Daily Archives: Monday, July 18, 2016 @ 18:34

God is still a Republican

Personally, this is painful to watch. Y’all have been warned.

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Trump’s achievement

I am obliged to confess I should sooner livein a society governed by the first two thousandnames in the Boston telephone directorythan in a society governed by the two thousandfaculty members of Harvard University. William F. Buckley, Jr. If Donald … Continue reading

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Editorial congruence of the day

Apparently, as the Republican Party assembles in Cleveland to publicly disgrace itself, editors everywhere are pondering temporal absurdities. At Philosophy Now, they’re reading existentialism. …And the theme is #Existentialism! We'll be looking at questions of #meaning, and the apparent #absurdity … Continue reading

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Hunter Thompson, b. 1937-Jul-18

Think what you like of Hunter Thompson’s politics, he was — with the possible exceptions of H.L. Mencken or Gore Vidal — America’s best essayist. And the opening line of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is, going away, the … Continue reading

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Dismal theology-related tweet for the day

Evangelist David Turner claims God told him to buy Tyler Perry’s mansion https://t.co/dYx2zheq6v — Religion News (@religionnews) July 18, 2016 Uh-huh.

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