If Joseph Stalin made me a sandwich, would I say thank you? Would I compliment him on his sandwich-making abilities if it were a good sandwich? If it were the…
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Depiction is not endorsement, acknowledgement is not approval, and reflections are not acceptance. I could go on, but hopefully the point is already clear. The fact that some people need…
As I’ve mentioned in the past, I’ve taken up calligraphy as a very minor pastime. I say minor. I’m not doing it to show off. Obviously. I can’t remember what…
A century ago, this question would win me weird looks and scoffs. Today though, it seems like we need to ask this question. Why? Whether people are willfully ignorant or…
The following is an excerpt from work in progress: Annals of an Empire. I remember one thing that I found particularly interesting during my Earth history classes at the Imperial…
Countries, just like our bodies, reflect both inside and out the kinds of things we put into them. A society is made up of millions of individuals, and when those…
Every few months I copy the text of a passage or a quote I like into the calligraphy hand I’m practicing at the time. And since at the moment I’m…
A new study shows that nearly half of millennials in the USA have $0 in savings. The same report shows that the number of millennials who have significant savings put…
From page 98 of the draft of Annals of an Empire: A smoke trail was all that remained of the…
If an alien came to earth and we gave them a day to learn about our culture through the internet, they could not be faulted if they thought that Hitler…
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