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Over the last few years, right-wingers have finally started to realize that what they’re missing is empathy. Several decades’ worth of “I didn’t realize how bad this policy was until it hurt someone I know personally!” statements had...
K. H. SCHEER & WALTER ERNSTING – Enterprise Stardust. Perry Rhodan #1, Ace, paperback original;1st printing, 1969. The first of a long German series, in two parts, probably first punished separately. Comments of each follow. Tolerably...
From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 27-29: In 1498 the crew of the ships of Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama became the first people known to sail...
The Intellectual Circle Jerk and Why We Can't Stop https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-intellectual-circle-jerk-and The credentialing cartel. Same top-tier universities, same books, same thinking. If you do not think like them, you do...
Book review for Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. I rated it 4 stars This book kicks off rather abstractly. A man wanders the halls of a huge house with hundreds of rooms. Amongst its many rooms, there are 13 dead bodies - all skeletons - plus...
It's been a while since I allowed myself to just pour freely onto the page. I admit I've noticed myself getting rut-barrelled into the ground again—getting caught up in the formula of writing, standardized. The desire path becoming the...
I just got this bullshit spam. I like AI. I work for an AI company. And I have also been hand-writing the same blog for 28 years and have zero intention of having AI continue it without me. The whole entire point of blogging is for me to...
I began wearing glasses for nearsightedness at age eight or nine – I was the classic kid who couldn’t read the blackboard, back when children were not as routinely tested for vision problems. My vision got continually worse over my...
past. prologue. | 19”x22” mixed media on bristol
Scored a cool new wallet… similar to the one that broke, also met Kelly Curtis who managed Pearl Jam from its formation in 1990 until his retirement in August 2020. I bought a sweatshirt from his shop, and we talked skateboarding for the...
Maria Konnikova ★★★★☆ An interesting read on how con artists operate, and the psychological traits they manipulate in order to trick people into doing what they want. It’s roughly structured around different phases of a con, from picking...
Flowers in the meadow by a tree by Pixabay (Pexels)This is a story I wrote with the prompts:Magical School – Real Estate Developer – Wine BottleCassandra gazed out upon the outcropping of rocks, surrounded on all sides by an angry North...
I recently spoke with Jay Dragon, the creator of Seven Part Pact, Wanderhome, and Yazeba’s B&B about Seven Part Pact, which recently was successfully funded on Kickstarter for more than a million dollars. We spoke the final day of the...
Not a lot to say about today. Still in recovery and today had me dealing with more exhaustion and some pain. I did head outside in the afternoon to get some fresh air, and take some garden tour video. Before I started, I spotted Slick’s...
Bunny received a flyer in the postal mail claiming she could win “$15,000 Cash or Choose Your Cruise—Spain, Italy, Greece, and More!” There were just three simple steps to claim the prize: Pull the tab of the attached VIN Gauge...