The lines of a ditty from the early 1960s suddenly popped into my head, recently. It was late lest September, as well as I can remember While strolling though the park in tipsy pride Not a word did I utter,…
Category: Race and Culture
Advice to Spoiled Little Girls About Abortion
This probably isn’t true, but she sure sounds proud. I’m not talking to the saved here. For you girls who are considering getting pregnant, whether by poor planning, or you just changed your mind, or maybe even didn’t like the…
Politics and National Survival
I think it was Konrad Lorenz, the Nobel winning natural scientist, who told of a team of animal behaviorists observing baboons in the South African savannah when a much smaller monkey was spied by a much larger baboon. The vervet turned…
(Updated) Toward a “Theory of the Man”
For almost everyone who pops up in the news, I have a general theory of that person, beginning with how they got in the news in the first place. If WAPO or New York Times said something approvingly about them,…
Character, in Search of Humility
Is it a sign of less character to be vain? How about excessively vain? Is it sign of low character to be arrogant? Or just excessive arrogant? Is it a sign of low character to display condescension toward others? To look down…