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It does?! Who the fuck could have learned that since like 9/11 or something!?
Get rid of 'em!
Cheap Paperbacks of the Day
Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse, New Directions, 1957, $1.25.
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, Avon Camelot Edition, 1966, 60 cents.
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#Booksky #Cheappaperbacks #Reading #Fentasy #HermannHesse #KennethGrahame
I have very little doubt about this.
I know the answer to this one. There was once a country that got hit really hard in an air campaign. The attacker stated, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." They ended up getting nuked.
This is ridiculous.
Sentence of the Day:
Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul.
#Booksky
The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them.
It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.
There are no pictures of Hegseth that aren't unflattering. The guy naturally looks like that.
The GOP is not trying to fix the economy. They're trying to fix the election.
American elections were trusted for more than two centuries, through wars, depressions, and razor-thin results. Only when one defeated candidate refused reality did the myth of universal fraud appear. The crisis isn’t the system; it’s the refusal to accept voters.
A post from Yoni Appelbaum that reads "Albuquerque turned a wall of its airport bookshop over to its local university press, and goddamn, now I want this in every airport." The post includes a photo of a wall of books with a sign that says University of New Mexico Press.
I usually avoid posting things from the other place but I will make an exception because this is so damn cool. @yappelbaum.bsky.social
Something is very wrong with Fetterman.
Mike Johnson warns that newcomers threaten the Constitution while his party shrugs at credible allegations of child abuse within its own ranks. Selective outrage is not constitutional defense; it is moral collapse dressed up as patriotism. The hypocrisy is glaring.
America 250, baby!
How embarrassing for him. And for Oklahoma.
It's just impossible to keep up with the stupidity of our government
Author of the Year: 1993
The most significant author who died in this year.
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
#Booksky #AuthoroftheYear #AnthonyBurgess #ClockworkOrange #Britishnovelists
Hunh.
Remember all those people who completely lost their minds about the four Americans who died in Benghazi?
I wonder what they'll do when they hear about THIS!
Yeah, that's sarcasm.
I know they're all cult members and completely full of shit.
Cheap Paperbacks of the Day
The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain, by Mark Twain, Bantam Books, 1965, $1.25.
The Journey to the East, by Hermann Hesse, Bantam Books, 1972, $1.50.
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Absolutely, flabbergastingly insane.
Yup, they're serious. They're going to make the global economy scream. And Trump cannot threaten his way out of it.
It was always projection.
Stop talking about it but keep doing it.
It’s nearly impossible to lose Grenell, but Ogles pulled it off.
History keeps repeating the same warning: concentrated wealth and captured governments treat the planet as expendable inventory. When profit outranks people and ecosystems, collapse becomes policy. Public resistance is not radical; it is the requirement for survival.
