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Attitudes towards truth have changed. Now we accept the idea that there are different sorts of truth: the phrases historical truth, narrative truth and emotional truth come trippingly off the lips of vast numbers of people. Then there are the complex notions of fantasy and fiction: we have long subscribed to the notion of novelists making up various ‘lies’ or fantasies in order to tell underlying truths about human nature. But we also have to accept, I think, that a gentleman’s word is no ...

The local AKA sorority chapter local chapter started with 7 women at a time when their lives were affected by the Jim Crow South in which they lived.

What follows are a few thought-provoking comments about specific articles.

The State demonstrated beyond any doubt its absolute destructiveness and anti-human agenda during this interminable year of COVIDCon; anyone who still believes that government is beneficial and that its “experts” have our best interests at heart is either an imbecile or profiting from Leviathan.  Tragically, Christ’s Church augmented that despotism rather than restraining or eliminating it. And as he blithely sold us down the river, Parson Goat chirped, “Romans 13! Romans 13!” Now, a...

Wokeness: ‘It’s About the Money’ Commentary I’m beginning to think H. L. Mencken’s famous apothegm—“When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money”—would make a good Eleventh Commandment or at least something to bear in mind on almost any occasion. Wokeness—no matter what “justice” veneer you put on it—is about the money. It’s about taking the money from those who have more and giving it to those who have less—or supposedly have less. Sometim...

Republicans fight Democrats while Democrats battle each other.

Riding a big 2020 boost from Saga Egmont and overall digital growth during the pandemic, Denmark’s Lindhardt & Ringhof has ‘ambitious plans’ for 2021. In Copenhagen’s Frederiksberg Gardens, January 6. Image – iStockphoto: Olli 0815 ‘A Strong and Lasting Medium’ In news messaging from Copenhagen, Saga Egmont reports that its parent company Lindhardt & Ringhof produced a record-setting 33 million kroner (US$5.4 million) in revenue in 2020. This is described by the company as “a hu...

Republicans fight Democrats while Democrats battle each other.

I heard someone once say that if you want a friend in Washington, DC, get a dog. The same could be said about political loyalty — get a dog! Dogs are loyal; politicians, not so much. This was evidenced through the great Impeachment Redux. Once the Democrats began accusing any Republican who stood up for Donald Trump of being a Nazi or worse (is there anything worse?), Republicans started turning on each other. Congresswoman Liz Cheney, whom I had always respected, threw Trump under the pol...

To beat the blues of staying at home all day, I succumbed to taking part in an ‘online book exchange’ doing the rounds on the social media accounts of my friends. Details were hard to unde