the tune
“The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys…”
C.S. Lewis-Mere Christianity

eat the crumbs
“The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys…”
C.S. Lewis-Mere Christianity
“No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence. It is the product of the spiritual insight of the people. We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. [...]
“Infatuation trumps judgment.” ~Father Pat Connor
(More columns (column one, column two) with premartial advice.)
“Jokes are important for free societies.” ~Mark Steyn
“We can’t be everywhere, for them, every time, every minute, every second of the day.”
~Cape Coral Police Chief Robert Petrovich, who encourages people to bear arms, but to do so properly.
“What people say in private [...]
“Rush is just an amazing radio performer. Years ago, I used to listen in the car on my way to reporting gigs, and I’d notice that I disagreed with everything he was saying, yet I not only wanted to keep listening, I actually liked him. That is some chops. You can count on two hands [...]
Blackstone’s Commentaries: “The right to self-defence is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine the right within the narrowest limits possible.” (HT:NRO)
Gun Thoughts by Tarzana Joe
If I ever thought to get a gun
My inner voice would cry out
What do you want with a gun, TJ?
You’d likely shoot your eye out.
Raised so far away from the NRA
That I never touched a rifle
Those semantic fights re: the Bill of Rights
Seemed an academic trifle
But in later life with a [...]
Of course medical marijuana should be legal. For adults, everything should be legal.
Banning drugs certainly hasn’t kept young people from getting them. We can’t even keep these drugs out of prisons. How do we expect to keep them out of America?
While drugs harm many, the drug war’s black market harms more. Legal is better. And [...]
“The problem with science is not science. The problem is people; flawed creatures with limitless egos.”
~C. A. DeVries, PhD, Professor of Chemistry.
“I believe in the free market. You know, the government didn’t switch us from whale oil to the oil found under the ground. The market did that. And the government didn’t make the Prius the hottest selling car in Hollywood. That was the market that did that. In L.A. now, the coolest thing you can [...]
Nobody likes to listen to you if you are mean. ~Shane Claborne
Technology advances break up monopolies. ~Clark Howard