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A Canticle for Leibowitz Part 1: Boethius Book Club, Episode 11

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  A lively discussion of Walter Miller’s science fiction masterpiece, a future history in which mankind repeats the Dark Ages only to make the same mistakes again. Recorded: March 22, 2018 Original Air Date: May 2018 Show Run Time: 42 minutes Show Host(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming The Fleming Foundation · Boethius Book Club, Episode 11: A Canticle for Leibowitz, Part 1   Boethius Book Club℗ is a Production of the Fleming Foundation. Copyright 2018. All Rights are Reserved.

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A Canticle for Leibowitz Part 2: Boethius Book Club, Episode 12

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A lively discussion of Walter Miller’s science fiction masterpiece, a future history in which mankind repeats the Dark Ages only to make the same mistakes again. Recorded: March 22, 2018 Original Air Date: May 2018 Show Run Time: 42 minutes Show Host(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming The Fleming Foundation · Boethius Book Club, Episode 12: A Canticle for Leibowitz, Part 2   Boethius Book Club℗ is a Production of the Fleming Foundation. Copyright 2018. All Rights are Reserved.

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Taxes: A Flight of Fancy by George Bagby

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Taxes are an infamously good way to discourage whatever they tax. For this reason and others, the income tax and the property tax are especially bad ideas, for they discourage both work and ownership, along with mandating that all forms of work and property produce a minimal amount of cash.

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A Satire on Eloquence

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Once there was a little boy whose name was Robert Reese;

And every Friday afternoon he had to speak a piece.

So many poems thus he learned, that soon he had a store

Of recitations in his head and still kept learning more.

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The Ballad of Jesse James

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Jesse James was a lad that killed many a man,
He robbed the Danville train,
He stole from the rich and he gave to the poor,
He’d a hand and a heart and a brain.

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Frost on Spring

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Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;

And give us not to think so far away

As the uncertain harvest; keep us here

All simply in the springing of the yea