I don't know, but . . .

''I do not know everything; still many things I understand.'' Goethe

Observations by me and others of our tribe

... mostly me and my better half--youngsters have their own blogs

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Education in Liberia

"Dr. Benjamin Wehye, President of LICOSESS College of Education recently returned home from Zambia with his PhD earned in Education aft...

Monday, November 18, 2024

Throwing Away and Wasting

Jesus warned that we might have to throw some things away , in fact, give up everything . True, this can translate to treasure in heaven ,...

The internet

I wonder what Dr Boli has been reading lately . FWIW, some of my scratch paper notes have become blog posts. And other things.

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Special Days

The city calendar hanging beside me has almost every day flagged as some "Day": Bison Day, World Freedom Day, Fast Food Day, Cra...

Subverting the Patriarchy

The Catholics and Southern Baptists (I'm a bit more familiar with the latter) are held as exemplars of patriarchy, which is understood t...

Saturday, November 16, 2024

After 55 years, a different view

Early in high school I read the collection of Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). All at once, of course. He had wit and excellent twists in many ...

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Conspiracy theories

They're all the rage, and I suppose they always have been. I run into claims about drug company this, or Monsanto that, or "Octobe...

Sunday, November 10, 2024

Unknown story of forgiveness

Judas wasn't going to explain his doings to anybody before the betrayal, and wasn't in a mood to afterwards, so from whence did the ...

Thursday, November 07, 2024

A reflection on the rhetoric before and after

"a curious disease which they have all caught--an inability to disbelieve advertisements" C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress

Monday, November 04, 2024

Garden fork

I learned about this item rather late in life: shovels and spades and snow shovels I learned about quickly, but this one escaped my notice...

Thursday, October 31, 2024

New World metallurgy

I'd heard it proposed that the presence of so much native copper in Michigan, and trading so widespread, meant that there was no great p...

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Banality

Douglas Murray has at Hannah Arendt and her Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil , citing research that shows she was (a...

Saturday, October 26, 2024

Time

I'm helping beta-read a novel, and one aspect of it headed me down a rabbit hole about time, to a 31-year-old paper presented to the NC...

Internment

We're all told about the US interning Japanese. I hadn't heard that the Canadians did too , and that some of the Japanese-Canadians...

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Incitatus

We vote for a president; we get a team. BBC's famous "Yes Minister" comedy assumed that the existing bureaucracy defines mos...

Post-liberalism

First Things has an essay by Nathan Pinkoski "Twentieth-century civilization has collapsed. It rested on an essential tenet of liberal...

Leaves

This time of year can be beautiful, with leaves changing yellow and orange and brown and red--highlighted by evergreens here and there. On ...

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