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Out of Weakness – A Blast From the Past From October 2016

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It never fails but if I’m talking to someone, particularly someone who is or thinks she is older than I (being mistaken is not rare) and the conversation turns to politics, they say something like “oh, you’re for small government and negative liberties because you’re strong.  You’ve never experienced weakness.”

The funny thing is that there is no point to my explaining, because they won’t believe me, but not only am I not strong, but...

Time, Time, Time

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We live in a very strange age, and as such I find myself wishing for things like a rewind button, a speed up button, or perhaps a “mark as read” for life.

Time, as someone or other said, is the strangest thing, starting with our perception of it, and ending with… well, our perception of it.

Some people posit, in fact, that there is no such thing as time outside human perception, and that everything happens, as it were simultaneously.  The idea is so bizarre, I can’t picture it, and if you ca...

Sorry not to post this morning

We went to a friend’s wedding, and though I thought I had plenty of time to get ready, I realized I’d misplaced my hairdryer.  Which led to a frantic (and fruitless) search and implementation of a plan b, which meant no time to put up a blog.
But we’re all fine, and I’ll post tomorrow.

Lessons Not Learned, by Thomas Sowell – a guest post by Amanda S. Green

Lessons Not Learned, by Thomas Sowell – a guest post by Amanda S. Green

Most of us grew up hearing the cautionary tale about how we must know history or else we’re doomed to repeat it. If we paid attention to the warning and looked back at history, we’d find more than a few examples where lessons hadn’t been learned and tragedies were repeated. Professor Sowell drives home that point in this essay, included in Controversial Essays.

According to Professor Sowell, “we have missed some of its mo...

What Are They Teaching The Kids: Dark Satanic Mills Edition

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One of the Marxists — and the unaware-they-are-Marxists-by-indoctrination products of our indoctrination machines, including those who now teach in them — worse lies is the maligning of the industrial revolution.

It’s 2 parts Marx and 1 part Rosseau.  It is the ignorance and disdain of the moneyed for what the working class has to do to survive, coupled with a naive certainty that rural work is sort of like gardening and beautiful.

As some of you have caught on, for the last month or so, bet...

The Power of Law

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Laws have power.  Mostly they have the power of the government behind them.  As in: if you don’t do this, we’ll kill you and/or put you away for a long time.

That’s it. That’s the only power laws have.

The left meanwhile seems to think they’re some kind of magical incantations, which, by existing, would make it impossible to do/think/say something.

I don’t understand that.

It is most notable in their crazy rush to forbid guns, which give middle aged, out of shape women like me the possibilit...

Weird Spam

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Yes, I was going to do a post. And note today I kept my outdoor activities to 2 1/2 hours, so I shouldn’t be this ditsy.

Except that by the time I came inside, now almost three hours ago, I looked like I’d stepped into a shower fully clothed, and I’ve been sitting here not doing much except staring at the screen.  So I’m going to guess I’m still a little out of it.

Today’s program involved honorable combat with the neighbor’s Virginia creeper which had eaten the flower beds on the west side...

Weeds and Flowers

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This picture is from pixabay. Not an accurate representation of the stuff I was yanking up.

Sorry, guys.  Having younger son living with us for some weeks, and knowing time is limited, I’ve taken shameless advantage of his presence to do a bunch of things that have been waiting for year.  To wit, to cut back the bush in the yard that was taking over the flowerbeds, and also the garden which had been taken over by spiney weeds as tall as I.

Like a strand of intellectual-oriented people, the bo...

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

Book Promo

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE FROM SARAH: HI GUYS! IF YOU’RE SENDING ME LINKS TO YOUR BOOK, AND I’M IGNORING YOU, PLEASE PING ME. I DON’T DELIBERATELY IGNORE ANYONE (UNLESS YOU HAVE SET MY HAIR ON FIRE OR SOMETHING.) MY EMAIL TAKES IT UPON ITSELF TO EITHER PUT SOME PEOPLE IN JUNK, AND I DON’T ALWAYS REMEMBER TO LOOK, OR TO JUST NOT LET IT HIT THE MAILBOX. SO, IF YOU KEEP SENDING ME LINKS AND DON’T GET ANY PROMO, LET ME KNOW BY OTHER MEANS.

*Note these are books sent to us by readers/frequent...

Disjointed

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Sorry to only get to this now. Woke up very early to deal with front yard. If it were simple mowing would have kicked son who is staying with us for three weeks awake and gotten him to do it, but there was weeding and stuff that needed done.

It was a singularly unproductive morning as all I did was the front yard.  Never mind. More tomorrow.

Then there was laundry sorting to do which is done on my bed, and therefore must be done within 24 hours of changing the bedspread, because otherwise al...