What's the most patriotic thing you can do today?

Subscribe to The Atlantic. I did so yesterday - both print and digital.

They've performed a great service to the country and should be supported.

Plus it's a great magazine - online news source.

No link - you can figure that out yourselves.

It is said those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. But what of those who suppress the past, distort it, sanitize it? They cannot not be held blameless. A true warrior knows that hiding from the past is cowardice, and deliberately hiding the past is malice, dishonor.

And here it is, my Joker moment.
I am insane now.

science fiction was, all along, the proper fiction of socialism, not capitalism. cosmic horror is the proper fiction of capitalism

3/3

Some books are bad and don't deserve your attention. Some books just aren't right for you right now.

I wish I could follow my own advice.

2/3 Oh the other hand, I picked up Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror" in 1995 while I was recovering from back surgery. Didn't connect (it may have been the oxy). But a couple of years later I inhaled it, then went on to read pretty much everything she published.

I really have a problem giving up on books that don't connect with me. 1/2

And here we are again . . .