Due process is what distinguishes us as a people from the monsters who do commit heinous crimes. If there’s no due process, we’re a society that can just lynch people on an accusation, with no need to get it right.
-Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
Music for a More Innocent Time
Music for the Second Trump Administration
Thought for the Day – May 8, 2025
Knowledge of how things work necessarily reduces the “diversity of perspectives” along some dimensions. We reject views that are demonstrably false.
Thoughts for the Day – May 7, 2025
Overheard: When you smear lamb’s blood above your door so J.D. Vance doesn’t visit… Assover.
Someone should ask Hegseth why F/A-18s have started identifying as submarines under his watch. Is that “warrior culture”?
Update: Third F/A-18 in the drink! “Super Hornet” to be renamed “Lemming.” More seriously, three?!? WTF?
“The choice is not between order and liberty.”
The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either.
-Justice Robert Jackson
Music for Thursday Night
Music for Friday Night
On Patriotism
“Whatever may have been my political opinions before, I have but one sentiment now: that is, we have a government, and laws, and a flag, and they must all be sustained. There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter.”
– U.S. Grant (1861)
Thought for the Day – February 23, 2025
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that held them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.