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Federalist Paupers

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federalistpaupers.com is probably written by a male somewhere between 66-100 years old. The writing style is personal and upset most of the time.

That actually is close to the aggregate age of the regular bloggers here. . .

Google’s advice: take some Xanax.

H/T: Amber

• Chesterton quote: “Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.” 

• Interestingly, I’ve gotten to the point where I have relatively little trouble asking men to dance, but women are trickier for me to ask.  One more thing to play around with.

• Orwell: “Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue.”

• Politics is getting to me these days.  It’s a slow motion trainwreck.  Both sides deserve to lose—and they’re doing that.  I realize that trends inevitably end, but being patient eludes me.  Better to focus on other things.

• Florence King:  “Another kind of conservative would get drunk. This is easy because we don’t drink liberals’ sissy concoctions; it takes forever to get drunk on wine coolers but we can get there on a few belts.”

• I seem to be losing my taste  for wine and beer and even my old standby, whiskey.  People are starting to think that I’m in AA when I go out and get Diet Coke with lime.

• La Rochefoucauld: “Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”

• When I’m too old to set a bad example, please do me the courtesy of not reminding me.

• Eric Hoffer: “Facts are counterrevolutionary.”

• The counterrevolution is coming.  It’ll be interesting to watch.

• I like Texts from Last Night, but it concerns me somewhat when they refer to places I’ve been.  But even ones that are cliched are funny.  Plus, there’s one thing that I did the other day on there.

The Skimmer - The commenter, usually sour, who reads only a headline or sentence of a piece, draws exactly the wrong conclusion, and then embarks on an embarrassing rant.

The Trimmer – A commenter who initially stakes a strong position, and then under withering attack from other commenters, slowly backs off until he or she has completely abandoned that original position.

The Angry Man – We all know this guy.  His solution for almost any problem in the world is the summary execution, in as grisly a manner as possible, of every possible perpetrator.

Enjoy.

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Right-Thinking was an early favorite of mine: pithy as he was sincere and capable of some truly amazing essays when prompted.  He was also very kind and gracious about linking and brought us some of our early traffic.

He will be missed.  I’ll be lifting a glass to him tonight.

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