Neanderpundit

people don’t understand ‘right” and “left” anymore.

Had this conversation with Pascal last night, in one of my more lucid moments.

People think of “right” and “Left” as opposite sides of a coin, yadda yadda.

Well.

If there is good and evil, does that mean somewhere there is a mighty rope with God pulling on one end and the Devil on the other end?

That is ludicrous. It presumes the existence of a force of evil that is equally powerful as the Creator. And that is ludicrous, because it doesn’t exist.

Good and evil can be accurately defined as the State of Existence of the Creator’s grace, and the Absence of the creator’s grace.

Pascal evidenced- and accurately so- that ‘if the left is the problem, the right is not the solution” but that is only accurate if you have no understanding what the Right actually is.

Pascal’s statement is much more accurate if you say “if Democrats are the problem, Republicans are not the solution” And he’s right.

But Democrats and Republicans are not “left” and “Right”.

I think it is easy to define “right” as “the presence of reason” and “left” as ‘The absence of reason”. People in the republican party, and actual conservatives, can be varying degrees of both. As can liberals, and democrats.

But right thinking is thinking wiht reason, and left thinking is the absence of reason- emotion only, so to speak. And we all occasionally let our emotions rule us.

Communists roused 3000 odd unemployed men to march on the Rouge works in Detroit, where several man were gunned down and others wounded.

This was the culmination of a concerted effort by union organizers to gain public sympathy- and the co-operation of Ford workers.

This is going to be long, so you might want to get a coffee and pee before reading below the fold. I’ll try to be as brief and as coherent as possible.
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and sometimes you’re wrong.

In a conversation with Mr Alger, we reminisced about the hot licks of Skunk Baxter. And it gave me pause, and I went back and had a “where are they now” moment, looking up old Skunk, and discovered this.

Money quote:

Mr. Baxter, who goes by the nickname “Skunk,” has become one of the national-security world’s well-known counterterrorism experts.

Damn. Amazing, I tellya. makes you want to call him up and say “hey, thanks for not being the fucktard most of the entertainment industry is” but he’s not an easy guy to find.

Still. Damn!