Friday, April 30, 2021
Thursday, April 29, 2021
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre
My own critique of liberalism derives from a judgment that the best type of human life, that in which the tradition of the virtues is most adequately embod- ied, is lived by those engaged in constructing and sustaining forms of community directed towards the shared achievement of those common goods without which the ultimate human good cannot be achieved. Lib- eral political societies are characteristically committed to denying any place for a determinate conception of the human good in their public discourse, let alone allowing that their common life should be grounded in such a conception. On the dominant liberal view, government is to be neutral as between rival conceptions of the human good, yet in fact what liberalism promotes is a kind of institutional order that is inimical to the construction and sustaining of the types of communal relationship required for the best kind of human life.
https://archive.org/details/4.Macintyre/page/n29/mode/2up
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Monday, April 26, 2021
Sunday, April 25, 2021
A treatise of treasons against Q. Elizabeth, and the croune of England diuided into two partes: whereof, the first parte answereth certaine treasons pretended, that neuer were intended: and the second, discouereth greater treasons committed, that are by few perceiued: as more largely appeareth in the page folowing.
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Leycesters common-wealth by Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610, attributed name; Morgan, Thomas, 1543-1606, attributed name; Arundell, Charles, 1540-1587, attributed name; Rogers, Thomas, 1573 or 1574-1609 or 1610. Leicester's ghost
Friday, April 23, 2021
Vanilla Ice Cream
3 cups of sugar, 1-2 cans of Eagle Brand, a quart of heavy whipping cream, 1-2 tablespoons of vanilla, enough milk to the fill line of your ice cream maker, and experimentation to the point of satisfaction.
Lawrence v. Texas
The House of Lies
According to Carpenter, in September 1998 John Lawrence, age 55, and Tyron Garner, age 31, the plaintiffs in the case, were partying in Lawrence’s Houston apartment with Garner’s lover, Robert Eubanks—a homeless man with a drinking problem. Lawrence had a long list of drunk-driving violations himself, including a conviction for murder by automobile in 1967. The men were all very drunk and planning to spend the night with Lawrence. But the party ended abruptly when Eubanks seems to have thought that his boyfriend, Garner, was flirting with Lawrence. Leaving the apartment in a jealous rage, Eubanks then called the police to falsely report “a black male going crazy with a gun” at the apartment. Garner was black, Lawrence was white.
When the police arrived, Eubanks directed them to Lawrence’s unlocked apartment where two of the four responding officers claimed to have seen Lawrence and Garner engaging in what was then unlawful sexual intercourse. But the two officers gave completely different descriptions of what they saw. The other two officers said they saw nothing. In the initial interrogations, Garner and Lawrence denied they had been having sex.
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2013/03/26/the-house-of-lies/
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Darwinism and Neo-Darwinism
the Darwinian position on each issue has been continuously under pressure from non-Darwinian evolutionary biologists from Darwin’s death to the present.
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
A critique of the theory of evolution by Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945; Louis Clark Vanuxem Foundation
selection does not bring about transgressive variation in a general population
https://archive.org/details/critiqueoftheory00morgrich/page/6/mode/2up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hunt_Morgan_bibliography
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
duty (n.)
late 14c., duete, "obligatory service, that which ought to be done," also "the force of that which is morally right," from Anglo-French duete, from Old French deu "due, owed," hence "proper, just" (on the notion of "that which one is bound by natural, moral, or legal obligation to do or perform"); from Vulgar Latin *debutus, from Latin debitus, past participle of debere "to owe," originally, "keep something away from someone," from de- "away" (see de-) + habere "to have" (from PIE root *ghabh- "to give or receive"). Related: Duties.
shall (v.)
Old English sceal, Northumbrian scule "I owe/he owes, will have to, ought to, must" (infinitive sculan, past tense sceolde), a common Germanic preterite-present verb (along with can, may, will), from Proto-Germanic *skal- (source also of Old Saxon sculan, Old Frisian skil, Old Norse and Swedish skola, Middle Dutch sullen, Old High German solan, German sollen, Gothic skulan "to owe, be under obligation;" related via past tense form to Old English scyld "guilt," German Schuld "guilt, debt;" also Old Norse Skuld, name of one of the Norns), from PIE root *skel- (2) "to be under an obligation."
Ground sense of the Germanic word probably is "I owe," hence "I ought." The sense shifted in Middle English from a notion of "obligation" to include "futurity." Its past tense form has become should (q.v.). Cognates outside Germanic are Lithuanian skelėti "to be guilty," skilti "to get into debt;" Old Prussian skallisnan "duty," skellants "guilty."
ought (v.)
Old English ahte "owned, possessed," past tense of agan "to own, possess; owe" (see owe). As a past tense of owe, it shared in that word's evolution and meant at times in Middle English "possessed" and "under obligation to pay." It has been detached from owe since 17c., though he aught me ten pounds is recorded as active in East Anglian dialect c. 1825. As an auxiliary verb expressing duty or moral obligation (the main modern use, attested from late 12c.), it represents the past subjunctive.
Lying is (almost) always wrong
There has always been a lesser but significant school of thought that has argued that it is sometimes justified to lie, particularly to protect the innocent from harm, and the church has not resolved the dispute infallibly.
Interestingly, the earlier edition (1994) of the catechism said that to lie is “to speak or act against the truth in order to lead into error someone who has the right to know the truth.” But that text was revised in the 1997 edition, which has now eliminated the words “who has the right to know the truth” (No. 2483).
https://catholicphilly.com/2014/09/catholic-spirituality/lying-is-almost-always-wrong/
True National Debt Exceeds $123 Trillion, or Nearly $800,000 per Taxpayer: Report
Federal spending related to the CCP virus pandemic and economic lockdown added nearly $10 trillion to the total in 2020, according to the latest edition of the “Financial State of the Union 2021” report, compiled and published annually by Chicago-based nonprofit Truth in Accounting (TIA).
Monday, April 19, 2021
Sunday, April 18, 2021
How did Elizabeth I come to be queen of England?
Queen Elizabeth I’s right to the throne wasn’t always guaranteed. Her father, King Henry VIII, had Parliament annul his marriage to Elizabeth’s mother—his second wife, Anne Boleyn—thus making Elizabeth an illegitimate child and removing her from the line of succession (although a later parliamentary act would return her to it).
Friday, April 16, 2021
A conference about the next succession to the crown of England divided into two parts : the first containeth the discourse of a civil lawyer, how and in what manner propinquity of bloud is to be preferred : the second containeth the speech of a temporal lawyer about the particular titles of all such as do, or may, pretend (within England or without) to the next succession : whereunto is also added a new and perfect arbor and genealogy of the descents of all the kings and princes of England, from the Conquest to the present day, whereby each mans pretence is made more plain ... / published by R. Doleman.
Jonathan Richman on Lou Reed's Velvet Underground gear
From the current issue of Ugly Things magazine-- drawing and comments by Richman
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Disraeli and his day by Fraser, William, Sir, 1816-1898
THE PROFESSED CREED of Disraeli was that of a "complete Jew," that is to say, he believed
in "Him that had come"; and "did not look for another". To use his own words, he "believed in Calvary, as well as in Sinai ".
https://archive.org/details/disraelihisday00frasuoft/page/188/mode/2up
Entrelacement
Entrelacement, a literary technique in which several simultaneous stories are interlaced in one larger narrative. This technique allows digression and presents opportunities for moral and ironic commentary while not disturbing the unity of the whole.
Monday, April 12, 2021
Sunday, April 11, 2021
Saturday, April 10, 2021
Friday, April 9, 2021
Thursday, April 8, 2021
.Gabriel Vasquez on Thomas Aquinas
The 1631 edition of Vasquez’s commentary on Thomas’s writings was printed in four volumes. Google has made available some of the volumes, but it appears that only the Bavarian State Library has made all four available from that printing (1, 2, 3, 4)
http://www.prdl.org/author_view.php?a_id=919&s=0&limit=500
https://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de//resolve/display/bsb11059912.html
https://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de//resolve/display/bsb11059913.html
https://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de//resolve/display/bsb11059914.html
https://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de//resolve/display/bsb11059915.html
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Central Banking as an Engine of Corruption
Hamilton was "so bewitched & perverted by the British example," wrote Jefferson, "as to be under thoro' conviction that corruption was essential to the government of a nation" (p. 671). Hamilton viewed "his" bank, the Bank of the United States, as being absolutely essential to his Americanized version of "the most perfect government which ever existed."
Monday, April 5, 2021
How long will COVID vaccines protect people?
What he does know is that he cannot behave as if he is completely immune. So he still wears a mask whenever he goes out and has avoided almost all travel.
"We're living in a world where most people aren't vaccinated. The fact that you yourself are vaccinated doesn't change everything for you," Haydon said.
"We still have to take a lot of the same precautions as an unvaccinated person," he added.
Sunday, April 4, 2021
Original Typed Letter, Signed] Pound, Ezra
"I have spent 50 years trying to define a sane curriculum. You realize that u.s. education was befouled . I believe according to a definite plan of corruption . When they took out greek and latin, they started for hell and corruption. BY neglecting the INSIDES OF Shakespear / attending only to fancy adjectives / coupling a real author like Sh with a bloater named Milton etc they let in the jungle/
Where is the US government getting all the money it’s spending in the coronavirus crisis?
Central banks: The Federal Reserve can and does create money, and it can and does use that money to buy government bonds. That’s what the Fed did during the Great Recession of 2007-09, and that’s what it is doing now. To be precise, the Fed isn’t giving money directly to the Treasury. The Fed is, in effect, buying government IOUs (Treasury bonds) from private investors or foreign governments who have lent money to the Treasury. But, of course, the more the Fed buys, the lower the interest rates that the government has to pay on new borrowing, and the more the U.S. Treasury can borrow overall without pushing up that interest rate. (For details on what the Fed is doing, click here.)
