For the Love of Cats in Turkey: “According to Turkish historian Ekrem Buğra Ekinci, cats’ abilities to control rodents made them an ‘indispensable part’ of households during the time of the Ottoman Empire. Written accounts from the 16th century report the existence of cat hospitals and gardens in and around Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), where locals fed and cared for large stray populations.”
Global Village Burning: Humanitarian Totalitarianism, Totem & Taboo: “As Cormac McCarthy wrote (The Counselor): Truth has no temperature. Truth is its own (moral) compass.”
Please Accept My Unworthy Sacrifice: “What comfort Jesus’s sacrifice offered the tormented Christian—gone, forever. There is just torment. And with that torment, death, and with death, the sneers of those it was staged to appease, baying for even more innocent blood. ”
Wake-Up Call: ” The insane do not care about the rule of law. The conduct of ‘Lawfare’ is the subversion of the law by dishonest means. It is a species of racketeering. “