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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Siskiyou County
From the Coming Secessionist Movement front: YREKA (CBS/AP) — A far Northern California county where residents have complained they lack representation at the state capitol wants to separate from California. The Record Searchlight of Redding reports that the Siskiyou County … Continue reading
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Carnivorous Caterpillar
There’s an HBD lesson here, for us humans. Those who appear before you are, often, not who they seem.
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Ronald H. Couse
UChicago’s Ronald H. Coase has died at the impressive age of 102. Ronald H. Coase, whose insights about why companies work and when government regulation is unnecessary earned him a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 1991, died on … Continue reading
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Bill Watterson
Bill Watterson, creator of the eternal Calvin and Hobbes, drew panels for key lines from his famous graduation speech to Kenyon College in 1990. It’s a wonderful strip on “creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul”.
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Literary Appreciation of the Lovecraft Kind
In ‘Literary Appreciation of the Lovecraft Kind‘, Dan McCarthy defends H.P. from a recent claim that he is a “godawful writer”. McCarthy nails it in the following assessment of Lovecraft’s writing, which I agree with wholeheartedly: The “flaw” in Lovecraft’s … Continue reading
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Linz
From “What Occurred at Linz: A Memoir of Forgetting“, by Robert Hahn, is this telling description of Linz today, the city that Hitler was born in: Heading away from the square, I turn left at Graben, meaning “moat”—I have passed … Continue reading
On Decadence
Charles Hill, fellow at Yale and Stanford’s Hoover Institution, has an excellent piece “On Decadence“: The advent of “screen culture”—cellphones, iPads, as well as old-fashioned TV and film—now ubiquitous among the young in their formative years of education, has shrunk … Continue reading
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Syria & X
Rand Paul, who along with his father have a clearer understanding of jewish group evolutionary strategy than most, on Syria: The link between American interests and Syria is not clear, Sen. Rand Paul said on Sunday. “I think the war … Continue reading
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