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Assassinations...
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The news that an Top American Healthcare CEO was assassinated in New York, all over the news, the major news outlet doing their best to try and persuade the public that a heinous crime has been committed...
Of course, no, and the numbers of "Thumbs Up", "Smiles" and "Laughing Emoji" that appeared almost immediately gave a very different reaction from the public.
The public, of course, being more than a little tired of being F*cked over by Insurance Providers, are not having it.
It is one of the more amusing and upbeat (sorry to say) news stories of the past year. Since, I would say, the "Rub-a-dub-dub 5 Men in a Sub..." story of last year.
And so it's coming to pass. People are realizing the institutions meant to safeguard them and their rights are too busy fleecing and profiteering to give a damn, and are - slowly, too slowly - taking matters into their own hands.
But, god damn, look at the politics and potential targets down there, enough entrenched corruption to keep a John Wick's entire army busy for years...
Nonetheless it's a start...
Beringer's Lying Stones
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A rather amusing 18th Century Hoax that had some rather unfortunate consequences for all parties involved.
Link: Wikipedia on Beringer's Lying Stones
Link: The Geological Society
And you can read (well, I was just there for the illustrations) the original manuscript here: https://books.google.ca/books?id=3PhcAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Droll indeed, although I can see how wanting so badly to believe led to errors (and mischief) all round...
Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Druid
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First Dickens I've probably read in almost 40 years.
I enjoyed it, probably his popularity threw me off. I was a trifle annoyed that of all the books of his I should choose to read it should end up being the one he died midway through writing, although the trajectory was fair enough that I could make a few sound guesses as to how he would have ended it. What I don't get, though, is what was to become of the abundance of secondary characters - Crisparkle, Honeythunder, Sapsea, etc.
In any event, the bookstores are full of this so in the months it takes for the Postal Strike to resolve itself I can tuck in with a bit of Dickens...certainly he's in the Xmas spirit.
The Telepathy Tapes
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Painting, or doing my experiments, and it helps to take my mind off the job at hand. The radio, unreliable, and so I find YouTube podcasts/interviews/lectures, etc.
The first one, an interview with the "Smartest Man In The World", a different smartest man than the last one. And so I give it a listen and then when he begins his gushing admiration of Trump and talk about the new world order, Angels and Demons, Multidimensional Universe, etc, etc, well, I have to give it up and question seriously his credentials. I mean, there's only so much I can take in a sitting.
But I discover this - the telepathy tapes, which to summarize (I'm not quite done the first season) - argues that non-verbal & autistic children are naturally telepathically/psychically gifted...
Well, I'm not necessarily buying this either, but it does make you think. And after all, we do live in a world where anything can happen...
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