bo...
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