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Anniversaries
There were a couple of anniversaries yesterday, that are worth noting. First, on 18 September 1947, the United States Air Force came into existence. Born out of the Army Air Forces, it had long been...
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All Saints’ Day Eve
Yesterday was an anniversary, one that is important to everybody that is reading this. On October 29, 1969, the very first message was sent on ARPANET from Room 3420 in Boelter Hall at UCLA to Stanford...
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Daytona
There is a sport in America that got its start as moonshiners attempting to get away from the revenoorers. It’s changed a bit since then and has for years been pretty influential. What is that sport?...
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The Glory and Beauty of the Liturgy
Photo: Interior of the Hagia Sophia today by Ian Scott / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0) via Wikimedia Commons Gene Veith at Cranach found a story that fascinates me. Let’s...
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It’s a crash course!
I was perfectly happy with typewriters, seven television channels, and a rotary phone. Then – from out of nowhere or from outer space – came touch-tone phones. And then there were rumors we’d have...
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Perspective
Gosh, we have no end of complaints about this thing we’re dealing – or trying to deal – with. I just spent $65 for toilet paper. But you do what you have to do. A dear friend in England sent this to...
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There’s a wonderful young man who has a YouTube channel, Jamel a.k.a. Jamal, who does ‘reaction’ videos to music. He’s just a sweetheart and really nice guy. I subscribe to his channel and always look...
View ArticleSome Additional Thoughts
I sent a copy of the article I Don’t Need Proof to my younger sister. I don’t think she’d ever heard of the Shroud of Turin. But she likes to read my writing and is happy that I’m writing again, so, I...
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Ok, Kids …
Put the books away. Reach over and turn off the news. Comfy? Why not go get something to drink, maybe a snack – and then come and sit with me. I once lived in Pennsylvania for several years. I never...
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Gods of Flight and the People Rule
AP Photo/Chris Carlson I want to start today by thanking my coauthors here, especially Audre and Jessica, as most of you know, for years I wrote every word on this blog. You know and I know that the...
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Home
click to embiggen I hope everyone is enjoying ‘nothing time’; that span of time from Christmas to the first working day in the new year. It’s nothing time because pretty much nothing gets done. There...
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Terms of Service and Shrugging
The other day at Ace of Spades, Buck Throckmorton had what I think is an excellent idea, and I note that John Hinderaker at PowerLine (and others) have picked up on it. If Monster Tech can aggressively...
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Random Friday Observations
A special treat today since I find I have absolutely nothing I want to say, but Audre, what a wonderful person she is, has several drafts. I doubt she will mind, and this one also says something that...
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That Reminds Me
This caught my eye on Audre’s post yesterday. Audre commented: I can’t, right now, read the articles on TCW – they are so unrelentingly political; if it weren’t for Margaret, there’d be no breath of...
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Press On; An American Story
Many of you know that my frustrated childhood dream was flying an American bomber. The reasons it didn’t happen are fairly numerous and unimportant at this point. But there were reasons for that dream....
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What Hath Government Wrought
Hardy cyclist David Joel cycling on a frozen Thames near Windsor Bridge in London during the 1947 cold snap Writing in Master Resource, Robert Bradley Jr noticed a recurring theme, and we should learn...
View ArticleThe Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
There’s a wonderful young man who has a YouTube channel, Jamel a.k.a. Jamal, who does ‘reaction’ videos to music. He’s just a sweetheart and really nice guy. I subscribe to his channel and always look...
View ArticleSome Additional Thoughts
I sent a copy of the article I Don’t Need Proof to my younger sister. I don’t think she’d ever heard of the Shroud of Turin. But she likes to read my writing and is happy that I’m writing again, so, I...
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Ok, Kids …
Put the books away. Reach over and turn off the news. Comfy? Why not go get something to drink, maybe a snack – and then come and sit with me. I once lived in Pennsylvania for several years. I never...
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Gods of Flight and the People Rule
AP Photo/Chris Carlson I want to start today by thanking my coauthors here, especially Audre and Jessica, as most of you know, for years I wrote every word on this blog. You know and I know that the...
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