Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
I've spent some time trying to figure out something worthwhile to say about the COVID-19 crisis and the challenges it has for our civilisation, but as I am wont to do I turned back to the history of my 144-year enduring family business to accomplish that. Hope you enjoy it. Although Vulcan would experience more …
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Originally posted on Books & Boots: Steve Bannon thinks identity politics are great for President Donald Trump. That’s what the president’s adviser told Robert Kuttner at the American Prospect. “The Democrats,” he said, “the longer they talk about identity politics, I got ’em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the left… via …
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MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell thinks it was getting Donald Trump in the White House: "It is Vladimir Putin’s greatest achievement. Decades after America’s victory in the Cold War and collapse of the Soviet Union, the president of the United States is now helping the president of Russia help the president of the United States to get re-elected." …
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One more has had enough, though: The straw that broke this camel’s back was Pete Buttigieg’s extremism. Here was a mainstream Democratic candidate suggesting, at one point, that abortion is OK up to the point the baby draws her first breath. When I heard that, I realized we were fighting a losing battle. If the …
Just saw the tweet at the right. I think it's hilarious that people have started to refer to the Occupant of the See of St. Peter as "that man in Rome." American history buffs will remember that some Republicans, unable to utter his name, used to refer to Franklin D. Roosevelt as "that man in …
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As documented in this piece today on CBS This Morning: https://youtu.be/nlPoLrghcow I can remember growing up on the Miami Herald and seeing the horoscope buried well past the front page. Now publications like Cosmopolitan put it front and centre. That piece reminded me of a pithy observation by John McKenzie in his The Two-Edged Sword: …
The recent "proposal" to eat babies recently set forth at one of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' town hall meetings reminds me of a memorable quote from the great Chinese author Lu Xun. I've used this quote before (once in relation to the Chinese themselves) but it bears repeating with all of the cheap moralism that comes …
Most of you who stop by here regularly know that I am a big fan of Grady McWhiney's "Celtic South" idea. That adherence didn't come from theoretical considerations, but from hard experience. Some people characterize McWhiney's thesis as a form of "white supremacy," but that only shows the decline of reading comprehension among Americans. I …
Although Vulcan exported its pile driving equipment from the start, it was it’s foray into the offshore oil business that gave Vulcan a truly international perspective. That perspective put some of the world’s “hot spots” into its field of interest, and two of them are very active these days: Hong Kong and the Straits of […] …
The first round of Democratic Presidential debates is, mercifully, over. Winners and losers will sort themselves out in due season, but in the meanwhile let's consider one whom the media fawned over: Pete Buttigieg, South Bend's mayor. He's made quite a career doing something that none of his rivals have done to the extent that …
