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The Stodgy Past Generations

Our idea of the past has no relationship to reality. Specifically, our idea of “past generations.”

A few years ago, I accidentally found myself reading a page where some young women were talking about Christmas gifts. One of them was going on about how she was buying her mother — of all things — a vibrator. Because she thought her — Catholic, married, about my age — mother needed to find out that vibrators existed, and how wonderful they were. (Because her mother specifically had told her...

NOT TODAY!

Sorry guys. It’s been a very weird month of so, and today (9/18)I just ran dry on blogs. I really need to try to finish the book tomorrow!

A few tie-offs on the fundraiser: A few of you requested an answer, one of you by mail. I will try to get back to you when we get back from Portugal on October 15th.

By now we’ve deposited every check. If you haven’t got notice of that, we didn’t receive it. (Our post office can be flaky.)

If there’s something I promised and haven’t done, please...

Nations and Charities

At the heart of what we’re going through right now as a country — and you could say of the West as a whole — is the left’s complete and utter lack of understanding of economics.

Look, there are rich people and poor people, there are rich nations and poor nations. For the left this has absolutely nothing to do with behavior or cultural characteristics. It’s a matter of location, mostly. Or a matter of who stole from whom.

Judging from my kids’ high school economics book — and therefore ...

Button Counting

Recently I’ve become aware of how much that’s going on in commerce, industry and our institutions is a sort of cargo cult of competence.

I’d been noticing some of it — and being baffled — since the nineties by an odd devotion to “procedure” which bordered on “We do the thing the experts do/say to do” and results will be right.

This intruded into my attention first with the publishing establishment turning against cozies. That term is broadening, but back then cozies was “Mysteries with...

So, Away From Home Today….

I was a good girl. I brought my laptop before I set off on an adventure. I even verified that my computer could sign onto my associates account.

What did I forget? Oh, yeah, the dongle.

I’m sorry, I’m so unused to spur of the moment jaunts these days. When I travel these days it’s plotted days or months ahead. This suddenly picking up and going off is a big problem. It’s outright unnatural, I tell you.

I’ll be back on tomorrow morning and do a promo post. Look on the bright side, th...

The Memes of Life

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Privilege and Hobbles

Among the many strange things that Kamala Harris has done in her life, there is a video going around of her giving a talk at a black — college? — association where one of the guys opines there should be a different law for black people, because they are “400 years behind.”

First, sure, let’s see how stupid this man is from the historical perspective. He apparently believes that a) slavery holds you back sort of in stasis for the time period you were a slave. b) that it happened only to bl...

Fine International Cuisine

This is late as heck, because this morning Fun With Doctors joined Fun With Bureaucracy. I’ve been home all of an hour, and had to deal with all the stuff I should have done this morning… including feeding VERY STARING kittehs.

But one very brief foray into twitter this morning brought me across a guy screaming (and I’m doing this from memory and for comedy, so wording is not only not exact but exaggerated): “Damn you you maniacs and your immigrants eating pets memes! You caused Trump to ...

The Curious Case of The Winner Who Didn’t Act It

Yes. Yes. You are in fact getting a bonus post. And today of all days. (I never function at my best on 9/11.)

Why are you so blessed, you might ask. Well, I have certain skills. Skills that make me more adapted than the rest of you to live in our present all propaganda all the time now.

Last night when I went to bed my group of people who were paying attention to the debate was mixed on the result. As was the consensus of the net. It was all “Trump could have behaved better” and “K...