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Baby It’s Dumb Outside

These are some of dumbest things I’ve heard all year, in no particular order.

Yes, most of them are since the election. But they’re so dumb, they have to be dumber than even claiming Trump had somehow arranged to be shot, with centimeters of accuracy and perfect timing that require not a twitch.

The ever-insightful Gay Patriot, whose site used to be one of my daily reads unearthed this gem.

How dumb is it? Let me count the ways:
First – why do they think Trump is going to do anyt...

It Was the Buggiest of Readings

I might have been a little tired when I read this last night. I might have mentioned? Maybe? That part of this post-viral thingy is that I get very tired suddenly, and sometimes my awareness doesn’t catch up with me in time. I think it hit about three pages into this story, so …

It’s not an audio book, it’s a reading. Which is no excuse for forgetting how to pronounce a character’s name, forgetting the story title at least once and… well, if I didn’t forget my own name it’s a close thing....

The Way To The Future

It is said that the past is another country, they do things differently there.

The same can be said of the future. And both the past and the future are ultimately unknowable to us. Even the past we lived in changes in memory as we go along, and we often forget what doesn’t accord with the way we live now. Nothing crucial mind, it’s just… remember when there were little pumps for toothpaste? You pressed a button at the top, and it dispensed toothpaste? It was available for maybe five year...

The Chinchilla Of Hope

*I really have no excuse for this. Not a single smidgen of a little bit, of a suggestion of an excuse. Except that my fans — you know them, right? — can’t spell (Maybe that’s why they like me?) Back before I gave in and started referring to the slipper I threaten them with as a chancla because everyone knows the Spanish word, I used the Portuguese word. As in, Portuguese moms are experts in the art of the slipper as well, but they call it a chinelo. My fans rapidly started threatening each oth...

Meme-etic

*I’m going to rattle the tin cup. I’m doing my winter fundraiser. And while I mean to give free ice-cream every day, I haven’t recovered from Thanksgiving (I know… But hey.) Anyway, there’s a Give Send Go for the Winter Fundraiser and well, if you need anything else including the why and all, please go here. Tomorrow I hope to do a Christmas short story and another reading. We’ll see. I spent most of today sleeping. And now the memes!- SAH*

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Seeing America by Foxfier

Seeing America by Foxfier

Follow the admirable advice of Mr. H. G. Wells, who said, ‘It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.’

About a century ago, GK Chesterton came to visit America.

As it happens, being a fellow who wrote for papers, he wrote about it. I often suggest the preface-essay, What Is America?, describing it as his love-letter to our lovely country. Quotes are from this Gutenberg online copy.

It is a little depressing to see that many people– ...

Things To Be Thankful For

As noted in the post below this (yeah, it is a blog funding post. Life is like that just now.) this has in many ways been a brutal year. Mostly in “things fail around the house” and “health” ways.

But as we come to the close of the year, there have also been very good things, and at least two extraordinary miracles, full measure, poured over. And this is the day to remember those.

I’m not going to demand you believe in extraordinary providence, but miracles exist, even if it’s in “Th...

The Great, Extraordinary Winter Fundraiser

Back when I did the normal Summer fundraiser, a curious phenomenon happened: I think I had more people donate than at any other blog fundraiser before, but the amount was lower, as everyone donated about a third what they normally would.

At the time, you guys told me I should do another fundraiser in winter to take smaller bites, as it were.

I will confess I intended to forget that, but …. what a year this has been. We’ll just say the house we bought apparently hadn’t been maintained a...

Eighties Democrats

Can we put to bed this idea that Trump is an eighties democrat? You see, I remember the eighties. I have a memory. I have writings.

I keep hearing it over and over again from our side. “Well, he’s an eighties democrat. It’s just the democrats have moved so far left that–“

I’m not going to dispute that in the eighties he was a democrat. Or that the democrats have moved further left since then. Though that later is perhaps not exactly true.

(It’s more “they were always this far left...

Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

*Trying to get a handle on winter cleaning/organizing, combined with all the extra sleep to recover from whatever the heck that was that ran me over. I will be doing a fundraiser, starting tomorrow if I get organized enough. Mostly because I said I would do another at the end of the year. I’m trying yet a new format for those. We’ll see how it goes. For now, better late than never, it’s the promo post and vignettes – SAH*

Book Promo

If you wish to send us books for next week’s promo, pleas...