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Peg Tittle
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Aug 23 2026
The Year of the Bad Decision, Charles Sobczak (2013) – HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Nay, REQUIRED READING.
The Year of the Bad Decision, Charles Sobczak (2013) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Nay, REQUIRED READING. The final trigger imagined by Sobczak may not come to pass, but the outcome will be the same. Some excerpts (with a few comments): “People no longer talked about the weather—they trembled at it.” 3 “Global warming, or climate change, had …
Aug 23 2026
Schumacher’s The English Experience – delightful!
Another good one from Schumacher! (The English Experience, Julie Schumacher) “The job of provosts was to create and then disseminate bad news …” p1 “I have an accentuating circumstance …” p20 The students’ assignment starting p42 is full of delights. “I am not saying this to make you an escape goat” p73 “Anyone who …
Aug 22 2026
How We Survived (a story from Fighting Words)
How We Survived (a story from Fighting Words) You’re wondering how it happened. How did we survive? How did our population suddenly plummet from six billion to half that. Enabling our natural resources to recover and, eventually, support us. All of us. In 2020, all of the indicators pointed to our imminent extinction. We …
Aug 21 2026
Our soooo left-brain society
Iain McGilchrist’s The Master and His Emissary: the divided brain and the making of the western world is a lengthy work on neuroscience that will not appeal to many, but if you can sign out a copy from your library, I highly recommend reading the first six-page section of his conclusion (p428-434) wherein he presents …
Aug 09 2026
Ballsy (fiction from Fighting Words)
Ballsy “I’d like to thank all of you for coming,” the smartly-dressed woman smiled warmly at the several people seated around the board room table, each with a prospectus in front of them. Only one was a man. “As all of you know, my name is Mariette Chandler. Kristina Bolaenko, legal counsel, is at my …
Aug 05 2026
from Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods – delightful and pointy at the same time
“Nearly everyone I talked to had some gruesome story involving a guileless acquaintance who had gone off hiking the trail with high hopes and new boots and come stumbling back two days later with a bobcat attached to his head …” p3 “… he had been let go from jobs at Harvard and the National …
Aug 02 2026
from Earth for Sale: The fight to stop the last plunder of the planet, Maude Barlow
“The disruption to the commons that followed Christopher Columbus’ initial journey dled to the death of 56 million Indigenous people by 1600 …” p13 “The total compensation to Indigenous people amounted to pennies per acre for Native territories … The treaty procedure was propelled by threats of war, forced removal, and simply taking the land …
Aug 02 2026
some excerpts from Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine
“In every country where Chicago School policies [neo-liberalism] have been applied over the past three decades, what has emerged is a powerful ruling alliance between a few very large corporations and a class of mostly wealthy politicians—with hazy and ever-shifting lines between the two groups.” p17 “A more accurate term for a system that erases …
Jul 18 2026
“We don’t occupy their imaginations …”
“We don’t occupy their imaginations the way they occupy ours.” Black scientist about his white colleagues (from the movie “Black Cake”) Yeah. Now imagine that ten-fold for a female scientist.
Jul 14 2026
from The First Political Order: How sex shapes governance and national security worldwide, Valerie M. Hudson et al.
Part I is a must-read. Excerpts follow. “Men seeking their own security attempt to construct strong male-bonded alliances, typically based on patrilineal (agnatic) relationships … [Women] biologically reproduce the group, providing brothers and sons for this male alliance. The fraternity’s dependence on women … leads to the necessity for men to control them.” p2 [This …
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