America 250. If this doesn’t bring tears to your eyes, nothing will.

This is from yesterday’s celebration in Washington DC. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the West Point Band and Orchestra. Notice the singers sing from memory, and so many of them are smiling. Also pay attention to the last verse, and the one word substitution. Please comment when you see it. https://twitter.com/jessalanfields/status/2073632741636059545?s=20 The post has the …

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On the Decline of Europe: Chad Crowley

This post, a very long one with many sections, is one that everyone should read. Everyone, even those of us who are paying attention, can learn something from Chad's well-thought-out exposition. Read this, and take it to heart. I am posting it in its entirety here, for those who are not on X/Twitter, and I …

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It’s weird the things you remember from days gone by…Tricks of Memory

Today is June 6.  6/6.  It is the 73rd Anniversary of D-Day, that momentous day in 1944 when the Allies invaded France to re-take Europe from Hitler's evil forces.  But that's not what I remember. In June of 1966, I was a junior in high school in Seattle.  I was taking a ceramics class, with …

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