With Linus surrendering to the forces that will consume Linux, it’s time to rethink a few things and make some decisions now that could save our nerd bacon, at least locally. This
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Some Thor cosplayer on Gab tried to say Christmas is pagan because Santa used 8 reindeer to pull his sleigh around. The flying sleigh was from how Thor rode in a chariot
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The Mandelbrot Set What struck me was how in C.S. Lewis’s final book for Narnia, there was something very much like the Mandelbrot set. I won’t quote the entire chapter but here
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It’s that time of year again when good Christians honor Christ’s birth though all sorts of festivals and rituals with the big lead up to the 25th for many. It’s also that
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The Hegelian dialectic is one of the more insidious tools the enemy uses to pervert and destroy moral civilization. On the surface, it doesn’t seem to be a festering boil of evil.
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Because Google and BBC is asshole, I can only find this documentray from Roger Scruton on Vimeo now: https://vimeo.com/128428182, I downloaded a copy using youtube-dl. (I mean, clearly this is a threat
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Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung is the most auspicious, grandiose, more-than-slightly unhinged, opera of all time. It’s such a big deal that people refer to opera and the musical arts as pre-
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First, the bad (mixed with some good). While some comparisons will happen, I’ll try to be as charitable as possible because Kubrick was a powerhouse director/visionary while Hyams wasn’t. Hyams, thankfully, was
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I recently rewatched Alien and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Alien still holds up as a space survival horror flick. 2001 is still as visually stunning as when it was made in 1968,
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Only through hate can we understand the profundity of love. Only through love can we grasp the fury of hate. Asking to give up hate is to give up your humanity, to
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Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick lays into a number of misconceptions about Christmas and the celebrations around it. No, Christmas is Not Pagan. Just Stop.
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