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Embracing Realism with an Attitude of Pessimism and a Foreboding Sense of Fatalism

Embracing Realism with an Attitude of Pessimism and a Foreboding Sense of Fatalism

January 15, 2024 by Doug “Uncola” Lynn: . We perceive our civic challenge as some vast, insoluble Rubik’s Cube. Behind each problem lies another problem that must be solved first, and behind that lies yet another, and another, ad infinitum. To fix crime we have to fix the family, but before we do that we … Continue reading Embracing Realism with an Attitude of Pessimism and a Foreboding Sense of Fatalism

Gladness and Silence amid Chaos and Violence

Gladness and Silence amid Chaos and Violence

December 20, 2023 by Doug “Uncola” Lynn: . The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 . Come, I will show you the punishment of … Continue reading Gladness and Silence amid Chaos and Violence

On the Violence in the Middle East…

On the Violence in the Middle East…

November 14, 2023 by Doug “Uncola” Lynn: Like most of the world, I have been considering the Israel / Gaza slaughter with fascination and a sense of dread.   Did Israel allow the events of October 7, 2023 to happen? It appears so. Were the savage acts of Hamas sickening? It appears so. Have the ensuing … Continue reading On the Violence in the Middle East…

Tradition Is Not the Worship of Ashes

Tradition Is Not the Worship of Ashes

October 11, 2023 by Doug “Uncola” Lynn: . For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. - Ephesians 6:12 . As World War III recently expanded into the Middle East, I was reminded of an … Continue reading Tradition Is Not the Worship of Ashes