Many problems at Columbia would have been solved if professors spoke to their students the way Nozick did. https://t.co/EbFr4gsdyj

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) July 12, 2025

Hahaha this is a real ad being run on TVs in Los Angeles

Watch "We're Not the Crazy Ones" pic.twitter.com/g5JxRkinc1

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) July 11, 2025

In 1966, the Royal Navy buried a .303 Short Magazine Lee Enfield No. 4, in service since 1895, with full military honors at Bisley, England, to mark the end of the venerable rifle’s service. A piper played a lament while cartridges were scattered over the white ensign-draped coffin. The end of the long career of the SMLE resulted from its replacement by the L1A1 SLR as the standard service rifle. The British Army had replaced the SMLE in 1958.

Hemingway is remembered with a statue in Cafe Iruna in Pamplona.

“Hemingway feels it from the grave
every time the bulls run through the streets of
Pamplona
again
he sits up
the skeleton rattles
the skull wants a drink
the eyeholes want sunlight
the young bulls are beautiful,
Ernest
and you were
too
no matter
what they say
now. ”
~ Charles Bukowski

On 6th July begins the 14 day San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, Spain.

HT: Karen L. Myers.

Reading about Javier Milei — paragraphs like this should be internalized by every public policymaker in the west pic.twitter.com/wu9EJq5NXZ

— John Loeber (@johnloeber) July 6, 2025

Descendant of founding father Charles Pinckney, a US Constitution signer and two times (1804 and 1808) losing candidate for President, the late Roger Pinckney was a well-known sporting author and enthusiast of South Carolina Low Country culture.

For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it’s all in the balance, it hasn’t happened yet, it hasn’t even begun yet, it not only hasn’t begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstance which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it’s going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn’t need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose than all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago.

—William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust, 1948.