As a general rule, I am opposed to tax dollars being used for – well, damn near anything, barring mail delivery, law enforcement, and heavy artillery.
Markham Shaw PyleIf the power to tax is the power to destroy, the power to regulate is no less so.
Markham Shaw PyleTags: regulation regulatory-capture rms-titanic
Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.
Markham Shaw PyleTags: history america american-history
For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados, hurricanes, dust bowls, epidemics, academics, lawyers, and politicians.
Markham Shaw PyleTags: politics america american-history
Public life in this country is too damn dominated by people who’d read more if only their lips didn’t get so tired.
Markham Shaw PyleTags: american-politics
Chili is one of those marvelous-simple, elemental, all-important, and fundamental concepts that has been elaborated out of all recognition: rather like justice, or objective reality, or ‘being’ (ens) in Aquinas. Lean closer and I will whisper to you a horrific, soul-shattering secret: there are actually people so lost to any sense of decency that they put beans in chili. (I hope you sent the children of tender years out of the room before we discussed that horror, lest they be warped for life).
Markham Shaw PyleThis side of the Kingdom of God upon Earth, it is a melancholy human fact that those who beat their swords into plowshares end up doing the plowing for those who kept their swords.
Markham Shaw PyleOver the course of human history, many items have briefly flourished as means of exchange, only to be demonetarized. Now, we have demonetarized money.
Markham Shaw PyleTags: money barter currency exchange
Regarding 'Jabez's Prayer', I will say at once that I am a very poor Christian, and indeed a bad man. My besetting sins are many, and the least of them are the fleshlier ones: the really deadly ones are pride and intellectual arrogance. But I can honestly say I have never sunk to confusing prayer: the soul's colloquy with the Creator, mortal man's dialogue with the Deity: with magical incantation and the ritual of the 'spell.
Markham Shaw PyleTags: religion prayer incantations jabez
I admit at the beginning that 'popular religion,' 'demotic religion,' the pieties of the common folk, tends to sink to the lowest common denominator, be it in syncretizing saints with old, half-forgotten pagan godlings, or in preferring the nasal whine and the revivalist shoutin' to solid sense and learning, regarding intellect as positively inimical to the workings of the Holy Ghost. But it is in American religious life, especially Protestant American religious life, that things bottom out completely.
Markham Shaw PyleTags: religion prayer protestant pagan
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