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Hybrid Moments

Belarius, the exiled lord and soldier who stole and raised the sons of the British pagan King Cymbeline in the play of the same name, is certain of a kind of noble “strain” of eugenics, where breeding shows through any humble environment (in this case, a rustic cave in the Welsh countryside). “Cowards father cowards, […]

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War is Over (If You Want It)

Despite what the shrieking dummkopfs in the right-wing media sphere might have you believe, there was only ever one war on Christmas on this continent and it happened during the 17th century. The aggressors in question were Massachusetts Puritans, offshoots of the Mayflower borne pilgrims, whom we were taught to venerate as schoolchildren as the […]

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