On the day we celebrate Our Lord's resurrection, I usually try to do something uplifting, like this. This year, I dunno, maybe it's time for something completely different. This story goes back a long way, but perhaps it has some relevance for today. Hopefully it will brighten yours. We moved our family business to Chattanooga …
The Geniuses Really Do Commit Suicide…Well, Some of Them
We have some data on the issue: For the first time reliable data has shown that the suicide rate among people working in creative roles is significantly higher than the national average. The first-ever study of suicide by profession from the ONS, which covered England in the years from 2011 to 2015, showed that people …
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Reflection: Sounds of Salvation
Reflection RL 310 (1974) If there's one genre that's mostly AWOL from the "Jesus Music" era, it's prog. To a great extent that's still the case; a major exception is this dance troupe, which sets their Christian dance to some very good prog music. We've featured prog on this site (especially this.) But at the …
Next Thing, They'll Start Declaring Students as "Unmutual"
Syracuse University leads the way: Syracuse University wants student to combat hate and report bias incidents to the administration when they encounter them on campus. Given how broadly the university defines bias, it's surprising that students have time for anything else. According to Syracuse, bias involves "telling jokes," "excluding or avoiding others," using the phrase …
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What College Used to Look Like, and a History of Tau Beta Pi
What a "college man" used to look like, in this case my grandfather, C.H. Warrington, who is at the right. He started out at the University of Illinois but ended up at Lehigh, where he graduated with a Civil Engineering degree in 1912. (It was another eighty-five years before a member of the family would …
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Happy New Year, Comrades, and Thinking About the Class Struggle
To the right is a Soviet New Year card; I've featured these before. If they look suspiciously like Christmas cards, well, that's just the genre... As it happens, this New Year isn't one our counterparts on the left have looked forward to ever since That Man With the Big Hair won a couple of months …
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A Merry Christmas/Joyeux Noël from Positive Infinity
Above is a Christmas card sent by my great-uncle, James N. Warrington. Evidently the Francophone bent in the family predates marrying into the progeny of New France. Yohttps://vulcanhammer.info/2017/08/18/california-series-pile-hammers/u can read more about him and his accomplishments here.
Prayer for Rosh Hashanah
From the Jewish High Holiday Prayer Book: O God, divine Ruler of the universe, as the twilight of the old year fades into the night that marks the birth of another year, we gather together in Thy house with mingled emotions, mindful of the blessings and the sorrows Thou hast seen fit to lay upon …
Advice to Graduates: The Two Promises I Made to Myself
It may seem an odd time to do a pseudo-graduation piece. Obviously the University of Tennessee thinks so: this weekend I am supposed to officially receive my PhD degree, but the university, having spent a great deal of money on a new, traditional looking quad, doesn't do an August graduation ceremony, with a graduation speech …
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An American Children's Book in the Name of Allah
No, this is not CAIR's newest idea of subversion. Look to the right at a page from the 1913 edition of the Arabian Nights by Frances Jenkins Olcott, an American librarian. There at the top is the traditional Islāmic invocation "In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful," which I have seen (with variations) …
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