“These things just don’t happen here!"

Tottenham Hotspur have stormed into the palace of the champions and turned over the furniture!

COYS(!) ⚽️

Leaving and Waving

For 27 years, I took photographs as I waved good-bye and drove away from visiting my parents at their home in Sioux City, Iowa.

– Deanna Dikeman

Pub Name

If I ever open a pub, “The Dog and Water” might be in the running for a name. 🐶

Sounds About Right

[W]e are … not going back to a world where there is a set of trusted truth-mediating institutions, core sources of news and information that everyone recognizes and trusts, a “mainstream” of argument and opinion-shaping that sets the parameters of debate. – Ross Douthat, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2024

If true, then we’ll need to learn to think for ourselves. Not that I believe we will. Which is terrifying.

But lets work on it:
Lesson 1: Yes or No: Does hosting a gameshow make a person fit to be the President of the United States of America?

What Might This Look Like in America?

An imaginative conservatism should see in Scruton’s centring of beauty in architecture and design a natural affinity with the articulation of craft as a political and economic ideal in the likes of William Morris. There is a politics and an economics of conservatism to be forged, but it requires making of itself more than an aesthetic gloss of Reaganism.

Sebastian Milbank, “Don’t Idolise Roger Scruton”, The Critic, 03.Nov.2024

Trinity River, Great Trinity Forest, Dallas

📷: Bill Holston

RIP, Ted Olsen

Executive power is important, and we respect it. But it has to be done the right way. It has to be done in an orderly fashion so that citizens can understand what is being done and people whose lives have depended on a governmental policy aren’t swept away arbitrarily and capriciously.

A principled and gifted lawyer and public servant. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Set the Wayback Machine, Sherman

Say, kids! Remember that old holiday, I think it was called Thanksgiving? It was a personal favorite. So extraordinary to observe a national day of gratitude. Of course, Capitalismmas (i.e., not Christmas) erased that tired old giving-thanks day long ago.

Snake on Wheels

Laura Olin

[I keep coming back to] the fundamental text that is “Why must we go on?” / “Because there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.”

Is all this cringe? Undoubtedly; but I think we’ve entered a time that requires deep earnestness.