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Mornings with Meep: The March of Folly  

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I look at the Renaissance Popes as profiled in Barbara Tuchman's The March of Folly.

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Mornings with Meep: Dystopias  

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I review Yevgeny Zamyatin's sci-fi dystopia We, and there's a bonus video of a fancy new toy we've got.

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Meep Media: Wacky Mysteries  

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One has often heard of the mystery niche called “cozies”.

Cozy mysteries, also referred to as “cozies”, are a subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community. Cozies thus stand...

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Meep's Bookshelf: Get Free E-Books by Russian Dissidents NOW!  

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Two important books are currently free in kindle format on Amazon, until Saturday, September 2:

TO BUILD A CASTLE BY VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY

I’ve reviewed this book in a few posts:
Never Forget: Thoughts on To Build A Castle – a Dissident Memoir by Vladimir Bukovsky

To Build...

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To Build a Castle: Still Relevant Story of a Fighter for Freedom  

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Let’s hear from some who know:

“Sometimes ironic, sometimes detached, sometimes written in cold fury, but always compelling.” —The New Yorker

“This is a landmark book and a human document that remains vital.” —Sir Tom Stoppard, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Shakespeare in Love

“Vladimir Bukovsky has written an extraordinary account of his life...

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Lazy Sunday: Around the Webosphere on Death, Pensions, and Achilles  

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One of these things is not like the other….

…oh wait, it’s totally like the other things.

Before I begin, thanks to my recent linkers:

• Pension Tsunami
• The Other McCain – thanks, wombat-socho!
• BenefitsLink with its multiemployer plan feed

Howdy to my facebook fans interested in my Kentucky posts! There sure are...

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Never Forget: Thoughts on To Build A Castle - a Dissident Memoir by Vladimir Bukovsky  

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This is not a full review; not yet. Here is a link to the current US Amazon listing for the book; I will be re-posting a cleaned-up review later this year. I mentioned the specific project to publish an e-book English version of this book, and I await...

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Trump the Press: The Saga How the Pundits Got it Wrong and The Beginning of a Possible Series  

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A review of the book Trump the Press: Don Surber's take on how the pundits blew the 2016 Republican race...thoughts on the problem of confimation bias in making predictions

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Weekend Books: THAT'S NOT FUNNY  

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Chris Hitchens once wrote a piece on how women aren’t funny.

It didn’t go over very well.

But after having read a couple of supposedly humorous books based on Hitchens’ own reviews/recommendations, I get his point.

Men are overawed, not to say terrified, by the ability of women to produce babies....

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Opera Fun: All About the Bass  

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I haven’t posted opera vids in a while: must rectify it.

I loooooove deep voices.

Generally that means I’m loving on the barihunks, because there are far more baritones than true basso profondos.

Mmmmm baritones

Thanks, Barihunks!

Also, the baritones sometimes get to be heroes/lovers/etc. The basses...

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