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February 11, 2020
Things I Learned About Life From Watching Brazilian and Portuguese Soap Operas- a blast from the past from August 2nd 2016
1- The most effective way to kill a baby is to leave the window near his crib open at night. He’ll be stiff and dead by morning. (Sorry kids. I keel you a lot.)
2- If you work too hard you’ll get a “drained brain.”
This will cause you to sing New York New York at your important meeting, then pass out.
3- You can kill any number of people on your way to success, and no...
February 10, 2020
Totalitarianism and Ignorance
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When I was little, we lived in an apartment cut out of grandma’s house. I understand before my time, it had been storage rooms of various kinds, but was converted to a shotgun apartment for my parents when they got married. Because my parents are crazy people, they then lived there for 14 or 15 years, until they could buy a home outright.
The house was already over a hundred years old when I was born, and electricity had been a late addition, though my parents had their own electrical board...
February 9, 2020
Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike and Book Promo
*Note these are books sent to us by readers/frequenters of this blog. Our bringing them to your attention does not imply that we’ve read them and/or endorse them, unless we specifically say so. As with all such purchases, we recommend you download a sample and make sure it’s to your taste. If you wish to send us books for next week’s promo, please email to bookpimping at outlook dot com. If you feel a need to re-promo the same book do so no more than once every six months (unless...
February 8, 2020
We Have Come To the End of Dreaming
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Recently, in a group I belong to, a lot of younger friends were talking about how adult life is drudgery and work and a lot of being kicked in the teeth again and again, before arriving to the end, broken and with nothing to show for it.
I won’t say they are wrong. I will just say they’re not right.
Dr. Peterson says that human life is tragic, and he’s right too. But he also gives instruction on how to live a life that lets you die in peace, with the certainty you have accomplished...
February 7, 2020
Still Here
Battling the forces of evil. Some poetry for a Friday morning. Pardon the religious overtones, it’s still a beautiful poem. If it helps, it is about a saint, so those are inevitable.
A warrior saint.
FERNANDO INFANTE DE PORTUGAL
Deu-me Deus o seu gladio, por que eu faça
A sua santa guerra.
Sagrou-me seu em honra e em desgraça,
As horas em que um frio vento passa
Por sobre a fria terra.
Pôs-me as mãos sobre os ombros e doirou-me
A fronte com o olhar;
E a esta febre de Além, que me consome,
E...
February 6, 2020
Socialism and the Democratic Dictatorship – by Matthew Bowman
So there I was, minding my own business, and a Munchkin who refused to go to sleep at the usual bedtime. Really, I’m not sure what he was expecting to accomplish by staying up late.
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But it meant I came across this particular gem of myopic intelligence looking for a handout, shared into the Secret Headquarters of All Things Insane on an obscure website called something like Bookface. Now, I’m going to cover every single word of it,...
February 5, 2020
How Things Have Always Been
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Part of the problem with humans is that we tend to get used to “how things have always been.”
And when those “things” are comfortable for us, it’s hard to imagine them changing.
Sure, the human animal is adaptable, but sometimes it takes us a while to figure out how to work around when things change. For instance, say we move the furniture in the house: if I come downstairs in the middle of the night to get water or deal with screaming cats (it happens) I will walk carefully around where the...
February 4, 2020
It’s Not Because I’m Dead!
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It tells you something about where the “me” lives that I feel much better and more focused mentally, and therefore I’m very happy. Even though doing stuff like, Oh, showering, still takes me forever and leaves me exhausted.
I don’t even care, provided I can write and maybe finish my web site and set up the newsletter at last. Which as I said tells you where I live. As a friend of mine says, sometimes I need to remember to take care of the meat suit.
I’m hoping I’ve turned the corner on the “...
February 3, 2020
Definitely the Flu
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Last night I realized I DEFINITELY HAVE THE FLU, not “just” an autoimmune attack because the “crushing depression out of nowhere” fell on me.
It isn’t that we don’t have reason to be anxious and depressed right now (long story) but THAT I knew and was dealing with. It’s more like in the middle of making dinner all of a sudden, out of nowhere, I felt like the world was ending tomorrow. (Yes, I know that can be a symptom of a heart attack. And if I had no other symptoms, I’d go get checked....
February 2, 2020
Book Promo *Note these are books sent to us by readers/fr...
*Note these are books sent to us by readers/frequenters of this blog. Our bringing them to your attention does not imply that we’ve read them and/or endorse them, unless we specifically say so. As with all such purchases, we recommend you download a sample and make sure it’s to your taste. If you wish to send us books for next week’s promo, please email to bookpimping at outlook dot com. If you feel a need to re-promo the same book do so no more than once every six months (unless...
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