I’ve suggested before that you refer to one of my favorite bloggers, Conservative MP Monte Solberg, and his always enjoyable blog.
Here’s his entry from yesterday, surprisingly bereft of Gomery-ness. A nice litle read.
This morning I awoke with a cold and felt very sorry for myself. Even worse I sprang from bed only to discover that I was in the only hotel room in North America that didn’t have a coffee maker. I looked all over. No coffee maker.
I decided to head out for a walk and found some lukewarm coffee in the lobby, and was grateful for it. My hotel is by Varsity Stadium on Bloor and I decided I would walk down around the U of T, an area I have become acquainted with over the years.
As I walked I remembered that Allan Bloom had taught here. His book, The Closing of the American Mind, was a conservative classic during the culture wars of the 1980s.
I have now read it a couple of times. It is densely written and Bloom made generous assumptions about the philosophical sophistication of his readers, an assumption not warranted in my case. But when I read it, though I would be lying if I said I understood all the allusions, I knew it was an important book and a milestone in the conservative counter revolution.
On my way back I spotted a Tims and drifted in. The line moved with an efficiency that would have made Adam Smith tear up. While standing there I spotted a frowning man at a table wearing a Chairman Mao hat, and I couldn’t decide whether to laugh or cry.
Cry because Mao and his ilk murdered tens of millions of people. Laugh because the guy had been guided into a Tims by Smith’s invisible hand and he was wearing a hat made by some capitalist who would make millions from pseudo-revolutionaries like my glowering friend.
Bemused I left Tims, returned to my room, and set my coffee down on the desk right beside the coffee maker that had been there all along.
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