I started to read adult books at age 6. Just like Reg with 10k steps daily i stepped through at least an hour of reading each night. When i was into a book i would read all day on no school days. Even in college i was always reading. Going to law school is what screwed me up. Felt guilty if i was not reading law. Never got back to it as a daily…[Read more]

Jake,

I can’t stand that guy. He is quite the linguist though. I have read passages of his very carefully and consider him a highly skilled sophist.

So are you trying to say that Chomsky is a cunning linguist? All right, I’ll let myself out.

Well, it would be a better use of his mouth than his speeches.

I need to make time to read more. I am in 4 rock bands that each play a gig every few months and I am currently painting and repairing a 2-story house using scaffolding. Also managing our investments, that takes way more time than I ever imagined. I had dreams of retirement, just lounging around and sipping Mojitos, LOL. Ah hell, I would just get…[Read more]

And one more that a friend has borrowed called The Irrational Ape, by an Irish science writer.

@jakelafort

I do read the majority of the books I list on Sunday School!! Here are a few more I would recommend.

Reg,

Tariffs are where Trump has always been wrong, but if DOGE had gone as wild against Tariffs as they had on USAID, there would be other interests, both agricultural and industrial, who would be caterwauling as much as all the interests caterwauling over cuts to USAID.

Government should stay out of either subsidy or protectionism for any…[Read more]

Reg,

In an interview on Russian state television on Sunday, Mr. Lavrov listed the ills that Europe — not America — had brought upon the world. The United States, in his telling, had gone from evil mastermind to innocent bystander.

“Colonization, wars, crusaders, the Crimean War, Napoleon, World War I, Hitler,” Mr. Lavrov said. “If we look at h…

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@Strega – Yes, I was thinking of that when I read it.

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”