Not a Puppet. Decorum Matters
On March 19, 2026, China’s General Administration of Customs (GACC) notified Argentina that it had detected chloramphenicol in beef from one of Argentina’s major processors and suspended further imports from that plant.
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805 Third Avenue North in downtown Myrtle Beach sits New Directions for Women, a women’s homeless shelter operated by New Directions of Horry County.
The relatively small residential-style property is part of a much larger nonprofit organization with more than $4 million in reported assets, substantial private and government funding, a structured recovery-based program, and plans to replace the Third Avenue women’s shelter
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Why is astrology condemned by the Christian faith, you ask?
Maybe the more interesting question is:
Who decided it should be—and why?
To explore that question, we have to go back roughly 1,660 years to the Council of Laodicea, a regional gathering of Christian bishops in Asia Minor, probably held sometime around A.D. 363–364.
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Most people remember Timothy Leary for LSD.
In 1973, Timothy Leary was imprisoned at the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo. During a period in solitary confinement, he began writing what became Neurologic.
We’ve somehow been conditioned to believe that being alone means something is wrong. That if the phone isn’t ringing, the invitations aren’t coming, or the people who once occupied so much of our time have moved on, then we must have lost something.
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Consider for a moment an alternate reality where your elected officials were corrupt and easily blackmailed
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Repurposed Antiparasitic Drugs and Cancer: Separating Scientific Evidence from Hope, Hype, and Controversy
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It’s taken me 57 years to learn these lessons. If I can save you even a few years of frustration, heartache, or wasted time, then writing this was worth it.
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It was a carefully engineered machine.
Like many of history’s most interesting inventions, it wasn’t created by a large corporation or an engineering team hidden inside some anonymous office building. It was born from the imagination of one man with a drafting table, a handful of machine tools, and the stubborn belief that everyday objects could be improved through thoughtful design.
That man was Phil Jergenson.
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Nothing in life is free.
The question isn’t whether you’ll pay.
The question is what you’re willing to pay for.
These days, I’ll gladly pay the price for peace.
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