Comments on: Paying Homage to What We Know is Wrong

By: Stephen Clay McGehee

Stephen Clay McGehee — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:34:35 +0000

Thank you for stopping by, Mr. Hale – and thank you for the kind words. I hope to see more comments from you in the future.

By: Eric Hale

Eric Hale — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:17:10 +0000

Just stumbled across this blog. I am very impressed! As a 30 year old, colonial British descended farm boy from Texas it is nice to come across someone who knows how to “speak the truth in love”, like a gentleman… like we used to. Truth and love can conquer all. Keep up the good work!

By: VA

VA — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:00:39 +0000

Mr. McGehee,
A very good post, and I agree completely with your sentiments. The quotes from that great Christian gentleman, Robert E. Lee, are very apposite.
-VA

By: James

James — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:48:44 +0000

Dear Mr. Starrett,
Many who see themselves as “leftist” and/or “very liberal”, see manners as “bull…” , as well. Yours truly, is recalling words heard and read at the University of California at Santa Cruz in the late 1980’s, an institution as much opposed to our principles and historiography, as any, except perhaps U.C. Berkeley(the alma mater of yours truly is U.C. Santa Cruz). Opening a door for a co-ed did not go well either, and there was more, but you get the picture. As the sons and daughters of the Hippies of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, yours truly should have expected this.
A New Jersey Copperhead

By: Stephen Clay McGehee

Stephen Clay McGehee — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:31:08 +0000

I suppose it still surprises people that, unlike the Hollywood stereotypes, not all Southerners are knuckle-dragging, illiterate rednecks. It just rubs some people the wrong way to learn that real life is quite different from what Hollywood tells them.

By: Sam Starrett

Sam Starrett — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:36:35 +0000

Dear Sirs,

The conduct of “dan” is such as to make me sigh in resigned exasperation. In a sense, I pity him. No doubt he is more the victim than the perpetrator of the foolish mindset he espouses. I am reminded of the devil Screwtape in C.S. Lewis’s classic Screwtape Proposes A Toast, speaking in the voice of one for whom democracy has become not just a favored political system but a whole philosophy of life:

““Here is someone who speaks English rather more clearly and euphoniously than I — it must be a vile, upstage, la-di-da affectation.”

I cannot help but notice that it is common among our critics to consider our ability to write in an elevated style somehow a sign of arrogance, or in some other way negative. It never ceases to perplex me that they would consider facility with one’s language something to be derided, but such is the Left.

Sincerely,
Samuel C. Starrett
Administrator
The Rambling Royalist

By: James

James — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:21:22 +0000

Dear Sirs,
Refering to the words in this post, “…the majority never stands for what is right and just and good.”, humankind is generally, selfish, short-sighted and cowardly, and hence, easily and negatively manipulated. Popular majority-rule is mob rule. However, there are people, that tend not to have these traits. It is from this elite, that true progressives emerge to more or less maintain an equilibrium, whether one sees the world as half empty or half full.
A New Jersey Copperhead

By: Stephen Clay McGehee

Stephen Clay McGehee — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:14:07 +0000

Thank you, sir.

At times, I think about actually replying to those sorts of comments (beyond what I did here), but then decide against doing so. At least “dan” (and presumably others like him who don’t comment) are reading this. Perhaps some day it will make a connection and then a change. Things change with age – as a teenager, my thought process was very different than it is now at age 58.

Unless a comment uses profane or obscene language, or is “over the top” obnoxious and annoying, it gets published. I can only think of one, or maybe two, comments that I have not published. “We reserve the right to hold our critics to lower standards.”

By: Peter S. Kelley

Peter S. Kelley — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:49:10 +0000

I recall encountering some of Dan’s commentary on a previous post. It was of a similar caliber. Seems to me I mentioned that in a reply following it – although I’ve forgotten what that particular post concerned.

Regardless of that, given the overall tenor and quality of his remarks, I find it both interesting and puzzling that he is among those that follow this blog. He’s certainly free to do so, at least in my opinion. I just don’t understand the point of it. I don’t want to make much of this. I think over-attention to Dan would be counter-productive but it’s nice to see that the subject of manners interests him even though the substance may, at times, escape him.

Keep up the good work, Colonel.

Peter Kelley
Mountain City, TN

By: dan

dan — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:49:37 +0000

Ummm, Steve, was that intended as an insult? Because, I gotta tell ya, homie, that’s some weak sauce. I realize I’m way over-educated for this post, and it was not intended for me, so I do apologize, but you see, this is what happens when you put stuff up on them Interwebs. People get to, you know, see it, and stuff. Them interwebs is a fascinatin’ thing, I do declare!