“Politics of the Tantrum and the Hissy Fit”

“Historically, fascism is of necessity and by design a form of youth movement, and all youth movements have more than a whiff of fascism about them. The exaltation of passion over reason, action over deliberation, is a naturally youthful impulse. Treating young people as equals, ‘privileging’ their opinion precisely because they lack experience or knowledge, is an inherently fascist tendency, because at its heart lies the urge to throw off ‘old ways’ and ‘old dogmas’ in favor of what the Nazis called the ‘idealism of the deed.’ Youth politics – like populism generally – is the politics of the tantrum and the hissy fit.”

– Jonah Goldberg

St. Mark the Evangelist

From FB:

“March 28th is the final of a three day period after the feast day of St. Mark the Evangelist. Mark is the traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark and is said to have founded the Church of Alexandria, one of the most important episcopal sees of early Christianity.

It was the custom in villages in England, from the 17th century to the late 19th century, to sit in the church porch on St. Mark’s Eve. Those sitting had to keep silent between the bell tolling at 11.00 p.m. until the bell struck 1.00 a.m. In Yorkshire it was necessary to keep vigil for three successive nights. On the third such sitting, it was said that the ghosts of those to die during the year would be witnessed passing into the church.

Some accounts of the custom state that the watchers must be fasting, or must circle the church before taking up position. The ghosts of those who were to die soon would be the first observed, while those who would almost see out the year would not be witnessed until almost 1.00 a.m. Other variations of the superstition say that the watchers would see headless or rotting corpses, or coffins approaching.”

Biloxi, Mississippi (2000)

“On the way to New Orleans for the Nokia Sugar Bowl to watch Michael Vick lead the underdog Virginia Tech Hokies against the eventual champion Florida State Seminoles.

This pic reflects the morning after a night of debauched lunacy in Biloxi, MS that began with Pope singing karaoke to Clarence Carter’s “Strokin'” to a casino full of geriatric emphysema patients and ended (as many pre-marriage drunken nights invariably did) at the Waffle House.”

Major George Lowrey

From FB:

“During the 1760s and ’70s, marriages of Cherokees and other southeastern Indians with Scots, English, Germans, and Irish became increasingly common… George Lowrey married Nannie of the Holly Clan, and their son George, born about 1770, figured prominently in the affairs of the Cherokee nation until his death in 1852. Mary Adir, widow of the Pawnee Samuel Horse Chief, has stated, ‘Although we have been Cherokee Nation citizens for generations, we remember our Scots heritage.'”

– “How the Irish and Scots Became Indians: Colonial Traders and Agents and the Southeastern Tribes,” New Hibernia Review, Autumn 1999

March 16, 2022

Richmond, Virginia (2007)

Running the Monument Avenue 10k. This was an longstanding annual race that took place down one of the most beautiful avenues in America and was attended by tens of thousands of people.

It’s since been utterly gutted because a bunch of ignorant Woke activists and BLM rioters were never properly taught the actual history of the American Civil War and imagined themselves superior to those who lived before them.

The place is a shithole now. They’ll never have another race like that again.

My Spirit Animal

Glynn County, Georgia (2018)

From FB:

“According to the NTSB, this is the exact spot where former Senator John Tower of Texas died in a plane crash along with 20 others, including his daughter Marian, and Space Shuttle astronaut Sonny Carter. Tower was headed to an event being held in his honor at nearby Sea Island and was best known for heading the Tower Commission, which was created by President Ronald Reagan to investigate the Iran-Contra Affair.”

Richmond, Virginia (1989)

My first car.

A lot going on here…

Fort Polk, Louisiana (1994)