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No Gratitude Warranted- by D Jason Fleming

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No Gratitude Warranted- by D Jason Fleming

The Daily Beast has published a thumbsucker called:

9 Reasons to Thank the USSR: How We Got the Cold War Wrong

ReadThe Gulag Archipelagoand tell me how thankful Solzhenitsyn was. Go ahead, read it. Unabridged. I’ll wait.

That said, what’s funny here is how few of his “reasons to thank the USSR” he actually gives in his list of reasons.

Much of what many of us learned in school about the struggle between the U.S. and USSR was very, very wrong.

Taken...

Incoming: The Chicxulub Impactor, Part 5 ― Other Theories & Other Extinctions By Stephanie Osborn

Incoming: The Chicxulub Impactor, Part 5 ― Other Theories & Other Extinctions By Stephanie Osborn

http://www.stephanie-osborn.com

Other Theories Gradual Decline

Some statistical studies indicate that, based on the fossil record, most of the major dinosaur groups were already declining during the Late Cretaceous, though certain herbivore groups appear to proliferate during this period.

The researchers who performed these studies indicate that the dinos’ inability to “replace extinct species...

To Be Diverse or Not Diverse, That is the Question – by Dave Truesdale

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That is the Question by Dave Truesdale

 

Like many of us, I suppose, I’ve always found a certain degree of disconnect between two opposing positions from Libs and especially the Woke crowd. On one hand they plump for Diversity, the assimilation of all kinds of people into society regardless of ethnicity, gender, sexual proclivity or identification. (Except for diversity of thought, of course, but we’ll set that aside for the moment.) On the other hand, these Woke Libs plump...

I Just Want to UNDERSTAND

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There was a comedy show in Portugal in the … eighties? Late seventies? where the punchline was “No, I don’t want you to explain it to me. I only want to understand.”

Lately I feel that way about so many things.  Take gender, for instance. I keep getting told that all sorts of things are true that can’t be true at the same time because they are mutually exclusive.

For instance: I’m supposed to believe that gender is a social construct.

Okay, let’s take that and run with it, shall we?

1- Gender is a social construct. Not just a...

It’s Always Darkest

 

It’s always darkest before dawn.  This is not actually true, but it is, metaphorically.

I’m rushed, and have a million things to do today. This is a very scattered post, just a bunch of things running through my uncaffeinated mind.

I leave it as an exercise for the audience to make lists of the reasons not to despair.

I’ll leave you with one: the same people who prattle endlessly about how the demographics are going their way don’t act as if they are.  Also, in that respect, the demographics have been going their way m...

Unusual Vignettes and Book Promo

*Okay, I came back two days ago and my birthday is tomorrow. I will try to do some writing today, but I’m not even looking at my email till the 19th, because no. And also no. I’m trying to adapt to this “late 50s” thing. I need a moment. Also, honestly, I’m trying not to come down with yet another cold, because these days it takes me forever to recover.  I’m sure my faithful vignette-challenge-creators sent me a word, but since I’m not opening the email, I don’t have it. (I’m not even expecti...

This That and Low Carb

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I woke up feeling 80 years old, and since I’m fairly sure none of you have an aging ray (if you do and you trained it on me, I’m gonna give you sych a kicking.)

I think it’s the result of late nights, unwonted activity (both trying to understand the science behind the talks and honestly sitting still in a classroom (meeting room) all day, a thing I’m singularly bad at. Oh, yeah, I was here.

I have zero idea why I felt the need not to disseminate our whereabouts, but when I get subconscious imperatives lik...

Who Is That Masked Villain

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If we’re going to be honest the masks started falling well before this year.  But I call this year the year of the great disappointment.

Let’s for instance talk about Eric C*aramella whose name is being spelled like a swearword and deserves it: did I go overboard with memes. Sure. I did. Sometimes genetics is destiny, and when I get the Latin up, the legions of Rome go marching through my emotions and…. everything gets red and I become weaponized.  Or as I told Dan: Behold the power of Portuguese autism. I...

I have not forgotten the blog

Obviously not continuing Stephanie’s series today. Will do tomorrow. Will do something later today.

Late night. Got mildly tipsy. Enough to walk in circles for a while, looking for the elevator.

But am very much alive and okay. Just kind of of slow this morning.

When It All Comes Apart

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One of the things that’s puzzling hell out of me is how the democrats are acting this election.

I always assume they have better on the found intelligence than the republicans, because they know not just who is voting for whom, but also all the dead who’ll be voting, how many illegals they can commander, and precisely how many votes they can “harvest.”

Between the “human wave” of illegals, which they credit with flipping Virginia (no, seriously.  The left is saying this. Which makes you wonder if they’re even...