Gm

I fish because I love to; because I love the evirons where trout are found, which are invariably beautiful, and hate the environs where crowds of people are found, which are invariably ugly; because of all the television commercials, cocktail parties, and assorted social posturing I thus escape; because in a world where most men seem to spend their lives doing things they hate, my fishing is at once an endless source of delight and an act of small rebellion; because trout do not lie or cheat and cannot be bought or bribed or impressed by power, but respond only to quietude and humility and endless patience; because I suspect that men are going along this way for the last time, and I for one don't want to waste the trip; because mercifully there are no telephones on trout waters; because only in the woods can I find solitude without lonliness; because bourbon out of an old tin cup always tastes better out there; because maybe one day I'll catch a mermaid; and, finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are eqally unimportant-and not nearly so much fun.

- Robert Traver

Tfw a headline makes me feel like a centrist... Weird.

Purposefully showing up 10 minutes late is a sign of terrible character and folks who do that should be publicly flogged.

Having "zero tolerance" is stupid. On rare occasions, things happen that give valid reason for lateness. Tardiness is a problem when it becomes a pattern.

Clocks are a mistake
Return to sundials
(theyre cheaper)

No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?

“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

- Matthew 6:24-34

Nobody tell them...

A small house in the UP now cost $450k. You were too slow, Anon. Better find somewhere else to live now. Good luck, but the UP is over, and you wouldn't like it here anyways

Scenic firework viewing location that the flatland fudgies don't know about

Ah, July 3rd, the one day of the year I lock my doors and don't leave the keys in the ignition

A true hero

Happy 4th of July from the least patriotic right wing Telegram channel

America! She was founded on spurious enlightenment liberalism and has traveled down the road you'd expect based on that, but nonetheless I was born here and so I guess I'll have some apple pie and contemplate the irony of this situation.

Ross Douthat, big shot conservative journalist for the New York Times, has written:

Yes, presidential aides and cabinet members can manage some aspects of the job for a fading chief executive. But they aren’t law clerks drafting opinions on a leisurely timeline.

Their boss sits at the heart of a global network of alliances; commands the world’s most powerful military, which includes a vast nuclear deterrent; and is charged with maintaining a Pax Americana that’s currently under threat from an alliance of revisionist powers. The entire global order will be endangered if there is an empty vessel in the Oval Office, a headless superpower in a destabilizing world.

I'm simply stunned by the lack of sight displayed here. As Yarvin puts it, "How can anyone be on this much crack?"