John Derbyshire

@RealScottCCox Scott: I try not to use level-3 definitions.

@DissidentRight Also "physical sexual contact between individuals that involves the genitalia of at least one person" per Websters. Just joshin ya m8 merriam-webster.com/dictionary/int…

@Ndi_Muvenda_ B.S, M.S., Ph.D.: "Bull S***, More S***, Piled Higher and Deeper." Well, that's how I learned it.

Im tired of pretending What is the full form of PhD? 🤔

@JordanBlack1989 I have no reason to think I won't, but I haven't seen a final edit yet.

@DissidentRight Derb are you going to be back in Chronicles in April?

@RealScottCCox "1 : dealings or connection (as in common affairs, civilities, or business) between persons, organizations, or nations. 2 : exchange or interchange esp. of thought and feeling." Webster's Third Dictionary (1993)

@DissidentRight John I am a huge fan but did you really have to say you had no intercourse with Chuck Norris

@LammNachum1936 The chorus in one of Sophocles' Theban plays ("Colonus" I think) tell us that the greatest good fortune is never to have been born; the second greatest is to die immediately after being born. Not even we English are THAT down on existence....

@DissidentRight The rabbis of the Talmud debate whether it's best to be born or not. They eventually settle on "not, but once you're born, make the most of it."

Ed West has a good piece on his Substack about English melancholy edwest.co.uk/p/the-return-o… Yes, we English are indeed a gloomy lot. Has any other nation brought forth a popular song (well, it was popular with my parents' generation) about the pleasure of being dead? tinyurl.com/ycx7nh27

@TRobinsonNewEra Yo, Tommy: "A.D." is customarily written BEFORE the number, "B.C." after.

Westminster Abbey, founded in 960AD, 40 coronations and 16 royal weddings, houses the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior. Reduced to flying the flag of a sandpit of inbreds formed in 1948, one of them now London Mayor. Scores gang raping Britain's kids non stop since arriving.

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George Eliot. Middlemarch. Exceptional. Have you read it?

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Así se te va la vida sin darte cuenta: 18 años → todo empieza 22 años → crees que tienes tiempo 25 años → lo dejas para luego 27 años → empiezas a dudar 29 años → sientes presión 30 años → ya no es lo mismo 32 años → miras atrás 35 años → ...Mostrar más

@MsSamanthaHyde @PatrickByrne @MajorityHaitian It's in my new book, page 106: johnderbyshire.com/Books/Essentia…

@PatrickByrne @MajorityHaitian I remember when @DissidentRight wrote “The talk: Non-black version” over a decade ago—there was quite a response!

Remember six years ago when we were hearing about “The Talk”? Black parents had to sit their teenagers down and give them “the talk” about systemic white violence against black folk. What “talk” should white parents give?

@PatrickByrne This one? johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/Natio…

Sixty miles east of the Derbyshires here on Long Island lives another English expat: Julie Andrews. When her name came up in conversation recently I confessed myself a lifelong fan, although I have never met the lady in person. (I would fall on my knees in reverence.) Here's one of her best, yet least-remembered, performances: tinyurl.com/2x4uu4p2

Charles: The word "data" may be a plural in Latin (like "agenda") but in English it's a mass noun, like "rice" or "sand" & takes the singular form of a verb. "The data are ready" clangs just as badly as "the rice are cooked." If you are using "data" as a Latin word, please be so good as to put it in italics. This is from a guy who spent 30 years of his working life up to his elbows in data. I know the stuff.

It’s hopeless. Like getting people to treat “data” as plural and pronouncing it correctly (long “a”)

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@Scholars_Stage Jane Austen seems to be the single most enduring pre-1900 novelist in terms of people reading for pleasure in the 21st Century, which strikes me as a good thing.

This is a very good thought experiment. Who are the five authors that most 20th c writers have read but most 21st c writers have not? What about 19th c writers?

@Ducati_Ratbike Only about 20 years.

@DissidentRight Haven't you been threatening to cancel that subscription for years?

A friend asked me where I stand on Epic Fury. Here was my reply. -------- As a strong isolationist, I'm more con than pro. If it ends well -- i.e. with a sane govt. in Iran that is not hostile to Western Civ. -- I'll cheer along with the crowd; but what are the odds? Not good, as best I can see. Iran's a big, complex nation with lotsa anti-West fanatics. Stop them getting nukes? We didn't stop Pakistan & North Korea getting nukes & don't need to. MAD has worked fine for 80+ years, against opponents way more formidable than Iran. We just need to continue having more nukes than anyone else, and better delivery. I just finished reading the March 7th Economist, cover headline "A WAR WITHOUT A STRATEGY." Normally the Economist is way too globalist for my taste, but reading their commentary in this issue, I was mostly nodding along in agreement. Maybe I won't cancel my subscription after all ....

@Milajoy Outlaw public-sector employee lobbies. (They call themselves "unions," but that's just camouflage.)

If you could wave a magic wand and enact one law in the U.S., what would you do? For me, it would be Congressional term limits.

These past few weeks up here in the Northeast, I've been recalling something I heard a geezer say back in my English childhood: "There are two things a man needs in this world before anything else: a good wife, and a good pair of boots."

@razibkhan @SarahTheHaider Razib: I thought "Patel" was just Hindi for "Smith," related (i.e. through common I-E roots) with English "fettle." "Didst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal" ??? johnderbyshire.com/Readings/felix…