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Guest Post: Mother Lode – A Pagan Christmas
Well we are closing in on Christmas – a special, even magical time of the year. Families will be sitting down together, table heaped rich foods, adults already slightly aglow from a glass or two of Christmas cheer, kids on their second wind after their frenzied ravine upon Christmas wrapping, aaand then some pompous boor…
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Open Thread – Christmas Weekend 2022
Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence, Caravaggio, 1609
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Open Thread – Tue 20 Dec 2022
Rocks and Ferns in a Wood at Crossmount, John Ruskin, 1847
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Open Thread – Weekend 17 Dec 2022
The Luncheon, Claude Monet, 1873
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Arizona Election Contest
Over the weekend, lawyers for Kerri Lake filed a lawsuit against Katie Hobbs, both as contestee and in her capacity f Secretary of State, and various election officials of Maricopa County, re the gubernatorial election in Arizona this past mid-term election. You can find the lawsuit filed here. The vote margin at present is 17,117…
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Open Thread – Tue 13 Dec 2022
The Census at Bethlehem, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1566
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The War in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future: A Conversation between Michael Vlahos and Douglas Macgregor
This is a superb discussion involving two well-placed interlocutors, who have been in the middle of international and strategic affairs for at least the last four decades. It comes in three parts. The first looks at the war in Ukraine, its antecedents, and its prospects, particular whether the situation is entering its culminating phase. The…
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Open Thread – Weekend 10 Dec 2022
The Pont de Arts and the Institut de France, August Renoir, 1867
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Open Thread – Tue 6 Dec 2020
Mary and Joseph on the Way to Bethlehem, Hugo van der Goes, 1475
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Open Thread – Weekend 3 Dec 2022
The Rector’s Garden – Queen of the Lilies, John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1877