Brian

Which way, western Michigan?

This is the day that the Lord has made. But these people praise themselves. They rejoice in sin.

@parakeetnebula The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man. (Dostoevsky/Brothers K)

What’s a line from something you’ve read that you find yourself repeating in your head every now and then?

@ThomasStockma20 @gmiller @imPenny2x

@gmiller @imPenny2x You think humans will be happy to serve as slaves forerver, without using their powers and agency for any other purpose?

99% of people really do not understand abundance as Elon describes it. The fundamental reason is that they don’t understand compound growth. Same people who would probably pick 1 million dollars today over a penny that doubles in value every day for 30 days. It’s a bad choice by the way. You lose out on millions. Imagine if that doubling object was a labor producing robot instead of a penny. Compounding labor. It’s actually crazy if you try and wrap your mind around it. So Elon mentions Universl High Income and the midwits flip a lid. “The elites won’t share” You don’t get it. They won’t need to share. They will make everything so cheap, it is effectively free. Charities will have immense resources to distribute. Unfathomable intelligence will exist to help optimize production and distribution. An unfathomably large labor pool will exist that operates on solar power exclusively. The public work projects that are erected will be unseen before levels of breathtaking. I think we are incredibly blessed to steward this new age of abundance. Can you see it now? Can you see the future?

Alberta is gonna have a hell of a college football program when they join the United States.

Elon himself would be miserable depending on government checks, of whatever amount, yet he thinks such a life will satisfy the masses. It won’t. America has been, and to some diminished but still significant degree remains, a nation of builders.

One of the most beautiful things you’ll see in weeks, months.

Oh come ON why not?

There should be a new Sunday Night Football intro and it should be this guy

Most Q1 wins for NCAA champs (2008-Current) including tournament 1 2026 Michigan - 22 2 2024 UConn - 17 2 2019 Virginia - 17 2 2011 UConn - 17 5 2025 Florida - 16 5 2017 North Carolina - 16 5 2015 Duke - 16 8 2022 Kansas - 15 8 2013 Louisville - 15 Michigans resume is crazy

Clarence Thomas' whole speech is eloquent and impactful, but I found his closing remarks particularly moving. He makes the case against tacitly accepting injustice simply because it is socially convenient, arguing that it is incumbent on each and every individual to assume responsibility for our collective future, not simply our own personal present. Furthermore, he argues that choosing the path of righteousness over that of least resistance creates a self-fulfilling prophecy that both improves our collective standing and makes the choice easier on the individual over time: "Courage, like cowardice, can be habit-forming."

What must be done leaves no room for hesitation.

It’s crazy how quickly things can change in baseball. Trailing 9-7, down to their last strike. Less than 90 seconds later? Tigers walk off the Royals, 10-9.

I can find no video evidence of Charles Laughton doing a dramatic reading of the New York City phone book (which apparently is a real thing) but here he is on live television taking the challenge of reading a tax form and trying to make it entertaining he does

In the last 30 years, the number of public companies has been cut in half. The situation has gotten so bad that the Wilshire 5000 index, founded in 1974 to track the broadest portfolio of all US publicly traded stocks, now listsonly about 3700 stocks! In my latest piece in @washingtonpost, I explain how frivolous class action suits by trial lawyers have contributed to that problem and how the Supreme Court can strengthen public markets by curbing abuses of securities law. The losers--ordinary Americans who have fewer options for investing their retirement savings and the American economy which has less opportunities for growth and innovation.

@KatrinaTrinko @PTBwrites

Thanks to porn, pot, and sports gambling, there’s not a great pool to begin with if you have certain standards for a husband. Then consider the number of men happy to cohabitate with a woman for years (prime fertility years often) & only vaguely speak of marriage. Then break up. Women are far from perfect, but if you want to solve fertility crisis, it’s way more about men than “girl bosses”.

Michiganders are a sea people.

Ronald Reagan exposed Social Security back in 1964:

Alexander Solzhenitsyn gave the most controversial speech *against* Western Civilization at Harvard in 1978. As a survivor of the Russian Gulags, they expected him to praise the West. Instead, he made a jarring accusation: The West is a dying civilization. If it doesn't change its ways, it is doomed to collapse. In fact, he said this has been the case for 500 years, when the West made a crucial mistake: "How did the West decline from its triumphal march to its present debility? ...the mistake must be at the root, at the very foundation of thought in modern times. I refer to the prevailing Western view of the world which was born in the Renaissance… I refer to humanism — the proclaimed autonomy of man from any higher force above him." Solzhenitsyn said humanism made man autonomous from God, Truth, and objective morality. If all morality is subjective, then man has nothing to live nor die for. Naturally, he loses his courage, embraces materialism, and grows effeminate to modern evils. So, what is the solution? A return to belief in a transcendental morality under God: "If, as claimed by humanism, man were born only to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to death, his task on earth evidently must be more spiritual… The fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one’s life journey may become above all an experience of moral growth: to leave life a better human being than one started it." All cultures live, or die, based on their respect of the True, Good, and Beautiful. To save the West, Solzhenitsyn says start with beautifying your soul, for that is both how you live well, and begin to make civilization itself beautiful again.