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1. 7 days ago on Ink Pen

   I can’t feel very bad about the medieval crusades, given that the Muslims had just spent four centuries rampaging across north Africa and into Iberia, with the same sort of “conversion at sword-point”. And the same “death to ‘apostates’” for people who never wanted Islam and ditched it as soon their backs were turned.

2. 11 days ago on Bleeker: The Rechargeable Dog

   I think Bleeker’s gadget happened again.

3. 18 days ago on Brewster Rockit
   They are (mostly) not (quite) as bad as der Führer, but the senators and representatives of his Partei scare me nearly as much. The thought of them running wild with no executive to rein them in is horrifying.
4. 2 months ago on Brewster Rockit

   Oh, my planet is called “Terra”. (Yeah, it means the same thing, but it’s fancier in Latin.)

5. 2 months ago on Brewster Rockit

   I just listened to a chapter at 1.2x, and that was OK. 1.5x is pushing it. A friend said last night that he listens at 3.0x! That’s hard to believe…

6. 2 months ago on Ink Pen

   My extended family had a hunting / vacation cabin in (very) rural Pennsylvania. Running water came from a hand pump, lights burned kerosene, toilets were in a privy, and electricity came from a generator. I have no such illusions.

7. 3 months ago on Brewster Rockit

   T-Rump’s grandfather was a pimp and a real estate speculator who lost his Bavarian citizenship when he ducked the draft and emigrated. T-Rump’s father was a racist (KKK booster) real estate crook who did very well for himself off government money. It really is no surprise that T-Rump is a chip off the same old rotten stump.

8. 5 months ago on Brewster Rockit

   The thing is, dumb as Brewster IS a lot of the time, sometimes he has an uncanny talent for seeing through the BS.

9. 5 months ago on Ink Pen

   Frankly, the only time I have sports drinks is maintaining hydration during a colonoscopy prep. So nothing red, purple or dark, and you reaaally don’t want a flavor that overlaps with the (usually lemon-lime) in the clean-you-out drink.

10. 6 months ago on Brewster Rockit

    If there was that much common sense around, I might still have a job. I used to work in Test Security for SAT, detecting the cheats, copiers and impersonators. It wasn’t just the SAT either, exams for teachers also had plenty of cheating.