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Open Thread – Weekend 28 Jan 2023
Sailboat at Le Petit-Gennevilliers, Claude Monet, 1874
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Open Thread – Tue 24 Jan 2023
Andromache mourning Hector, Jacques Louis David, 1783
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Guest post: Speedbox – Taliban Supercar
I will admit I never imagined writing the words Taliban and Supercar in the same sentence. But, a few days ago, the Taliban unveiled the prototype of Afghanistan’s first locally developed supercar, manufactured by Kabul-based Entop. Known as the Mada 9, this car comes to us from a war-torn and dirt-poor country whose ruling militia…
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Open Thread – Weekend 21 Jan 2023
The Rocky Mountains Lander’s Peak, Albert Bierstadt, 1863
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Open Thread – Tues 17 Jan 2023
The Strawberry Thieves pattern, William Morris, 1883
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Sliding towards polyamorous ‘marriage’
It was clear during and following the public discussion of gay ‘marriage’ that there was no in-principle argument among the majority of its proponents that could present a stumbling block for polyamorous ‘marriage’. If people could not recognize that marriage was a union of the opposite sexes, given its ends, how could they further recognize…
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Nicolai Petro’s The Tragedy of Ukraine
The above is an informative discussion of Nicolai Petro’s The Tragedy of Ukraine. It covers areas that haven’t been discussed in much detail in the West, generally, at least in the MSM, particularly the regional (Galician) character of Ukrainian nationalism, its origins in the 19th and early 20th Century, its attempt to establish a particular…
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Open Thread – Weekend 14 Jan 2023
Girl at a Sewing Machine, Edward Hopper, 1921
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Open Thread – Tue 10 Jan 2023
The Siesta, Camille Pissarro, 1899
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Open Thread – Weekend 7 Jan 2023
Nightly Walk of the Monks to the Mountain Monastery Athos, Hermann Corrodi, 1888