We have to go back

Look at the cultural trajectory that we are on. Where else can we go? How much lower? At some point along the way, we became embarrassed to express a love of beauty, and aesthetics. How dare we openly express a fondness for charming decor, lovely cities and towns, an unpretentious affinity for real beauty. Something very real and very rare has died in us, a priceless cultural soul has been extinguished, and too few are mourning it. We resign ourselves to our cubes, our pure heroin iPhones, our ugly-as-sin vehicles, injecting the digital Soma, give a small part of our souls each day to the god of Convenience, and live our lives like the flies of a summer.

What do the veterans of the Israeli attack on the USS liberty think about the subsequent cover-up?

Here’s a fun fact: the captain of the ship received the Medal of Honor, but his ceremony was the only one to have ever been conducted in private. Then-President LBJ didn’t award it himself, also a first.

Israel won’t stop until the Palestinians are either gone or someone forces them to stop

The IDF is conducting widespread demolitions throughout Gaza. This was never about Hamas. Israel has been giddy with bloodlust and greed ever since October 7th. Like a mad dog off its leash, it won’t stop until someone forces it to stop. But who has the courage or willpower to put an end to it? The world turns a blind eye to the most transparent ethnic cleansing operation in modern history. The Israeli soldiers appear to take a positive delight in tormenting and murdering these people.