Monday, August 31, 2026
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Saturday, August 29, 2026
“Venezuela is thought to have the world’s largest oil reserves
“The deal involves the development of 17 oil fields,” the Times explained, “more than $100 billion of investments and projected taxes of $209 billion for Venezuela’s strapped government.”
Friday, August 28, 2026
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Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Lindsay Clancy trial judge denies mistrial request, but reprimands prosecution over witness testimony about religion
He said Clancy got more anxious in mid-October when she started taking Zoloft.
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/lindsay-clancy-trial-watch-live-day-19-rebuttal/
US Treasury’s Scott Bessent ‘will lose’ battle with bond markets, former mentor warns
The billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, who worked with Bessent at George Soros’s fund management firm in the 1990s, has warned that his former pupil is courting danger by trying to suppress US bond yields.
Monday, August 24, 2026
‘Still in shock’: Tourist appalled at server’s disgusting note on breakfast bill after making a simple request
1 Succo Albicocca
1 Espresso Bio
2 Spremuta
1 Uova Strapazatte
molto cote
no insalata
questa mi ha rotto il cazzo azzi brucia le uova e sputaci dentro
1 Apricot juice
1 Organic espresso
2 Freshly squeezed juices
1 Scrambled eggs
Well-done
No salad
This woman is a *** pain in the ass—burn the eggs and spit in them.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/24/lifestyle/italian-server-instructs-chef-to-spit-in-patrons-eggs-on-restaurant-bill/
Sunday, August 23, 2026
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Thursday, August 20, 2026
Orioles bash MLB technology after Alonso's blast ruled foul
"What I was told is in order to overturn a call, you need to have two camera angles to confirm it," Alonso said. "But the best view, the only view that shows the ball fair or foul is the one down the line, but no other camera angle is available. So video room rules it foul, umpire obviously called it foul initially. It is what it is."
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/49666131/orioles-bash-mlb-technology-alonso-blast-ruled-foul
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Young baker killed on date after allegedly being lured by teen gang
Oliver Conroy, 27, was allegedly beaten by a group of teenagers aged between 14 and 17 as one of the accused filmed the attack before they stole his car.
Monday, August 17, 2026
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Thursday, August 13, 2026
what are the most important letters of antifederalist brutus?
AI overview:
The most influential and important writings by the Antifederalist writer under the pseudonym Brutus—believed by many scholars to be New York delegate Robert Yates or Melancton Smith—are Brutus I, Brutus II, Brutus XI, Brutus XII, and Brutus XV. Published in the New-York Journal between October 1787 and March 1788, these specific essays provided the sharpest and most prophetic criticisms of the proposed U.S. Constitution, directly prompting Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to pen The Federalist Papers in response
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
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Saturday, August 8, 2026
Jacob Klein and Leo Strauss Giving of Accounts
Klein:
Up to my twenty-fifth year I had one great difficulty. I was a student, and so was Mr. Strauss-we studied at the same university-, and I studied all kinds of things, something called philosophy, and mathematics, and physics, and I did that quite superficially. But what preoccupied me mostly during those years was this: whatever thought I might have, and whatever interest I might have in anything, seemed to me to be located completely within me, so that I always felt that I could not really understand anything outside me, could not understand anything uttered or written by another person. I felt that I was in a kind of vicious circle, out of which I could find no escape. I wrote a dissertation, which is not worth the paper on which it was written, obtained my Ph.D. degree, and then after a short while, returned to studies.
Now, while Mr. Strauss and I were studying we had many, I should say, endless conversations about many things. His primary interests were two questions: one, the question of God; and two, the question of politics. These questions were not mine. I studied, as I said, quite superficially, Hegel, mathematics, and physics. When I resumed my studying, a certain man happened to be at the University in the little town in which I was living. This man was Martin Heidegger. Many of you have heard his name, and some of you might have read some of his works in impossible English translations. I will not talk too much about Martin Heidegger, except that I would like to say that he is the very great thinker of our time, although his moral qualities do not match his intellectual ones. When I heard him lecture, I was struck by one thing: that he was the first man who made me understand something written by another man; namely Aristotle. It broke my vicious circle. I felt that I could understand. Then I began studying seriously, for myself, seriously, not superficially.
... if there is philosophizing, it is a completely immoderate undertaking, that cannot find, ultimately, its goal, although one has to persist in it.
https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/851c685d75958aa5f7dec341738382f9.pdf
