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My son is 13 and we're getting ready to pick the high school he will be attending. Just a few days ago I was looking for something in his bedroom and I came across this book I had purchased for him when he was about 4 years old. It was one of those father/son woodwork project books. On the cover was...

I took a closer look at my son's assignment. It's a timeline of notable moments in antisemitism. With one of the first events on this timeline being "The False Claim that the Jews Killed Jesus". I'm going to contact the school about this assignment. I'm trying to figure out if I should sta...

In the area where I grew up, the Lutheran high school has been going through a bit of a boom. Student enrollment going up consistently. Alumni donations increasing, helping to offset tuition for some students. While the Catholic schools in the area always preparing for the next round of school conso...

Portents of calamity: In the early months of 793, the people of Northumbria were terrified by a series of evil omens. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, drawing on an earlier set of northern annals that are now lost, there were great gales, flashes of lightning, 'and fiery dragons were seen fly...

I like this passage from the book. It mentions how as the Saxons replaced the Britons a new threat may similarly displace the Saxons: In a letter to the people of Kent, written in 797, he (Alcuin of York) referred to the 'Ruin of Britain', written by Gildas almost three centuries earlier. The Briton...

Jean is in Paris while the wife he longs to be intimate with is back home, tending to Monsieur Jerome. In Paris Jean is supposed to be doing some research for the cure' who brought about the marriage between Jean and Noemi. A prostitute approaches him, and for a moment Jean is enthralled by the idea...

Noemi and Jean are now married and living in his father's large house. Both aware that the other is in pain over this marriage... and both delicate with the other due to it. They are thoughtful toward and nice to each other. Though this not enough to fire up any romantic passions towards each other....

It seems to have impressed you. From the snippets you posted, it doesn't seem my cup of tea. Nor mine. At all. Is there any redeeming value to this work? At all? Feel free to float on down that stream. "Any redeeming value to this work... at all?" I'm almost a bit stunned you didn't inclu...

By virtue of Jean's father's wealth... his dad is able to orchestrate a marriage between one of the most beautiful young women in town to his son, Jean. Jean is mortified by the idea. He secretly admired Noemi from a distance, but the idea of her being forced to marry Jean even seemed like a bit muc...

An apparently hideous looking 22-year-old man, Jean Peloueyre, described as having a reddish face "worn away like a stick of barley-sugar as the result of prolonged sucking" lives with his very wealthy father. His father, Monsieur Jerome, lives a miserable existence. The wealthiest man in ...

There is the problem of AI cannibalism. Take some generative AI tool that can make music for you (but it could be any tool for any purpose). When it first starts it has a broad spectrum of human made music to pull from. After a little while the pool of data the AI tool pulls from starts including a ...

This is why the correct response to AI is not to ban or fear it, but regulate it and set ethical boundaries about its proper and improper use. Granted, no law is going to make people do anything, and any ethical boundaries can be ignored, but we can build the next generation of AI with the ethical ...

The friend I was mentioning has been working on some music using AI. He has made his own music previously. He supplied his own vocals and using a very nice keyboard to provide the synthesize instrumentals. But he was still playing the keys. He sent me a new song of his and it sounded good. But, it w...

You can't make this stuff up. Apparently, in Washington state, where similar allegations of Somali daycare fraud have just been made. at least one government prosecutor has stated that those making such allegations may be investigated for hate crimes. The rot in the welfare system is being revealed...

What an absurd joke... the response from one of the daycare owners. At the 2 minute mark, talking about the break-in he states, "this is devastating news". Who talks like that? If your house is broken into and you're addressing people about it to say, "what happened to my house is dev...

The last refuge of the scoundrel is to claim "racism" That's what Tim Walz was barking when he was addressing it. "White supremacy"... "racism". So much money being wasted in those bogus programs in MN. And it sounds like Ohio has just as bad of a problem with these bo...

Well, the good thing with the "RACIST!" concussion grenade lob is that it seems to be losing its effect.

Morris writes of St. Wilfrid: Any assessment of Wilfrid has to acknowledge the enormous impact of his extraordinary life. Arguably no other person, not even Augustine or Theodore, did more to shape the course of Christianity in Britain during its first century. He was born into a world that was stil...

What a story... some kid named Nick Shirley has been going to numerous daycares in Minneapolis where there are simply no children around and all of the doors are locked. These are daycares catering to Somali communities and, in many instances, owned by Somalis. He has a video series where he goes to...

This book was written some 30 years after Dicken's "A Christmas Carol", this story by Trollope is another short Christmas tale. I was looking for other Victorian era Christmas stories similar to Dickens. "Christmas at Thompson Hall" is pretty good but basic. A woman, Mrs Brown, w...