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ONE WEEK // ONE BAND Let’s talk about what music means to us. – 2014 Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: “The Sound of Silence” Our cat Darkness all mellowed out listening to “The Sound of Silence” by S&G My cmnt: I … Continue reading The Sounds of Silence
Here is the original post with everyone presented The milkmaid who wouldn’t leave her cows: Tali Medina Kibbutz Urim dairy farm manager was on the phone with her wounded husband when she rushed to milk 600 cows despite Hamas terrorists … Continue reading The War in Israel: Unexpected Heroes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – April 2024 Artwork (above) The Second Coming, by Mormon painter Harry Anderson (62562); GAK 238; GAB 66; Primary manual 5-28; Primary manual 6-28; Primary manual 7-25; Matthew 16:27; 24:30–31; 25:31 My cmnt: Both my … Continue reading Comparison of the Community of Christ (RLDS) and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS)
Ken Klukowski – Easter 31 Mar 2024 – Washington, DC – Breitbart Christians celebrate Easter this Sunday, marking the anniversary of the cornerstone belief of their faith that is as shocking of a claim today as it was 2,000 years ago: Jesus Christ was bodily resurrected from the grave following his death by crucifixion on Good Friday. Distinctive among the religions of the world, Christians believe the founder of their faith is more than just a great moral teacher or an example to be emulated. They believe that he was God in the flesh, and that after his execution on … Continue reading Christians Celebrate Easter: ‘If Christ Has Not Been Raised … Your Faith Is in Vain’
by Mark Helprin – Winter 2023-24 – Claremont Review of Books As the home of intellectuals often at some remove from the consequences of their theories, and in betrayal of their purpose, universities have often become the welcoming soil for extremism, such as in National Socialist Germany, Fascist Italy, Soviet Russia, and elsewhere. Consider the following unfortunate though paradigmatic account of an institution that has lost its way: The national government had introduced a system of preferences similar in effect to the lapsed quotas this university had once implemented to “diminish the Jews.” Famously complex racial laws (in which people … Continue reading Kristallnacht again? At Harvard
The Jews’ lasting contribution to Western civilization. by Michael M. Rosen – Aug 16, 2017 – Claremont Review of Books In The Genius of Judaism, French intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy explores the deep, lasting contributions—intellectual, moral, and philosophical—that the Jews have made to Western civilization, especially in France. His creative, affecting, and personal exposition is a worthy, if sometimes idiosyncratic, addition to the literature on this subject. Lévy defines Judaism’s genius, somewhat elliptically, as “a certain idea of man and God, of history and time, of power, voice, light, sovereignty, revolt, memory and nature,” before delineating the relationship between Judaism and … Continue reading Pure Genius: How Judaism blessed the World
Amie Just – Mar 22, 2024 – Lincoln Journal Star C.J. Wilcher bowed his head. With his eyes closed and his arms crossed behind his back, he prayed. While the thousands of people in Pinnacle Bank Arena watched him share his senior day testimonial on the video board, Wilcher reflected. I’ve been through a lot with all my ups and downs. But I wouldn’t change it for the world. I’m not supposed to be where I’m at right now, but this is where I’m supposed to be. For Wilcher, this is home. One of them, anyway. He’s proud to be … Continue reading How C.J. Wilcher lost himself, found faith and became a leader for Nebraska basketball
Pariah or Paragon? The main difference between Sweden’s strategy and that of most other countries was that it mostly relied on voluntary adaptation rather than government force. AUGUST 29, 2023 • POLICY ANALYSIS NO. 959 – Cato.org – By Johan Norberg My cmnt: I’ve posted numerous articles on Covid-19 on this website. Click on category Covid-19 to see the list. Also click the category Masks to see numerous posts documenting the futility of wearing masks. CATO is a center-left institute so keep that in mind. My cmnt: The biggest problem with most center-left analyses is what they leave out. It is … Continue reading Sweden during the Pandemic
Celebrating the resilience, creativity, and contribution of the nation’s African founders. by Diana Schaub – Spring 2023 – Claremont Review of Books Who founded the United States? Although Americans give special accolades to a few indispensable individuals, we clearly have no single founder—no one like Lycurgus, who gave Sparta its laws and way of life. Instead, we have founders—plural—and often refer to the founding generation or the founding era. This difference between the ancient lawgiver and the modern phenomenon of elected representatives acting on behalf of the people is remarked on by Publius (himself the plural creation of James Madison, … Continue reading African Founders: How Enslaved People expanded American ideals
Mick Lindgren – Jul 24, 2005 – Lincoln Journal Star I generally liked the ideas presented in the Values section feature “Doubt and beyond” (LJS, July 16) but feel that an important clarification is in order. There is a backward-looking, … Continue reading Of doubt and Copernicus: Science is not solely secular
My cmnt: These were conveniently assembled on the website BallotPedia My cmnt: Notice how each and everyone first acknowledges Almighty God (or some derivation of the same) as the grantor and originator of all of our freedoms, rights and privileges. My cmnt: Almost all of them are immediately followed by a Bill of Rights which begin with a statement of the purpose of government being primarily to secure these rights and to protect their property. Here is Nebraska’s as a typical example: CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEBRASKAOF 1875,AND SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTSPreamble.We, the people, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom,do … Continue reading The Preambles to the various State Constitutions
By David Marchese – Feb 23, 2024 – New York Times Mag – Photo Illustration by Bráulio Amado My cmnt: I’ve included below four articles respectively from Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, WebMD and Forbes Health. My cmnt: My takeaway from these articles? Sociopathic behaviors are now called antisocial personality disorder and exist on a spectrum much like Asperger’s Syndrome which is a form of Autism Spectrum Disorder. In other words everyone has a little of it. My cmnt: So this interview (below) with Patric Gagne in New York Times Magazine is mostly just fun to read, because like a good movie (Silence … Continue reading What It’s Like to Be a Sociopath
Judaism and Christianity are the only two religions that share a sacred text and a fundamental set of values. These values created and sustained Western Civilization. But now many want to discard them. If we do, at what cost? by Dennis Prager – Prager 5-min videos – May 22, 2023 Have you ever heard the term, “Judeo-Christian values?” I suspect you have. Can you name any of those values? I suspect you can’t. But you should because Judeo-Christian values are the moral foundation of Western civilization. As the great British prime minister Margaret Thatcher put it: “The truths of the … Continue reading What are Judeo-Christan values?
My cmnt: As a Christian informed by the Biblical values enshrined in the confessions of the Reformation I fully understand the significance and uniqueness of the Holy Trinity – Father, Son and Holy Spirit. My cmnt: The American Trinity, as follows in this video by Dennis Prager, is a brief and insightful summary into the foundation and greatness of the American Experiment. No, not the creation of Frankenstein’s monster, but rather the creation of a nation uniquely founded on an idea not a particular race or ethnicity. So here it is from Dennis. Race and ethnicity have defined every nation … Continue reading The American Trinity
5 minute videos – Prager U – Oct 28, 2013 My cmnt: There were two great cities that heavily influenced Western civilization: Athens and Jerusalem, that is Greek philosophy and the Judeo-Christian worldview as expressed by Moses, Jesus and the Apostles. Tertullian’s two most famous expressions: “what has Athens to do with Jerusalem” and it is “to be believed because it is absurd” aside these two cities represent two great truths that must guide our conduct and culture: Faith and Reason. Faith represents our presuppositions and Reasons represents our ability to reach valid conclusions from our limited data. My cmnt: If our presuppositions (our … Continue reading Is Evil rational?
The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet This controversial and counterintuitive new book examines why population growth and freedom to innovate make Earth’s resources more, not less, abundant. AUGUST 2022 • PUBLISHED BY CATO INSTITUTE By Marian L. Tupy and Gale L. Pooley The Cato Institute “For centuries, the ivory towers of academia have echoed this sentiment of multitudinous ends and limited means. In this supremely contrarian book, Tupy and Pooley overturn the tables in the temple of conventional thinking. They deploy rigorous and original data and analysis to proclaim a gospel of abundance. Economics―and ultimately, politics―will … Continue reading Superabundance
by Alex Harris – 28th January, 2024 – Neon Music My cmnt: I downloaded this from iTunes ($1.29) to support the artists. You can hear it for free below but still download it to support the artists. Canadian rapper Tom MacDonald teamed up with political commentator Ben Shapiro in a striking collaboration that shook the music industry. The song, aptly titled FACTS, stirred up quite a storm, making its mark as a number-one hit on iTunes and becoming a hot topic of discussion across various social media platforms. In this article, we delve into the lyrics, the meaning, and the impact of … Continue reading “Facts” #1 Rap song by Tom MacDonald – feat. Ben Shapiro: An in-depth analysis
In the film Pale Rider (1985) Preacher (Clint Eastwood) inadvertently finds Megan (Sydney Penny) alone in the woods at night. Preacher is a weathered, old man (55 years old when movie made – looks older) while Megan is a beautiful, young girl (14 years old when movie made and sounds about that old while also being physically mature for her age). Preacher is actually a gunman brought back from the dead (apparently)by the young girl’s prayer for help. He saves the hapless miners from being driven off their claims, kills all the evil men and rescues Megan from an attempted … Continue reading Preacher gives Megan the best advice in Hollywood history
My cmnt: First – heads up. There are a lot of vulgarities, profanities and very crude dialog in here. The skit can be listened to below. Beware it is ‘R’ rated (or worse) and not for children. My cmnt: My commentary on this piece can be found at the bottom of this post. Read the dialog or listen to the skit first before reading my remarks. ============================================================ Hey guys, so what’s up? You gonna show me this talking goat you hang out with or what? All right, but we can’t stay long cuz we gotta get to that reggae fest. … Continue reading Adam Sandler’s Talking Goat Skit
This article first appeared in the Viewpoint column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 26, number 3 (2003). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Takeaway: The doctrine that tithing is New Testament effectively undermines much of what the New Testament actually has to say about giving. The principal New Testament texts on financial giving, 1 Corinthians 16 and 2 Corinthians 9, tell us to give proportionately (we reap what we sow), cheerfully (for God loves a cheerful giver), as we have determined beforehand (not out of guilt or compulsion), and to give … Continue reading Tithing: Is it New Testament? (REVISITED)
By Jack Kerwick – 2012 – Beliefnet.com This is the 35th anniversary of the ground breaking television miniseries, Roots. Based on Alex Haley’s wildly successful novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, the epic miniseries starred an ensemble cast—several members of which recently visited with Oprah Winfrey on her new network (OWN) to commemorate this occasion. This is worth commenting upon only because, for as provocative and entertaining as both book and movie undoubtedly are—I read the book twice and watched the miniseries numerous times—Roots, the author’s assertions to the contrary notwithstanding, is a work of fiction through and through. To listen to Oprah and the … Continue reading Alex Haley’s Fraudulent Roots
By Ishmael Bey – Jun 10, 2023 – Updated: Sep 8, 2023 – First Tribe American Indian WHAT WAS COURLANDER’S LAWSUIT AGAINST HALEY ABOUT? In 1977, Courlander filed suit in federal district court in New York charging that “Defendant Haley had access to and substantially copied from The African. The material he copied constituted the framework, life and substance of Roots. Without The African, Roots would have been a very different and less successful novel, and indeed it is doubtful that Mr. Haley could have written Roots without The African…. Mr. Haley copied language, thoughts, attitudes, incidents, situations, plot and character.” … Continue reading Alex Haley and ‘Roots’ Plagiarism Changed American Indian identity
By Arnold H. Lubasch – Dec. 15, 1978 – The New York Times archives Alex Haley settled a lawsuit yesterday by acknowledging that his world‐renowned book “Roots” contained some material from a relatively unknown novel about slavery that was published nine years earlier. The settlement ended the six‐week trial of a suit by Harold Courlander, a 70‐yearold author from Bethesda, Md., who contended there were substantial similarities between “Roots” and his own earlier novel, “The African.” He sued in Federal District Court in Manhattan for more than half the profits of “Roots.” AS the trial was about to reach a … Continue reading ‘Roots’ Plagiarism Suit Is Settled
By KATHERINE HAMILTON – 30 Jan 2024 – Breitbart My cmnt: The wicked Lib-Left in America is starting the active “lawfare” persecution of their religious and political opponents. They first used Covid-19 as the excuse to shutdown churches and synagogues (not mosques) while leaving casinos open. Then they declared any non-Leftist mass gathering (including the Mass) was a “Super Spreader” (e.g., the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, Pro-Life marches, Trump Rallies, Christian Church worship services, et al.) while BLM and Antifa mass protests and riots were acceptable risks. The persecution and jailing of innocent persons on J6 and Pro-life activists is … Continue reading Six Pro-Life Activists Found Guilty, Face 11 Years in Prison for Peaceful Protest
Pro-Life advocates gather for the annual Walk for Life rally outside of the Capitol on Saturday. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star Alyssa Johnson – Jan 27, 2024 – Lincoln Journal Star My cmnt: As the LJS tends to lean Left (like … Continue reading ‘Heartbeat of this movement’: Nebraskans join together for 50th annual Walk for Life
14-year-old college recruit tames ‘secret storm’ on the court Chloe Johnson takes to the court for practice at Marshall High School in Duluth, Minnesota. The 14-year-old is the star of the varsity team even though she has been challenged by OCD since she was young. TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE PHOTO CHIP SCOGGINS | Star Tribune – Jan 28, 2024 – Lincoln Journal Star My cmnt: I’m fairly OCD tho’ nothing as deep as Chloe. Our son was (and is) even more OCD than myself. My personal testimony is that by placing my trust in Christ and knowing that His power and … Continue reading OCD and Basketball
ALYSSA JOHNSON Lincoln Journal Star – Jan 28, 2024 – pg A8 My cmnt: I was at the Walk for Life this Saturday past. My guesstimate is that there were around 1600 marchers present at the event. The temperature was … Continue reading Nebraskans rally at annual Walk for Life
02/18/2024 From Psalm 111 God calls us to worship thru Jesus Christ, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Praise the LORD! 1I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation. 2Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who delight in them. 3Full of splendor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures forever. 4He has caused his wondrous works to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and merciful. 5He provides food for those who fear him; he remembers his … Continue reading Pastor Keith Ghormley’s Calls to Worship
Mia Cathell | January 01, 2024 6:30 AM – Townhall.com Kamala Harris likes to play pretend. Fortunately for her, there’s no better performance of make-believe than the cultural charade that is Kwanzaa. And since it’s politically advantageous to do so, Kamala the Chameleon purports to be a lifelong celebrant of Kwanzaa. For years, Kamala has told tall tales of cherished age-old Kwanzaa traditions in the Harris household. She has repeatedly claimed to nostalgically recall fond childhood memories of multi-generational Kwanzaa celebrations led by “the elders”® sharing stories of yore and lighting candles on the “kinara,” a knock-off menorah. (The first “kinara” … Continue reading The Dark Truth About Kwanzaa
JOEL B. POLLAK – 26 Dec 2023 – Breitbart My cmnt: Colleges, universities and really all public-funded education has the responsibility of educating, not indoctrinating, the next generation with the factual knowledge needed to function and thrive in an advanced, complex culture and society. This is obviously the Three R’s at the least and providing a basic understanding of our unique, ground-breaking Constitutional Republic, not democracy, without the marxist bias far too prevalent on campus. My cmnt: An even larger task of higher education is to tell the truth. Whether that be about the history of earth’s climate (i.e, constantly … Continue reading The Roots of Campus Antisemitism
How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind Melissa S. Kearney – Dec 23, 2023 – University of Chicago Press My cmnt: This is surprising only to Lib-Leftists, not to the rest of us. The “secret” of two-parent privilege has been known and observed ever since the democrats’ Great Society of Johnson started destroying the American black family and no-fault divorce started impoverishing white families. My cmnt: Keeping children out of poverty is NOT a big mystery requiring more government intervention. It is simple (see below) really, but it is not necessarily easy. Self-sacrifice, caring, forgoing luxuries, delaying gratification, … Continue reading The Two-Parent Privilege
My cmnt: A number of years ago we attended a “prison” ministry church. The church had a school bus and I would use my own van, as would others, to help pick up the inmates (on work release) and take them to church on Sunday and then again at other times to help clean the church or to help them look for jobs or apartments – or just about any activity authorized by the administrators. Our pastor would occasionally preach from a list of “one anothers” and I would hear a lot of feedback about how meaningful those words were. … Continue reading The “one anothers” of Scripture
By Victor Davis Hansen – Dec 14, 2023 – for Daily Caller Nihilism is the religion of the Left. Anarchy is now at the core of the new Democratic Party. If the Left wished radically to alter the demography of the U.S., it could have expanded legal immigration through legislation or the courts. Instead, it simply erased the border and dynamited federal immigration law. By fiat, nihilists ended the wall, and stopped detaining and deporting illegal aliens altogether. Or was it worse than that when candidate Joe Biden in Sept. 2019 urged would-be illegal aliens to “surge” the border? As a result, … Continue reading Americans Must Choose Between Civilization — Or Its Destroyers
By Lord Buckbeak – Feb 11, 2015 As we know a lot depends (as with all things) on definitions. Just what the phrase ‘image of God’ means is subject to some debate. I have generally given the answer from … Continue reading What does the “Image of God” mean?
BY: ASHLEY K. FERNANDES – NOVEMBER 16, 2023 – 8 MIN READ – The Federalist For those worried that abortion extremism is coming to their states, heed these lessons from Ohio. On Nov. 7 in Ohio, the passage of Issue 1 dealt the pro-life movement another stunning defeat in a long string of statewide losses since Roe v. Wade was overturned. It would be too easy for politicians and pundits on the left, and even some on the right, to jump on the “Being pro-life is political suicide” bandwagon and integrate that notion immediately into a long-term strategy to shape our American political … Continue reading What This Pro-Life Ohioan Learned From Losing To Pro-Abortion Radicals
BY: JORDAN BOYD NOVEMBER 16, 2023 – 3 MIN READ – The Federalist Planned Parenthood, the ACLU of Nebraska, the Women’s Fund, and I Be Black Girl banded together to file a petition proposal that seeks to enshrine unlimited abortion through all nine months of pregnancy in the Nebraska state constitution. The proposed petition comes mere weeks after an ALCU-penned abortion amendment passed in Ohio and is part of a coordinated effort by national abortion activists to infiltrate red states, bypass Republican legislators, and taint constitutions with abortion and radical gender ideology provisions. The national coalition’s attack on unborn babies, women, … Continue reading Abortion Activists Name Republican-Controlled Nebraska As Next Radical Ballot Battleground
Stephen Cornils 5-Minute Videos Dec 24, 2018 – Prager U My cmnt: Wartburg Theological Seminary, where Cornils teaches, is a nearly completely Biblically Leftwing institution. This means that they do not believe the Bible to be a supernatural document, to … Continue reading How the Reformation Shaped Your World
By Nicholas Wade – Nov. 20, 2013 – The New York Times The genome of a young boy buried at Mal’ta near Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia some 24,000 years ago has turned out to hold two surprises for anthropologists. The … Continue reading 24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians
America’s spark and tinder still exist. by Mark Helprin – Summer 2023 – The Claremont Review of Books My cmnt: Here is a proposal to renew a sense of America’s unique and invaluable position in the world as a bastion of truth, justice and freedom and a method for getting this idea in written form into the hands of the next generation as the current one is probably largely lost to the great concepts upon which America was founded. As America fattens with material successes and weakens with self-serving and delusional resentments, it is removed from many of the challenges … Continue reading An Immodest Proposal
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Republics always decay into democracies and then dictatorships “You misunderstand me, Priscus. I know that it was inevitable that Rome become what she is. Republics decay into democracies, and democracies degenerate into dictatorships. That fact is immutable. Where there is equality – and democracies always bring equality – the people become faceless, they lose power and initiative, they lose pride and independence, they lose their splendor. Republics are masculine, and so they beget the sciences and the arts; they are prideful, heroic and virile. They emphasize God, and glorify Him. But Rome has decayed into a confused democracy, and has … Continue reading Democrats always cry, “Our democracy”, when we are actually a Constitutional Republic
By Paul Bois – 25 Oct 2023 – Breitbart My cmnt: I look on the Roman Catholic Church, as a whole, rather like a hedge around the true church both within and without. She still holds to the ancient Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds but many of her keynote doctrines are extra-Biblical or heretical such as the elevation, adoration and worship of Mary, the entire ecclesiastical priesthood, re-sacrificing Christ in the Mass, and the selling of indulgences. My cmnt: The pope’s reason for excluding women from the priesthood is weak and appears to be a simple appeal to tradition or raw … Continue reading Pope Francis Says No to Women Priests, Deacons: ‘Holy Orders Is Reserved for Men’
By: David Harsanyi – October 11, 2023 – The Federalist 6 min read OK, actually, *my* 10 favorite books about Israel. The historical illiteracy surrounding Israel in the media and in my social media feed is, to say the least, frustrating. Though, perhaps “historical illiteracy” is being too generous. Oftentimes it is just moral illiteracy, or, more probably, pro-Hamas propaganda or degenerate both-sideism. Whatever the case — and for whatever it’s worth — I thought I’d share some of my favorite books on the topic. This list isn’t in any particular order and it is by no means exhaustive. Six … Continue reading The 10 Best Books About Israel
By Yaron Steinbuch – Published Oct. 10, 2023, 1:55 p.m. ET – the New York Post https://www.facebook.com/reel/4429966783894647 A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not … Continue reading Israeli woman, 25, hailed as a hero for killing terrorists, leading team that saved kibbutz from Hamas
Nebraska ranked as best state for mental health, according to a report from Soliant Health By Angelica Stabile Fox News – Published October 11, 2023 9:07pm EDT – Fox News My cmnt: Let’s get real here, this list with a bunch of Blue states at the top has to be bogus. The Blue states with large cities are all a basket case of social anxiety, lockdowns, rampant crime, high taxes, piss-poor public schools, vast welfare and disintegration in their large cities and the hopelessness that comes from reliance upon the State to take care of you. My cmnt: The obvious choices for states … Continue reading Here are the best and worst US states for mental health, as revealed in a new report
Why consensus can be so dangerous for science – and for the modern societies that depend on it Alex Berenson – Sep 26, 2023 – his substack I subscribe to (Two for one special today since I haven’t written since last week.) My virtual German buddy Eugyppius has a fascinating Stack today on a paper showing smart people were more likely to take the mRNA jabs. The study drew on 750,000 Swedish men who were tested for their intelligence as part of their mandatory military service. The findings are clear: “The smarter participants had higher uptake and they got vaccinated … Continue reading On head girls, genius boys, and the mRNAs
Marvel comics, quantum physics, and the secrets of the cosmos. by Spencer A. Klavan – Summer 2022 – The Claremont Review of Books The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is the most successful franchise in movie history. So far, Marvel Studios (a subsidiary of Disney) has produced 29 titles—from Iron Man in 2008 to Thor: Love and Thunder this year. Collectively, the movies have grossed over $26 billion worldwide. That’s before factoring in the TV shows, video games, theme park rides, merchandise, and all the other movies scheduled for production in years to come. These films have caused a cultural and economic sensation that merits … Continue reading Worlds Without End – Thoughts on the Multiverse
The quantum revolution, 100 years on. by Spencer A. Klavan – Summer 2023 – The Claremont Review of Books One hundred years ago, in September 1923, a young aristocrat named Louis de Broglie presented the French Academy of Sciences with a note called Waves and Quanta. In total it was about three pages long. It contained a few brief thought experiments about the motion of microscopic particles. The accompanying equations were certainly advanced from a layman’s perspective, but they hardly would have fazed an expert audience like the members of the Academy. There was nothing too elaborate or far-fetched in de Broglie’s … Continue reading Where Mind Meets Matter
The Chosen’s Christian nepo baby roots — and other ways the hit drama might surprise you. By Aja Romano@ajaromano Updated Aug 2, 2023, 1:00pm EDT – Vox.com Aja Romano writes about pop culture, media, and ethics. Before joining Vox in 2016, she is/they were a staff reporter at the Daily Dot. A 2019 fellow of the National Critics Institute, she is/they’re considered an authority on fandom, the internet, and the culture wars. My cmnt: I post this review because it is a fair take on “The Chosen” multi-season series on the life of Christ as understood from the point of view of an atheistic naturalist (i.e., … Continue reading The Chosen, the Christian megahit about Jesus, explained
SPORTS·Sep 10, 2023 · BabylonBee.com American tennis star Coco Gauff kneels to pray following her U.S. Open win. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) QUEENS, NY — As tennis champion Coco Gauff knelt on the court with her eyes closed and hands folded, puzzled ESPN commentators were left to wildly speculate as to what Ms. Gauff could possibly be doing. “What do you make of it, Jean?” asked commentator Pam Shriver. “Perhaps it’s a new yoga pose? Never seen anything like it!” As Ms. Gauff completed the mysterious ritual and rose to her feet, ESPN producers pored over prior videos. “It appears Ms. … Continue reading ESPN Baffled What Athlete Kneeling With Eyes Closed And Hands Folded Could Possibly Be Doing
Erwin Charles Simants, October 18, 1979. LJS archives My cmnt: Here we have Liberal nonsense perpetuated for 44 years! We, the taxpayers, have housed, fed, watered and supervised this murderer for 44 years at a cost of approximately $50,000 a year (that comes to roughly $2 million dollars). This democrat-created fiction allows that someone who commits a heinous crime almost by definition must be insane. And these so-called authorities and experts can then tell when the criminal has been “cured” and then can be let loose upon the society once again. Anyone who can plan a murder is NOT insane, … Continue reading Erwin Charles Simants, who killed six Nebraskans in 1975, dies after 44 years in Lincoln Regional Center
Lord Buckbeak: "Will you come into my parlor?," said the Spider to the Fly. 