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February 1, 2020
Under the Weather
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I woke up today with the flu (but not the Kung Flu, because you know, I haven’t even ordered Chinese take out in the last six months, because low carb. Um…. wonder if the Chinese restaurants are feeling the bite) having done a you turn and run me over again.
So, I’m going to do some writing and maybe some intensive napping, because I’m really low on sleep and have been.
It would help, truly, if my immune system did anything besides attacking ME. If anyone knows how to communicate this to it,...
January 31, 2020
They Wanna Keep You In Chains
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Yes this post is in homage to Bribem’s crazy utterance int he 2012 race, which by itself should disqualify him from the presidency, because he’s either stupid or thinks other people are when he says to black Americans that “The Republicans want to put you back in chains.”
This is so much bullshit it only makes sense from standpoint that the left always accuses their opponents of what they want to do or are actually doing.
Though in fairness to leftists, it is not just American blacks they...
Fifth Friday Promo
A few books from my friends. Blog post a little later.
Good morning, everyone! As we head into the weekend, I thought I’d leave you with a few suggestions for new reading material. I’ve either read the books listed below (or, in once case, wrote the book) or I know the author’s other works and can recommend the book based on their past performance. So here goes.
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Risen from Ashes
Sam Schall
As a Marine, Ashlyn Shaw knew the day would come when she might not return from a...
January 30, 2020
When You’re Strange
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We have no clue what Odd is, we just know we are it.
It doesn’t seem to correlate particularly well with intelligence, not that any of us knows precisely how to measure intelligence ( which has been used to disqualify all IQ tests and is stupid. Treated as “aptitude” tests, and not used as a guide of human worth — because high IQ is not — we should be able to use them for hiring and higher education. Which might clear some of the fug.)
There is some indication we’re more creative, but it...
January 29, 2020
Earth Needs Women – a blast from the past from November 2010
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*Forgive me for running blasts from the past on both blogs today, but for various reasons — okay, mostly cats and doctors. Someday I’ll tell you the story, it’s hilarious — I only slept 3 hours last night, which came on top of spending the afternoon/evening very worried. Then today (Tuesday, late night) was a round of doctors. I managed to finish ONE grossly overdue short story, which is nothing short of a miracle as exhausted as I am. Tomorrow I finish the LAST overdue short story and can...
January 28, 2020
Debit and Credit
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One hates to disagree with the late great Margaret Thatcher, and I’m not doing so precisely, so much as expanding/repositioning what she said.
The greatest problem of socialism is not that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money. The greatest problem of socialism, be it the soft pink, dilute kind, or the full on strong red kind that animated the USSR (which remember always called itself socialist. Just like the DDR called itself democratic. Never mind.) is that sooner or later...
January 27, 2020
Laugh or Cry?
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Like most of you I grew up as the weird one in any group. Which is weird, as this blog seems to attract a lot of those who never fit very well elsewhere.
Now, not fitting in is not necessarily wrong. I’m not one of those people who think that most human beings live lives of quiet desperation. I’ve grown up around a lot of “normal” people, and though they bitch as much as the rest of us (nosotros from the Spanish is such a useful word. Oh, you’re served notice, I don’t think I took my...
January 26, 2020
The Writer Against The Forces Of Evil and Promo
First of all, I must apologize for no vignettes. I am sure the vignette team have given me the word but my hotmail is more gifted than usual.
In fact all of my communication means are more gifted than usual this week, up to and including the actual snailmail. More on that in the forces of evil.
But for now the promo post.
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,...
January 24, 2020
More Prizes For Good Girls or a Letter from Sarah to the Political Goldfish – A Blast From The Past From March 2017
Yesterday I kind of lost my temper. It was Facebook. I got just one too many reminders that we were celebrating International Women’s Day. And didn’t I want to show solidarity? And celebrate women?
Look, it’s not my fault. I was bit by a rabid International Socialism as a child and it’s the sort of thing that causes an allergy for life. Oh, yeah, and International ANYTHING day...
January 23, 2020
The-Verse
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One of the strange things about the left, born of their ideological overlay on the world, is that they are so often right in all the wrong ways.
Take diversity, for instance. (I’m not using it.)
They are forever complaining about the lack of diversity here or there or that other place, as well as trying to advance diversity by law, by dictating the “correct” proportions of people in any position or organization.
For instance I understand that new directives insist on a certain number of...
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