Maggie's Farm

We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

Our Recent Essays Behind the Front Page

Much Sorry with Delays
Birth, Death and All That Stuff in Between
How to Honor Labor Day, Every Day
My Yom Kippur Miracle (Repost from 2010)
Good intro to fly casting
Peach update, with pie
NYC update
Easy for you to say: To the elites on mass immigration
For NYC on 9/11, Sailors' Snug Harbor
Pickled Peaches
Water Shoes
Labor Costs in U.S.
Your "identity"
Good news about The Great Courses
Uses of Hot Pepper Jelly/Sauce, Chutneys, and Jams
A Saturday Drive to Litchfield County, CT
How to Pick a Kayak
Civilized: Fruit forks and knives
Loads of kayaking on Cape Cod
Psychology Experiments' Questionable Results

Categories


All categories

Quicksearch

Links

Blog Administration

Open login screen

RSS Readers

Add to Google

Subscribe with Bloglines

Thursday, December 4. 2008

QQQ

"A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind."

G.K. Chesterton (h/t, reader, in one of a number of good comments on our Watermelon Man and Hippie Totalitarianism). As we always say here, "Reality Rules...eventually."

Posted by Bird Dog in Quotidian Quotable Quote (QQQ) at 08:02 | Comments (15) | Trackbacks (0)

Trackbacks
Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments
Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

Does anyone have any idea how many Blue Dog Democrats there are in the House, or soon to be in the House?
#1 Habu on 2008-12-04 08:11 (Reply)
'roun d 30 or so, last i hoid. it IS a sliding definition --one can be "a blue dog on the so n so issue" and not necessarily on others.

However, they may have a caucus, and if so then that caucus would have a definite membership number at any given time --i thimk.
#1.1 buddy larsen on 2008-12-04 15:16 (Reply)
In the spirit of healthy competition, I'd like to make sure all MFers know about The Blog of the American Chesterton Society.

(We now return you to your regularly scheduled deprogramming...)
#2 The Distributist on 2008-12-04 09:10 (Reply)
"Lepanto" introduced me to GKC. Not truly exalted academic capital P Poetry, too romantic & lush for that, but great in the Kipling and Longfellow manner. That is, it's really, really, really good.
#2.1 buddy larsen on 2008-12-04 15:19 (Reply)
c'mon, take a break, read a chapter aloud to someone nearby

h t t p : / / theotherpages.org/poems/hiawatha.html

(spaces are to fool ever vigilant a**h*le spam guard)
#3 buddy larsen on 2008-12-04 15:28 (Reply)
(thank you for that t i p !)
#3.1 The Distributist on 2008-12-04 16:08 (Reply)
you're m o r e than welcome!
#3.1.1 buddy larsen on 2008-12-04 17:15 (Reply)
Buddy, now that I'm finally finishing the Lewis and Clark diaries (vol 10) GKC is in the on deck circle.
#4 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2008-12-04 18:18 (Reply)
Skook,
There's a bona fide Lewis and Clarke campsite about six hundred yeards from my place in Montana. I'm always in awe of what they did.

Too bad about Meriweather's psychology.Tragic,just tragic.
#4.1 Habu on 2008-12-04 19:01 (Reply)
Thompson Falls, right? We'll be poking around the Idaho panhandle this Christmas, then points north and west of Missoula in the spring. Looking for a spot to land.
#4.1.1 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2008-12-04 19:19 (Reply)
"...GKC is in the on deck circle."

A good and noble undertaking, and one that might consume the balance of your time, depending on your age, amount of available reading time, and how badly you suffer from ADD (takes me a month to read a paragraph!).
A good place to start would be Orthodoxy, as 2008 is the centennial of the appearance of that brief but profound book in GKC's bibliography.
#4.2 The Distributist on 2008-12-04 19:27 (Reply)
So far, I've read "The Ball and the Cross," "Manalive," and "The Flying Inn."

All great stuff.
#4.2.1 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2008-12-04 19:33 (Reply)
Skook, iirc, twer two years ago you began the L&C volumes --have you checked to see who took longer to finish, you, or Lewis & Clark?

Haw haw. I'm like the Distributist, a month per paragraph --alas."Undaunted Courage", recent bestseller & my L&C reading effort, is still but half finished (my daunted perseverence).

Anyhoo, both PBS and National Geographic have wonderful L&C websites --take a look. You & the mizziz be sure and stay off the LoLo Trail in the Bitterroots --it liketa kilt the boys when they blazed it 200 year ago. "Trails indistinguishable from cliffs" someone said. Now that's steep.
#5 buddy larsen on 2008-12-04 23:07 (Reply)
Lolo Trail in the Bitterroots is tough? Ha, shows what you know.
#6 bob on 2008-12-04 23:56 (Reply)
Well, that's what Lewis & Clark and the Nat'l Geographic sez. I haven't spent that much time in Idaho --i already have a potato
#6.1 buddy larsen on 2008-12-05 00:41 (Reply)

Add Comment
(Your e-mail will not show in your comment)

By commenting on this site you agree to the site rules listed here. Email
addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for email notifications.

Quick reference guide: [i] italics [/i], [b] bold [/b], [u] underline [/u],
[url] (web address) [/url]. More tips here.

Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.
E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications.

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.
CAPTCHA

BBCode format allowed
 
 
A Chris Southern Consulting website.