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Walter T. Richmond
Hasta La Vista Europe!: What You’re Not Being Told About The Refugee Crisis And How It’s Destroying Europe
CreateSpace, 2016

Hasta La Vista Europe!: What You’re Not Being Told About The Refugee Crisis And How Its Destroying Europe, by Col. Walter T. Richmond, is a powerful and well-written book detailing the situation in Europe as it stands today. (more…)

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Author’s Note:

This story is based on a “creepypasta” entitled “Channel 67” published in a collection edited by Gregory West and Hayley Wicker. Like most such urban legends, the story sounded familiar to me when I read it, although I have not been able to find any other closely similar versions online. (more…)

John Maler Collier (1850–1934), "Clytemnestra," 1882

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Greek tragedy is all but forgotten in mainstream culture, but there is a very good reason for looking at it again with fresh eyes. The reasons for this are manifold, but they basically have to do with anti-materialism and the culture of compression. To put it bluntly, reading Greek tragedy can give literally anyone a crash course in Western civilization which is short, pithy, and terribly apt.

Let’s take — for purposes of illustration — the first part of the Oresteia by Aeschylus, which concentrates on Agamemnon’s murder by his wife Clytemnestra. (more…)