LDAHL
Senior Member

I won’t speak for UL, but I think there is a difference between the practice and the theory behind the practice. Asking him why he doesn’t limit his...

Why the concern over how many times a poster returns to a given topic? There's a free market in ideas (off-campus, at least, and maybe excluding...

Sometimes when one faculty is underdeveloped others expand in compensation. Or it could be a crazy-like-a-fox strategy taken from Trump: say any...

Lifestyles of the Rich and Bulbiferous?

It’s early days yet, but based on her statements to date she could well become the Joe Biden of her generation.

I remember discussing distributism and subsidiarity in a high school theology class many years ago. The concept has much to recommend it in...

Only those with proper state authorization. Most librarians will be in re-education camps as a measure against deviationist tendencies.

I see Bitcoin is now at 3,330. I recently read the cost of “mining” BTC is around 5,000. Are we approaching the twilight of crypto?

Come the Revolution, everybody will self-publish.

As rates rise you may have reason to be very pleased with that decision in the near future.

I’ve seen some pretty impassioned debates on that topic. You need to balance emotional and financial considerations, as well as alternative uses of...

I think debt is just one part of a more complicated strategic problem of maintaining liquidity, reducing overhead and developing income sources....

A searing indictment of capitalism published by Simon and Schuster and available through Amazon.

The best positive reframing I ever heard was attributed to a legendary marine named Chesty Puller. It was something like “The enemy has us completely...

Some people enjoy curating their stamp collection. Some people like rearranging those little ceramic figurines. I’m not sure if a minimalist is...

As Flowers pointed out, that would not appear to have happened to your satisfaction in Florida. One fairly reliable warning sign of fatal hubris...

I’m not sure I follow you. I’ll admit I find some of your opinions to be unorthodox, but I don’t see why you’d be afraid of litigation for expressing...

Sometimes I miss the simplicity of wearing a uniform to work every day. Except for the shiny shoes part.

When does a useful habit become an unhealthy obsession? Seems mostly like a matter of personal preference to me. More an esthetic choice than a...

I question the long term strategic value of simply assuming your opponents are racist idiots and you therefore will always own certain voting blocks...

I have to admit I frequently turn to my 12 year old for tech support. Especially with phones. I don’t view it as ageist so much as practical. She’s...

I think we sometimes have a tendency toward a certain level of unjustified nostalgia about the past. We want to compare the present time unfavorably...

Demographics is not necessarily destiny.

Well, there does seem to be an element of predestination in the idea that our opinions and attitudes must be a function of race, gender, culture or...

Some people try using politics to fill voids in other areas of their social or spiritual lives. Others seek to use political scapegoats (the...

I think there is some truth to that. They both defeated Clinton. Trump’s victory was to a great extent a reaction against identity politics and...

Took my daughter to see it this weekend. She enjoyed explaining some of the more obscure internet jokes to me. I’m getting to be such a pop culture...

I never saw Obama as a classic gentleman. He spent eight years in such intense self-celebration that he didn’t notice his party withering. In that...

Maybe it’s the pension. That seems to rankle some people.

Obama isn’t a billionaire. If he’s worth more than fifty million, I’d be very surprised.

You can alert the empathy police for aggravated insensitivity if you like, but I still maintain that the adequacy or lack thereof of the bureaucratic...

I agree. He’s honoring his obligations under a contract. You could argue the wisdom of the contract, perhaps, but that isn’t on him.

I also suspect the people throwing rocks and tearing holes in fences may have had something to do with it. If you consider long wait times to be...

I don’t see waiting times as causing a “need” for aggression. It seems that the people organizing the caravans are hoping for enough aggression on a...

Tear down statues of James K Polk?

Spend less. Have more. Make capitalism work for you rather than the other way around.

I think they made a movie of it back in the forties. Personally, whenever I read something I wrote in my twenties I cringe a little. That guy was...

The way I see it is if you can explain it in a sentence or two, you don’t need a manifesto, mission statement or any other self-celebratory...

Does being judgmental of judgmental people make you a judgmental person? There are people too foolish to get out of the way of natural disasters...

So people attempted to force the border and were turned back by non lethal means? So far I don’t see the atrocity here. It’s interesting to see...

So he’s gone from being over a barrel to the wind behind a windfall? What a mastermind!

I don’t believe in bucket lists. If you die before you finish them, are you a failure? If you finish them before you die, are you purposeless? ...

I find it varies by the group. Among my contemporaries, I see an alarming increase in topics relating to medical diagnoses and funerals. Among the...

The one can compound the other, that’s very true. I’m not interested in remedial cultural competency training at cocktail parties. I’m also not...

Saw it with my daughter over the weekend, which was fortunate since she could explain some of the more obscure plot points and motivations to me. The...

I have no problem at all with taking an interest in other cultures. “Cultural Appropriation” is nonsense. But I have had too many boring...

I am a low, fallen creature struggling toward a redemption I can probably never hope to achieve on my own. Do I value the criminal less than his...

What can I say? I’m too old for illusions and too young for delusions.

There’s a great Lyle Lovett song called “God Will” that I always think of when I get called out for being insufficiently Christlike. The refrain end...

To be fair, my neighbor and I have had some pretty heated discussions on fescue versus bluegrass.

You mean talk about your empathy while not doing much?

You have hit on one of the subtle differences between Christ and me.

I don’t resent it any more than I resent your appeal to Heaven. It’s really more in the nature of amusement politics. I have no problem with people...

I look forward to the heartrending stories, recriminations and demands for unspecific solutions when it arrives.

Smart. Testing it by lived experience while you were still in a position to make adjustments. Was there anything you found particularly...

I think there are a number of versions of Christmas celebrated or decried by various elements. There is Merchandising/Potlatch Christmas, a time...

I think the “trial retirement” exercise has a lot of merit as both a confidence builder and test of planned income adequacy. I am currently trying to...

Convicted criminals are not high on the priority list for my limited quantity of allocable sympathy. I have no problem making them work for their...