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Time passes. In the morning we must each go swiftly on the ways appointed to us.
This bit from The Nazis – A Warning from History by Laurence Rees, is incredibly relevant. It resonates with what is happening around us right now.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This bit from The Nazis – A Warning from History by Laurence Rees, is incredibly relevant. It resonates with what is happening around us right now.
#BookSky
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I'm a gnarly old dude, but I think I'm channeling my inner 16-year-old. I think maybe(?) I read this book as a teenager, I don't even remember. And maybe she's not quite a seasoned full-bag-of-tricks novelist yet, but MAN, it's intense. This stabs right to the heart. #BookSky
October 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I'm a gnarly old dude, but I think I'm channeling my inner 16-year-old. I think maybe(?) I read this book as a teenager, I don't even remember. And maybe she's not quite a seasoned full-bag-of-tricks novelist yet, but MAN, it's intense. This stabs right to the heart. #BookSky
No idea.. absolutely no idea...
September 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
No idea.. absolutely no idea...
Wikipedia says they basically hire him under duress?
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Wikipedia says they basically hire him under duress?
Robert Caro spends thousands of pages documenting and detailing what a power-mad duplicitous repellent monster of a man Lyndon Johnson was -- and then we get this:
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September 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Robert Caro spends thousands of pages documenting and detailing what a power-mad duplicitous repellent monster of a man Lyndon Johnson was -- and then we get this:
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Reading some history to remind myself, America has always been a fucked up country. From Robert Caro's bio of Lyndon Johnson, vol. III
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September 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Reading some history to remind myself, America has always been a fucked up country. From Robert Caro's bio of Lyndon Johnson, vol. III
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Basically word-salad gibberish...
September 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Basically word-salad gibberish...
John Kenneth Galbraith.
August 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
John Kenneth Galbraith.
Who thought of it first?
July 31, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Who thought of it first?
Vance just really is from another planet.
July 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Vance just really is from another planet.
I knew there was a reason I was reading this book.
From the 3rd vol. of Robert Caro's bio of LBJ. The moment the Democratic Party became the party of civil rights. The young-ish (37 yrs old) mayor of Minneapolis, Hubert Humphrey, speaking at the 1948 Democratic convention in Philadelphia.
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From the 3rd vol. of Robert Caro's bio of LBJ. The moment the Democratic Party became the party of civil rights. The young-ish (37 yrs old) mayor of Minneapolis, Hubert Humphrey, speaking at the 1948 Democratic convention in Philadelphia.
#BookSky
July 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I knew there was a reason I was reading this book.
From the 3rd vol. of Robert Caro's bio of LBJ. The moment the Democratic Party became the party of civil rights. The young-ish (37 yrs old) mayor of Minneapolis, Hubert Humphrey, speaking at the 1948 Democratic convention in Philadelphia.
#BookSky
From the 3rd vol. of Robert Caro's bio of LBJ. The moment the Democratic Party became the party of civil rights. The young-ish (37 yrs old) mayor of Minneapolis, Hubert Humphrey, speaking at the 1948 Democratic convention in Philadelphia.
#BookSky
I'm just a foolish old white dude, but I'm diving into volume two of Robert Caro's iceberg-sized bio of LBJ, "Means of Ascent", and A.) I already learned something and B.) I'm already crying...
May 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I'm just a foolish old white dude, but I'm diving into volume two of Robert Caro's iceberg-sized bio of LBJ, "Means of Ascent", and A.) I already learned something and B.) I'm already crying...
Control of the police.
May 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Control of the police.
Hitler thought of it first...
May 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Hitler thought of it first...
April 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
They're listing it as "local warehouse no import charges" at the moment. Must mean it's supposedly in a warehouse in the US somewhere? I might try to find items shipping from China...
April 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
They're listing it as "local warehouse no import charges" at the moment. Must mean it's supposedly in a warehouse in the US somewhere? I might try to find items shipping from China...