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Monday, August 12, 2024

What Do Trump Voters Look Like?

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  This week I talked to a guy I have known for three decades--a lifelong conservative Christian. He is a retired professor of literature. We...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Thunder Ridge Family Event: Lauren Runs, I Ride

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After my rain-soaked descent of Thunder Ridge on the Blue Ridge Parkway, my daughter Lauren, who lives in Richmond, returned with me for Rou...
Saturday, August 3, 2024

Pain Up; Rain Down: Riding the Blue Ridge Parkway

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  The climb to Thunder Ridge on Virginia's Blue Ridge Parkway is a smooth, steady, winding climb of 3,300 feet at five percent for just ...
Sunday, July 28, 2024

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil  by Hannah Arendt seemed a very different book this year than when I first read it ...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

Twenty Guns: A Sign of Mental Illness?

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  A fire-proof gun safe for pistols, long guns and ammo Available on Amazon... A very smart friend just posted that the father of the 20-yea...
Friday, July 19, 2024

Mundolingua: A Word Museum Paris

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Near Luxembourg Gardens in the 6th Arrondissement of Paris is Mundolingua  a museum of words: " Stacks of books and dictionaries share ...
Friday, July 12, 2024

So Many Mennonites on Bicycles!

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  Last Saturday, I was riding between Leola and New Holland in Lancaster County. On that five miles of PA Route 23 I saw more groups of Menn...