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

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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.

 

ELLIE FERGUSON: Light Magic. (This is Amanda S. Gr...

Gone Fishing

It’s the first weekend in several weeks my husband is taking a day off, and I’m outa here.

So sorry.

Leaving you a picture to play with.

 

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When Facts Fail and Knees Jerk An Introduction to Thomas Sowell’s “Black Rednecks & White Liberals” – By Amanda S. Green

[image error] When Facts Fail and Knees Jerk An Introduction to Thomas Sowell’s “Black Rednecks & White Liberals” – By Amanda S. Green

After a couple of weeks of angsting over what book to review next, the decision turned out to be easier than I thought. I knew going in I didn’t want to do another book on the last election, Hillary Clinton or Trump. I’ll come back to them, but not right away. I also knew I wanted something that didn’t send me screaming into the night, which is exactly how I felt while rev...

What Can’t Go On

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A friend talking to me yesterday asked “is it me or have most institutions, stores and corporations, most large human organizations, gone stone stupid?”

This was after a conversation that involved the fact that our people, including friends and acquaintances are at war with something pretty much universally right now.  Something that they’d never dream of going to war against, something they didn’t want to fight, but have to, because “mistakes were made.”  Usually mistakes are made by the bu...

Dropping the Chaff

Before I get someone horribly alarmed, as I go into this post, I’m not dying.  I just have the worst case of stomach flu I’ve managed to acquire in seven or eight years.  It introduced itself while I was away from home yesterday, and I almost didn’t make it to the public bathroom in time before I threw up all over the stall.

Right now going onto almost twenty four hours without food, and water is enough to make me queasy.  I’ll try sports drink after I nap, I think.

There is something to that...

How to improve your talent – by Wayne Blackburn

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You, in the third run from the back. Yeah, I heard the joke about ventilated boobs!

What’s that you say? You know how to improve? “Practice, practice, practice!”?

Well, you’d be right, of course, but that’s not the whole story.

I’ve heard (ok, read) Sarah and others talk about “the myth of talent”, with which I have had my disagreements. It turns out, though, that I have never actually encountered the myth of talent, which apparently says that i...

Of Nations and Men

 

Yesterday at church much was made of the necessity to shelter dreamers from deportation, because it’s the “charitable” thing to do.

It is, of course, the charitable thing to do to look after those who need it, but there is an epistemological confusion when one applies moral standards meant for individual humans to whole nations.

I keep running into this with the idiots that think the only time we should use our military abroad is when we DON’T have a guiding interest in doing it, too, and i...

Sunday Books & Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

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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.

 

DAVID BURKHEAD:  The Thunderer: Three Tales of the G...

Contrary to Rumors, Still Alive

Sorry, guys, I really meant to post, but I’m getting pulled about fifteen ways, work and family, and I kept forgetting.  I’m also either having the flu or in the middle of an auto-immune attack.  (Could be either.)

So, since you guys like visual cues to stories, I’m going to give you one, from Pixabay, and then go back to pushing liquids and getting some work done.

I’m so sorry.

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No Feet Sally And the Denial of Human

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Yesterday, on Facebook, Larry was discussing how the liberals interpret “some teachers will be allowed to carry guns if they want it” as “all teachers will have to carry guns.”  Going from that assumption, people of course make comments about how their friend the teacher is half blind and can’t shoot straight, which Larry called a “Poor Sally who was born without feet” argument.

I can see how it would apply, from having seen liberals in action for a long time.  Look, I know we’re not the sid...