Full Spectrum Culture

This is an enlightening article about a couple of anonymous quotes that apparently make the forwarded e-mail rounds every once in a while. I found it clicking through a Snopes page that I found when I googled a phrase that I heard from one of Rush Limbaugh’s guest hosts recently: “Professor Tyler’s definition of [...]

Can’t say that I blame them.

Of course this only makes sense given the history of the Civil War, but for some reason reading this took me aback. Some residual public school/media conditioning still held some slight sway, I guess. With this, there’s less now than there was yesterday.

This is a fun one. Check it out.

James Taranto’s Best of the Web Today column for July 11th contains such a brilliant insight from a reader, which I can’t link to directly. So I simply must quote it here in full: “Hypocrisy does not mean saying one thing and doing the opposite. It means saying something that one does not believe. Let’s [...]

“…I think every nursing mom has learned how to blend in with her surroundings. Lean back, space out, and don’t dare make eye contact with anyone. You don’t want to notice when they avert their eyes. Just accept the fact that your adorable child who usually has enough charm to start a conversation with anyone [...]

“IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America…” When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the [...]

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.

We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.