Memorial Day weekend. Their blood ended slavery.
Unknown Wisconsin soldiers, whose work at Antietam gave Abraham Lincoln the military victory he sought prior to issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
The weekly round-up of pithy elaborations on traditional Cold Spring Shops themes follows.
1. Indeed. "Debunking a cartoon with a chart is like answering a love poem with a syllogism."
2. Also indeed. "The only hope for the republic is to downgrade the place of Washington in our public life."
3. Evergreen. "The common good is, of course, a vague and subjective concept, the details of which are hard to pin down." "Who defines 'the common good?'" "Traditionally, it was families, churches, and traditional social institutions that had stood the test of hundreds, sometimes thousands of years." Common good capitalism is illiberal.
4. Fair is a park in Sandwich. "Any system that rewards entrepreneurship instead of good grades and helping the teacher clean the erasers after class is obviously unfair."
5. Technocratic Overreach is Technocratic Overreach. "Right-progressives see the left's mistakes and call for doubling down on the hubris that produced that wreckage."
6. Yup. "The unseen cause of gentrification is the knee-jerk NIMBYism of affluent leftist neighborhood associations [which] causes the elimination of almost all affordable housing in the city, quickly."
7. Negligence.
9. Conveniently. "True progressivism—like true socialism—can never fail since it has never been tried."
10. Spot on? "The academic world of creative writing and the university system cranks out a certain brand of angry, feminist poet."
11. Gooder and harder, Chicago. "Sanctuary cities begging for a respite from illegal immigration is a little like a nuclear-free zone in the 1980s petitioning to become the site for Minuteman missiles."
12. Tune out the noise. "The country I am driving across remains mostly untouched by the fanaticism that has overtaken Biden and our government."
13. The Tragic Vision begins at conception. "An ambivalent majority is permanently troubled by the irresolvable tension between a woman’s claim of personal autonomy and the inviolability of personhood."
14. The Tragic Vision rides the bus. "Life sometimes feels like a push and pull between my values and my actual experiences."
15. Would you want to serve in Dementia Joe's Navy? "That rusting eyesore is the flagship of [Standing NATO Maritime Group 2]."
16. Your regular reminder. "What can be done to someone you despise will be done to someone you support."
17. Something Our Political Masters never ever understand. "If you push on correlations they will vanish."
18. They go nuts when they're out of power. It's not at all cynical. "I bet both the Sierra Club and Planned Parenthood are privately hoping for a Republican president in 2024, because fundraising always goes up for lefty groups when a Republican is in office."
19. That's the way the freeway crumbles. "The existence of publicly-funded roads requires some way to pay for them."
20. You're disgusting.
21. Asked. "Why are we catering to the 0.7% of people who identify as transgender at the expense of the 99.3% who do not? And why are we celebrating gender dysphoria as a courageous lifestyle choice rather than the mental disorder that it is?" Answered? "This year transgender issues — including gender-affirming health care and participation in sports — have been a divisive topic in state legislatures and the backlash has turned hostile." It’s time to save women’s sports. That's not a backlash, it's restoring a state of good repair, one income statement at a time.
No comments:
Post a Comment