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Simon, from the woke left and it’s anti-isreal Jew Hating campaign which has infiltrated universities with nonacademic studies in Jew hating propaganda, leaked into mainstream media and awakened the far right’s latent Jew hate here are today’s headlines in the Jerusalem Post.

Oh, this real first-rate smooth brain chatter, LOL. …[Read more]

Simon,

No power, no oppression, no money, no patriarchy? Sounds great. It’s true that people died very young though.

Did you read what I just said? There was NO Garden of Eden, NO Golden Age, NO Noble Savagery.

However, Power, oppression, and patriarchy did exist at least on a small scale and money existed when barter got too c…[Read more]

Strega wrote:
it’s not just people dying, like snuffing out a candle. It’s about leprosy, polio, and a million savage unrepairable wounds. It’s about the misery of pain, and the proximity to animal violence that pervaded in your ‘sounds great’ description.

I take your point, that living conditions and the lack of advanced medicine would have made…[Read more]

I wonder if Schrödinger was ever nervous on Christmas morning as he opened his boxes of presents? Did he call his cat “socks”??

Reg:

Arizona senator who thinks mankind came from monkeys has a say in childhood education.

Senator Farnsworth didn’t say he thought mankind came from monkeys, but rather that the Theory of Evolution said so. He is doing a good impersonation of a monkey by flinging poop, though.

Also, Mitzi Epstein got it wrong when she said that “Evolution…[Read more]

As always, you are very welcome Strega 🙂

Thank you Reg. I’m really touched. Your poem is amazing and I’m honoured by the dedication.

(And thanks for Sunday School!)

I smoked some good weed last night. I imagined an artist digging into the earth for inspiration with bare hands and scraping the hand of a philosopher digging from the opposite direction…. so I wrote a poem. I will dedicate it to Strega 🙂

Digging

You dig from your side
with charcoal hands,
following a feeling
you can’t quite name.

I dig fro…[Read more]

Have a great week and Happy Solstice from close to where I live, this morning. More here.

@simon it’s not just people dying, like snuffing out a candle. It’s about leprosy, polio, and a million savage unrepairable wounds. It’s about the misery of pain, and the proximity to animal violence that pervaded in your ‘sounds great’ description.

I just read the linked article and i confess utter ignorance of the Kabyle people and their struggle for self determination. I just wonder who the lefties will support.

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-israel-of-north-africa-just-declared-independence-the-west-cant-ignore-it/

I keep hearing about where AI is weak, and that’s ok. It’s often true. But many in society typically prefer to just leave it at that, ignoring that AI is at least good at: Summarizing the words and conclusions of everything published on the internet. For better, and for worse, of course, but I love delving into topics that would take ten or a…[Read more]