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American Exceptionalism, Deep state, Donald Trump, History, Military and Veterans, Republican Party Establishment

Savo Sound, 1942, and Our Place on the Current Learning Curve

vassar / April 5, 2020

When you get your butt kicked all sorts of lessons from history come to mind. But when that butt-kicking is self-inflicted the analogies narrow The lessons most learned from the Republicans’ self-immolation in the failure of their Obamacare repeal (sic)…

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Education, Elitism and Class, History, Race and Culture, Science

Science versus God. Who will win?

vassar / February 16, 2020

Has anyone been able to explain “how” the ancient Egyptians built the Pyramids when most of the engineering skills they would have been required would not be discovered for millennia? Even the mathematics that would have supported their engineering technology was not supposedly…

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History, Natural Law, Religion

The Devil and Mark Twain, CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien

vassar / August 17, 2019

Late in life Mark Twain had to go on the road to raise money to pay his creditors because he’d invested poorly. In the process he probably invented stand-up comedy, which Vaudeville probably stole. Over the years I’ve collected several of his one-liners. At one of his sessions…

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