“Mischief is important”

24 Replies to ““Mischief is important””

1. Wow. That 20 years went by fast. Thanks for a heckuvva lot of entertainment.

   Question: what happened to that little motorcycle you used to ride and write about?

   Again, thanks.

2. That was a great read Kate. Some wisdom bombs dropped throughout!

3. Andrew Coyne ended up being such a disappointment.

   1. afaict he is no longer the same person. My theory is that being surrounded by leftists may eventually turn you into one if your principles are weak.

4. Good read.

5. Love it! Can concur with pretty much every answer. Truth! Thanks Kate. Your blog is the first thing I check each morning.

6. “The Black Stallion.” I have two movie lists. One is the movies one must see in order to be a cultured individual. “Uncle Buck”, “True Grit”, and “Die Hard” are on it. The other list is the greatest movie scenes of all time. The final race in “The Black Stallion” is an absolute masterpiece. It’s near the top of that list.

   1. It’s like an Alex Colville painting brought to life.

      1. Horse on the tracks.
         Colville is one of our best.

7. My goodness that was edifying.
   Could you please update your answers, so I can learn how your beliefs have evolved, before I submit my proposal of marriage?

8. Yeah, the single status is obsolete now.

   1. Just no luck at all…fyi, mini-Yorkies.

   2. Lucky him.

      1. Bastard.

9. Thanks for that little glimpse into the inner-Kate. I find myself nodding in agreement with most all of your answers (except Peter O’Toole’s moobs).

   But my one characteristic I find MOST different from you is the one about inherent trust of people. You explained it very nicely as arising from your growing up in rural communities (very, very, rural communities) where guile and deception are not only useless, but potentially dangerous.

   I am a born skeptic, and very wary of most people … until you … yes, YOU have earned my trust. Why? I believe it was my shitty (mostly) upbringing. Not what anyone would call a happy childhood in that most every adult in my life lied, deceived, and let me down in substantial ways. I believe I developed a filter to help me discern who could be trusted and who could not. I learned that “talk is cheap” … the HARD way. This inner skepticism has on-balance served me well … as something of a survival technique … but I do admire those who are more open and wide-eyed innocent than I am.

   1. Most people cannot be trusted. With some people, it can take a long time before you make that discovery, it’s not always obvious from the outset.

      Thankfully, in a free society with individual rights, you don’t need to trust most people.

      Innocence is not a good quality. Skepticism is.

10. Enjoyed that Kate. I too wonder if your answers to some questions would be different now.
    I know some of my strongly held opinions 30 years ago have changed. But many, based on intuition then, now thoroughly cemented in place.

    Heard this quote recently…
    “ “The odd thing about mankind is, he said we walk through life in a fog and we stumble along the path and we create the path as we stumble along, so that’s not the interesting thing the interesting thing is that when we look back, we see the man we see the path we don’t see the fog”

11. Very good.
    Nice ending: inviting a POS over just to see another guest beat the shit out of them.
    Over twenty years ago I worked with someone who would offer to buy someone they didn’t like a beer after work and then he’d dummy them, lol.
    Churchill and Teddy Roosevelt for me.

12. I too, enjoyed the book “A Soldier of the Great War”

13. I have very similar principles as you (for example Ayn Rand and VDH, ‘The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many.’) I also have trouble remembering names (faces not quite as bad). I need to meet someone many times to start remembering their name.

14. My I’d forgotten that.
    Birds of a feather eh I guess thats why we stick around.
    Re-reading it I still mostly concur with your answers but realise that your answer about reading people and ‘insincerity” probably resonates the most as a shared failing and for the same reasons.
    And as the time passes and somethings change its still a congratulations and good catch to Lance.

15. I’m in complete agreement with you on banning the racing of two-year-olds. I used to break yearlings for the track, and two-year-olds are merely children. It is brutal, greedy and unnecessary.

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17. Quite the woman. I’m sure Ted could still handle Justin.