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Sunday Sermon

 

Herbology Saturday

Masks

    Wear 'em correctly, peeps.  Lives depend on it.

Book Excerpt for the Day

    “I didn’t drop acid before writing the lyrics, as many people later assumed.  And the lyrics weren’t about an acid trip.  I may have smoked a joint that night, but that was it.  Since birth, I’ve had achromatopsia – complete color blindness.  If I had dropped acid, I would have been hallucinating in vivid black-and-white.  I doubt that would have helped me or the song much.  (John Kay, regarding “Magic Carpet Ride”)

    (from Anatomy of a Song by Marc Myers)

 

    8½*/10.  The complete review is here.

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Music Wednesday

 

Waldo

Word for the day: *Waldo* (n.): a remote manipulator, as for puppets, operated either mechanically or electronically.

Today's Safety Tip

Polyglot Sunday

Book Excerpt for the Day

    “I’ve left my husband,” she said, “and it’s for real, and I’m never going back.”

    “To him, or to New York?”

    “Neither.”

    “How come?  Is he the mayor?”

    “What?”  She looked blank for a second, and then she laughed.  “It’s all connected in my mind,” she said.  “It’s a journey into independence.  Or does that sound stupid?”

    “No, I can see that,” he said.  “If you’re making a big move, you want to make a move.”

    “Right,” she said.  “If I’m leaving, I’m leaving.”

    “Sure,” he agreed.  “If you’re throwing out the bath water, you might as well throw out the baby.”

    She frowned at him.  “Somehow that doesn’t sound the same.”

    (from Dancing Aztecs by Donald E. Westlake)

 

    9½*/10.  The complete review is here.

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Creating Jobs

   Today's Wondermark comic.

Art Appreciation Thursday

  Or "your weekly Calvin & Hobbes dose".  Either one.

Scientific Proof: The Earth is Flat

    You can argue with me, but you can't argue with Science.

Horsing Around

    It took me a moment to 'get" this.

Book Excerpt for the Day

    “It’s not fair, not fair.”

    “Your world is always fair.”  I didn’t make it a question, and she just straightened and looked at me without speaking.  I don’t think she would have or could have answered it anyway.  “There’s no fairness to worlds.  Fairness is a thing created by men.  It doesn’t exist.  It isn’t the same in different cities, or among different people.  How can fairness be the same thing in two different worlds?  In your world you were a scholar, in this one you’re nothing.  In this world I’m a warrior, but if I went to yours, I might be a beggar.”

    (from Warrior of the Altaii by Robert Jordan)

 

    8*/10.  The complete review is here.

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English is a foreign language.

Flags on Your Truck

Gluten-Free

I hear you, Pig. My company once ran a "drug-free workplace" campaign. Turns out they weren't giving out any drugs, free or otherwise.

Book Excerpt for the Day

    “What happened?” he asked.

    “You were in a fugue state,” Josephine said.

    “What did I do?” Gary asked.

    “Nothing,” Josephine said.

    “You made it really cold in here,” Alice interjected.

    “That is exactly why it was necessary to sever the link between you and Gary,” Morgan said to Josephine.  “There’s no predicting what can happen when you have a splintered subconscious.”

    “You certainly know how to toss around buzz words and psychobabble,” Alice said.

 

    (from Grumpy Old Wizards by John O’Riley)

 

    4*/10.  The complete review is here.

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Philosophy Tuesday

Monday Science Lesson

English is a Goofy Language

Changing of the Seasons

    99°F for a high temperature two days ago.  62°F for a high two days from now.  Hello, Autumn.  Goodbye, Autumn.

Book Excerpt for the Day

    “Gentlemen, I am going to tell you about the OSS … the most fantastic damned organization in all our armed forces.  Its people do incredible things.  They seduce German spies, they parachute into Sicily one day and two days later they’re dancing on the St. Regis roof.  They dynamite aqueducts, urinate in Luftwaffe gas tanks, and play games with IG Farben and Krupp, but” – throwing up his hands – “90 per cent of this has not a g**d***ed thing to do with the war.”

    (from The Secret War by Max Hastings)

 

    9*/10.  The complete review is here.

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Art Appreciation Thursday

Tenses

Monday Pun Day