AT VFR, Lawrence Auster argues that the women’s franchise initially had little noticeable effect on political life, but has been progressively damaging. (The politicization of women, I would add, has deprived natural feminine preoccupations of dignity and led to the trivialization of women’s work.) Mr. Auster writes:

There are many examples of the deleterious effects that the women’s franchise and the assumption of political power by women have had on politics. Think of the mob of Democratic female House members like a bunch of crazed Bacchae climbing the stairs of the U.S. Senate in October 1991 demanding the destruction of Clarence Thomas. (more…)

A.M. writes:

It seems impossible to be genuinely traditionalist without attacking that to which contemporary society gives unanimous assent. For instance, we often hear of some “pro-family” organization protesting a television show. That television can be anything but anti-family is a farce; it has been known as a “vast wasteland” for over a half century, yet these clowns go on owning sets and vainly trying to sanitize their content. They buy a viper and then have the audacity to complain that it has a venomous bite.

I am reminded of a personal episode, where I was not truly friends with anyone around me; I started to ask, “what is wrong with me?” Of course, I could’ve very well been to blame. But as soon as I changed my choice of company, I began to make friends. As long as I had remained, however, I felt bizarre and odd. As with your comment about parades, we live in a society where we must pay tribute to the macabre, and disdain the good and the beautiful. If we don’t, we are, mongoloids, philistines, or fascists. (more…)

MICHAEL D. writes:

If there are any lingering doubts that “Conservative” Prime Minister David Cameron is indeed a conservative, then let them now be dispelled without further ado. His proposal to change the law of succession to reflect his liberal tastes is foolish, insensible and potentially harmful. The succession cannot be changed simply because David Cameron, or anybody else for that matter, doesn’t like it. They don’t have to like it. 

However, I was not surprised at the total absence of opposition to this proposal to do away with male primogeniture at the Commonwealth Heads of Governments meeting here in Australia. Our own hard-left, unmarried, barren, feminist prime minister was not about to complain. Neither were the spineless political leaders of other nations, who are mostly elites eager to prove their “diversity and equality” credentials at the expense of their culture and their peoples’ long-term interests. It would not have been difficult to bury this risible proposal with an effective counter argument, but no Commonwealth political leader even tried.  (more…)

THE FOLLOWING flyer was sent a few days ago to the faculty of Valencia College in Osceola, Florida by its Office of Marketing and Strategic Communications:

MTV Film Crew at the Osceola Campus on Monday

You may notice an MTV film crew at the Osceola Campus on Monday as they tape a new season of the reality show 16 and Pregnant.  Their current story is about a young woman, now 17, who has had her baby and whose mom told her that if she didn’t go to college, she’d be out on her own. (more…)

FITZGERALD writes:

The mother of Steve Jobs chose to put his sister and him up for adoption when they were infants. What if he had been aborted? Jobs had an enormously influential role in the creation and transformation of several industries. How many other potential innovators, business leaders, architects, and artists have met an untimely end in the womb? Is it any wonder our civilization is waning. We destroy it’s most important element in the scores every year: people.

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ALMOST everyone would like the last month of winter to be more like the first month of spring or maybe the last month of summer to be more like the first month of fall. But no one wants to see the first full month of autumn become more like mid-winter. 

The snowstorm that hit our area this weekend was an unprecedented event. Some trees had still not changed color. The sight of an oak tree with green leaves and snow is disorienting. Leaves are part of a tree’s periodic immaturity. A tree that is juvenile in June is ancient in November. By early winter, a tree becomes wise and wizened, mature enough to handle the tribulations of cold and ice. Many a tree in October is no more prepared for snow than a teenager is ready for mortgage payments.

By last night, leaves that were still green or gold were loaded with snow that was so heavy, massive branches drooped to the ground. Many snapped instantly. The roads were littered with downed limbs and many people lost power. The party was broken up. The authorities came and told everyone who was enjoying autumn to go home.

Normally, the first snowstorm is exciting, but this wasn’t exciting, it was strange. It was a premature end to the season. The flames of fall were doused with buckets of ice.

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