Sarah A. Hoyt's Blog, page 75

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’...

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Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est La Meme Chose

Running Midair

Or, if you prefer “Don’t look down. We’re over this part now, and those rocks are going to hurt, as we fall.” Or if you prefer “what can’t go on won’t” “But there’s a lot of ruin in a nation.” And “No one knows what will happen when the break starts, it can go any direction.” And, to quote the late, great Jerry Pournelle, “Despair is a sin, and we don’t even know if it’s necessary.”

What can’t go on, won’t. We all know that. I mean, that’s life. The toddler’s tantrum ends, it doesn’t jus...

Odds and Ends

The time has come to talk of many things, but I’ll stay off cabbages and kings, if you will. Even if every time I finish a story I wonder if it’s cabbage.

First, I figured out why things have been so unproductive since February. I mean other than getting repeatedly sick. (It’s better than last year. I find there’s a period of acclimating to the new place’s viruses and peculiar allergies. Used to be a year, but I keep forgetting I’m old now, and past warranty. (To be fair, I don’t think th...

Telescoping

I know I say this a lot, but I feel like I must say it again: we are all soaked in story, drenched in it. More so than any other generation or people in history.

I was lucky — eh — to live in a very old fashioned time, in a backward place until my teens, and not to have been particularly affluent.

How not particularly affluent? Well, there wasn’t much money for books. There was some, mind you. Just not much. And until I was eight we didn’t even a television, and the first time I went...

Cash! by Holly Frost

Cash: Because your pumpkin spice latte consumption should only be between you, your barista, and your diabetes doctor!

“But you need a card for . . .”

Actually, I don’t.  99% of the time folks that want my money will figure out a way to take cash or check.  The other 1% is what prepaid cards are for.

Approximately 4.5 percent of US Households are unbanked as of 2021, that is, they have no bank or credit union accounts in the household (1)  6.9 percent of US Households use general pu...

On Being Americans

There are things that make America different. Most of them were seeded in the bill of rights.

Some of it has to do with being a nation of immigrants (even if you have Ameridian ancestors, sorry, you are descended mostly from immigrants.)

The people who believe that to be or become Americans you have to be as blond as Hitler wished he could be are deluded. If being independent minded and for self-government were dependent on low pigmentation, the Scandinavian countries would be hot bed...

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...

Laissez Faire, Laissez Meme!