WHEN I WAS in my thirties, I began to read books differently. I felt a bit guilty about doing things this way, but, what the heck, no one was looking over my shoulders. I didn’t have anyone to please when it came to reading but myself.

I would pick up a book and check out the title page. Then, as long as it was non-fiction, I would go right to the end. I would read some of the very last chapter, usually a few paragraphs or, if interested, a few pages.

I would then go to the middle of the book, and read a few pages or paragraphs. After that, I would read the table of contents and scan the entire book quickly, with my thumb on the edge of the pages, and stop here and there, looking at chapter headings and random paragraphs. Maybe I would stop for a while in one place.

Finally, I would read some of the beginning. If the book seemed worth reading, I would later start from the very beginning and read the book in the conventional way, from start to finish.

To this day, I start many books at the end, whether they are digital or hard versions.

This method is very similar to one described by the late Mortimer Adler in his book How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading, which I later encountered and which made me realize that it was okay to do things this way with certain types of books. Read More »

EVER since my hosting company updated some of its software, the archives on this site have not been working well. If you search for posts using keywords or subjects, you may not find them. The problem is that the “theme,” or framework, for this site cannot be updated by me and it has not been updated in a while.

I am hoping to resolve these problems in the next few weeks, either by updating the theme or transferring the content to a new one.

In the meantime, you may have difficulty finding past posts. You can always write to me and I will try to find them for you.

TERRY MORRIS writes from Oklahoma:

I am very grateful that I live amongst people who, in spite of the “lying scumbags” (as you rightly refer to them) at the CDC and otherwise running the country, take all of this COVID nonsense with a grain of salt for the most part. In my ‘neck of the woods,’ you rarely see anyone wearing a mask or practicing “social distancing” beyond what is just common sense and common courtesy. That is to say, one should never invade someone else’s space, a principle that most of us around here were taught as youngsters, either explicitly, or implicitly by good example in our parents and elders. “My people,” among whom I live and work and move on a daily basis, might well be “under-educated” by national standards, but, and as I’ve pointed out many times since this whole COVID 19 crap started up, they are heads above the “common herd” populating the rest of the country when it comes to good old fashioned common sense. I do know several persons who have gotten the jab, but most of them are elderly and, well, they are individuals who are scared to death of death. Read More »

CONFITEOR DEO writes from Paris:

A few weeks ago in France, the retired General Dominique Delawarde appeared on CNews, a supposedly conservative news TV station, where he was pressed to reply to the question, “Who controls the media?”

The aggressive, kosher journalist, who looks like a clone of Leon Trotsky, pressed him with the word “Qui?” (Translation: “Who?”) and even if the General didn’t reply exactly, his response was enough to get the interview shut down and motivate the interviewer into attacking the terrible behavior of the General, who will never be invited on CNews again.

General Dominique Delawarde

Of course the General is facing a charge of anti-semitism, but this isn’t the end of the story.

The word “Qui” is now being brandished quite often in the anti-Covid demonstrations. The government is working to introduce a pass that will prevent the “unvaccinated” from entering businesses. Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets.

On Saturday, the 7th of August, Cassandre Fristot demonstrated in the city of Metz with a placard asking “Qui?” and listing 11 names. The media hysteria is quite something and Cassandre Fristot was identified and arrested yesterday morning.

So today, in France, the question “Qui?” (Who?) is now officially a crime.

We need to remember Cassandre Fristot, who is Catholic, in our prayers. She has been on the right side of truth for many years.

ALAN writes:

In a conversation with my mother in 1966, I distinctly remember saying, “We are living in a sick society.”  Today I would abjure the medical metaphor but stand by the judgment.  At that moment I had in mind primarily the practice of coercion in the form of government-mandated schooling, government-forced conscription for young American men, and government-forced involvement in the Vietnam War.  People who called themselves “Conservatives” spoke in defense of all those things, so I concluded that there was also something not quite right with “Conservatives.”

Neither educating children, nor ordering free men to become soldiers, nor dragging such men into foreign wars whose combatants did not threaten one inch of American soil or any part of American liberty was any of government’s business, I thought in 1966.  It did not occur to me then that, in effect, I was declaring my opposition to Communism, which is of course the consummate expression of coercion writ large. Read More »

FROM Jon Rappoport:

As my readers know, for the past year I’ve been demonstrating—with much evidence and proof—that the SARS-CoV-2 virus doesn’t exist.

Some people reply: “So why are all these people dying?” “What is the cause?”

I’ve answered those questions at length. I’m going to answer them again.

First of all, if someone says, “I know a family where three people died, so what else could it be, besides the virus,” the answer is:

I have no idea why these three people died. I’m not doing remote viewing. The person who asked the question has no idea, either.

But because we have no idea, that doesn’t mean it must be the virus. Think it through. It could be exposure to an environmental toxin. It could be the effects of a vaccine. It could be several different reasons acting in concert.

But that person says, “It wasn’t a toxin or a vaccine. They were all healthy until last month.” How does he know it wasn’t a toxin? And again, just because we don’t know, there is no reason to skip from there to: “It must have been the virus.”

Does “we don’t know” equal “the virus”? No.

Does “we don’t know” equal “let’s accept the official propaganda about the virus”? No.

Does “we don’t know” equal “let’s accept the preponderance of opinion”? No.

All right. Moving on—the most important thing to know about so-called COVID is: THERE IS NO SINGLE CAUSE OF ALL THESE PEOPLE DYING.

It isn’t one cause.

Read more here.

We should consider the fact that people living together often live under the same unhealthy conditions and face similar toxins. In the past year and a half, they would have faced the same psychological conditions of manufactured fear and stress and may have been treated with extreme and dangerous measures (such as ventilators or “vaccines”) because of the false belief that an unprecedented virus was at work and because of financial incentives to hospitals to treat with these extreme and dangerous measures. But, as Rappoport says here, each case would have to be considered on its own. I personally have heard of no such cases of three healthy people in a family dying at once. I know people have suffered and died. I also know the government has, by its own admission, misrepresented many deaths.

Here is another contrarian view:

What we may observe is that coronaviruses occur every year, and have done so for many years prior before you or I was born. We may see that some years are higher than others—this is to be expected. For instance, we know that some years, weather may be hotter or cooler than in other years. Likewise, viruses express themselves in a population cyclically, every year, every 10 years, every 100 years, and so forth. Viruses can express themselves generationally; they can skip generations. See polio, an ancient detoxification of the spine. When a population becomes too toxic, the body will express itself. It takes many years sometimes for a particular toxin to become great enough, at which point an entire population will detoxify at a similar time. This is the nature of the human body. The body takes many years to heal—for example, approximately every 40 years every tissue and cell within the body is completely replaced. Toxins can be passed on to the next generation. Eventually, these toxins are expelled in a great cleansing of whatever population is alive at the time. This can appear to be contagious, as all disease can appear, but there is no such thing as contagious insofar as disease is concerned.

This is a bold and radical statement, I realize, but given the enormous profit and control to be had from the concept of contagion, we should consider the evidence.

THIS SONG is dedicated to the obedient and naive people I saw in the supermarket yesterday wearing face masks.

Someday these people may wake up and realize that life is cruel and Daddy has lied to them. There will be lots of tears and shock. They may sing all the songs of betrayal they like, but by then, it will be far too late in the day.

If anybody comes up to me and asks why I am not dressed like a bank robber just like everybody else, they will get a few choice words about the lying scumbags at the CDC. I’m a very bad girl, a naughty, naughty girl. I just can’t get the hang of bowing to “experts.” What’s wrong with me? Their credentials do not impress me. Ooooh, Johns Hopkins!! Ooooh, Harvard!! They’re all the same lying scumbags to me.

It used to be a crime to be a bank robber, now it’s a crime not to be one. Read More »

IN CHARLOTTE, N.C., hundreds turn out to protest mandatory jabs.

Beautiful, absolutely beautiful.

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FROM JUNE of this year, this outstanding article by Brenton Sanderson at Occidental Observer looks at the “competitive victimhood” of Jews and the untold damage it has done to America.

Sanderson highlights the militant, cultish arrogance of Jews who are obsessed with their alleged victimization while simultaneously possessing elite status in America and their complete lack of empathy for those whom they (falsely) view as their victimizers, especially under the heady (and fictitious) narrative of the Holocaust, with which they are fed from early childhood and which becomes a story of their own saintliness: Read More »

ONCE UPON A TIME there was a young and earnest couple who married and had, by some miracle, three beautiful children in quick succession.

The couple loved their children very much. They wanted to raise them well. They had the very best intentions. They especially wanted their children to care about the world beyond themselves. They wanted their children’s lives to be filled with faith and sacrifice for others.

And that’s exactly how they raised them. Read More »

I WAS visiting a mountain nature center recently and was browsing through its small bookstore when I picked up a book about mountain lovers. It had profiles of different people. In the book was an article about the well-known mountaineer and photographer Brad Washburn.

Fully aware of the infiltration of ideology into the intellectual sport of nature loving, I warily began to read a bit, while standing there for a few minutes, about Mr. Washburn’s life and his views of the mountains.

It was not long before I encountered the inevitable poison.

Mr. Washburn, who died in 2007, had a lifelong passion for mountains. This romantic fixation co-existed with an alarming hatred of people. I don’t have his exact words, but his diatribe against “over-population” left no room for doubt about his beliefs. The mountains were being ruined, Washburn said. They weren’t being destroyed because of careless hiking practices. They were being ruined because too many people existed. Where once only a few hiked, now there were thousands. He mentioned one difficult summit in Alaska that now saw some 1,100 hikers a year. Ghastly. Read More »

IF YOU knew nothing about nature and someone showed you the seed of a tree and told you that this small winged seed could grow into a towering tree as tall as 90 feet and as wide as 40 feet, would you believe it? Would it be possible even to believe it?

The person who told you about the tree could not prove he was right for years. In the meantime, he might seem delusional or a little bit off.

Ideas are like that. They seem insignificant. They are so small they have no material existence. Some people can live their whole lives disbelieving in them. Ideas are mere rumors. They have no consequences. It is self-indulgence to think and to dream.

If someone explained an idea or immaterial fact to these disbelievers and told them that this idea or fact could build  — or wreck — an entire civilization it would be as impossible for them to believe as it would be for some to believe that a gigantic tree comes from a small pod.

There’s something equally absurd about the gardener and the thinker.

They live in the imagination. They have faith in the unseen. The non-existent is often more real than the existent. They believe the insignificant is not insignificant. It has consequences.

READERS, at least Catholic readers, are probably aware of the recent action of “Pope” Francis to suppress (a revised form of) the ancient Latin Mass. His “Apostolic Letter” Traditionis Custodes has shaken deeply those who attend various chapels around the world. These often articulate and pious people seemed in recent years to have escaped the modernist novelties that came in the 1960s and they have been extremely glad of it. They have existed in a religious comfort zone ever since Benedict 16 permitted these “Latin Mass” oases.

The decree by Francis is of little interest to the majority in local parishes who are content with things as they are. It also has had very little effect yet in limiting “Latin Mass” chapels (as you can see here), but it may lead to the end of this worship (as revised by John 23 in 1962) in parishes and chapels under the auspices of the Vatican. No new priests will likely be prepared in Vatican-approved seminaries.

This decree will change nothing at that much smaller number of “traditionalist” chapels that have totally or partially broken with Rome, except perhaps to draw more people to them.

I’d like to offer just a few quick words on this action by Francis and the sea of confusion and outrage it has caused:

What Francis has done is entirely reasonable. The Latin Mass and many Catholic beliefs are a threat to the unity of the institution he governs. (At least he believes in unity!!) In fact, as his health fails, it would have been surprising if Francis had not taken this step. He has long made his contempt for those who think and worship as Catholics did for almost 2,000 years very clear. Read More »

“WE were taken to the beautiful Church of the Redeemer in Moscow which was then, we were told, about to be dynamited to make way for a “Palace of Soviets”. There was a display of full-sized mannikins dressed in the robes of the Church carrying on the Good Friday Footwashing ceremony. Our Guide rasped: ‘This was to show that if the Archbishop could wash the feet of the humble priest the poor should endure their sufferings without complaint! Religion was always for the suppression of the people, to keep them working from dawn to late at night under the lash!’

“I thought of our Savior washing the feet of His Disciples as an example, and telling them that he who would be great among you should be the servant of all (John 13:13-15; Matt. 23:11). I glanced up at the exquisite stained glass window of Christ, about to be demolished, and a little tear trickled down my cheek as I thought: ‘I can never hate You like that!’ (I did not know then that the Pharisee Talmud gives Him FIVE sadistic deaths today).

“Staying at my hotel was the representative of a foreign country. He told me of the police terror; how the last manager of that hotel had been whisked off in the middle of the night by the “Black Mariah”–like millions of others never to be seen again. Some of our party had been taken to the police station; they had laughed in a movie theatre. They were released when they explained that they had laughed at a private joke, not at the picture (which was Soviet-made). After this, and more, I returned to the ‘NICE’ North Shore of Chicago where the ‘intelligentsia’ were rendering brainwashed reverence to the ‘great Soviet Experiment.'”

— From the 1964 edition of Elizabeth Dilling’s The Plot Against Christianity, a book that is more relevant than ever since COVID-19 is Communism on a worldwide scale

HERE IS MORE food for thought from Jeff Green. The virus is a fraud from top to bottom. I don’t agree with everything Green says here (his comments on World War II are partly true, but also include serious error) but on this point he is right. His outrage is refreshing.

ALAN writes:

I would like to pose this question to TTH readers who are bird fanciers or students of bird lore:

Why does a Canada goose become separated from its mates and wander alone?  I have seen such a solitary goose at a nearby park.  He lingers near ducks or near four other geese of different breeds.

He (or she?) has learned to trust me.  Whenever I walk in the park, I try to become part of the silence that birds appreciate.  In that setting, solitary goose will approach me and wait patiently, expecting me to offer him something to eat.  I have seen him there on half a dozen days recently.  But unlike the ducks and other geese, he has never uttered a sound.  The impression I get is that he is mute.  Is that possible?  Is that why he wanders alone, apart from his kindred geese?

Many comments and essays at TTH have concerned the beauty and wonder and delight of birds.  Here is yet another to add to them—and, for a brief moment, to help us get as far away as we can from the ugliness of life today:

One evening a young woman went out to her garden to get away from the busyness and commotion of daily life—and to play her cello, alone.  But it turned out that she was not alone.  When she played her cello, she became aware that a nightingale was warbling from a nearby branch.  When she stopped playing, he stopped singing.  When she resumed playing, he resumed singing, as if the two of them had formed a duet.

Cellist Beatrice Harrison lived in Surrey, England in 1924 when she persuaded the BBC to do a live broadcast from her garden.

         “There, in the darkness, under an oak tree, surrounded by rabbits, birds, microphones, recording engineers and wires, Harrison performed Ireland’s adopted anthem “Danny Boy” accompanied by the sound of nightingales and broadcast it to a radio audience of a million people.”

[John Anthony Brennan, “The Cellist, the Nightingale, and Danny Boy,” at The Wild Geese, here]

I wish I could have been there to hear it.

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I SAID in the previous post that we should cultivate compassion and understanding. I firmly believe it. But charity sometimes entails the brutal truth.

And here it is. This woman is a flaming moron.

“I got the vaccine because I’m a mom of two and I need to make sure that I’m safe and that I’m around for them,” says Niesa [S.], 49. “It’s not something to be afraid of. Do your research from legitimate sources and trust the experts. Let’s get back to normal.”

Mrs. S., your moronity is so deep and so all-encompassing it threatens your children more than any fictitious virus could. I’ve been a moron myself on occasion, and I don’t mind admitting it. If I can call myself a moron, I can certainly call you a flaming moron, a moron’s moron.

A moron, as I see it, is not someone with innately limited mental capacity.

A moron has been born with the ability to observe, reason and make logical connections, but he has permitted this ability to atrophy. The brain, due to misuse and disuse, has become as limp as a wet rag and as slow as a clogged sink. Add to the mental sin of willful neglect some old-fashioned greed (Mrs. S. has probably been paid for this little piece of propaganda) and you have a mental threat to public health. These people are everywhere. (I have deliberately left out Mrs. S.’s full name. I don’t want this moronic mommy contacting me.)

Mrs. S. says she got the “vaccine” because she wants to be “safe.” But has she bothered to even read the package inserts? I doubt it, she only consults “legitimate” sources. Has she read the list of ingredients? Has she researched anything contrary to the prevailing narrative about the risks? Probably not. In America, and Canada, where this mental midget is from, thinking has become socially unacceptable. It’s worse than using drugs, fornication, child neglect, cheating on tests and gambling.

Thinking today is the prostitution of yesterday.

As shameful as a whore was in the past, so today is someone not guilty of mental suicide, someone who takes the trouble to use his God-given mental abilities. Conscientious minds often use illegitimate sources. For this, they are smeared as “conspiracy theorists” or “right-wing extremists.” These terms now simply refer to those who still possess the ability to rub two mental nickels together. The successful conquest of America requires that every last person with a shred of logic must be shamed into moronity, brow-beaten until his brain is reduced to jello.

Mrs. S. has not seen a “pandemic” with her own eyes. She has just heard about one on TV or read about it in the newspaper. Independent research is beyond her because she is so easily impressed with “experts.”

She should be quarantined. Millions of morons should be quarantined. Their televisions and computers and newspapers should be taken away and attempts at mental resuscitation should be made. They are a dire threat to the survival of the human race. Read More »