(I posted this previously on the member feed on the other place, and was asked to put it somewhere that could be publicly linked.) Had it up to here with your wallet-filching, bossy, sanctimonious state or local government and/or neighbors? Ready to bail out of that blue state for good,… Continue reading
Now we know the Republic is dead and the oligarchs running the former USA are (wittingly or not) dancing to a Chinese tune, it behooves us to try to understand what the world might look like from the Forbidden Palace. Imagine we are a Chinese Communist Party analyst laboring in… Continue reading
Looking for a good read? Here is a recommendation. I have an unusual approach to reviewing books. I review books I feel merit a review. Each review is an opportunity to recommend a book. If I do not think a book is worth reading, I find another book to review…. Continue reading
Some places like gab are making it seem that you need to go to his site at some specific time today and tomorrow, but I have had no problem getting the video to play any time I wish to watch. The run time is just a few seconds under 2… Continue reading
This story is one of the more heart warming things I have read recently. It offered some respite from the bitterness of the stolen election, the COVID hoax and all the other horridness of the past 10 months. It came from the English Lit group on Facebook, discovered by my… Continue reading
There’s an idea going around that somehow doubling or tripling your mask will improve its efficacy. This is nonsense. While the efficacy of masks can be measured against two goals, I submit that neither is improved by doubling the mask, and both goals are actually harmed. The first goal is… Continue reading
YES! “Quoted Reply” is now possible here, which allows some changes, forces others. Fear not, fancy comment editor and revisions are only “mostly dead” — they will be back! — but for now, it’s the wheelbarrow. IN: Quoted Replies: The ability to reply to a comment with either partial or… Continue reading
UPDATE: I wiped out groups and forums. Further updates will focus on the blog part of the blog. Might try installing a “member site” theme — don’t know. If this thing worked as well as thirty-plus year old programs like trn, I would have no problem going right to linear… Continue reading
Here’s a video by some Irish outfit, plenty of good camera angles of the flight. According to the text on the video: “The company’s founder Elon Musk was uncharacteristically quiet on social media, having announced the night before he was “Off Twitter for a while.” And here’s the irrepressible Scott… Continue reading
I’ve written about this before and it’s still the case. Imagine we are sane people (R P Mc Murphy) trapped in an insane asylum. Not too difficult, right? R.P. Mc Murphy represents us, and Nurse Ratched represents the bureaucratic state and authority. In my other writings on this subject I… Continue reading
