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Monthly Archives: October 2025
Late Night Music Fix
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For though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image.
~ Eric Hoffer
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John Ratcliffe was born
on this day in 1965
John Ratcliffe — the American politician and attorney who has served as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency since January 2025 — was born on this day — October 20, 1965 — in Mount Prospect, Illinois.
He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Government and International Studies, and the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, where he earned a Juris Doctor.
Prior to his appointment as CIA Director, Ratcliffe served as the Director of National Intelligence from 2020 to 2021. He represented Texas’s 4th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2015 to 2020. Earlier in his career, he served as the Mayor of Heath, Texas, and as a federal prosecutor, holding the role of acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas.
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Campus Life at
Wright State University
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I understood that no one lives forever, but there are certain people whose power and presence so thoroughly penetrate your view of things that contemplating their absence feels as strange as imagining having never been born yourself.
~ Walter Kirn
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Campus Life at
Kent State University
Late Night Music Fix
Pat Benatar – Love Is A Battlefield
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Tim Gill was born
on this day in 1953
Tim Gill — the American entrepreneur who founded Quark, Inc — was born on this day — October 18, 1953 — in Hobart, Indiana.
He is a graduate of the University of Colorado – Boulder.
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Late Night Music Fix
America – You Can Do Magic
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The flannel, the Catholic mysticism, the bunker aesthetic — it’s all part of the shameless act. Underneath is a Machiavellian tactician who understands power not as something to dismantle, but to inhabit. Part P.T. Barnum, part Pat Buchanan, this is a man who preaches humility while flying private. Steve Bannon isn’t leading a rebellion. He is selling one.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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