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

Note that for various reasons, relating to my having forgotten to post early today, this post will bridge today and tomorrow, when there might or might not be a post, depending on a bunch of things I don’t know/can’t know yet – SAH

Book promo

If you wish to send us books for next week’s promo, please email to bookpimping at outlook dot com. If you feel a need to re-promo the same book do so no more than once every six months (unless you’re me or my relative. Deal.) One book per author per ...

Meme Baby One More Time

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FAKED PHOTOGRAPHS, A CONSPIRACY THEORY a guest post by FoxFier

FAKED PHOTOGRAPHS, A CONSPIRACY THEORY a guest post by FoxFier

A “conspiracy theory” mind you which has been confirmed for over a decade.  Almost two, actually.

When it was known as either “Reutersgate” or “The Adnan Hajj photograph conspiracy.”  Or more likely “Oh, wait, you mean when they had to be told that the really bad photoshop jobs were fake? Zombie Time has very nicely organized writeup that came up in the discussion, broken down into types of fraud– digital manipulation, stag...

Stop The Circular Firing squad

A friend said that the right is addicted to losing and to self-flagellation.

He’s right on the second. The first is a by-product.

It never fails to astonish me the chest beating, the “how did we fail” when things don’t go according to plan and its twin, the ridiculous and rage-inducing “I guess people want socialism/communism now.”

The number of people humans have willingly voted for and wanted communism and socialism since the end of the twentieth century is not zero. But it’s not ...

For The Times They Are A’Changing a blast from the past from August 2016

For The Times They Are A’Changing a blast from the past from August 2016

Blame this on the head cold I’m almost over (truly) and the mild fever that accompanied it.  Blame it on the change of weather, that had me getting up in the middle of the night to close windows that had, sudden and inexplicably, become openings to the arctic.

Blame it on my dad giving me all the books of legends of the region that he could gather on short notice.  Yes, I also got books on the history of the City ...

In Their Time

It is important to judge people and events in their own time. First, because that’s the only way we really can judge them.

You can’t judge people on actions they didn’t know were wrong, or on things that were hidden from them, which only time has revealed. Or rather, you can, but it’s deranged. What you are holding people guilty of is not being psychic. Not being able to foretell the future. Well, none of us can. Not with any accuracy, and never about things we want to. (Yeah, sometimes I...

The Children Of The Good Times

I hope you little maniacs are happy. I’ve changed the illustration now.

You’ll forgive me if I say this, but all of you who were born and raised in America are the children of the good times.

This is not a disparagement. As I have said before, there is a lot of nonsense — for that matter a lot of what appears to me to be a lot of imbibed third hand ROMAN nonsense — about the whole “good times make weak men.” (They don’t. Not if the children are properly raised. The defect is in the good t...

Misty, Watercolored Memes!

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How Full Of Brambles Is Our Workaday World

There is this platonic ideal of our lives, inside our heads. Looking back, I know what I SHOULD have been doing at any given time. It’s rarely what I was actually even close to doing. And it’s not that I didn’t want to do it as such. It’s…. other things.

Yeah, I have this fantasy that if I could only send my mind/knowledge back in time, to say when I was 18, and known how things would hit, particularly Indie publishing, I’d be so much better positioned. Or blogs. Or…. you know?

But it...

Root Causes

The most pernicious doctrine of modernity, which informs Marxism via having been in the air — thanks, Rosseau — when Marx, the synthesizing plagiarist concocted his abortion of a theory, is the idea that all evil must have causes.

The causes can’t be “because this person is broken and enjoys tormenting others.” No, because, again, thanks Rosseau, all babies are born utterly pure and wonderful, and it is only their upbringing and what we’ll call “civilization” that corrupts them and makes ...