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I DO NOT CONSENT

So for all this time, the democrats have been about consent, right?

Remember when it was essential that every drunk college boy get his equally drunk date to sign a consent for each stage of the relationship?  Like “I consent to mild groping on the couch while watching net flicks”  or “I consent to inept kissing where you look all over for my lips and kiss my left eyebrow, then my earlobe, and end up doing a good imitation of a cow when you use your tongue to find my lips?” (What? Okay, look, I...

Dance To The Music – A Blast From the past from February 14th 2017

Dance To The Music – A Blast From the past from February 14th 2017

The last day I’ve been going “Argh” as I realize the barriers that have been put to thinking and expression thereof, as well as the continuous blast of “this you must think, this you must celebrate” (more onerous than even “this you must not think” and “this you must not do” that Heinlein cautioned us about) just in the last ten years or so.

The first occasion of ARGH was my going over page proofs for my mystery, Dipped, Strippe...

Civil Shoulder Shrug

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I know, and have said, that one of the things I appreciate the most about America is how law abiding we are.

Ive written in the past about the transformative experience of realizing no one stole Christmas decorations from yards, followed by realizing how few yards had even a nominal picket fence.  Mind you, I still dont feel okay without a fence, and when Ive lived in a house with one, I obsessed about closing gates, since it seemed to me an open gate was an invitation to entry.

Now, when I...

Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike and Book Promo

Book Promo

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Hi guys. I was hauling river rock.  Freed an entire flowerbed for cosmos, which are great flowers because they self-seed and dont let weeds bother them. Oh, and I can use them for cut flowers.
I also am ALMOST at the point of digging up the side flower bed for the dedicated rose garden. (For now. Next year, if things are okay, Id like to put a gazebo in the middle of the yard, with roses climbing over it, but thats. not this year. Its conditional on my writing enough and the economy doing...

Panic Reaction on a National Scale by David Burkhead

[image error] Panic Reaction on a National Scale by David Burkhead

So, for some months now weve been engaging in greater or lesser degrees of restrictions in order to flatten the curve (although now people are claiming its to completely stopmore on that in a moment) of COVID19 (which I like to call Winnie the Flu).

Few, if any of these restrictions make a lick of sense.

First off, the models that drove most of the reaction (and, lets be honest, the panic) were created by Neil Ferguson, a mathematical...

I don’t feel like writing a post today

So, heres a fun image to play with, while Im off de-river rocking a flower bed, planting roses and then hopefully writing.

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The Danger of Masks

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Over and over, everywhere, theyre out in force.  I wear a mask because I care.

The fact this phrase is always used tells me its not original. They heard it somewhere, and it sounded good to them and theyre going to use it buckle and tongue whenever anyone challenges the UTILITY or the sanity of their wearing a mask.

In fact their wearing a mask is tying a yellow ribbon in their front yard during the Iran hostage crisis. It is flying the flag after 9/11. Its a way of showing their feelings,...

On Not Being A Sheep

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I confess I probably should take no credit in not following the herd. It is, in fact, more difficult for me to follow it. Witness my struggles in 2016. It took rational arguments from two very different perspectives for me to join the majority of the right.  And occasionally.

BUT now that Das Bild, that notorious American right wing periodical (coff) says thatthe lockdown was a huge mistake, you might ask why Ive been screaming it and just protect the vulnerable since this insanity begun.

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The Precious Child

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As a civilization, the West has probably the lowest sustained childbearing rate of any civilization  in history.  Even Rome in the Empire had a low fertility rate only among the uppermost crust of society.  (And for much the same reason our fertility is so low well, except for contraceptives.   Rewards, advancement and the ability to ensure a comfortable life accompanied a low number of children, instead, as throughout most of history, the opposite.)

Im discounting in this case China, where...