Strega

Once MAGA replace all the State Library boards, the mess will be cleaned up. But the range of books will be all under the same section. The Dewey Decimal system will become redundant. They will probably have hundreds of copies of the same book. Any other books will require crayons.

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
The last times I went to a library, it had loud, noisy kids who chased each other in the library and librarians and “security” who didn’t have the brass to throw them out, and the fleas from someone’s comfort/familiar animal attacked me and practically chased me out. One library had signs telling people not to bring f…

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Enco, yes. The local library is here is all of that. You get a good whiff of urine as you approach gateway to literary wonders. Those who have just about given up on life have all but moved in.

I also practically lived in the library at my university when I was working on my grad degree. Thankfully I did have a home to go to when I left.

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When you are old and grey and full of sleep,

And nodding by the fire, take down this book,

And slowly read, and dream of the soft look

Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,

And loved your beauty with love false or true,

But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,

And loved the sorrows of…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Enjoyed listening to Ray Bradbury, ha?

That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@Enco – I make a point of telling Science deniers where all the information they need can be discovered 🙂

Reminds me of something one of my favorite authors would say.

@Enco – I make a point of telling Science deniers where all the information they need  can be discovered 🙂

Abiogenesis is the study of how life might have originated from non-living matter, while evolution deals with how existing life changes over time through mechanisms like natural selection and genetic drift.

They’re distinct domains: evolution presupposes life already exists. The fact that we don’t yet fully understand how life began doesn’t und…[Read more]

Yes, the god of the gaps steps in when they bring out the arguments from complexity, incredulity, and ignorance.

It tells us something, that the domicile of the gods went from the top of the mountain, then up into the clouds, them out into space and then finally some unknown supernatural realm.

Yes, If I were starting over, I would upload my genome to a server and get it to start running scenario based tests on it. That would give it time to run millions of tests to find the optimum “CTAG” string to make the best new parts.

Yes, “keep your government hands off my Medicare. Don’t you even think about socializing it”!

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
A Sonnet for the Smokin’ Truth of April’s End —In Memory of the Pope, 4/20 On four-twenty, ‘neath Rome’s eternal dome, A holy puff drifted through sacred air. The Vatican clock struck “Whoa, bro” with a groan— As incense mixed with something… dank and rare. JD approached, with scripture in his coat, Hillbilly psalms…

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Reg,

Is there any validity to life extension technology?

The Ballad of Bio-Lies and Wrinkle Wars
(With apologies to your wallet and your face)

In jars of glow and tubes of youth, they sell us hope—or so, in truth,
With “hydra-quench” and “nano-peptides,”
They promise time will let us slide.

There’s “dermo-lift” and “chrono-repair,…[Read more]

A Sonnet for the Smokin’ Truth of April’s End
—In Memory of the Pope, 4/20

On four-twenty, ‘neath Rome’s eternal dome,
A holy puff drifted through sacred air.
The Vatican clock struck “Whoa, bro” with a groan—
As incense mixed with something… dank and rare.

JD approached, with scripture in his coat,
Hillbilly psalms and MAGA beads in hand.…[Read more]

Bigfoot will become a striker for the Saints.  Mothman would also have made the team as goalkeeper but unfortunately he took the words “Come towards the light” literally and so died twice on the same day. St. Francis is too annoyed to comment because the whole place is full of sheep.

Of course it must be true! I mean, how else do you explain:

The mysterious drop in holy water levels right after Vance left the Vatican? (Evaporated? Or exorcised itself?)

The Pope’s final whispered words: “Who is this man and what is a Vance?”
The Swiss Guard now seen wearing flannel vests and chewing tobacco?
The sudden rebranding of the Vat…[Read more]

@Enco – What was JD Vance doing there?

Coincidence? That’s exactly what they’d want you to think. The truth is far more divine (and disturbingly Ohioan).

Sources* reveal that during their meeting, Vance attempted to explain the theological implications of Hillbilly Elegy as sacred scripture. The Pope, already weakened by decades of…[Read more]