Senior editor & writer @American_Habits. Family, history, theology, & roots music. Ole Miss & Asbury Seminary alum. Recovering what lasts.
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“When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian.” ~ Bernard Crick
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Jun 13
I hate that my happiness hinges on what will basically end up being two or three pitches in a college baseball tournament.
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Ray Nothstine retweeted
Jun 11
Texas Tech must never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon
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Jun 12
One of my all time favorite lines:
"I dust a bit. In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century."
I’m 60 pages into “A Confederacy of Dunces” and it is easily the funniest book I’ve ever read. I already get the feeling that it may end up being one of my favorite novels I’ve read so far.
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Jun 11
Noticed my three-year-old acting very suspicious outside.
Me: “Hey, what’s going on?”
Him: “Nothing but I don’t have glass.”
Me: “Let me see your hand. What is behind your back?”
Him: “I don’t have glass.”
Me grabbing his hand:
“That’s broken glass. Give it up.”
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Jun 10
Theft losses are deductible according to the IRS.
The irony is too much...I know.
Jun 10
So if social security goes into insolvency by 2032 what tf happens to all the money that’s been taken out of my check for the past decade????
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Jun 10
My greater fear is that socialist-minded lawmakers in Washington will look to Americans’ private retirement accounts as a source of increasing tax revenue to prop up Social Security or fund other federal priorities.
@American_Habits
americanhabits.org/on-social…
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Ray Nothstine retweeted
Jun 10
Incomes not keeping pace with inflation has been the persistent economic issue for tens of millions of Americans for quite some time.
When Congress borrows trillions and runs massive deficits, it is still an effective tax increase — it just comes in the form of higher prices.
BREAKING: May CPI inflation rises to 4.2%, the highest level since April 2023.
Core CPI inflation also rises to 2.9%, the highest since September 2025.
Inflation in the US is officially back above 4% and more than double the Fed's target.
Odds of Fed rate hikes are rising.
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I did the Honolulu —> Chicago as a kid back when flying was still fun and I’m still trying to get that part of my life back.
Jun 9
The longest flight in the United States.
New York to Honolulu, nearly 5,000 miles and over 11 hours of flying.
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Jun 10
I’m 100% for getting tougher on violent crime with longer sentences but prison rape is never something to be celebrated or wish upon inmates.
Also, it’s not quite as common as many seem to want to think. Most estimates put it between 2 and 5%. Still, should be 0.
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The best music never dies.
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Cecilia Bartoli, Simon Rattle - Handel : "Lascia la spina cogli la rosa"
youtu.be/rv1LphCacqc?si=5Ihl…
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"Handel is the greatest composer who ever lived. I would bare my head and kneel at his grave."
—Beethoven
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My three-year-old is arguing with me that he is five-years-old and this time I made the mistake of actually engaging in the debate.
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Also, according to him nobody three or under can be at his four-year-old party (which is still months away) because they are babies.
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Ray Nothstine retweeted
Jun 9
I’d actually recommend (for a non-Wood 1776 book) The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn.
Read it and you’ll understand why they revolted over infringements far less than what many put up with on a daily basis today.
Have you read 1776 by David Mccollough? Maybe that’s the third?
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I’m still laughing at Oliver Platt’s southern accent in “A Time to Kill” and it’s been 30 years.
Few things are more annoying to me in TV/Movies than bad southern accents
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When I was teaching the kids Sunday school this morning several boys had prayer requests for the @Canes and a couple of their other preferred teams.
I had a young girl lead the prayer and she said, “And we pray for the sports thingy or whatever you want to do with that God.” 😂
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