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All is not right with the world. But all is not wrong, either. Take Sunday night's air disaster that didn't happen, for example. Alaska Air 2059 Underground (Literally) Schools in Ukraine Hey, Everybody! See What We're Doing! — Improv by Hamas Meanwhile, Back in the States Civilian Homes, a Little Extra Shielding — Tomayto, Tomahto. Loving Neighbors: Not Easy, But I Must Bogeymen, Assumptions, and Attitudes: Past and Present Politics, Religion, and Not Missing 'the Good Old Days' "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" — Article 32 and "Protocols" — "Several Experts" and the Reptilians Spears, Pruning Hooks, and Making Sense in the Meantime Double Effect: It's Complicated "This is Not Us" "Yeh Hum Naheen" Academic Freedom and Responsibility A Civilization of Love: Something to Work Towards A "...Competent and Sufficiently Powerful Authority...." Poetry, Future Generations,...

"...the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome...." (" To Helen ," Edgar Allen Poe (1845) via Wikipedia) I don't yearn for 'the good old days' of my youth, or for more remote golden ages. My memory's too good, and I've studied history. On the other hand, some bygone eras really were comparatively good times. The best of the lot, arguably, was the Pax Romana. That's what I'll be talking about today. Two Centuries of Good times The Roman Republic, Julius Caesar and Defenders of the Status Quo Comparative Peace and Prosperity: Not Perfect, But Not Bad Sic Transit Pax Romana Living Among The Ruins of a Better Age More at A Catholic Citizen in America . (The Pax Romana, two centuries of good times, were not perfect. I look at why, two millennia later, they are still remembered.)

Light and dark, green and brown. Crescent moon, textured memories. Past is done, a quiet present. What was, will be. Their now Is yet to come. (On A Catholic Citizen in America (January 30, 2019))