A famous political philosopher said, "There's a lot of ruin in a nation." The question is how much is too much ruin. I think that was answered when we shut down the economy during covid, gave billions out to people, triggered huge inflation which allowed Trump to come back in office. In other words, "too much ruin" is when the middle class feels the pinch.
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Jack Cashill on the moment the earth changed axis
"Even a child could pinpoint the moment the grand illusion shattered. That would be, of course, the evening of June 27, 2024, when Biden took the stage to debate former President Donald Trump. In a flash, even the dissemblers at MSNC could see the emperor had no clue and that their empire of lies had no future."
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This was from 1971 from a publisher of a conservative magazine and it rings true:
"Since Catholic parents in general are more concerned about behavior than about orthodoxy, they cling to the Catholic schools as lesser evils. The Catholic high schools cling to their constituency by maintaining a measure of their traditional discipline.”
Catholic schools don’t have to be Catholic so much as offer discipline and better behaved students since parents have nowhere else to turn. It's like the two-party political system: you normally have no choice except the lesser of two evils. Fortunately this time I actually got to vote for the candidate I supported in the primaries.
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My favorite all-time politicians: Pat Buchanan, Rand Paul, Donald Trump, Tom Coburn and JD Vance.
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The closest thing for a tree-lover to indulge their love for trees is to drink bourbon.
Whiskey is aged in wooden barrels, which accounts for up to 70% of its taste and all of its color.
The wood goes back, etymologically, a long way. From the Old English “ac”, begotten by the Proto-Germanic “aiks”, Hence “oak”.
For years the fermented corn lies fallow, soaking tannins, waiting for the bridegroom and the intimate consumption.
Bourbon’s slogan: "Drink trees via fermented corn."
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