John Wm. Houghton
@numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net
Episcopal priest; school & seminary chaplain.
Writes on Tolkien, Bede, Hoosier history.
Dog, Beda.
Poems: https://a.co/d/0CneRK8
Thaumaturge of Annandale series: https://tinyurl.com/B087RS699Q
I-Númenóreo Taracáno Lisseryar: https://tinyurl.com/RKGandA
Writes on Tolkien, Bede, Hoosier history.
Dog, Beda.
Poems: https://a.co/d/0CneRK8
Thaumaturge of Annandale series: https://tinyurl.com/B087RS699Q
I-Númenóreo Taracáno Lisseryar: https://tinyurl.com/RKGandA
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Introductions:
Educated at Culver Military Academy, Harvard, Indiana, Yale, Notre Dame.
I taught English, History, Religious Studies & Ethics in private day and boarding schools. Most recently Dean of the Alumni Chapel & Chair of Religious Studies and Philosophy, The Hill School. 1/x
Educated at Culver Military Academy, Harvard, Indiana, Yale, Notre Dame.
I taught English, History, Religious Studies & Ethics in private day and boarding schools. Most recently Dean of the Alumni Chapel & Chair of Religious Studies and Philosophy, The Hill School. 1/x
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Great that Maduro is gone but what’s next? This may not be the end of a regime that’s lasted through both Chavez/Maduro/their henchmen.
Also what do China/ Russia conclude from this for their regions?
What’s clear:
*The ends can’t justify the means.
*You cannot break the law to enforce the law.
Also what do China/ Russia conclude from this for their regions?
What’s clear:
*The ends can’t justify the means.
*You cannot break the law to enforce the law.
January 3, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Great that Maduro is gone but what’s next? This may not be the end of a regime that’s lasted through both Chavez/Maduro/their henchmen.
Also what do China/ Russia conclude from this for their regions?
What’s clear:
*The ends can’t justify the means.
*You cannot break the law to enforce the law.
Also what do China/ Russia conclude from this for their regions?
What’s clear:
*The ends can’t justify the means.
*You cannot break the law to enforce the law.
Repost with the most recent photo of your pet.
January 2, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Repost with the most recent photo of your pet.
The Gospel according to St John, read by Sir David Suchet
YouTube video by Westminster Abbey
youtu.be
January 2, 2026 at 3:11 AM
In the "songs it would be impolitic for one in my position to be caught humming" department . . .
Something cool I learned on this rewatch: the song that King Elessar sings is the Oath of Elendil upon reaching Middle-Earth, after the destruction of Númenor. Melody by Viggo Mortensen.
Aragorn's Song (English/Elvish Lyrics)
YouTube video by Liam
youtu.be
January 2, 2026 at 1:55 AM
In the "songs it would be impolitic for one in my position to be caught humming" department . . .
By the shedding of his blood, God this day takes on the covenant of Abraham and receives the name of Savior.
January 1, 2026 at 1:29 PM
By the shedding of his blood, God this day takes on the covenant of Abraham and receives the name of Savior.
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Oh, god, this made me hoot and holler!
This is your energy for 2026
*via Zjaan on masto/original source unknown
*via Zjaan on masto/original source unknown
January 1, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Oh, god, this made me hoot and holler!
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I don’t love that NYE every year leans harder and harder into being a “fireworks” holiday.
January 1, 2026 at 3:15 AM
I don’t love that NYE every year leans harder and harder into being a “fireworks” holiday.
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Jim Jordan actually posted the video! On the afternoon of New Years Eve, but posted nonetheless: youtu.be/lR-bhPzQYUE?...
Jack Smith Deposition
YouTube video by House Judiciary GOP
youtu.be
December 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Jim Jordan actually posted the video! On the afternoon of New Years Eve, but posted nonetheless: youtu.be/lR-bhPzQYUE?...
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BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
December 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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And actually--Comet Pizza was a page out of a playbook that started with daycare decades before.
In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵
In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
December 31, 2025 at 1:19 AM
And actually--Comet Pizza was a page out of a playbook that started with daycare decades before.
In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵
In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵
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As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
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That gentle moment as the sun rises above the horizon and gently kisses the earth beneath us. Sunrise this morning on Glastonbury Tor. It is bitterly cold at the moment but if we get mornings like this then it's worth it.
December 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
That gentle moment as the sun rises above the horizon and gently kisses the earth beneath us. Sunrise this morning on Glastonbury Tor. It is bitterly cold at the moment but if we get mornings like this then it's worth it.
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I listened to the clip, and yes, he really says that.
I also checked the math of the person who said 397 lbs per American and yes, that’s right too.
My whole family will just disappear
I also checked the math of the person who said 397 lbs per American and yes, that’s right too.
My whole family will just disappear
Oz: We thought it was 125 million pounds. Our estimate is Americans will lose 135 billion pounds by the midterms
December 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I listened to the clip, and yes, he really says that.
I also checked the math of the person who said 397 lbs per American and yes, that’s right too.
My whole family will just disappear
I also checked the math of the person who said 397 lbs per American and yes, that’s right too.
My whole family will just disappear
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"In the first hours and days of the next president’s term, there must be a concerted effort to utterly expunge the name Donald Trump from every federal building, outpost, sign, website, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse ... " www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-rena...
Why every vestige of Trump must be torn down
He's trying to create a physical legacy. The moment he's out of power, it has to be smashed to bits.
www.publicnotice.co
December 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"In the first hours and days of the next president’s term, there must be a concerted effort to utterly expunge the name Donald Trump from every federal building, outpost, sign, website, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse ... " www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-rena...
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One of the most successful propaganda campaigns of our time is the right-wing claim that liberals dominate the media. The right has pushed this myth for decades on Fox and other outlets. You know about it because RIGHT-WING MEDIA HAVE A HUGE MEGAPHONE. My thread. 1/10 🧵
December 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
One of the most successful propaganda campaigns of our time is the right-wing claim that liberals dominate the media. The right has pushed this myth for decades on Fox and other outlets. You know about it because RIGHT-WING MEDIA HAVE A HUGE MEGAPHONE. My thread. 1/10 🧵
If you see this post a random fact about yourself (if you feel like it):
I briefly manned the foreroyal of my high school’s square rigged ship the summer before I served on our Ides of March catapult team.
I briefly manned the foreroyal of my high school’s square rigged ship the summer before I served on our Ides of March catapult team.
If you see this post a random fact about yourself (if you feel like):
I played piano my entire childhood and I started playing the organ when I was in high school. I originally went to college to study church music. (It didn't take me too long to realize that was not the path for me)
I played piano my entire childhood and I started playing the organ when I was in high school. I originally went to college to study church music. (It didn't take me too long to realize that was not the path for me)
If you see this post a random fact about yourself:
I astounded my children on Christmas when I told them I was in a handbell choir. They all know I'm tone deaf.
I astounded my children on Christmas when I told them I was in a handbell choir. They all know I'm tone deaf.
December 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM
If you see this post a random fact about yourself (if you feel like it):
I briefly manned the foreroyal of my high school’s square rigged ship the summer before I served on our Ides of March catapult team.
I briefly manned the foreroyal of my high school’s square rigged ship the summer before I served on our Ides of March catapult team.
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We should def start on our next BCP, but only if we use the same process as 1979. Let’s start with 20-30 years of scholarly work and carefully supervised experimentation. After 15 years, let’s try some rites that are suited to our post-Christendom, pluralistic era. 1/2
December 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
We should def start on our next BCP, but only if we use the same process as 1979. Let’s start with 20-30 years of scholarly work and carefully supervised experimentation. After 15 years, let’s try some rites that are suited to our post-Christendom, pluralistic era. 1/2
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How wonderful to be wished a Merry Christmas by Tom Baker, The Doctor of my youth, still with us just a few weeks shy of his 92nd birthday! youtu.be/bIgIIjf69LM
Tom Baker's Christmas message 2025
YouTube video by Tom Baker Official
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 1:46 AM
How wonderful to be wished a Merry Christmas by Tom Baker, The Doctor of my youth, still with us just a few weeks shy of his 92nd birthday! youtu.be/bIgIIjf69LM
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I lived in Hillsdale for three years while I taught at Hillsdale College (series of long stories, not for now). Our Catholic pastor joined an ecumenical group of pastors; he was the only Catholic and there were a few dozen pastors. They let him in!
Every month, they met at a different church, and
Every month, they met at a different church, and
Damn, I found a “Catholics aren’t Christians because they worship Mary” in the wild! I thought those only lived in message boards and Utah.
December 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I lived in Hillsdale for three years while I taught at Hillsdale College (series of long stories, not for now). Our Catholic pastor joined an ecumenical group of pastors; he was the only Catholic and there were a few dozen pastors. They let him in!
Every month, they met at a different church, and
Every month, they met at a different church, and
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A calculated harassment campaign cost a faculty member her job, and the faculty appeals panel had no power.
Politicians & administrators are killing cademic freedom—the right and responsibility of faculty to use their professional knowledge and judgment in teaching, research, and service.
Politicians & administrators are killing cademic freedom—the right and responsibility of faculty to use their professional knowledge and judgment in teaching, research, and service.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A calculated harassment campaign cost a faculty member her job, and the faculty appeals panel had no power.
Politicians & administrators are killing cademic freedom—the right and responsibility of faculty to use their professional knowledge and judgment in teaching, research, and service.
Politicians & administrators are killing cademic freedom—the right and responsibility of faculty to use their professional knowledge and judgment in teaching, research, and service.
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America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth.
The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth.
When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth.
When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
December 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth.
The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth.
When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth.
When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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Just remember, we have not even *begun* to Christmas
December 26, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Just remember, we have not even *begun* to Christmas
This is a grotesque obscenity.
Trump on Christmas: “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria.”
December 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This is a grotesque obscenity.
Theme for Christmas dinner here is chops: a bison ribeye, two lamb chops, a fillet, and a pork chop, all with Creole style Marchand du vin sauce, made with ham, garlic, and green onions. Not shown, Christmas pudding.
December 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Theme for Christmas dinner here is chops: a bison ribeye, two lamb chops, a fillet, and a pork chop, all with Creole style Marchand du vin sauce, made with ham, garlic, and green onions. Not shown, Christmas pudding.