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Month: December 2015

Book review: The Miskatonic Manuscript

Published December 11, 2015 5:45 am by Claire

The Miskatonic Manuscript
By Vin Suprynowicz
323 pages, Mountain Media, December 11, 2015

Available from AbeBooks.com $28.50 autographed, limited edition hardcover
or
Amazon.com $5.99 Kindle ebook

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When last we saw rare-book dealer Matthew Hunter and the beautiful, dauntless Chantal Stevens they were searching for the lost testament of James, a much-rumored scripture by the brother of Jesus, a document powerful forces would kill to suppress.

That was in Vin’s first Hunter-Stevens novel.

Now they’re back. Back at their shop, Books on Benefit in Providence, Rhode Island. Back with their distinctly motley crew of friends and associates (including a writer of vampire tales who may take his role just a little too seriously and a small person named Skeezix whose uncanny affinity with cats makes me wonder about his genetic heritage).

And of course they’re back to searching for another rare manuscript. This time there’s nothing biblical about it — unless you worship at the altar of H.P. Lovecraft, whose work the lost document is. Some of the characters in The Miskatonic Manuscript literally do worship at that altar, being members of the Church of Cthulu.

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Storm tide

Published December 10, 2015 2:47 pm by Claire

Tide got a tad high on the estuary this afternoon. This is where the parking lot of a seafood cannery meets the river. Doesn’t usually meet it quite this intimately. The dock on the left (below) is fixed and normally sits high above the water. The dock on the right floats. That bridge you see going UP between them usually goes DOWN, substantially so, when the world is as it should be. The waterfront businesses became much more waterfronty. That’s not a big puddle you see there. That’s the tide coming in. It was clear and dry when I took…

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Free ebooks today and tomorrow only

Published December 10, 2015 8:26 am by Claire

Per MamaLiberty in comments, the Future of Freedom Foundation is offering two gun-rights ebooks FREE today and tomorrow. The books are: The Tyranny of Gun Control (various authors including Sheldon Richman and Jim Bovard) and Freedom and Security: The Second Amendment and The Right to Keep and Bear Arms by Scott McPherson. Get ’em while you can. The timing of this is perfect.

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Thursday links

Published December 10, 2015 6:31 am by Claire

Jim Bovard on our fearmongering president. Charles C.W. Cooke does it again. Our right to bear arms is not up for debate. (Heck, even that elitist, statist pig Alexander Hamilton knew that.) Well. So much for all that oh-so-careful vetting. Surprise, surprise. Iran lies and Obama just nods like a bobblehead doll. Alas, the middle class is now a minority. The graph says it most vividly. You can feel the squeeze. LOL! Glenn Harlan Reynolds on Donald Trump as the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. (Or to put it another way, when leaders are fiddling while nations burn you don’t get John…

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Sunshine and gun poly-ticks

Published December 9, 2015 2:14 pm by Claire

For the first time in days it’s not drenching and flooding. Oh, there’s a little hail here and there. A few scattered thunder-boomers. The wetland across the road is extremely wet. And my waterfall (yes, I have my own personal waterfall, but only when the weather is like this) is merrily burbling away. Other than that, it’s lovely. Blue. Dry. Gave me a chance to put the dogs in the yard and go out and tape up a few more seams on Old Blue. Taping worked as a proof-of-concept but I apparently missed a few spots, first go-round. More weather…

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Wednesday links

Published December 9, 2015 1:39 am by Claire

They shouldn’t have euthanized the alligator. Should have given him a medal. No, Colbert. The problem isn’t that you don’t have to show ID to buy ammo. The problem is that you do have to show it to buy Sudafed. This is how tyranny creeps its creepy little way into our heads. Barack Obama … um created Donald Trump. Two good ones from TZP: Bear Bussjaeger’s “Speaking Ill of the Dead” and William Lehman’s guest commentary, “Controlled Violence, or Pistols and Other Things that Go Boom”. Subscribers to TZP alerts got an early look at both of these. Guess you…

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Tuesday links

Published December 8, 2015 6:29 am by Claire

A social-justice pecksniff explains that there’s nothing wrong with suppressing free speech and erasing history. It’s just a way of achieving a better future. Meanwhile, both members of the formerly well-regarded Couple Christakis have now fled Yale because they can’t work in such an environment. Kevin of The Smallest Minority takes all of three lines to explain weapons of war You already know the USPS has been photographing the outside of all your mail (“security,” of course). Now they’re offering to email you the photos. As a service. (H/T ML) The answer to terror: tougher (armed) citizens, not bigger government.…

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Shocking ;-)

Published December 7, 2015 2:36 pm by Claire

The deadly truth about climate change You’ve heard Glorious Leader say it. And you probably didn’t believe that climate change was the greatest threat to our liberty and security. But now actual, unretouched photos reveal the shocking truth about the deadly peril we face from climate change. Tell it to the terrorists Last night Glorious Leader also equated gun ownership with terrorists and terrorism. Clearly he should send that message directly to the terrorists:

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