I find this hard to believe, but who the hell knows. Sometimes you do get a bounce when you fire the coach Aussie Rules promotion video from the 1970s (poor vid quality) Have fun!
Midday Emergency Post
Sorry folks, some confusion. Here's an open post. Although, this happened yesterday. And the same government which can ban guns, can ban speech. Don't love their politics, but love the sentiment: https://genius.com/Redgum-killing-floor-lyrics
A Few Thoughts on History – and the Writing and Teaching Thereof III
(Part I - including a background to this series; Part II) Part the Third: Great Men & Whigs Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. Thomas Carlyle The history of the...
Profiles in Toxic Masculinity (franchise edition*) – Charles H. Upham
Kiwi badass. Just read, you will see.
Protestants and Pacifism in the Early Modern World: Part II
One of the cornerstones of libertarianism—the non-aggression principle—can be explained as a refusal to engage in offensive violence while retaining the right to resist personal threats vigorously, even to the point of using lethal force.
Protestants and Pacifism in the Early Modern World
This is not a topic I would have naturally written about, but SP made a comment that got me thinking…
“A Man’s House is His Castle”: James Otis & the Fourth Amendment
In February, 1761, in a Boston courtroom, what should have been a fairly dry, administrative procedure became the foundation of one of Americans’ most prized rights.