Reconstructed View of Athens - Leo von Klenze, 1862

I’m sorry, I must have missed it. I haven’t caught up on the latest news. Did PayPal cancel Jimmy Kimmel’s personal account? Did Chase and Bank of America shut down his accounts? Did Twitter ban him from the platform? Did Facebook suspend him from buying ads? Did Stripe shut

Good taste is obviously a superior metric of intelligence than IQ. Of course, it's not directly quantifiable, but it's still true.

Nice example of a kind of movie style montage in 19th c novel, from Flaubert’s Sentimental Education …wat you think this literary device. I can’t decide if effective. This book very moving though. Reminds me how novels written post 1950 are missing …something…

Both options in this dichotomy are stupid and meaningless and motivated by fear of death and age; something that can never ever be a catalyst for real love.

Squatted down low and got ipotato right next to aristocawk in front of 30 Koreans doing a guided tour. Overheard one say “와, 저 사람 HANDSOME THURSDAY 를 존경하는구나”

This guy making fun of the Vice President honoring Charlie Kirk’s sacrifice just so happens to be the guy who told people to go into the Capitol yet faced no jail-time unlike the patriots he goaded on. Can Dept. of Justice & FBI look into this?

They cut off right when he said, “Do you want total war?”

Madame Secretary: It crossed your mind to call up Sen. Klobuchar, the FBI and the DOJ and have me arrested for a humorous meme about your campaign. You then celebrated my unlawful and wrongful conviction, which was later overturned by a federal appeals court. Sit down.

Hating one’s opponents and wanting the worst for them is a form of forgiveness

The truth is that it’s all up to Trump now. The rhetoric & optics battle was won in November 2024. If we want to understand why things are not proceeding as we honest good-faith & loyal patriots might hope, it’s neither 10D chess nor being “cucked by foreign interest lobbies;”

We should rename the ship that was once the U.S.S. Harvey Milk to the U.S.S. Charlie Kirk.

Dear frends, I am happy to announce that after short delay 'The Fire and the Sea' is now available in Kindle eBook format on Amazon for only $9.99. Please like and share for all those daring futurists who have cast aside the pulpy shackles of old books!

Ancient past meets ancient future

The Wrath of Achilles by François-Léon Benouville c. 1847

“Confucius, you must read chapter about the ecstatic moans of thousands of nubile femaels during breeding festival by 100's of superior specimen studs wearing 100% organic linen Sol Brah Apparel” “Ching ching chong. Wang pow chong”

Publius/Theognis’ admonitions to better understand the roles of revolutionaries vs counter-revolutionaries are invaluable. I wish he would poast more.

Monstrum in fronte, monstrum in animo