It is the encounter with beauty, all-consuming beauty, the infinite, which directs the human soul back to God. The sky calls us up; the earth drags us down… (essay by Paul Krause)
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/12/annunciation-battlefield-paul-krause.html
Count Venezuela among the victims of hyperinflation.
— Read on mises.org/wire/history-venezuelan-inflation
A good article for our new batch of Democratic Socialist’s to read and learn from.
Discover Mogao Caves in Jiuquan Shi, China: Hundreds of caves filled with thousands of centuries-old statues and murals.
— Read on www.atlasobscura.com/places/mogao-caves
This 4,000-Year-Old Pot Spent Years as a Toothbrush Holder – Atlas Obscura
— Read on www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-artwork-used-as-toothbrush-holder
Hard to imagine
Discover Portage Ghost Town in Whittier, Alaska: The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.
— Read on www.atlasobscura.com/places/portage-ghost-town
Mother Nature
The Horton ad was the highest, best form of political campaigning, serving to illustrate stark differences between the candidates on an important policy issue.
— Read on www.takimag.com/article/bushs-finest-30-seconds-the-willie-horton-ad/
Facts can be uncomfortable for everyone but the true victims of crime. The truth sometimes hurts, literally and physically.
Imagine the weird environment on a comet. In the light gravity, it’s easy to hop and skip. The view is stunning; bright stars surround you, with no atmosphere to make them twinkle. And the best thing? If the comet is close enough to the sun, you’ll experience a space blizzard. An amazing animation on Twitter shows the view from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft. It visited a comet between 2014 and 2016. So much dust fills Rosetta’s view that it looks like it’s snowing.
— Read on curiosity.com/topics/astronomers-once-watched-a-star-turn-directly-into-a-black-hole-curiosity/
More new understanding about outer space
People should have the right to police their websites as they see fit. But it’s just plain nutty that the primary federal law dealing with online content removal was written in 1996.
— Read on www.takimag.com/article/the-deplatforming-wars-part-i-screwed-by-cox/
GOP doofuses gave us this mess
An air cavalry unit struggled to protect a remote landing zone from wave after wave of North Vietnamese attacks.
— Read on www.historynet.com/hell-on-a-hilltop.htm
Men of valor
As you step out of the dense undergrowth, the brush and saplings around you seem to bow in awe towards the lordly presence in the center of the clearing. You look up … and up … and up as you take in the majesty of Tāne Mahuta, the Lord of the Forest.
The wonder of nature
John Barleycorn 
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