Words Seldom Seen: Nutpick

Posted on June 4, 2024June 5, 2024 by Simon

Nutpick Verb: To use the most extreme person or position as an example of the other side of the argument. Refers to cherry-picking the worst or nuttiest comments to disparage a larger group. Example o... Read More

Bookstores

Posted on February 19, 2024February 10, 2024 by Simon

In a bookstores your mind can go window shopping. Adapted from Jonah Goldberg co founder of The Dispatch and a brilliant wordsmith. Photo is from a Powell’s Bookstore Postcard.... Read More

Recreational Beliefs

Posted on August 30, 2023August 9, 2023 by Simon

Recreational Beliefs Recreational beliefs are beliefs that you hold that don’t effect the way you live your life. For instance: Believing that aliens have landed on earth and the government is c... Read More

I Agree

Posted on March 31, 2022March 29, 2022 by Simon

“Liking something and agreeing with it are very different things.” Jonah Goldberg... Read More

Sanity

Posted on July 31, 2020July 26, 2020 by Simon

In an age of insanity, the sane seem like oddballs. Jonah Goldberg... Read More

Why America

Posted on June 20, 2018June 3, 2018 by Simon

“But where are we going I asked?” “We are going to America.”My father said. “Why America?” I prodded. “Because son.” he replied “we were born Amer... Read More

Suicide of the West

Posted on June 15, 2018June 3, 2018 by Simon

Jonah Goldberg is a great writer and an even better researcher. In this book, which I will quote often in maxim posts, he goes down the rabbit hole chasing Donald Trump and ends up far from his origin... Read More

Simon Burrow

Quirky thoughts from an old man.

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