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ANDY PITZER: Silent Barter

Take a look at your salt shaker the next time you sit down at the dinner table. Or the canister of Morton’s Salt in your cupboard. Now take a gander...

FRED FIRST: Spaces: Inner, Outer & Other

I exist even still in a “liminal space” (which could be a whole other post—with...

ANDY PITZER: Paraphrasing GPT

When I come to think about it, probably the one thing I’m most proud of...

BOB BROWN: IF YOU LOVE YOUR BRAIN, TAKE CARE 0F IT, PART THREE

This is A Brief Educational Summary of Neuroscience 101, Part THREE, our final section. These...

SERWAN ZANGANA: It’s time for positive change in Roanoke City, vote James Creasy for Sheriff

An enthusiastic and experienced law enforcement officer, a veteran deputy, is eager to bring changes...

DEVOTIONAL: Keep The Water OUTSIDE The Boat

Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in...

SCOTT DREYER: Presidents’ Day, à la Biden & Putin

Shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland that tragically gave the English language a new noun--blitzkrieg--Poet W.H. Auden wrote a poem entitled by that...

SCOTT DREYER: Diktatorship In Kanada

I recently read a new book, Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped The Modern World, by Giles Morton. In a nutshell, to...

SCOTT DREYER: The Beauty of Capitalism

While picking up some Valentine chocolates for my bride of 29 years at the grocery store the other day, I saw a large display...

DEVOTIONAL: Saint Valentines Day

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.               --John 15:13 When we...

MIKE KEELER: Happy Lupercus . . . er, Valentines Day!

Remember the good old days, when we’d get drunk, slaughter wild animals, butcher them into strips, dip the thongs in blood and run through...