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The War Between Men And Women

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Or “this isn’t what we expected.”

When I was little the women in the family could sound like any feminist when talking about the men in the family.  But it was different.

Look, there were realms.  The house was the realm of women, and in it men were treated somewhere between nuisances and children.  Yes, part of it is that Portugal is a very traditional culture with overtones acquired from the Arab occupation and that leaves certain issues.  For instance, when I was little, if a woman wanted...

A Solar Activity Update- By Stephanie Osborn

A Solar Activity Update- By Stephanie Osborn

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My experience

I did my graduate work in spotted variable stars at Vanderbilt University, so in the astronomical community I would be considered a variable star astronomer. Based on our experience, many variable star astronomers consider the Sun to be at least borderline variable, and I am one of these. In point of fact, pretty much across the board, astronomers dropped the “solar constant” years ago, because it simp...

The Dumbest Idea In History- a Blast From the Past From November 23 2015

The Dumbest Idea In History- a Blast From the Past From November 23 2015

You know, recently we have been hearing a lot about how this or that or the other thing — authentic foods, yoga, certain fabrics and attires — are “cultural appropriation” and therefore a manifestation of racism and should be stopped.

This goes hand in hand with the weird and rock bottom stupid idea that culture is inherited in the genes.  This is what gets the stupid-left (yes, there is a smart left.  Mostly they pull t...

Broken

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Yesterday was a very significant day for my husband.  It’s the birth date of his brother who died at 42 in 2000.

It is significant not because they were very close and best friends.  In fact, after a childhood and young years of conflict, they’d just started repairing their relationship; talking occasionally; being able to hang out or have dinner together without fighting.

That was probably the worst of it, because there are no words as bitter in the world as “it might have been.”

Dan wrote...

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

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*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.  One book per author per week. Amazon links only.-SAH*

 

FROM ROY M. GRIFFIS:  The B...

Lazy Saturday

Okay, guys I’m really, really, really lazy today.  I’m also doing the final push on Guardian.  So….

Sorry, not going to write a post.

I’ll give you something to have fun with.

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HIS Revolution- A Future HE can believe in — by Amanda S. Green

[image error] HIS Revolution – A Future HE can believe in –  by Amanda S. Green

 

Bernie Sanders is no longer the only supposedly Democrat (but really a socialist – kind of sort of) on the national political scene. The news is rife with the so-called wisdom of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I say so-called wisdom because, let’s face it, she has repeatedly shown she has less knowledge of economics than I do (terrifying when she is an economics major). Then there’s the fact that, for a politician from New York,...

Be Not Afraid

I don’t have the time for a long post, but I’ve seen weird outcrops of despondency, and frankly, I’m tired of it.

First, it’s bizarre despondency.  Glenn has been worried we’ll get COCKY. I am too.  The polls are going our way, and yeah, it worries me that people will believe them, because we know what the polls were like last November.

So, it is not … unreasonable to worry that we are perhaps being gaslighted to minimize our enthusiasm/voting fervor.

For various reasons though, I don’t think...

BUILD!

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Sorry this is late.  It’s coming to you from the secret remote location in Colorado Springs (which might or might not be a library… ahem) because every few weeks we need to do stuff in the Springs (our eye doctor and banker and a dozen other things are still here) and so I come down with husband on his way to work, then hole up in a quiet place to write, while he is at work.

Anyway, on the way to the Springs from Denver — a drive that is used to punish the d*mned in hell, particularly when y...

A Loss of Purpose

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Sorry this is so late.  I’m alive, I just woke up early to get “fasting”blood tests and they took a while (there’s always a wait at these places) so I’ve just now had my first coffee of the morning.  Maybe I’m groggy and confused.

But what I want to talk about is gods.

Yes, plural, because it’s an historic thing.

I’ve been reading Campbell’s books on mythology, primitive, oriental, occidental and imaginative, mostly because one of my trilogies that needs to be rewritten (partly because it wa...