Archive for 2020
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Moral Courage is Among the World’s Rarest and Most Precious Qualities
April 13th, 2020 | Coronavirus | journalpulp | No Comments“Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.” — Friedrich Hayek When the shutdown happened, it was a panicked, random, sweeping irrational decision made by scared politicians responding to howling media freaks. Regular people were horrified. All these three weeks later, you can see people coming around and […]
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Human Intelligence & Human Ingenuity Versus Government Force & Lockdown
April 11th, 2020 | Coronavirus | journalpulp | 2 CommentsCompare these two headlines:
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This Is Why Everything Will Ultimately Be Okay: Because Knowledge & Understanding Bring Calm
April 8th, 2020 | Coronavirus | journalpulp | 1 CommentIt’s sometimes called Farr’s Law, named after William Farr (1807 – 1883), and it states that all epidemics — all of them — follow an epidemiological curve (also known as an epi-curve or S-curve). These curves start out with an alarmingly steep incline. But over time, in natural progression, they slope downward and eventually flatten. This […]
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The Inescapable Fact & Nature Of
April 2nd, 2020 | Philosophy | journalpulp | 4 CommentsFor those who don’t believe that political-economic questions and their answers are entirely grounded in philosophy and that philosophy underpins all knowledge, scientific and otherwise, I ask you to observe the nightmarish spectacle unreeling before us now: because in your lifetime you’re not likely to see a greater global-wide testament to the inescapable fact and nature of […]
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Justus Quidem Tu Es, Domine, Si Disputem Tecum, Verumtamen Justa Loquar Ad Te
March 20th, 2020 | Poetry | journalpulp | 1 CommentJustus quidem tu es, Domine, si disputem tecum; verumtamen justa loquar ad te: Quare via impiorum prosperatur? Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners’ ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end? Wert thou my enemy, O thou my […]
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A Fruit Cool and Sweet Yet Forbidden
March 4th, 2020 | Books | journalpulp | No CommentsShe drove the southwest alone. With the help of her father and his translations — translations of Silverthorne’s Greek and Latin into English — Justine searched for days that turned into weeks. The western sunlight glanced heliotropically off her car, helmut-headed insects splattering against the windshield-glass like paintballs. Over and across the ghost-towns and all the […]
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Sacred Shadows Breathing With Latent Light
February 12th, 2020 | Literature | journalpulp | No CommentsHe was going out by way of a narrow system attended by whispering voices that seemed to him sourceless, a static hiss growing louder, and angular shapes on the periphery of his vision which broke apart and rejoined in giant jigsaw pieces. These puzzle pieces snapped and clicked about him. Down this gun-barrel corridor that […]
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First, There Was The Scent Of Thyme
February 9th, 2020 | Literature | journalpulp | No CommentsFirst, there was the scent of thyme. It drifted through her body in the form of fevers — an invisible emanation, soft and swirling, like a drift of water. The intangible fragrance of a thing, like an essence continually expelled. But by what or whom? Of what chemistry composed? Of what crude matter made? Entering […]
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Will You Set A Pick For Me At The Free-Throw Line Of Life?
January 9th, 2020 | Basketball | journalpulp | 13 CommentsI need someone to set a pick for me at the free-throw line of life.
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All The Sand In All The Sea
January 7th, 2020 | Bartending | journalpulp | 17 CommentsI recently discovered this song — on an obscure FM radio-station — and I fell in love with it. So I decided to make a bartending video to go along with it.
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