[A road crew preparing our street for a new layer of asphalt.]
This was another chaotic week. I put in a couple of long work days which left me too exhausted to participate in the fun things.
Reading
With dedicated reading time in short supply I am browsing through my large stack of unread literary and SFF magazines and journals. I have enough there to keep me occupied for at least a year.
Writing
Nothing new to report. Maybe after next Saturday.
Weekly Writing Prompt
Subject: Politics, Language
Setting: Border Town
Genre: Magic Realism
Listening
Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon, “Sweet Emotion,” from their 2005 album Sixty-Six Steps.
Interesting Links
- A great dissection (and, I suppose, a post-mortem) of Charlie Kirk’s “debate” tactics, and also a wonderfully satisfying video of Kirk getting his ass handed to him by a Cambridge student. (01:20 YouTube video from the Rationality Rules channel) – This video demonstrates conclusively that Charlie Kirk was a minimally-talented blowhard and bully who never would have succeeded in his life without the guidance and backing of rich fascists. And that says unfortunate things about the people who think he was smart.
- “Trump’s Imminent War(s) and Economic Damage as His Legitimacy Crumbles” (Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism) – Everything President Donald Trump does is an attempt to distract from the fact that he was a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and frequently partook of Epstein’s wares.
