Thursday, December 26, 2024

The Magi



On the morning of Boxing Day, 2004, a tsunami was unleashed across the Indian Ocean after a giant undersea earthquake struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing over 230,000.

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Montana Supreme Court voted 6-1 this week and effectively declared a state constitutional right to protection from climate change.

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More than half of the ironically named Inflation Reduction Act's estimated costs came from tax incentives to green corporations.

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And a more complex view of Christmas:

The Magi

Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye,
In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones
Appear and disappear in the blue depths of the sky
With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones,
And all their helms of silver hovering side by side,
And all their eyes still fixed, hoping to find once more,
Being by Calvary's turbulence unsatisfied,
The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.
--Yeats

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