Considering where it’s located, Minnesota is quite progressive in its politics. Check this out, from the state’s governor. Gotta love his remark on “thoughts and prayers.”
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Three Words from Robert Frost
America’s favorite poet makes a good point. But Marcus Aurelius and the other stoic philosophers would add three more on top of his: until it doesn’t. Seize the day.
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Why Biden Gets No Respect
Political pundits everywhere are struggling to understand how it’s possible that Biden, given his administration’s admirable performance across a wide range of metrics, has such a lackluster approval rating. The answer seems to be that facts don’t matter, or put …
Putting Christianity into Some Manner of Perspective
C.S. Lewis is remembered as a gifted writer who touched the hearts of young and old alike. To those of you who didn’t have the pleasure and honor of reading “The Chronicles of Narnia” with your child, only to have …
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Eco-Unfriendly Food Shopping
The graphic here shows why we do best to shop at grocery stores that source their produce locally, or at least as close to home as possible. Even Trader Joes falls down here, to some degree. They explain that every …
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Character and Fate
It would be a better world if what Heraclitus said were true, but it certainly appears that good people can suffer terrible fates and vice versa. This brings to mind the ultimate destiny of Donald Trump, certainly among the worst …
Consumerism
December is a good time of year to remind ourselves that our consumerism as a society is a choice; it’s not a requirement. On a related note, when we support the thrift-store economy, we’re reducing the amount of resources that …
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Peace on Earth
Thucydides’ statement here implies that war has been a permanent, 365-day-a-year feature of Western society for at least the last 2500 years. Occasionally we run into small groups of people who are trying to change that, like the organizers of …
Fox News Doesn’t Play Well in Dallas, But What Exactly Does that Mean?
I’m happy to hear this, but I would make this prediction: Go 40 miles in any direction from downtown Dallas and repeat the experiment. Don’t be surprised if the bartender is cheered. This is the same phenomenon that we see …
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U.S. Education Is Slipping, to Put it Kindly
Below is a performance of Frederik Chopin’s waltz in G flat. I bring it up because a dear old friend who grew up in the Netherlands used to play it, and when I asked him how he could get through …
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