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Deep Shifting

On 9/11 it took some two weeks before my liberal friends started beating their chests and saying that it was all our fault for… existing, I guess.

After the horrendous events of Saturday in Israel, twitter is already full of idiots, most of them, yes “liberals” (in newspeak, since they are totalitarians at heart) doing the two step of “Israel brought it on themselves” followed by alleged (they’re not. Well, they’re maybe European right, which is national socialist at heart) right-wingers ...

Shut Your Kumbaya

The world is full of pretty lies. And normally, I’m able to scroll past them and go “oh, idiocy, more idiocy.”

Today is not that day. No, listen to me. Today is not that day.

I was scrolling through twitter looking for an update on the war in Israel, and I came across this:

And I stopped. And I read that post. Every single word of it is a lie. A lot of it are pernicious lies. And they’re told by well-intentioned people who can’t or won’t look at the world without the rose colore...

One for All, All for Memes!

We Interrupt The Coming Memes For Something Important

Ladies and Gentlemen, Israel is under unprecedented attack this morning. There are many reasons for this:

Breaking: Israel under rocket fire; UPDATE: dozens apparently killed, kidnapped – Some of them are discussed here.

Israel is the bastion of civilization in the Middle East. It is also the ultimate place of safety should things every go that far froggy — as they’re likely to be under any seriously leftist government — not only for those who are Jewish and openly practice the religi...

Rad

I am not a traditionalist. I think very few Odds are.

It’s not that we don’t want to be. Look, we probably, most of us, also want to be the popular kids in school. It’s just we’re all peculiarly broken, and even if we try our oddness keeps breaking through. We ask inconvenient questions. We poke at strange corners of the mind and go down rabbit holes of learning where frankly we — or anyone — have no business being. It’s just who we are. Most of the time “Why did you study that? Why did...

Fall Is Coming

This morning since the weather is warm and it’s not raining — as opposed to the rest of this week — I decided I needed to get on with the seemingly endless list of tasks that need done in the house, including tuck-pointing the front of the house before winter, and mulching the flower beds. And–

It’s been four hours and the difference might be negligible, in what I actually accomplished out there. I mean, things are done, just not nearly as much as should be done, and–

And I’m tired. Re...

Banishing BrainGoblins by Caitlin Walsh

Banishing BrainGoblins by Caitlin Walsh

It is terribly tempting, and among my worst traits, to wallow in the depths of all of the terrible things happening and being forecast, none of which you can do a blessed thing about.

When I’m being especially bad, it’s not even the Big Things (country-spanning turmoils and whatnot), but just a continual, vicious loop of what’ll happen if I die right now, if my husband dies right now, if all of the things we’ve been relying on to function just up...

Propaganda!

We, children of the sixties, tend to think of propaganda as a megaphone. A voice shouting out and drowning all other voices.

We were conditioned through hundreds of movies about the Nazis and Hitler’s speeches.

And some propaganda is like that, but not all.

Those of us who grew up under socialism shading into communism, till you didn’t know where one unholy sister started and the other ended, and you just knew how it sounded/felt, know propaganda by a different feel, though.

Oh, ...

Two Sides

In this dispute there are two sides.

I say this because telling you the other side gets a vote is stupid. We all know that. They have seized the levers of external power, and are doing their best to convince us — and perhaps have already convinced themselves — that only they get a vote.

Honestly at this point in their descent into madness while dragging us along for the ride, it’s hard to know what part of this is crazy propaganda, and what part is what they believe.

Except that I’...

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

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 week. Amazon links only. Oh, yeah, by clicking through and buying (anything, actually) through one of the links below, you will at no cost to you be giving a portion of your purchase to support ATH through our associates number. A COMM...