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Sanity Check by Thomas Kendall

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Am I the only one weirdly relieved by the allegations against Trump?

Look—the Left has been digging into Trump so intensively from every angle for so long, something semi-real was going to come out eventually. I have a strong suspicion that one of life’s dirty secrets is that nobody makes it to the level of president without some skeletons buried somewhere.

Still— could be a lot worse, if this is what they’ve got. I mean, let’s say Trump paid off a porn star an...

Kiss Your Ash Goodbye: The Yellowstone Supervolcano, Part IV, A Vulcanology Primer By Stephanie Osborn

*For those putting his up at home, this took installing a different browser and pasting as text (after already copying and pasting as plain text on a text editor) under the html tab.  I hope this is not the new normal, but if it is, at least I know how to do it. – SAH*

Kiss Your Ash Goodbye: The Yellowstone Supervolcano, Part IV, A Vulcanology Primer By Stephanie Osborn Excerpted from Kiss Your Ash Goodbye: The Yellowstone Supervolcano, © 2018

http://www.stephanie-osborn.com
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Stand by

I’m not dead or even asleep.
I’ve been fighting with this for three hours now, trying to post Stephanie’s post.  Even when I remove all pictures (I always have to do that anyway) and try to copy paste JUST the text, even when I rinse it though another text editor, WordPress interprets it as a broken picture.  In HTML view it shows the whole thing tagged as an image.
There’s no Earthly reason for this, and I’ve rebooted three times, and tried other computers and it ALWAYS does the same.
If I r...

The Masks Are Coming Off

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For years, being a conservative or — in my case — a libertarian (no step on snek) in the arts, in writing, in publishing, in any cultural enterprise was an exercise in going insane.

You knew what was going on in private, you knew how hard they could hit on what absolutely minor and ridiculous points, but the public in general was not aware of any bias, and if you complained, they thought you were paranoid.

This was particularly the case when you were small potatoes, or  when what they were d...

Convenience

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Sorry this is so late.  I spent a significant portion of this morning dealing with customer service for a newly-purchased malfunctioning device.  It’s apparently a known-issue, though it doesn’t usually strike this early, and they’re sending me a replacement.  Of course, I lost three hours of work early morning, plus having to do without the device (which I was loving) for a few days why they ship.

Which is fairly normal, but dear Lord, is the onus on the customer.

And it kind of brings us t...

I’m Sorry, I’m Sorry, I’m Sorry

I completely forgot to queue a post last night before I knocked off for my day of rest.

I am breaking my no-internet day-of-rest (actually I’m painting the bathroom, but you know, it’s not writing or house cleaning) thing to let you know I’m okay.  I’ll combine promo posts next week.

Meanwhile housekeeping for long-term readers:

We’ve decided we’ll bring back the old paypal for those who want to subscribe (no levels, you guys do what you want.  Life is so strange right now, I can’t really pro...

Uphill, Both Ways

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During one of the tightest and most uncertain periods of our life — not the worst, which was when older son was born, Dan lost his job and there was nothing around that even resembled what he used to do but not very far off — we were talking to an old friend who had invited us to dinner, and we were talking about a lot of our circle caught in the same vise-grip.

“I’m not worried about you two,” our friend said.  “You’re the luckiest people I know.  You’ll fall on your feet.”

This made us sta...

Here’s to the End of the Revolution by Amanda S. Green

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Here’s to the End of the Revolution by Amanda S. Green

We’ve come to the end of Our Revolution, Bernie Sander’s self-aggrandizing, masturbatory ode to himself and to socialism. Thank goodness. I’m not sure I could have handled much more without walling my Kindle or drinking myself into a coma. It’s not that what he says is wrong, or stupid, or full of shit. It is all of that. But there is a danger to Bernie Hillary Clinton never presented, one we’re seeing taking hold in of our younger gen...

Getting Your Due

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There is nothing so bad for you, and your prospects as being convinced you are owed everything.

I repeat because it might seem the strangest thing ever.  There is nothing worse for you, your work, your willingness to toil at education or getting proficient at your profession, your general character and your happiness in life as feeling you are owed a living or honors or whatever it is, by a world that has “done you wrong.”

Which is why the cult of victimhood gets on my nerves.

Perhaps it is...

Kiss Your Ash Goodbye: The Yellowstone Supervolcano, Part III, A Vulcanology Primer – By Stephanie Osborn

*Sorry, particularly to Stephanie, for being so late with this.  The morning went slightly sideways is all.  Nothing bad, just got distracted. – SAH*

Kiss Your Ash Goodbye: The Yellowstone Supervolcano, Part III, A Vulcanology Primer – By Stephanie Osborn

Excerpted from Kiss Your Ash Goodbye: The Yellowstone Supervolcano, © 2018

http://www.stephanie-osborn.com

Images in this article are public domain unless otherwise noted.

The Yellowstone Hotspot and Structure

NOTE: I am aware that there is...