Day: February 14, 2017

A largish excerpt from Plato’s Symposium For Valentine’s Day (Aristophanes’s Speech) love

A largish excerpt from Plato’s Symposium For Valentine’s Day (Aristophanes’s Speech)

Jaybird February 14, 2017

In the first place, let me treat of the nature of man and what has happened to...

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Courthouse!

Mike Schilling February 14, 2017

Some of these towns nowadays have very tricky names.

A Little Bit Country… 7488216080_09c0a99230_b_hank-williams-jr

A Little Bit Country…

Mr Peel February 14, 2017

The answers were staring at us in country music all along.

Morning Ed: War {2017.02.14.T} morninged3russian

Morning Ed: War {2017.02.14.T}

Will Truman February 14, 2017

Happy Valentine's Day!

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