We basically keep the lodge hall at 65 F and then turn it up a few hours before meetings and events. Having a heat pump requires thinking differently about heating than having a furnace that can generate heat quickly.

We had a split heat pump system installed in our lodge hall in Buckley in 2019. It works very well and both heats and cools the building. The one bad thing about it is that we basically have to leave it in heat mode from November through June because it doesn't heat the building up quickly. For a space that's only used four or five times a month that may not be as efficient as the old gas furnace. However, we're not using any gas now which is good. All our heating and hot water is electric which works out well for us.

The origin of the “Canadian tuxedo.”

This is a good example of the fallibility of taking a simplistic look at history. Nazis were of varying degrees of ideological orthodoxy. Some were fervent and would enthusiastically carry out horrible policies. Some were passive and would just go along with the party for convenience. Grouping them all together loses a lot of detail and nuance. Rabe didn’t seem to have much of an issue with the anti-Semitic properties of Nazi ideology but he did have a problem with the open brutality of the Japanese against China. That’s a complicated set of ideas from a modern perspective but tends to get flattened to “Nazis bad!” by modern readers.

The Revisionist History podcast had a great episode about the experiment that demonstrated the improvement from adding iodine to salt.

That's "America, The Beautiful" right there.

Anyone interested in Lafayette should read Mike Duncan’s book, “Hero Of Two Worlds.”