{"id":17839,"date":"2021-02-13T08:20:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T15:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=17839"},"modified":"2021-02-13T08:21:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T15:21:46","slug":"overnight-news-evil-is-simply-the-weeds-that-shoot-up-where-goodness-goes-uncultivated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17839\/overnight-news-evil-is-simply-the-weeds-that-shoot-up-where-goodness-goes-uncultivated\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: Evil is simply the weeds that shoot up where goodness goes\u00a0uncultivated."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cSerious question: Is every big-shot who hates Trump a pedophile?\u201d<\/p><\/div>I will give you a way of understanding good and evil that should make things easier to understand, if not to abide.<\/p>\n

Like this: When you are confronted with inexplicably evil conduct, entertain this thought:<\/p>\n

“How tragic it is that there is no one in your life who would be ashamed to see you behaving this way.”<\/p>\n

If you say those words out loud, you might get punched, but just by silently intoning them you will have fully-explained your situation: Well-brought-up adults are good by habit, not by repeated resolutions. But they are good by habit because, as children, they did not want to disappoint someone \u2013 typically a parent or grandparent.<\/p>\n

All of “high-trust” civilization is built on good fathering, and everything everyone decries in the thoughtless or predatory behaviors of modernity emerges from our having undermined fatherhood.<\/p>\n

How to fix the mess from here? No need. Just get out of dad’s way. He’ll take care of everything.<\/p>\n

In other news:<\/p>\n

CNBC:<\/strong> Bidding wars are off the charts, as home listings fall to a record low.<\/a> Flash news from a grunt on the ground: The worm has turned on inventory.<\/p>\n

king5.com:<\/strong> More businesses flee Seattle because of crime and violence. At least 160 businesses have left the city since last March.<\/a><\/p>\n

New York Post:<\/strong> Millennials buying cheap old homes to escape pandemic cages.<\/a><\/p>\n

Human Events:<\/strong> Disney Amongst Potential Mass Exodus of Businesses From California.<\/a><\/p>\n

City Journal:<\/strong> Deficits Don\u2019t Matter\u2014Until They Do: We should be wary about dismissing risks that no longer seem relevant; eventually, they reemerge.<\/a><\/p>\n

Seth Barron:<\/strong> Cuomo Unmasked: The New York governor\u2019s long-running media celebration was largely based on a fiction\u2014his dramatic understatement of Covid-19 deaths in nursing homes.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cSerious question: Is every big-shot who hates Trump a pedophile?\u201dI will give you a way of understanding good and evil that should make things easier to understand, if not to abide. 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