Sunday Digest No. 3

Reading - Civility - Rhetoric - Hunting

Cameron M. Bailey

Nov 24, 2024

My posts from the previous week, and the very best of Substack. I hope that you enjoy this collection!

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Society

Avery The Deer Hunter

Cameron M. Bailey

November 23, 2024

My eight year old granddaughter Avery has never been interested in outdoor pursuits. Knowing that she will encounter them as she visits friends, for years now, I’ve done my best to ensure that she is familiar with guns, at least enough to ensure her own safety if one of her friends does something stupid with one.

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Sober Soulful

It’s Not Political. It’s Hate.

“One of the huge issues in the world these days [...] is not political. It’s hate…

5 months ago · 184 likes · 64 comments · Dana Leigh Lyons

Armas

This sceptred isle.

Some years back, I was in Seoul when the Democratic People’s Republic to the north chose to attack the empty waters of the Sea of Japan with a barrage of ballistic missiles. I heard nothing of it at all in the peninsula’s southern half, and did not until concerned American friends asked if I w…

5 months ago · Joshua Treviño

Reading

My Friend Bob And His Sidekick Riley

Cameron M. Bailey

November 17, 2024

Last week, the day after it happened, I wrote about the death of my dog Cooper.

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A Lesson From Kindergarten

Cameron M. Bailey

November 18, 2024

Over the past ten years we have seen political rhetoric degrade to the point that a great deal of what is said and written by commentators and politicians has no basis whatsoever in fact. Many seem gleefully engaged in the art of the smear.

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