Category Archives: Splendor!

When you surf, you want to know where the board’s going to be. When you drive, you want to know how the car is going to respond to the road. And when you engage with another person, animal or machine, … Continue reading →

The Church of Splendor: Beatitude with a beat.I’ve been organizing this year’s work into quarters, just to keep track of how I’m doing. I don’t know if this makes any difference, but keeping the inventory is impressive – to me … Continue reading →

Me: “They cannot jail everyone. They depend on you to jail yourself.” More: “An affectionate relationship will get better over time, and an aggressive relationship will always get worse.” Much more, from The Church of Splendor last Sunday: A discussion … Continue reading →

The modern university is dominated by Marxism. This is not a controversial statement, but if you insist on disputing it, I’d appreciate it you would wait until all the college Fresh Meats come home for Thanksgiving. Once they have had … Continue reading →

In the end, the truth will out. It always does.One of the reasons I do most of my talking in sites I control is that I get thrown out of every other joint eventually. My take is that I get … Continue reading →

The face of “science.” Where you find tax dollars, you find rent-seeking liars. More fool you that you claim to be surprised by this palpably obvious fact.Photo by: jonathan martinezIf people lie and cheat for casual and largely pointless reasons … Continue reading →

Here’s a fun article from LewRockwell.com: The Disappearance of the Fat Libertarian. The gist: Libertarians (broadly defined) have been strongly influenced by “paleo” web sites like Richard Nikoley’s FreeTheAnimal.com, with the result that folks who once lived on a diet … Continue reading →

We call them ‘dumb animals.’ They’re so dumb they live happy lives and die contented.We’re Homo sapiens, the wise ones – so wise we live miserably and make the people around us happiest with our deaths.Photo by: J PThis is … Continue reading →

From Chapter 7 of Man Alive, “A calculus of morality on a first-grade number line.” Of those two introspective experiences – shame and Squalor versus pride and Splendor – which would you say is the better expression of the idea … Continue reading →

Clueless much? Either human beings do not have free will OR they can be gulled into buying this dumbass’s dumbass book. Not both. Which does this charlatan REALLY believe? Does he deploy his own free will to endorse the checks?Mind … Continue reading →

You can say: “I’m a lousy writer.” But you can be just as truthful by saying this instead: “It hasn’t been easy for me to improve my writing skills, but I’m finding that hard work is paying off for me.”Photo … Continue reading →

From Chapter 10 of Man Alive, “A mindful catalog of mindlessness.’ Back in high school, you knew a young lady I call the Swoop Girl. Someone said that high school is taxpayer-subsidized dating, and that observation was probably hard to … Continue reading →

“You will note that there are no C’s at all in the group. This is why Vinnie, who is paid millions of dollars per movie, is always broke. No one in the family can make a buck last from now … Continue reading →

Find the love for life your dog never lives a day without at Amazon.com:Shyly’s delight: Work, play and love like a Labrador.This is me from today’s Church of Splendor homily: The interests of the self. This week – in observation … Continue reading →

This is an advance-look chapter from the book I’m working on now, “Shyly’s delight: Work, play and love like a Labrador.” It’s about illimitable joy, so I’ll tease you with some observations about pain. —GSS   Find the love for … Continue reading →