While keeping a sharp eye on the political situation, we have taken some steps toward improving our personal infrastructure, so as to make us as self-sufficient as possible. […]
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While keeping a sharp eye on the political situation, we have taken some steps toward improving our personal infrastructure, so as to make us as self-sufficient as possible. […] It’s a sign of the times that, when Trump got elected this fall, we sat down and seriously considered investing in a freezer. Simply contemplating this purchase doesn’t put us on the slippery slope heading downhill toward doomsday prepping. Yet. But it’s a small step in that direction. […] Many of us say “I am an atheist, but I don’t ‘evangelize.'” And that’s the problem right there. We need to meet true believers on their home ground — buttonholing them on the street, knocking on the doors of their private residences on Sunday mornings, slipping fliers under their doors. In short, the world situation cries out for evangelical atheism. […] |
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Straight Outta Stone Ridge: Small-Town Talk (4)
The Swiss architect Le Corbusier defined a private home as a “machine for living.” So this winter, just now ebbing, put our “machine for living” to the test. Which it passed with flying colors. […]