Category Archives: Splendor!

The Affectionate DisplayMy favorite job title is Poet. Why? No license, no union, no credentialism. If you can learn, you will. If you can’t, you won’t waste my time.I grow regardless.I think I must have cabin fever. Whenever I get … Continue reading →

‘Scientists’ who take government money say what the government wants said. This is news to you?Once you accept that a government ‘scientist’ will say what he is told to say – what then? This week at The Church of Splendor: … Continue reading →

The #BlurredLines judgment erases all creativity. American popular music is built on a very spare music theory. Virtually all of it can be reduced to just four very simple songs, with one – the 12 Bar Blues, originally attributed to … Continue reading →

It’s Splendor or Squalor – and everybody’s gotta take a side…Photo by: Martin TalbotGot a taste for a mouthful of big words? My favorites are these: Ontologically-consonant teleology. What that means is conforming your moral philosophy to the true facts … Continue reading →

See the kiddies? Not for long.Photo by: BobZero Hedge, killingly conveying how all of human destiny is being laid to waste. Your prize for your complicity in the cultivation of the über-state is to explain to your grandchildren why they … Continue reading →

If you can’t trust a Soviet spy…My second-favorite laugh line from Atlas Shrugged is the reporter who effuses, “I know what I’d like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news.” I bring it up in … Continue reading →

“Things could be better? For whom, precisely?”Photo by: TOONMAN_blchinFrom May of 2012, a free-wheeling anthropological history of the idea of conservatism – the fanatical preservation of the status quo – illustrating why you will not be released from your self-imposed … Continue reading →

From church yesterday: How does romance turn into storgic love? How does that become a family. At Youtube, The Cul de Sac Hero offered this: “Yours is the correct attitude towards life on this planet.” I’ll take more-correct, anyway, with … Continue reading →

In a world where fewer women can rely on men, some will themselves take on the protective coloration of exaggerated male characteristics — blustering, cursing, belligerence, defiance, and also, as needed, promiscuity.Photo by: jo.sau Mary Eberstadt in National Review: Beneath … Continue reading →

This is about justice, not identity politics. Yet it is a thing of wonder that the identity politics of feminism could induce so many women (and many men!) to prize vengeance against hypothetical rapists and actual juvenile cads so highly … Continue reading →

Play-fighting is affection. Aggression is not. What makes marriage a playground? Play!Photo by: Danumurthi MahendraThere is a true playground in marriage, instead of the mutual boredom or mutual hostility — real or pantomimed — you’ve been taught to expect. What’s … Continue reading →

We depend on each other for every fact we cannot directly apprehend, yet all human testimony must be held at some level of doubt. Stories always improve. Moreover, everything on television is a lie.Photo by: flash.proThe path to truth within … Continue reading →

“It only hurts when I smirk.”Photo by: David ShankboneJohn Nolte is on a tear about Brian Williams, as are many. Sucks to be him, but this disaster affords NBC News the perfect opportunity to change its ways for the good, … Continue reading →

Rand Paul: “Citizens have the right to know why the Fed’s policies have resulted in a stagnant economy and record numbers of people dropping out of the workforce.”Photo by: PBS NewsHour“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then … Continue reading →