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Brent Selloff Deepens After Worst Week Since COVID; US Gas Prices Poised To Break Below $4 Brent crude futures dipped into the $93-a-barrel handle early Monday morning, extending last week's selloff, the largest weekly decline since April 2020, while WTI traded near $87.37 a barrel. IntradayWeeklyContinued diplomatic signals outweighed a wave of regional violence over the weekend, including a Houthi missile strike on a Saudi Aramco office tower in Riyadh's financial district, tanker attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, US forces disabling a vessel in the critical waterway, and US strikes...

Virtue Gone Mad: Manager Punished More Harshly Than The Shoplifter He Stopped Authored by Theodore Dalrymple via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Commentary Nietzsche thought that the decline of the Christian religion in Europe would inevitably lead to a social, cultural, and moral crisis. This was because a traditional morality based upon religious belief could not be upheld once the religious belief itself weakened or was abandoned. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images This was not an original thought. The poet and essayist Matthew Arnold said much the same thing in a poem, “Dover Beach,” written in...

Is This Peak 'Clown World'? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Transport for London has dropped a dog house-shaped "calm space" onto the concourse at Ealing Broadway station and called it progress. The tiny pod features a bench, noise-dampening acoustics and a "soothing" forest mural. They claim that it is part of an effort to "boost accessibility for neurodivergent travellers under TfL's Equity in Motion strategy," whatever that means. Massive backlash has ensued, with many questioning this as a priority over train delays, complete lack of air conditioning on many lines, poor...