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The True Christmas Story that Never Gets Old And the vile reality that is the State that makes it compelling The Christmas Truce of World War INever forget the Christmas truce of World War I, when troops refused to be pawns of empire for one blessed day.Mises InstituteJohn V.

July 12, 2024 People who still believe that the news media tell them the truth and that their nation and their world work pretty much the way they were taught in school are just as brainwashed and deluded as any QAnon cultist. Caitlin Johnson Caitlin Johnstone on SubstackPeople who still

May 31, 2024 BYCU A Newcomer in the Grape Industry It's Vermentino. It resists drought and is cheap and California growers are lovin' it. It currently costs $4,000 a ton (whereas Napa Cabernet costs over $8,000), but as more use it, the cost will go

The Cell Phone is a Monkey Trap for the Left HemisphereAnd Eight Other Short Observations about the HemispheresThe Daily EudemonEric Scheske April 30, 2024 Art Appreciation: One Way to Reclaim Your Attention?Nathan Heller at The New Yorker (“The Battle for Attention”)The Daily EudemonEric Scheske April 29, 2024 Monday

Happy Easter "When the disciples saw the risen Christ, they beheld him as a reality in the world, though no longer of it, respecting the order of the world, but Lord of its laws. To behold such reality was different and more than to see a tree or watch

February 29, 2204 I Loathe the Republican Party But Thank Goodness for the Republican Party This issue is so important, I'm not inclined to much care what kind of politics or demagoguery or other roguery is driving the opposition, just as long as this measure is exposed and

January 31, 2024 AI and the Left Hemisphere About once a month, I come across an online essay that is so lengthy and compelling that, after reading the first section, I merely scan the rest and print it out so I can study it later. Such is this essay by

December 30, 2023 Detroit Pistons Relegated To WNBADETROIT, MI — After suffering a record-tying 28th straight loss, basketball fans across the country and the other 29 NBA teams voted unanimously to demote the Detroit Pistons to the WNBA.The Babylon Bee December 29, 2023 BYCU Beer is on the Decline2023 has

November 30, 2023 Four Female Philosophers His four magi, emerging from the material, moral, social, and political wreckage wrought by the First World War, grasped that philosophy had to be utterly reimagined. Exactly. All the decent philosophers in the twentieth century knew modern thought was broken and had to be