Jan 22 min read
Friday Fright Night or Day for Mike Johnson
I'm assuming the sun will be setting by the time those who cannot govern get around to choosing or maybe not choosing the next victim of...
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Jan 24 min read
On Trump's tariff obsession, and perhaps some history that'll surprise you
Merely one pre-apocalypse peek into its creeping reality was the president-elect's surefire conviction yesterday that the New Orleans...
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Jan 13 min read
In praise of Elon Musk
"We're just days away from Elon Musk's presidency," notes Andy Borowitz in his latest missive — a preface to self-survival in the Age of...
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Dec 30, 20245 min read
An especially powerful blow to the brain from history, plus a note for its buffs
On the outskirts of Branson, Missouri — an Ozarkian showcase of nature's prodigies mortgaged circa 1990 to piratical commercialization —...
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Dec 29, 20243 min read
A few thoughts on a genuine Christian, Jimmy Carter
I was in the car and on the last leg on my 400-mile journey back home today when during a phone conversation my interlocutor interjected,...
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Dec 28, 20244 min read
A new year's story of old vintage
With the holidays nearly over, this Sunday I depart a county in Southwest Missouri known for its foreign color — that of a Maine lobster....
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