Conservatives & Liberals

“Conservative: a statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.” – Ambrose Bierce

Bully for Keswick

We lived in the town of Wyncote, until I learned that Wyncote is not a town; it is a CDP (a census designated place). A what? A CDP is “a statistical representation of an unincorporated community that is used to gather data for statistical purposes. CDPs are the...

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Annihilation

“The authentic epistles of Paul—contain no trace of a doctrine of eternal torment, and Paul himself appears to have envisaged only a final annihilation of evildoers. The evidence of the Gospels moreover, is far more ambiguous on this point than most persons imagine.”...