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Clarissa on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
It would be great if these people explained their different reasons. Everybody seems to say that, of course, they are…
Clarissa on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
I also don't see why it's supposed to be a particularly repellent job. The duties of the job go against…
Clarissa on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
I wasn't trying to make a political statement. This is simply a funny story to me. Some people are late…
Clarissa on Definitions of Conservatism: Lincoln AllisonJanuary 23, 2026
True. I can't think of anything I could say that would be more shocking to my colleagues than that I'm…
Clarissa on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
A hatred of law enforcement is also evidence of a weak father complex. Good dad means a good, positive attitude…
Clarissa on Finns and the World OrderJanuary 23, 2026
I yesterday saw a clip of Nancy Pelosi gushing about how her 6-year-old grandson said he doesn't want to be…
Clarissa on Definitions of Conservatism: Lincoln AllisonJanuary 23, 2026
I've added Marion Montgomery to the reading list. Thank you! As conservatives, we don't have a repository of our cultural…
Clarissa on Definitions of Conservatism: Lincoln AllisonJanuary 23, 2026
That's exactly it. We are stuck between different flavors of neoliberalism, unable to step out of its magic circle. This…
Anonymous on The Unconservative DispositionJanuary 23, 2026
it seems like such a waste of energy and I don’t understand what they get out of it. It is…
v07 on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
I do not know, ethyl. It is indeed possible that I have limited ability to properly put myself into the…
Anonymous on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
I know several people who have seriously contemplated taking that job: because they are ex-military, they are patriots, and it…
Anonymous on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
Exhibit A in "How the Democrats lost the working class" -ethyl
Stringer Bell on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
But it is not about class I think there's a class element in there. Leftists love public sector unions and…
v07 on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
---The dumbest kid in my class in the USSR, who was so dumb we literally thought he was retarded, became…
Demotrash on Definitions of Conservatism: Lincoln AllisonJanuary 23, 2026
"In intellectual circles, it’s only a bit worse to be a self-avowed pedophile than a conservative." Depending on which era,…
Avi on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
How I wish you could give us his name! [I know you can't.] That X post drips with social contempt…
Bryan on Definitions of Conservatism: Lincoln AllisonJanuary 22, 2026
Incidentally, since you are reading conservative thinkers intensively, you might be interested in the literary critic Marion Montgomery if you…
Avi on Finns and the World OrderJanuary 22, 2026
The average Finn is generally speaking a textbook example of suicidal empathy in action. Like most of the Nordics.
Bryan on Definitions of Conservatism: Lincoln AllisonJanuary 22, 2026
Prof. Clarissa, I’m really enjoying this series on conservative thinkers! I can perhaps offer a hypothesis about the question concerning why…
Clarissa on Oakeshott and Being Forever YoungJanuary 22, 2026
Please do. This is very interesting. After Burke, we'll do Russell Kirk whom I love with a passion.
Anonymous on Oakeshott and Being Forever YoungJanuary 22, 2026
Re: Edmund Burke A central figure in conservative thought, without a doubt. I was surprised back in the 1970s to…
Clarissa on Oakeshott and Being Forever YoungJanuary 22, 2026
Absolutely! Once I'm done with the definitions, we'll go to Burke because he's mentioned in almost every definition.
Anonymous on Oakeshott and Being Forever YoungJanuary 22, 2026
Are you going to do Edmund Burke? -ethyl
Clarissa on Definitions of Conservatism: Lincoln AllisonJanuary 22, 2026
I wasn't going to post it, I promise. I only wanted to see what it would do. It was predictably…
Stringer Bell on Definitions of Conservatism: Lincoln AllisonJanuary 22, 2026
By the way, just for fun I asked the in-built WordPress AI to generate an image to accompany the text…
Ed Frey on EarthquakeJanuary 22, 2026
New Madrid Earthquakes were a series of powerful seismic events in 1811–1812, centered near New Madrid, Missouri, that were felt across…
Clarissa on Oakeshott and Being Forever YoungJanuary 22, 2026
I have a whole reading list. Excellent sources and a lot to think about. It's sad that this kind of…
Anonymous on Oakeshott and Being Forever YoungJanuary 22, 2026
Like! -ethyl
Clarissa on Conservative Disposition and PoliticsJanuary 22, 2026
And the AI. People who sit there for hours, "talking" to it, massaging their already inflamed egos. I hate ChatGPT's…
Clarissa on My LineupJanuary 22, 2026
This is an issue of grabbing something between classes or meetings. I'm devoted to salami but imagine running into class…

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