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Tired of being boxed up inside so I’m going to use this break in the rain to check the garden and then swing by kitty prison. You all behave, because I am not afraid to drop the hammer on you idjits.
Also, this:
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Our boy has been immortalized.
A few months ago I asked all of you what the deal was with Edmund Burke. I learned that he was a starburst-prone sovereign citizen, and, more importantly, a new category for posts was born.
Since I went to Florence today and saw a bunch of Renaissance stuff, I was wondering…what is the official conservative take on the Renaissance? I know what it is for most of the rest of history. Greeks — good, despite the teh gay stuff. Middle ages — good, people spoke Latin and obeyed the church. Age of Enlightenment — bad, too much questioning of authority plus everyone was French. Modernity — bad, too much atheism and abstract art. My gut feeling is that the Renaissance was bad. It ended the Middle Ages, which were good, it led to the atheist doctrine of heliocentrism, which is bad, and God touching the hand of man and all that seems like proto-secular humanism, at best.
So what’s the deal? Is there an Official Wingnut Position on the Renaissance? Any NRO list of 50 Greatest Conservative Renaissance Artists? And if there’s none of that, just to broaden the concept of conservative to include more general forms of wankery, if necessary, did Niall Ferguson ever write about how we’d all be better off if the Renaissance had never happened? Any Ambinder/Douthat exchanges about whether or not the Renaissance was caused by a black swan or was itself some kind of a black swan?
Update. One reader suggests perhaps conservatives like Enlightenment because it led to Burke. Not true.
Predict which portion of Obama’s speech will cause the greatest freak-out among the usual suspects.
Anyone know where I can buy and download Railroad Tycoon II, Platinum?
That was one of my favorite games and can’t find my copy of it anywhere. Probably pitched it three computers ago.
Analyze the world through Goldberg logic. My entry: the fact that most people on Earth wear underwear beneath their pants indicates that Hitler, who also dressed in this manner, actually won World War II.
I have to say I am beginning to believe that these abortions, given their excruciating moral and personal choices, may be the most defensible in context of all abortions. And yet they seem to be taking life in a more viscerally distressing way. I need time to think and rethink these things. I would not have without reading these extraordinary accounts.
What I couldn’t understand yesterday was how Andrew could hear all these tragic tales and not re-evaluate his position. These are deeply personal and horribly complex medical and moral issues that should be left to the mother and father and the doctor, not to a bunch of moral scolds, religious nuts, and outright busybodies waving placards on the street and screaming “murderers” while having absolutely no personal stake in the matter. It really should be none of their damned business.