In Hoc Signo Vinces
May 24From Christian News Wire. (CHT Bruce Majors; be sure to read the whole thing.) A Cross made from the Cross carried Around the World on foot by Arthur Blessitt (319 nations, island groups and territories almost 40,000 miles) Is ‘Now Orbiting The Earth’! The Cross went up on the SpaceX Falcon 9 Dragon Spacecraft. Celestis [...]
Poe and the Pug Dog
May 20Edgar Allan Poe is famous for anticipating and/or inspiring developments in later writers; the Sherlock Holmes stories, for example, were prompted by Poe’s Dupin trilogy (though Conan Doyle has Holmes dismiss Dupin as a “very inferior fellow”), while the central plot twist in Around the World in 80 Days derives from Poe’s “Three Sundays in [...]
Spencer, Hodgskin, and Land Rights
May 18As “everyone knows,” Herbert Spencer was a reactionary defender of capitalism and an opponent of socialism, while Thomas Hodgskin was a proto-Marxian defender of socialism and an opponent of capitalism; so what should one expect from Hodgskin’s review (now online) of Spencer’s Social Statics? The right answer, it turns out, is almost total agreement: “there [...]
Cordial and Sanguine, Part 32: Remembering Traditional Marriage
May 10Longtime readers of this blog will recognise my latest BHL post, on same-sex marriage, as a shameless mashup of several of my previous AAE posts on the same topic. My people believe in using every part of the blog.
Where the Ruffalo Roam
May 05Thus spake Marvel Studios star-tsar Kevin Feige: There had been discussion as to where to take … the part [of the Hulk] and Joss [Whedon] had some ideas. He came to us and said, “I’d like to think about another actor,” and we said, “Well, much of what we like about The Avengers is we’re [...]
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