Friday, June 28, 2024

Water and Water

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 “ Camino Ghosts” by John Grisham, 2024 This story is reminiscent of those by Carl Hiaasen about the destructive shenanigans of real estat...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Moon Struck

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  “ Techno-Capitalism – the Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Good” by Loretta Napoleoni, 2024 This book covers r...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Who Are These Guys?

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 “ Against the Web – A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right” by Michael Brooks, 2020 This guy is a podcaster and YouTuber , formerly associ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

The Fabulous Fabians

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  “This Little Band of Prophets:   The British Fabians” by Anne Fremantle, 1959 Unlike the swarmy and gutless liberal 'intellectuals...
Sunday, June 16, 2024

Ending It All

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  Funerals The older you get, the bigger your family, the wider your circle of friends, the more organizations you belong to, the more fun...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

Stop With the Memoirs!

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“ Socialist Realism” by Trisha Low, 2019 This book is not really about socialist realist painting. Call me fooled. It mentions several So...
Sunday, June 9, 2024

The "Little" Things of Life

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  “Not by Politics Alone – The Other Lenin” edited by Tamara Deutscher, 1973-2024 This selection of letters, remembrances and notes’ purp...
Thursday, June 6, 2024

Artificial Intelligence Didn't Write This

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  “The Loop – How Technology is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back” by Jacob Ward, 2022 This book is about AI.   Ward...
Monday, June 3, 2024

Old Fart Takes on 'Guvmint Alone

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  “Fire on the Mountain” by Edward Abbey, 2012 This is a coming-of-age story about a 12 year old boy entranced with 'the West' – t...