Governance And Government

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. Small, unserious men and women focus our attention on government rather than where it should be, on governance. They want us to go round and round on who is doing what to whom and why we should favor this partisan over that. When we react to these nefarious…

Overtures And Rejections

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. In 1973, I offered to serve in The Chaplain Corps of The United States Navy. I passed the physical and Navy brass in San Diego made arrangements for me at the school for such things in Rhode Island. My first friend, upon matriculating at The Union Theological Seminary,…

Where’s The Boss?

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. Where’s The Duty Officer? Our Hindu-Christian white supremacy, systemically racist Constitution has done better at protecting inalienable rights than anything coming out of Africa or the Caribbean, so I think (1) it’s a keeper and (2) more Hindu-Christian white supremacy and systemic racism are emphatically indicated. The endowed…

Thandava – XXVIII

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. Reynolds awakes: Okay, let me just spell this out a bit more: The typical thing to do — and what critics would have expected Trump to do — is return hate for hate. All the white-people bashing at the DNC, with the platform mentioning white people 15 times,…

To Correct A Consequential Mistake

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. They don’t want a new structure of global governance from which they can rule the world. They want to rule the world from what they think of as the old structure of global governance — namely themselves personally as The Government of The United States of America —…

Theology and Ethics: Tillich and Niebuhr

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. From October 1995, excerpt of a discussiononline with a Christian Scientist. I was comparing Tillich as a theologian with Niebuhr as an ethicist. The main thing that keeps coming back to me about this distinction — which I feel is a real and useful one — is that…

Russia Is Friend, Pakistan Is Enemy

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. U.S. Civil War: The US-Russian Alliance that Saved the Union by Webster G. Tarpley April 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Civil War, which began when Confederate forces opened fire upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The following essay by Webster Tarpley, tells about the largely…

Rhetorical Bear Spray

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. Thandava And Christian Culture In the Spring of his Plebe Year at West Point, Cadet Douglas Mac Arthur was summoned before a Board of Inquiry mandated by Congress and comprising some Congressmen. The question was hazing, which that year had reached harmful extremes. Cadet Mac Arthur was summoned…

Tone Matters Much, Instrumentation Matters Little

As is the feeling,So is the result. BLUF: Who makes the narrative? Well, clerisy minions, the hive workers, mostly lawyers and professors, here and there, make the narrative, day by day, and pass out those talking points for broadcast by NGOs and media. But someone is setting the tone, the Weltanschauung that minions then translate…

Improvements Caused By This Pandemic

The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole Advocate against personal and national sovereign freedom and The dialectics of reality throw you into dramatic irony you find Unbearably bitter and some find deliciously despicable. In that double bind, you have no exit save detachment of ambitions. Thus stand China today . . . and…

The Gods Abandon, They Do Not Hate

The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole Glenn Reynolds: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make ridiculous. The gods must really hate higher education lately. Abandon, not hate.  The gods walked away from the schools, leaving them to self-destruction.  Hating the schools is a waste of time, and the gods are not…

Mau-Mauing Stampede

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind functionaries that they are not proprietors.  This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) as well as to their tools, practitioners, who call themselves the intelligence community (IC). For generations, Progressives Transgressives — aka…

Louche Predators

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA BLUF: Cut Their Comms Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind functionaries that they are not proprietors.  This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) as well as to their tools, practitioners, who call themselves the intelligence community (IC). Outside The

All Saints Day, 01 November 2019: The Grandeur Of Tragedy

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind the functionaries that they are not proprietors.  This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies criminally insane who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) and intelligence community (IC). The United States has experienced what historians call Great Awakenings,…

Hybrid Anchorite/Family Monasticism

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind the functionaries that they are not proprietors.  This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) and intelligence community (IC). Bonhoeffer and others, including I, sought for decades to articulate what we…

Vivacious Logic Vice Gangrene Logic

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind the functionaries that they are not proprietors.  This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) and intelligence community (IC). At Power Line Blog, which I attend daily, one of the five…