Joseph Scibbe

Boethius said "among wise men there is no place for hatred." Apropos of nothing.

As @aspiringpeasant knows, giant trees are truly a treasure.

Virtue is its own reward. Pursuing niceness as a means to benefit only muddies its goodness. In this context, being nice to girls so they want to sleep with you is often so thinly veiled as to be transparent. She can see you aren't truly "good" and is repelled.

Catholics will now be allowed to eat Italian beef and Chicago style hot dogs during lent

This is very much the spirit of The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by Berry.

My timer tone is the theme to @readingrainbow and when I worked at Starbucks every one of my coworkers knew it and would sing along when it went off.

One of the best things @alissamarie taught in her PCI class is that all cultural goods are aimed at some vision of the good life. Much of social media is clearly aimed at a perverse vision that dehumanizes its users iot sell them redemption through targeted ads.

I just finished reading through Edmund Morris's 3 volue biography of Theodore Roosevelt. It was an monumental as the man himself. I enjoyed the deeply human portrayal of a near mythical man.

I finished my @CatherineProj Greek course last night and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little glad to be finished. It was a great experience and I loved learning but it was intense. Greek is no language to be trifled with. Knowing me, though, I'll be back in the future.

We gotta stop wasting money on teachers and libraries so we can give more to police so they can get even more up-armoured tanks to drive through our neighborhoods.

I fundamentally distrust people with strong opinions on elections in which they cannot participate.

Saying "chat" or "skibbidy" isn't within 1000 leagues of the online brainrot of people saying Ligon Duncan will be going to hell for complimenting a woman who attended and worked at a seminary.

Communism often gets criticized for it's materialism but capitalism (at least as it exists popularly today) is just as bad, reducing humans down to merely their value added to a corporation and flourishing being simplified to gdp growth.

Kinda funny for a guy who went on a rant about how wearing "funny hats" was a anti-gospel attempt to get closer to God. Not to mention someone whose entire ministry is predicated on never being held accountable for his folly.

At a party given by a billionaire, Kurt Vonnegut told, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, made more money in a single day than Heller earned from Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have … enough.”

I'm having a difficult time choosing between this and the first but I think the cows are gonna tip the advantage to this one.

The cross is foolishness to the perishing.

"I told colleges they were conformist loser factories and now they won't let me in. Must be because I'm a white male."

RIP Iceman

I don't trust people who have strong opinions on elections they can't vote in.