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Leaving and Waving For 27 years, I took photographs as I waved good-bye and drove away from visiting my parents at their home in Sioux City, Iowa.
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Pub Name If I ever open a pub, “The Dog and Water” might be in the running for a name. đ¶
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So, I Guess We Must (re)Learn to Think* [W]e are … not going back to a world where there is a set of trusted truth-mediating institutions, core sources of news and information that everyone recognizes and trusts, a âmainstreamâ of argument and opinion-shaping that sets the parameters of debate. – Ross Douthat, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2024
*Not that I believe we will. Which is terrifying.
Lesson 1: Yes or No: Does hosting a gameshow make a person fit to be the President of the United States of America?
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What Might This Look Like in America? An imaginative conservatism should see in Scrutonâs centring of beauty in architecture and design a natural affinity with the articulation of craft as a political and economic ideal in the likes of William Morris. There is a politics and an economics of conservatism to be forged, but it requires making of itself more than an aesthetic gloss of Reaganism.
Sebastian Milbank, “Don’t Idolise Roger Scruton”, The Critic, 03.Nov.2024
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Trinity River, Great Trinity Forest, Dallas 
đ·: Bill Holston
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RIP, Ted Olsen Executive power is important, and we respect it. But it has to be done the right way. It has to be done in an orderly fashion so that citizens can understand what is being done and people whose lives have depended on a governmental policy arenât swept away arbitrarily and capriciously.
A principled and gifted lawyer and public servant. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
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Set the Wayback Machine, Sherman Say, kids! Remember that old holiday, I think it was called Thanksgiving? It was a personal favorite. So extraordinary to observe a national day of gratitude. Of course, Capitalismmas (i.e., not Christmas) erased that tired old giving-thanks day long ago.
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Snake on Wheels 
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Laura Olin [I keep coming back to] the fundamental text that is âWhy must we go on?â / âBecause thereâs some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and itâs worth fighting for.â
Is all this cringe? Undoubtedly; but I think weâve entered a time that requires deep earnestness.
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True in every era; yet, it’s a smack in the face … the narrative on which many of us grew up no longer applies.
– Joan Didion - (h/t @ayjay)
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…well, we’ll live right on… From my friend, Dan Wilson:
… whatever the outcome… âwell, we will live right on.â We will all go about doing what we do, get the kids off to school, go to work, do the laundry, and go about our lives. And that is as it should be because the greatest impact on our world does not come out of Washington anyway. It never has. Ultimately, it comes from each of us and how we live out our ordinary lives, our good deeds, humility, loving our neighbor, and loving God.
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Boredom and the Struggle Jonah Goldberg:
I think Fukuyama was right about liberal democratic capitalism being the answer to the questions mooted by Marx, Hegel, Hitler, Tocqueville, and everyone else. And he was right about the problems created by liberalismâs victory. The solution to those problems is not to overthrow liberalism, but to restore the ecosystems of meaning that sustain it.
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Francine Winham, Photographer Great images and an interesting story. (Though the overwrought prose isn’t my cup of tea.)
Bassist John Lamb
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