I now see where Drake's Diary and J. PRESS get their lookbook inspiration but they still haven’t came close to the unassailable cool of mid-century Richard Scarry characters.

Yes, Nero did “marry” a slave boy whom he had castrated and dressed as a woman after kicking his own pregnant wife to death. Still, I’m not sure that example makes the most persuasive case for the legitimacy of “same-sex marriage”!

The aspiring gentleman must know how to properly sport a blazer and grey flannels; but always be ready to take it in a festive direction with crimson socks if the occasion of a steam-era–themed birthday party should arise.

Snooping around the docks under a moonlit sky, something you don‘t see as much of anymore 🚢

The three-year-old son is the quintessential Sensitive Young Man. He cried when he didn’t get to kiss his baby sister good night, and cried and “felt sorry” for the monkeys that fell out of bed and bumped their heads after defying strict medical protocols from the family doctor.

The older I get, the more I see that when each sex mimics the other, you get what in the other can be caricatured, while the proper virtues of one's own sex remain undeveloped or are thwarted. Men as women are touchy and ineffectual; women as men are foulmouthed and destructive.

Texture

We would understand Jesus better if we didn't think of him as some esoteric wise man going around spouting universal aphorisms. Yes, Jesus taught eternal truths. But He was speaking in real places to real people on real occasions in a real time in history. Context matters.

Easily the most under-appreciated and completely unknown black hole in the historical knowledge of the American public is 1609-1753. Basically the only thing that happened in this time in most people’s minds was: 1. Pilgrims arrived 2. Some women were accused of being witches

Lads and I when we see a nice column

Play with your kids, Anon.

One down, one to go.

Round a bend on a random backroad in rural Virginia, and a view like this will open up.

If it's just an idea, why is it shaped like my country?

There is nothing our enemies relish more than when battle lines are drawn between the genders and the generations. Harmony in these to areas is absolutely critical for a functional civilization. It is of utmost importance that we maintain frame whenever these conflicts come up.

It’s important to remember that the rise of James Talarico is a symptom, not a cause. The cause is the overwhelming loss of biblical literacy in America. If he had tried to pull this “Jesus was a feminist, God is non-binary, real Christians trans kids because the Bible tells

Friday.

The three year old as he mops water up with bathtowel: “it’s been a lot of chaos.”

Obviously, I think there are a myriad of convincing Chesterton’s fence reasons for why we shouldn’t get rid of jury trials and I imagine Paul would as well. I don’t want to give up on the past millennia of jurisprudence and English common law anymore than the next guy. But