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Peg Tittle
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Dec 16 2025
Impressive? I’d call it sick.
from Congo, Michael Crichton (p293) “In the 1950s, if the Americans and the Russians launched all the bombers and rockets at the same moment, there would still be no more than 10,000 weapons in the air, attacking and counterattacking Total weapons interaction events would peak at 15,000 in the second hour. This represented the impressive …
Dec 09 2025
Trump deletes climate data
Unfuckingbelievable that the President of the U.S. would delete climate data and shut down the NOAA database. Many MANY thanks to the people who made the save possible. https://grist.org/extreme-weather/trump-killed-a-crucial-disaster-database-this-nonprofit-just-saved-it/
Dec 09 2025
Death of an Author, by Aidan Marchine and Stephen Marche
For those of you who don’t know, Death of an Author is a novel co-written by the ‘self’-named AI Aidan Marchine (95%) and the human author Stephen Marche (whose The Next Civil War impressed me, leading me to take a look at Death.) I started reading the novel, but it didn’t grab my attention very …
Dec 07 2025
This is what happens when you have the IQ of a spoon
The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – The MOON.
Oct 19 2025
State of Terror – Louise Penny and Hilary Rodham Clinton
Having read this book, I’m left with two insights: One, I don’t know enough, and never will, to form any valid opinions about anything political. It’s beyond complicated. Whatever ‘it’ is. Two, what the fuck. I mean, if an insider such as Clinton, who DOES know enough to form valid opinions, thinks this could happen …
Oct 19 2025
Exposing the IPCC
Just finished reading Donna Laframboise’s expose of the IPCC, The Delinquent Teenager who was mistaken for the world’s top climate expert. Laframboise is a Canadian journalist, not an American climate denier, and yes, the book did lower my esteem for the IPCC. But that doesn’t mean that its conclusions (such as CO2 warms the atmosphere, …
Oct 08 2025
The Cockroach – Ian McEwan
Wickedly funny. British, but frighteningly international and, of course, the President of the U.S. had to be included …
Sep 22 2025
Academic Pursuits, Guy R. McPherson – a delightful/intelligent read/expose
“‘Fahrenheit 451 of the Vanities’ in which an eighties yuppie is denied books; he does not object, or even notice.” p5 “‘Night of the Living Dead Poets Society’: A mid-career professor in the humanities continuously re-lives the same poor performance in the classroom, as much to his own chagrin as that of his students.” p5 …
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