Thank God I grew up around folks who tastes and opinions I respect and would ridicule me if I went too far off track. This and my prejudice against nerds protect me from LARPing which my personality may be disposed towards.

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction.”

If you attend a church that is obedient to the traditional Western calendar you just celebrated Christmas this morning. I can think of no simpler way to impress on your children from an early age that Christmas *starts* on December 25th, not when Target says so.

I had a disagreement with a ‘conservative’ who proclaimed that it didn’t matter who came to America as long as they had the correct ideology. I countered that ideology is poison, that it is culture, community, localism, & tradition that maketh an American.

Politics as a marker for being an American is the road to ruin.

I am too soft hearted to castigate this kind of inconsiderate behavior and it makes me a bad citizen.

These, along with the Subaru Outback, fell out favor with the general public because they became associated with lesbians.

To maintain effective systems across time, you have to reach deranged levels of conservative and reactionary attitude to its key parts.

All my friends are like “I read 50+ super intellectual books this year” whereas I’m like “I listened to the entire Aubrey-Maturin series and learned enough Latin to teach it at the 5th and 6th grade level on top of homeschooling.” We are not the same.

I was in the worst shape of my life at the start of this year. I was 240 pounds, never felt worse, wondering why none of my pants were fitting. With minimal exercise and dietary changes, I am now 212 and aim to be 190 in 2024. Beware of the soft creep of gluttony in your lives

GM. It's 2024 and no matter what the year brings remember one thing: Christ is King and He has already won.

Right on the money.

“It seems to me that in the present phase of European history the essential issue is no longer between Catholicism, on one side, and Protestantism, on the other, but between Christianity and chaos…" Evelyn Waugh

Off-topic, but note the vesture of the two clergy. Choir dress all the way. Not a cassock-alb, broad stole, or chasuble in sight. x.com/markdtooley/st…

This is sound.