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  • ‘People Will Die Due to DEI’: Aviation in the Spotlight After Alaska Airlines Fuselage Blowout

    ‘People Will Die Due to DEI’: Aviation in the Spotlight After Alaska Airlines Fuselage Blowout5

    “Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety?” This was the question posed by tech tycoon Elon Musk on X, after a piece of fuselage was ripped from an Alaska Airlines passenger jet in the skies above Oregon last Friday. “People will die due to DEI,” Musk also warned. The

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  • Poetry in Prose: The Genius of J.R.R. Tolkien

    Poetry in Prose: The Genius of J.R.R. Tolkien1

    Young John Ronald Reuel Tolkien curled up with his favorite book, reading the tale of Sigurd who slew the dragon Fafnir. Schooled at home, Tolkien’s widowed mother taught him Latin and French and grammar, explaining that “green great dragon” was incorrect—it should be “great green dragon.” Tolkien wanted to know why. Language fascinated him. After

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  • Toronto Bans Tobogganing — and Fun?

    Toronto Bans Tobogganing — and Fun?0

    Talk about a slippery slope. Toronto recently erected “Tobogganing is not allowed” warnings on 45 hills around the city. The reason for these bans is right there on the sign: “Hazards such as trees, stumps, rocks, rivers or roads make this hill unsafe.” So apparently it is only safe for humans to enjoy an activity

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  • Cancelling CO2: A Chilling Epiphany

    Cancelling CO2: A Chilling Epiphany10

    In a 1962 episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone, an alien race lands on Earth, promising to solve the problems of hunger, energy shortages, and war. In return, these aliens ask only to be trusted. A book an alien leaves behind is analyzed by decoders, who translate the title as “To Serve Man.” An

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  • Friday Comic: Yard Work3

    Credit: OwenComics (store) Twitter: @owenbroadcast Instagram: @owenbroadcast Save this article to favorites

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  • 3 Tips for Practicing Everyday Hospitality

    3 Tips for Practicing Everyday Hospitality3

    It’s not hard to imagine grandiose examples of hospitality. The older woman who hosts a crop of teenagers in her home every Thursday night. The man who frequently invites church visitors to his family’s Sunday dinner. The neighbor who throws quarterly block parties and welcomes the whole town. In these situations, hospitality is obvious (and,

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  • Presidents May Want a Line-Item Veto, but Citizens May Not

    Presidents May Want a Line-Item Veto, but Citizens May Not0

    What if there were some political tool that many US Presidents (going back to Grant, and all of them, including both leading major-party candidates this year) at least since Nixon, have wanted? What if they also agreed with Nixon that the result would be reduced political pork? Would such bipartisan agreement mean that the tool

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  • How Quitting a Book Can Be Great for Reading

    How Quitting a Book Can Be Great for Reading10

    I’ve written extensively about the value of reading good books, especially old ones, but I’ve never written about the need to quit books. Yet while there are many good reasons to read books that have stood the test of time, there’s also something to be said for putting a book down. As paradoxical as it

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  • The Loss of the Sacred in American Culture

    The Loss of the Sacred in American Culture6

    There’s a grim scene near the end of The Iliad in which the Greek hero Achilles, because of his rage and grief over the death of his comrade Patroclus at the hands of the Trojan prince Hector, slays Hector in battle and drags his corpse behind his chariot, day after day, desecrating the body in

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