Category Archives: Personal

The Obvious Investor

Posted on May 20, 2022 by JC

The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape, John Wiley & Sons, December 1st, 2020 (first published in 2016) Despite sharing my misgivings about the type of books you find in airports before, I have been given (gifted this time), another book … Continue reading →

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Setting Goals and Failing

Posted on April 30, 2022 by JC

As I write, I have been recovering from an illness and had a week away from work with a lot of idle time. Most of this time I wasn’t feeling well enough to focus on anything productive but I am … Continue reading →

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Benedict XVI is still the Pope

Posted on April 13, 2022 by JC

This is a post I’ve contemplated writing for a while but have been very reluctant to do. The title alone should indicate why but rather than just make this statement, I want to give some background to my thinking on … Continue reading →

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Is the bare minimum enough?

Posted on March 20, 2022 by JC

I have mentioned the Mike Judge film Office Space once before here when reviewing his film Idiocracy and I shall have to do a deeper dive into the film at some stage. Perhaps after the next time I watch it. … Continue reading →

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Goals Set, Goals Accomplished & Goals for 2022

Posted on February 7, 2022 by JC

Once again, I reflect on the previous year with goals I set for myself. Last year  I made a smaller list in the hope that a narrower focus would yield more results. As we shall see on review, I did … Continue reading →

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The Example of Eleazar

Posted on October 14, 2021 by JC

The First and Second Books of Maccabees are the last books of the Old Testament and detail the resistance of the Jews to the Seleucid Empire under Antiochus IV. I was completely unfamiliar with them until I began preparing to … Continue reading →

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Backing the Blue

Posted on September 26, 2021 by JC

I won’t pretend I’ve never had trouble with the police and some lingering resentment as a result of that. In my first few years of driving I ended up with a number of small fines and a loss of license. … Continue reading →

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Breaking out of the Cult of Free

Posted on August 15, 2021 by JC

For the last few years and especially this one, I have been working on breaking out of what Vox Day has called the “cult of free”. This is something I believe he’s talked about more in his livestreams. This mostly … Continue reading →

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The Grace of God as Training Wheels

Posted on August 12, 2021 by JC

This is something I’ve observed in myself that I haven’t seen put in quite the same way though I am sure it has been discussed by theologians. When I returned to Christ — or more truly came fully to him … Continue reading →

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Skin in the Game in Education

Posted on July 16, 2021 by JC

The idea of cameras in classrooms has come up recently in the US as part of the ongoing discussion of Crititical Race Theory (CRT) anti-White racism. Here is a short article from Breitbart by John Nolte responding to an article … Continue reading →

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