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Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine. Edited by H. Albertus Boli, LL.D.

  • ASK DR. BOLI.
    by Dr. Boli on June 15, 2026 at 4:01 am

    In response to our advice on proper salutations in letters to recipients of unknown gender, our frequent correspondent “tom” asks, Well what […]


Brickmuppet Blog 2.0 A Cornucopia of Incompatible Interests

  • Programming Note
    on June 14, 2026 at 5:46 pm

    Above is next week's streaming schedule. The reason for two ZZZ streams is that Monday is the LAST day to pull S-Rank Billy, which will require a […]


.clue Recent content on .clue

  • [anime] *God's Shouty Appraiser*, fin
    on June 13, 2026 at 2:25 pm

    Of course the final battle against the Big Bad Evil Ivell had to be extra-shouty, with a side order of Button Elf. No …


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William M. Briggs Statistician to the Stars!

  • Truly Random Numbers Found?
    by Briggs on June 15, 2026 at 11:00 am

    Headline: “Perfect randomness realized for the first time“. Perfection! “It may seem strange, but it is almost impossible to create a perfect […]



Edward Feser "One of the best contemporary writers on philosophy" National Review

"A terrific writer" Damian Thompson, Daily Telegraph

"Feser... has the rare and enviable gift of making philosophical argument compulsively readable" Sir Anthony Kenny, Times Literary Supplement

Selected for the First Things list of the 50 Best Blogs of 2010 (November 19, 2010)


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  • Incentive
    by Kim du Toit on June 15, 2026 at 5:40 am

    I see that Lewis Hamilton won the Spanish F1 Grand Prix in his Ferrari yesterday, this after coming in second[...]


Pergelator Silicon Forest
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  • Japan
    by Chuck Pergiel on June 15, 2026 at 7:09 pm

    Downtown OsakaDaring daughter went to Japan last month and sent me some photos. Seven more photos here.


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Isegoria From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small


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Bayou Renaissance Man The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!

  • Memes that made me laugh 316
    by Peter on June 15, 2026 at 9:48 am

     Gathered from around the Internet over the past week.  Click any image for a larger view.More next week.Peter


Liberty's Torch (a.k.a. Bastion Of Liberty)

"Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracy,
And the dogs that bark revolution.
Drunk with talk, liars and believers.
I believe in my tusks.
Long live freedom and damn the ideologies!"
(Robinson Jeffers)


Borepatch Internet Security, music, and Dad Jokes. And pets - it's a blog, after all.

  • Science is not magic
    by Borepatch on June 15, 2026 at 4:23 pm

    Divemedic has a must-read post about what science is and is not.  Quite frankly, it is a brital - and much needed - takedown of "Trust the […]



VolcanoCafe Because Volcanoes are Ewesome

  • The great Hawaii earthquake of 1868
    by Albert on June 8, 2026 at 9:39 pm

    It was perhaps the most destructive event in Hawai’i in memory. And it was raised again in the blog comments recently. It turns out we have […]



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The Silver Key "Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other." --H.P. Lovecraft, The Silver Key

  • "Medusa," Anthrax
    by Brian Murphy on June 12, 2026 at 8:18 pm

    I was driving my John Deere around my lawn last weekend... cutting the grass of course, not just driving it around, though just driving around on a […]


The Silicon Graybeard In the World of the High Tech Redneck, the Graybeard is the old guy who earned his gray by making all the mistakes, and tries to keep the young 'uns from repeating them. Silicon Graybeard is my term for an old hardware engineer; a circuit designer. The focus of this blog is on doing things, from radio to home machine shops and making all kinds of things, along with comments from a retired radio engineer, that run from tech, science or space news to economics; from firearms to world events.

  • So far the weekend is a dud
    by SiGraybeard on June 14, 2026 at 2:22 pm

    I mentioned this weekend's ARRL VHF contest a few times and that's where I was all of Saturday - at least until 11:00 PM local (eastern US) time.It's […]


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I don't know, but . . . ''I do not know everything; still many things I understand.'' Goethe

Observations by me and others of our tribe

... mostly me and my better half--youngsters have their own blogs

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  • Ask a Grandpa
    by james on June 15, 2026 at 1:10 pm

    Possible youth group addition: A table for private questions.


  • White House Fight Night
    by Grim on June 15, 2026 at 3:19 pm

    I went to UFC headquarters last time I was out in Vegas. It's quite a thing, really. I have heard that the President slept through part of it, but […]


Essays in Idleness On politics, religion, ideas, the culture, the history.

  • A party man
    by David Warren on June 15, 2026 at 11:30 am

    One, — and I, especially — have always thought of himself as a party man. Indeed, while reclining on the floor the other day, trying to recite […]


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Assistant Village Idiot Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud


Althouse ... set loose on a wild, untamed continent


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Prairiebreak Horticultural and botanical musings from the Rockies, Great Plains and beyond. In humble tribute to Goddess Flora.


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  • How I Became A Pacifist
    by Stephen Baldwin on June 5, 2026 at 5:23 pm

    Many years ago, when I was but a callow youth, our well-traveled neighbor returned from a sightseeing trip to Australia wth a gift for me. It was a […]


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Flora Pittsburghensis Wild Flowers of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania


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DarwinCatholic Where Religion, Philosophy and Demographics Meet

  • Novena for Order 2026, Day 6
    by mrsdarwin on June 15, 2026 at 5:26 pm

    The young folk here have been acquiring full-time jobs, either summer gigs or the starts of careers, and they've been getting up with the birds. As a […]


Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters Art, Contemporary Culture, and the Church

  • Leo: One Health Fits All
    by Maureen Mullarkey on June 13, 2026 at 8:34 pm

    Pope Leo’s understated public manner obscures his acceleration of the Vatican’s leftward tilt. The trajectory, set by Pope Francis, quickens […]


Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas Mauser's Anime/Torrent blog.

  • Is it a new Sub-Genre?
    on April 19, 2026 at 5:49 pm

    There seem to be a lot of shows recently about girls being decent to geeks. Maybe it's wishful thinking on the part of animation producers. Maybe […]


Mahou Meido Meganekko Japanese animé, gaming, and other silly things


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Anime Instrumentality Blog Anime Music! OP/ED and Soundtrack Reviews.

  • 7th Time Loop Soundtrack
    by zzeroparticle on April 16, 2024 at 4:47 pm

    Album Title: 7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! Original Soundtrack Anime Title:


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man with black hat

the daily musings ...
of faith and culture, of life and love, of fun and games, of a song and dance man, who is keeping his day job.

  • In Corde Jesu
    by David L Alexander on June 12, 2026 at 5:00 am

    Today, Catholics of the Western tradition celebrate the Feast of the Sacred Heart. Outside of devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary, there is none […]


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Burger's Onion Weird botany and horticulture

  • A Visit to Dark Swamp
    by Matt on October 31, 2025 at 9:26 pm

    The edge of Dark Swamp. Out east on the Putnam Pike in Glocester, Rhode Island, on the border with Connecticut, there is a neglected patch of wild […]