WE ARE REPAGANIZING by Louise Perry
There’s a very short and very brutal poem by the Scottish poet Hollie McNish, written in 2019 and titled “Conversation with an archaeologist”:
he said they’d found a brothel
on the dig he did last night
I asked him how they know
he sighed:
a pit of babies’ bones
a pit of newborn babies’ bones was how to spot a brothel“It’s true, you know,” said the writer and lawyer Helen Dale when we had lunch in London last year and I mentioned this poem, which I chose as one of the epigraphs to my book The Case Against the Sexual Revolution. Helen was a classicist before she was a lawyer, and as a younger woman she had taken part in archaeological excavations of ancient Roman sites. “First you find the erotic statuary,” she went on, “and then you dig a bit more and you find the male infant skeletons.” Male, of course, , whereas the female infants born to prostituted women were raised into prostitution themselves.
and do tell for the generations,
To mention abortion and infanticide in the same breath is a provocation. A majority of voters in Britain and America regard abortion as permissible in some circumstances, whereas very few are willing to say the same of infanticide (with some notable exceptions, as we will see). But this distinction has not been made by all peoples at all times. The anthropologist David F. Lancy describes the “far more common pattern”:
Among the ancient Greeks and Romans sickly, unattractive, or unwanted infants were “exposed” or otherwise eliminated; the Chinese and Hindus of India have, since time immemorial, destroyed daughters at birth, to open the way for a new pregnancy and a more desirable male offspring; the Japanese likened infanticide to thinning the rice plants in their paddies; among foragers such as the Inuit or the Jivaro, unwanted babies were left to nature to claim.
Do read it all.
Keith and Willie coming down the home stretch, neck and neck.
And Willie outlived them all.
When commercials were cool.
I gotta go.
Need to check the price of chicken feet.
Go to CFP now and hit the link to this crazy chicken sandwich.
The lyrics I have seen the morning burning golden on the mountain in the skies Aching with the feeling of the freedom of an eagle when she flies Turning on the world the way she smiled upon my soul as I lay dying Healing as the colors in the sunlight and the shadows of her eyes Waking in the morning to the feeling of her… Read more »
Boy you don’t know how hard I am struggling to behave and not give ************ down the river. SIGH
Talking about pumps and GPM’s reminds me of when my sister was getting rid of her above ground pool.She asked her farmer husband to use his Berkley irrigation pump with it’s 200 HP propane powered 455 Olds engine. The pool was 18′ in diameter and 4′ deep. He threw the 4″ hose in the pool, fired up the pump and… Read more »
Not sure that I agree with this but there it is. I figured Alabama would move to #2. What happened with Texas?
Kristofferson was born in 1936. Our father was born on this day in 1926. Kristofferson was closer to my Dad’s age than he was to me with a 16 year difference.
I like the song
Last time I watched Kris was at Willie’s 90th B’day at the Hollywood Bowl.
Probably my favorite Kris song.
But it’s hard to pick.
Donald Trump briefed on suspected Iranian assassination plot
I heard from other good sources that there are 5 squads on the ground all with weapons that could bring down Trumps plane.
Are you a figment of my imagination or am I one of yours
This upcoming election will be the biggest cluster fluctuation the world has ever seen. the totalitariancrats have been cheating and stealing them for at least 70 years but never as blatant as 2020 and 2022. the compromised republicant’s response for decades has been and still is pull my finger. 400k kids missing and no congress critter scumbag says a word.… Read more »
This was quite the eloquent tribute to Kristofferson from the CEO of the Country Music Hall of Fame. Kyle Young, the CEO of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, said, “Kris Kristofferson believed to his core that creativity is God-given, and that those who ignore or deflect such a holy gift are doomed to failure and unhappiness. He… Read more »
Khris Kristofferson passed away. Guess he ain’t knockin on heaven’s door any more.
More voter shenanigans in Michigan. Go figger.
The Houthis got hit again. Hard. The goat-raping iranian ring of fire around Israel is getting extinguished.
Somewhere approaching 18,000 gpm. Maximum.
SQK 1:31pm
Whoa.
A 24” raw sewage force main? (Force mains are under pressure.)
Doesn’t take long to run out 4million gals before you can get the pumps turned off with a line that big.
A buddy on mine stopped off in Bellville to get a burger. I don’t know where he was, didn’t say but I bet Shannon knows the establishment that sells these. 😉
Tucker and O’Keefe are releasing a new documentary: Line in the Sand.
The southeast is really getting hammered. Interstate 40 is closed and now I-20 east of Atlanta is closed. The truckers must be pulling their hair out. Lots of stunning videos at the link. A massive fire at the BioLab chemical plant in Conyers, GA, about 27 miles east of Atlanta, forced authorities to block I-20 and call for evacuation of… Read more »
We’re making brisket and pork ribs today. Perfect for my diet and will provide lots of leftovers for later in the week. I took about an hour and started clearing the back porch. It’s been my potting shed and has accumulated a lot of stuff. Since I’ve come to the realization that my gardening efforts henceforth will be minimal and… Read more »
One of my CDA sisters had a text message from her daughter on her phone. All these folks who’ve had their homes and/or communities destroyed – how are they going to vote? Like, physically – how will they be able to submit their votes? Or, how are their votes going to be counted? (Take that any way your mind wanders…)
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Why Are Iran’s Thugs Free to Walk the Streets of New York ? Across the city, the 69-year-old Iranian leader’s message of coexistence wasn’t resonating. As he was speaking, Masih Alinejad, who is among Tehran’s most outspoken political opponents in the U.S., got the news that she had been rejected by a Manhattan co-op board.“The co-op rejected me and my… Read more »
Asheville NC has been isolated by flooding. The latest on power, cell and more
includes HOLY CRAP video.
TRAFFIC ALERT: Helene closes portions of East TN interstates & all roads in western NC
Ewwwww
4 million gallons of raw sewage leaks into Pinellas neighborhood
This hit is brutal. Clean hit, not intentionally rough, but like getting hit by a bus.
Great to know that our tax dollars payed for all of corrupt fleaZensky’s travel from Ukraine to here, through here and then back again.
way to go compromised pull my finger party.
you daily confirm your loser status.
vee halfs zee vhotos.
so in 2024 why should I waste my vote for any of the pull my finger party pool of perpetual candidate losers?
vee halfs zee vhotos.
trump yea
the rest nay
https://youtu.be/PzKbxh-hDdU?si=6UWgbn8FjqDkqd2P
It’s really odd, most times Texpat links to “X” I get this. But I am signed in on “X”, and I don’t get this when anyone else posts a link to it.
A local news chopper glides over the massive flooding in western North Carolina. There is no communication and no way to get to these mountain except by airboat or small boats. There is no telling how many people have died there because no one predicted Helene would run like a freight train all the way to Appalachia so quickly. They… Read more »
White Privilege, Plains Edition. In 1900, a Nebraska homesteader and his family stand proudly in front of their sod house, a testament to their resilience and pioneering spirit. Built from the thick, grassy earth of the plains, the sod house provided shelter in an era when traditional building materials were scarce on the frontier. The family, embodying the determination of… Read more »
We finally got the DNA results back for Rosebud: 34% American Pit Bull Terrier 26% Staffordshire Terrier 15% Siberian Husky 14% Great Dane 3% each Rottweiler and Labrador retriever 2% each Boxer and Blue tick coon hound 1% Border collie I’m guessing that this little cutie is going to be about 75 lbs in a year or so and will… Read more »
Boy I sure am seeing a whole bunch of “all these news sources” from you. If you cannot trust them to report Nazzie’s death then how is all this to be trusted. Hmmmmmmm?
/Asking for a friend/
The liberation of the Iranian people cannot come soon enough. Take a look at the group photo under the headline. Hezbollah’s actions have gone beyond mere regional politics. The group has been involved in suppressing dissent in Lebanon, Syria, and even Iran. During the Syrian civil war, Hezbollah fighters actively supported the Assad regime, known for mass atrocities and human rights violations. Furthermore,… Read more »
Using intelligence from an Iranian mole to ensure his presence before launching the deadly attack, “the Israelis went all out; they didn’t want to miss their target,” Le Parisien quoted the unnamed Lebanese security source as saying.According to the source, the Iranian infiltrator informed the Israelis about the imminent arrival of the Shiite leader on Friday afternoon of Friday, a… Read more »
For you Dietrich Bonhoeffer fans from the people who made the Sound of Freedom cinematic blockbuster that went on to make $250 million worldwide. Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. “I hope it inspires youth and everybody and demonstrates the courage of this man,” Emmanuel Kampouris, one of the producers of the film, told the Washington Examiner. “It’s very uplifting, and especially… Read more »
I’m repeating the last line from my 9:42 AM: …securing a nation’s peace has nothing to do with winning narratives, or nation-building, or balancing U.S. allies against your mutual enemies for the sake of regional equilibrium, or any of the other academic theories generated to mask a generation’s worth of failure. Rather, it means killing your enemies, above all those… Read more »
Lee Smith at Tablet, always brilliant… Israel Teaches America How to Win WarsBy ordering the strike on Nasrallah while attending the U.N. General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underscored the Jewish state’s independence from the global consensus that has resolved not to confront terrorists but rather to appease them, whether they’re plotting in the Middle East or living among… Read more »
There aren’t enough words in English to describe how much I hate the mainstream media in this world.Nasrallah rose to the top of the terror organization in February 1992. A month later, Hezbollah operatives killed 29 people in a suicide bombing attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires. The terror group’s subsequent 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish community… Read more »
OK this is BAAD but I kinda’ like it. 😀
There is a video linked here everyone should see. The Giorgia Meloni Death Stare. I don’t have much use for European governments, particularly the French and Belgian versions. My hostility for the EU is unlimited. You might have thought the old days of 19th century soul-sucking exploitation of poverty stricken nations is a relic of the past. Little Emmanuel Macron… Read more »
I’m the only one awake here and have finished 3 cups of coffee even if I got up real late (about 6 AM). Last night I was real Tarred after getting up at 3 AM, diving 300 miles and staying up until 10:30 PM. I did cheat a little and nodded off a few times during the game in the… Read more »
I’m sure that NOBODY here is interested in the Alabama/Georgia game but this chart shows what college football often looks like, no matter the teams. 😉
I’ve not made it all the way through the WIP but this is a Good-Un.