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Netanyahu
I see that earlier this week, Netanyahu ascended Mt. Hermon to worship his masters, the devils Semyaza and Azael.
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I had a dream last night that was layer on layer of narrative. It would be hard to narrate it in spoken words since I'd just end up getting lost, but here is an attempt at it. I purposefully did not look up any references.
My wife was pestering me about all these calls she was get getting on her cell phone about a job offer for me from the CIA. I ( Read more... ) -
Sigmund
Madam Malkhos and Madeline went sort of honey mad at Christmas dinner this year. Naturally I was remind of the story of Sigmund. When, at his sister Signy's wedding feast, Sigmund refuses to sell his magic sword to his brother-in-law Siggeir, Siggeir ambushes the party, killing his father-in-law Volsung and chaining up Sigmund and his nine brothers ( Read more... ) -
The Creation of Life
I follow what creationists say on YouTube quite closely since I find it an endless source of amusement. One of their main themes is that no lab work has ever produced artificial life which they take as evidence that life cannot have arisen by natural means and therefore require magic (though they don't phrase it that way). Recently an organic ( Read more... ) -
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I've been reading Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep. There is a scene where Marlowe gets into a fight with some thug. Marlowe eventually gets a choke-hold around his neck and keeps it on until his opponent passes out. Then he lets go, since all he wants to do was subdue him. While he is unconcsious, Marlowe puts hand-cuffs on him since that way he ( Read more... ) -
Sphinx
I got a new tablet recently. I use it only to read PDF while I sit on the front porch smoking cigars (well--I did use it to follow the attempted fascist coup). Today Danny notice that the background is Knopff's Oedipus and the Sphinx and asked what it was. So I told him the story, ending it this way:
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Rhetoric
I've read Cicero in Latin and Demosthenes in Greek, but I've never encountered rhetoric like Vice-President Pence used in the acceptance speech for his nomination: "We'll make America great again, again."
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Unfortunately saw a moment of the Republican convention. Trump's offspring have an aunt who was a federal judge and a great uncle who was a physics professor. Can you imagine what it would be like if one of them had a brain like that?
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The closure of the libraries has hit me very hard. Lately I've been reading the short stories of Hawthorne. This morning I read one set during the tyranny, as he described it, of James II. The governor of Massachusetts set in motion a parade of a company of soldiers. The street was lined with people who considered themselves oppressed. An old man ( Read more... )
