Bygone daze

I loved this movie, The Jewel of the Nile,  and I loved dancing to this song, --I'm a sucker for a bank of saxes--and the make-me-smile video that went with it: Turner, DeVito and Douglas doing such a great playful riff on the backup.



Very 80's.

An Exception to the Ru

No fan of drag queens am I, but I have to admit that Mr Ru Paul can sometimes almost redeem his kind. Referring to some kind of drama queen PC tempest in the LGBTQ teapot of late, he tweeted this:

"My intention is always to come from a place of love,
but sometimes you just gotta break it down for a motherf%ker."

ExCathedra's philosophy, in a nutshell..,


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Hmmm

a. The right of kings to rule by divine mandate.
b. The equality of every person and culture.

For which theory has there been more empirical evidence?

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Ab origine

Watching one of the original Star Trek episodes, I see that their streak of progressive moralism was as blindingly stupid in 1967 as it was twenty years later. We have Gene Roddenbury to thank.

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Aha

Elliot Rodger’s Race-Hatred against White People: Killer’s Manifesto Mentions Hatred of “Blondes” 62 Times and Describes White people as “Enemies” | The New Observer:

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Remembrance of things past

Thinking about my mother's funeral Mass upcoming this summer, I am having anticipatory ennui.

The Vatican II funeral rites are mostly a wordy pablum at the best of times. Thinking about the music that will somehow infect the ritual makes me not want to go at all.

I don't remember much about the music at my sister's 2004 funeral except that it was horrible. Caterwauling women with a vibrato organist. And not discretely hidden in the choir loft, as in saner days of yore, but right up front where we can experience the trainwreck without cushion or veil.

The parish church is a beautiful Tudor style building

My dad's and my uncle's Masses in 2009 were likewise festivals of 80's sentimental St Louis Jesuit style schlock and cliche US Evangelical jabberwocky. On Eagle's Wings. Amazing Grace. How Great Thou Art. Testaments to the utter dissolution of Catholicism. I remember thinking that my decision to leave the priesthood was a good one, because I would otherwise have been regularly subjected to this crap for the last thirty years. In context, even Schubert's Ave Maria was a relief.

Is it even worth it to try to find musicians who could play and sing at her funeral without making me want to drive chopsticks into my ears?

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Sunday thought crimes

Four rabbis indicted in New Jersey on kidnapping charges: Muscular Judaism. Torturing men into divorcing their wives. Now that's some halakah.

Papal bloviating about Israel and the Palestinians. (Tautology?)

This little guy will have a record now, for what he saw in a cloud. In a female dominated school system, maleness is proscribed.

Liberals want everyone to have whatever they want, courtesy of the State, as long as whatever they want is what liberals want them to have.


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PS. Speaking of crimes, the Hannibal season finale was brilliant. The writers riff on the books in a very arresting way.

Dueling bangos

A recent feud between Libertarians and Catholic Social Doctrine types: two forms of economic life never found in nature.

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Randoming back at home

Hannibal is much improved this season. More focus on the love/hate relationship between Hannibal and Will and less on the victims and Jack. And the visuals and atmosphere are grippingly creepy. Cannibal cuisine shot in detail.

A friend told me of a movie where a man accomplishes private justice when the public system lets the rapist-murderer of his wife and daughter go free. The private justice is gruesome. For some reason this friend thinks that would appeal to me. Can't imagine why.

My theory that modern liberalism is the child of Christianity, not merely of the Enlightenment, is apparently held by a scholar of history. We owe it ultimately to St Paul. My online White pagan and Nietzschean acquaintances hate Christianity for this reason, its egalitarian universalism.

Game of Thrones continues to be interesting only insofar as Tyrion the dwarf is involved.

In the wake of my mother's death, I am once again the owner of a car. A 3000-mile-away car, but wheels nonetheless. First time since the disastrous year of 2010. To sell it or to keep it, that is the question.

Grief has a staccato rhythm.

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Liberalism in a sentence or two or three

White (male) self-hatred as a mark of moral superiority: "I'm proud of the fact that I think my people deserve to be erased."

Whatever was once disapproved is now to be tolerated worshipped adoringly as unspeakably sacrosanct, noble and obviously true, heroic and utterly admirable: mixed-race relationships*, gay marriage, giving birth out of wedlock, Black (Democrat) "empowerment", homosexual football players, illegal aliens, transgender soldiers, etc.  All these become the New Gold Standard, the highest ethical condition, beyond question and to be admired and promoted.

Egalitarianism as a path to higher status.

*The presence of mixed-race couples in advertizing is nothing short of astonishing. Message: Whites have the duty to marry non-Whites. Wiping out your Whiteness is the eschatological goal of liberal virtue.

And virtue is what it's all about, virtue as power and status.
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