An original recipe by Rod Benson I was browsing social media this morning when I saw a photograph of a plate of food posted by my friend Berni. Fried mushrooms! Sour cream! Thyme! BACON!!! What's not to like? So I created this recipe to make it my own. Serves 4 Preparation time: 5 minutes Cooking …
The underbelly of the American self-conscious
Donald Trump is the third sitting U.S. President to be impeached. Photo credit: CTV News The founding Calvinist idea of mankind’s innate depravity due to original sin has been reborn in the 21st century and adapted to the left’s insistence on the innate depravity of the ruling class: the wickedness of the patriarchy, of “white …
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J.R.R. Tolkien on anarchism
Strangely, this quote is my blog’s most popular post: J.R.R. Tolkien on anarchism
Knowledge of the past
“Most of all, perhaps, we need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods and that much which seems …
The moral case for sustainability
Broadcast on 2CH, Sunday 27 Jan 2013. A recent study has found that encouraging people to adopt ecologically sustainable behaviours based on the moral rather than economic case may be more effective. The Guardian newspaper reports that in an experiment conducted at a Dutch petrol station, researchers compared two messages aimed at persuading people to get …