seanessay.com Today I feel like posting a comical conduit post. Remember when the Internet was new? When newspapers would run reviews of web sites for people to look at? Soon blogs appeared that might be divided into two types: destination blogs, such as my essays, and conduit blogs, where those who found the site were […]
A Reservoir of Racism: The Reckoning
seanessay.com David Frum once hesitated when asked a question. A former White House staffer, Frum explained that his “obvious” answer, once given, would then seem so obvious that Frum would look stupid for “stating the obvious.” I forget the specific question to Frum, but today I face a similar plight regarding racism. Such is the […]
When a Lost Heart Returns at Christmas
I wasn’t going to write today, until I saw a BBC news story. So sad. A mother disappeared, and now her children are teenagers, but of course if she wanted to show up with no questions asked, it would be at Christmas, so they set her a place, and it tears their hearts. The most […]
Even Communists Crave Christmas Carols
seanessay.com Enjoying the Yuletide, I once spent three whole days listening to a local rock station which every December becomes “your Christmas music station.” That was a big mistake, for amongst the overplayed tawdry tinsel songs were… no Christmas carols at all. I clued in: That nice station, in our secular society, has a policy […]
Amidst Clutter, Never Felt So Beautiful
seanessay.com As a Self Help Junkie, I wonder: have you “personal appearance” vanity, like me? Have you “far too many” scattered books and magazines, like me—and it drives you mad? Are books your “darlings,” and “stupid junk!”? Clutter wise, as Henry David Thoreau might say, “The mass of people lead lives of quiet desperation.” … […]
Fresh Anger at MRU Board of Governors
seanessay.com “To see is to like.” Sean, after regularly seeing unwed high school mothers on the bus INTRODUCTION At the university the various administrative offices are in a modest low building dating back to the founding of the campus, from before students rebelled, (a confederate rebel cap is in the trophy case) before the campus […]