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Friday Comic: Think About It!0
- Entertainment
- April 28, 2023
“Friday Comic: Think About It!” Credit: OwenComics (store). Twitter: @owenbroadcast. Instagram: @owenbroadcast. ITO Save this article to favorites
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Grice’s Maxims: Rules for Effective Conversation 1
- Philosophy
- April 27, 2023
For most of us, conversation is an intuitive, passive practice. We’re used to the contours of natural speech and writing, and we often make contributions to everyday interactions almost without thinking. Our habits of communication can come as natural as breathing. But when communication breaks down, there’s always the question of where things went wrong.
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What the Bud Light Scandal Could Mean for School Choice 1
- Politics, Economics
- April 27, 2023
One of the most effective levers of influence in a free market system is the ability for consumers to take their business elsewhere. When Gillette released a marketing campaign in 2019 designed around criticizing “toxic masculinity,” alienating millions of men around the country, consumers responded by taking their business (about $5 billion of it) elsewhere. Gillette hasn’t
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Homesteading: Become a Modern American Pioneer 1
- Family, MomThink
- April 26, 2023
Six years ago my husband and I moved our family of 10 to a five-acre hobby farm and a new lifestyle. Prior to this, we’d been living in an 1,100-square-foot brick home built in the 1940s near the boundary of St. Louis. I loved that house. It had a breakfast nook and an enclosed sunporch
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‘Oedipus Rex’ and Victimhood Culture 1
- Politics, Philosophy
- April 26, 2023
A plague has struck Thebes, and the Oracle declares that the city is cursed due to the presence of a murderer who is an abomination in the sight of the gods. This murderer killed the former king of Thebes Laius. And the current king, Oedipus, sets out doggedly to find the killer so he can
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How Did America Become a Nation of Slobs?37
- Culture
- April 26, 2023
One evening in early April I was waiting for my ten-year-old twin granddaughters to finish their indoor soccer practice when a girl their age approached me and said, “Your coat looks really nice.” It was a wet, chilly evening, and I was wearing a London Fog given me thirty years ago by an elderly widow
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