These days it’s hard to tell whether a commentator given to exaggeration is speaking with hyperbole. Nothing surprises anymore, and everything seems leveled out by stultifying sameness. Take this sentence…
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The Republican Party has gone mad, and the feckless Democrats are all that stands between American democracy and the abyss. But Joe Biden is a throwback. And like all throwbacks…
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There was nary a man-made noise as I listened with delight at streamside to the gently flowing current and various birds. Unseen, passive watchfulness gathered undirected attention. An hour passed…
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At the only sandy ‘beach’ along the creek in Lower Park, a group of parents and children frolic in the water. It’s a lazy late- summer afternoon and the temperature…
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The mystery of consciousness is as old as there have been people conscious that they were conscious. However most people, including philosophers and scientists, don’t know what they mean by…
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The smoky haze was so bad today you couldn’t see the foothills just beyond town. There was only a faint smell of smoke from the wildfires here in northern California…
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Incompetence. Lies. Contradictions. Callous disregard for life. And a defiant refusal to admit mistakes. No, that isn’t a description of President Trump’s modus operandi, but President Biden’s handling of America’s…
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It’s a hoot to hear Christian intellectuals rail against “the materialist defaults in secular culture,” claiming that they are “like a spell that’s been cast over modern minds, and the…