I think there was some sun today. Yeah. I haven't left the apartment since November 15th, and often I do not even look out the window. Our high was 66F. So, yesterday with sunlight ( Read more... )

A sunny but chilly say. Our high was 56˚F. it is now 55˚F.

Anne is is dead, at age 80. I had a phone conversation with her in 1992, and she was very kind to a wannabe writer calling her out of the blue. She told me to read Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, and so I did. As I said this morning on Facebook, She only wrote two novels I thought were ( Read more... )

There's this passage from Karl Popper's The Open Society and It's Enemies (1945) that I've been wanting to post for weeks, and here it is (and don't pull that "tl;dr" shit just because this is longer than 140 characters):

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are ( Read more... )