“Lost his fight with cancer,” “collateral damage,”and “sanctions.” In the coming weeks, Humpty Dumpty will proceed to eliminate the useless words and the misleading usage that is rendering coherent communication in American English impossible
A new law went into effect in the State of Alabama on 1 October that, perhaps unintentionally, pitted two wings of the vast, over-the-top, animal-loving segment of society against each other.
Every day, I get a text or email or run across a “reel” on Facebook that says something like, “Quit saying ‘Sto bene,’ (or any one of dozens of everyday phrases, and then offers what real Italians say.”
I, too, grew up believing that we must “support Israel” because God said so. I believed it because I was told that by influential people in my life. But it’s not in the Bible.
For over ten years I am have been working, intermittently, on a course of lectures and/or written chapters on aspects of Ancient Greek morality, social and political institutions, civilization, literature, and philosophy, that would present the ancient Greeks from a rather different perspective than either the current Marxist-feminist attack on ancient racist patriarchs or the old Liberal defense of the founders of democracy, secular reason, and progress.
The lust of our eyes leads to a lust of the mind which then seeks to make experiments and gain knowledge
In the near future, we have quite a long road trip planned to the Midwest. One thing we’ve found that greatly helps while away the hours, especially across northern Indiana where everything looks like the set of a dystopian movie, are audiobooks.
This is the first section of the first part of a series of articles on the central significance of occultism . Like many of the fathers of modern science and Enlightenment–René Descartes, Francis Bacon, Elias Ashmole, and Robert Boyle–Isaac Newton was a devoted alchemist and occultist.
Here is my take. Crimes should be about a human being harming another human being against the latter’s will (this includes property crimes).
This essay on Operation Eagle Claw appeared two years ago on this website.
Recently more than in times past, the month of April triggers some ominous memories that have become more vivid somehow with distance in time. I had relegated my memories of the events of Operation Eagle Claw (OEC) to my mind’s recesses after leaving the First Ranger Battalion for Special Forces (SF) in August of 1980 following the ill-fated mission that past April.
