Rick’s Café Américain

The whole economic system of Capitalism is an offshoot of a devouring and overwhelming lust, of a kind that can hold sway only in a society that has deliberately renounced the Christian asceticism and turned away from Heaven to give itself over exclusively to earthly gratifications.—Nikolai Berdyaev

I don’t recognize this 😬

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Jermmmf

Jerry, yes

I approve this post, and the viewing that inspired it.

Some bishop or other who, I don’t know, might be on a presidential commission or something

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Takeaways from AP's investigation into Russia's Africa Corps in Mali Takeaways from AP's investigation into Russia's Africa Corps in Mali

Takeaways from AP's investigation into Russia's Africa Corps in Mali

Tom Nichols: “This ongoing game show of ‘strike a boat every day’ […] is making us into worse people — every one of us, whether we’re in uniform or just ordinary citizens. It is spiritually and morally corrosive on every level.”

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

Weak tea from Douthat.

My wife to me while I’m writing: “Breathe!”

Hay un profeta dentro de cada conciencia; nos grita hasta que le hacemos caso,… o hasta que lo matamos.

There is a prophet within every conscience; he shouts at us until we pay him mind,… or until we kill him.

I hope I could manage half, to my shame

Everybody loves posting at 2am

This is the canonical ranking, of course 👍

This is the way.

Not by any spelling

All the best secret police have bloodthirsty dogs

I’ve now had multiple sources tell me the UK NHS is removing the CDC from its list of reliable sources.

Welcome to irrelevance.

What part of “Jerry, no” do you not understand?

My mom once met a fellow American who had never heard of ketchup.

A Far Side cartoon. In the top panel, titled “What we say to cats” a woman is scolding her cat: “Well Fluffy, you’ve clawed the furniture for the last time! I’ll not tolerate that behavior any longer!…” The bottom panel is titled “What they hear”. It’s the same picture of the woman scolding her cat, but this time her speech bubble is empty.

Let us not forget its feline counterpart

Two things:

1) The principle here, called pikuach nefesh, says that you can break a law *to save a life*, not to TAKE a life.

2) But even then, some laws can never be broken to save a life. One thing you *cannot* do for the sake of pikuach nefesh is to kill someone else.

“And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.” (Romans 3:8)

Sorry Marco but I don’t feel attacked by Elon having to fork over less than 0.1% of his money (nor even all of it!)

Brett Kavanaugh sees no problem with this woman being forced to do this every day for the rest of her life

Punching heretics in the face does have a certain charm however

How much memory does “Jerry, no” actually use

Don McLean’s American Pie 🤷‍♂️