I think it's time we all reach out for something new. That means you too.

Holy Smokes it's raining in Burnet TX. Praise God & praise Jesus.

The shadows hit different in an eclipse…

Press'N Seal makes my blood pressure go up.

So I won a poker tournament last night. 1st place out of 61 entries. Whether it was luck or skill, I don’t pretend to know. But it was very cool. Lodge Card Club

438k or roughly 45 big blinds at the end, when I was down to 9 big blinds about 2 hours in. Pretty cool.

Yeah can we please stop with the "What do you notice here?" tweets.

All I can say is I hope Elon Musk is constantly reading Leo Strauss & the authors that Strauss found worth spending time on. He’s going to need that insight.

Well the fate of the free world comes down to a question of golf handicaps. Apparently. Somehow I always knew this would happen.

“Freedom & Democracy” Everyone loves both, & claims to defend both, as if they go together. But I think we need to begin to consider the possibility that they are very different things & a full dose of 1 necessarily means the complete cancellation of the other.

It’s July 27th at 2pm, in Texas. And it’s 88 degrees. I feel like we aren’t sufficiently appreciating our luck here. We shouldn’t take this kinda day for granted.

I mean there has to be some rain in there somewhere. Surely.

The future ain’t what it used to be.

At the surface of things Strauss presents us with 2 subdivisions: 2 fundamental alternatives. The 1st, ancient & modern; the 2nd, Jerusalem & Athens. He first induces the modern heathen back to the City of Man; then he induces this sudden citizen back to the City of Faith.

A recent visitor to my Colorado lot. He obviously didn’t notice the no trespassing sign I put up a couple weeks back.