As Joel might say, “I got nothin’ today.” Life is happily dull. The Internet is all-politics-all-the-time, but won’t cough up a single bit of actual news until tonight. So while the universal writer’s block works its way out of both my system and the ‘Net’s, here’s a bit of good cheer from Russia: Source
9 CommentsMonth: November 2018
An excerpt. The rest is here. T’was the night before voting when all through the land, Collectivists were clamoring to take command. Their platforms were posted on Facebook with care, In hopes that Control! soon would be theirs. Bernistas were nestled all snug in their beds, While dreams of “free” college danced in their heads. And the socialists of the left, and the protectionists of the right, Had a common enemy: free trade, to fight. When down in the market there arose such a clatter, They suspended debating to see what was the matter! Away to their telescreens they flew…
2 CommentsBlatantly stolen from rockchucker over at Claire’s Cabal. Daylight Saving Time: The Movie. Source
7 CommentsThe escaped slaves of the early Americas (“Maroons” or cimarrons) and their struggle to live free at all cost. Sometimes, according to this piece, their determination to live without masters led to alliances with pirates. I can’t say how gloriously accurate this book excerpt is, but it’s a good read on a subject that deserves more attention. The book itself is a new history of the Jamestown colony, published a few days ago. But this excerpt is more about the slaves and pirates of the Caribbean in the days of Spanish conquest and early English adventurism.
6 CommentsFurrydoc and I had lunch together yesterday. We talked politics as we so often do. And we found ourselves in the same state — a not-so-unusual state, these days. We wished news would simply go away. We’re both taking steps to avoid it. The world seems to have gone completely mad. Hate pretends to represent love. Rage replaces thought. Ignorance supplants knowledge. Yet try though we might, both of us find ourselves steeped in the noise of news as if we breathe it in with the very air. Then she told me she talked to her clinic staff about some…
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