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Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Published by Admin on September 24, 2025Speaking as I was the other week about Hell, I can expect to be in purgatory any minute now. As I have to work fast…
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Published by Admin on September 12, 2025Many say we live in hellish times. Let’s unpack what that might signify, as there are conflicting accounts going around as to what qualifies.
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Published by Admin on September 1, 2025Read online The Café with No Name, by Robert Seethaler Reviewed by Geoffrey Dutton Translator: Katy Derbyshire3 Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Europa Editions Published: February…
Leave a CommentNew York Times Intellectual Says Higher Education Breeds Nihilists
Published by Admin on August 22, 2025David Brooks has done it again; castigated the left for the sins of the right. In a recent NYT op-ed he says “conservatives … feel drenched by a constant downpour of progressive sermonizing.” Feeling oppressed by “educated elites” drives the more extreme of them to want to tear down the system. Not so fast, sir…
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Published by Admin on August 4, 2025Review of Thickafog by Caleb Mason
An Evocative and Literate Island Murder Mystery
A Passage to Internet’s End
Published by Admin on July 24, 2025The eerily relevant novella The Machine Stops and the man behind it
Leave a CommentArtificial Stupidity
Published by Admin on July 18, 2025AI came close to ruining my Monday, rendering a consumer product shopping expedition Kafkaesque. It wasn’t funny, but I still might have the last laugh.…
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Published by Admin on June 18, 2025Open in Browser You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows —Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues Ah, but when it comes…
2 CommentsPutting Immigrants on Ice
Published by Admin on May 12, 2025We’re in a new ICE age that is freezing the bejesus out of our constitutional rights
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