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What is your opinion of this novel in terms of the history it covers? It's been saved to my list to read for maybe three years now. But other books turn up that feel more pressing for my/our immediate concerns all the time -- like now I have to immerse myself in Morocco's history and that of the Maghrib!

Which is very interesting as well in light of the further comments from Remnick's NYer piece linked to above: "what at he values most—his own future, his intense desire to stay in office and out of court ..."

The War Games of Israel and Iran While Netanyahu and the Islamic Republic exchange ballistic “messages,” the question of Palestine demands the moral and strategic courage of actual statesmen. By David Remnick Ihttps://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-war-games-of-israel-and-iran

C.S. Harris's latest Sebastian St. Cyr novel is out: What Cannot Be Said (2024). It's lively from the first sentences, confirming the impression of the preceding volume that the author's back in form after a few rather sleepy books. My guess is that the bam-bam-bam of military, political and environmental catastrophes for the world, and particularly for a sensitive person for whom New Orleans is truly in the blood and bone, have been hard for the creative mind to come back from to function as it did before Katrina. For New Orleanians particularly, not 9/11, but Katrina was the signal of end times. There's a detailed map of 1815 London and environs on the end papers of this volume, with the great Thames running through. This has to bring to mind of one who knows both cities, London and New Orleans, to notice this great similarity for the history of both, even though one is so much younger than the other. It's 1815 -- Waterloo has been fought and won, in which London rejoices. In fact, it is toward the end of the Napoleonic wars that New Orleans population exploded, due to the flood of French refugees from both San Domingue, and Cuba, where they successful relocated with their sugar and coffee slaves and technology -- until France declared war on Spain. So, at this period, New Orleans is changing its character from Spanish to colonial San Domingue French, thanks to the wars and the insurrection that turns the island's name to Haiti, and the incursion now of Virginian protestant rule. I had to stop myself from reading late into the night, forcing myself not to gulp What Cannot Be Said in one go!

How Did Fan Culture Take Over? And Why Is It So Scary? Justin Taylor’s novel “Reboot” examines the convergence of entertainment, online arcana and conspiracy theory. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/21/books/review/justin-taylor-reboot.html https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/justin-taylor/reboot-taylor/ https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/194803857 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/94361-justin-taylor-s-ip-in-the-end-times.html

Why yes, as commented above, we must consider if a lot of people think they are seeing something something is there. No smoke w/o fire! Ha! But in case the above isn't clear, I am agreeing while attempting sarcasm.

Spokesheads for the fascist rethug/dominionists dislike the national security supplemental bill. April 20, 2024 HEATHER COX RICHARDSON APR 21, 2024 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-20-2024? On the subject of the Georgia Mountains -- I must add, that the Blue Ridge Mountains have some of the most beautiful landscapes one can find anywhere.

It definitely went to kissedbyfire. I just checked again. Wanna send me a pm and see what happens? I did erase all the messages of the previous chat. Maybe that's the reason? Are we to have only a single chat between two people at any time? This is a new one, as said, "I Was Only Following Orders." YAY! Thanks to you, we got that cleared up! I cannot believe in all this time I had not noticed!

How, strange! It's a new chat, titled "I Was Only Following Orders"

Ya, They have the well being and safety and protection of children so much at heart! Nobody's ever cared more about children than them. See! We get rid of all the books and all the teaching because we are protecting our precious, fragile children!

This article with author might be of interest to your students. A prehistory of MAGA: "Mainstream" conservatives never really purged the fascists Author David Austin Walsh says "respectable" conservatives have tolerated racists and neo-Nazis all along https://www.salon.com/2024/04/20/a-prehistory-of-maga-mainstream-conservatives-never-really-purged-the-fascists/

I have, often, though not generally a chop, but a roast. Also with lamb, but then I usually do couscous, not rice, and also include raisins, shaved almonds, cinnamon, olives etc. -- Moroccan essentially.

I love Justified, one of my all time favorites. Most people thought Season 2 was the best season. Myself, I don't have a favorite season of the series. As far as others so good, I'd put in the Brit series, New Tricks. It was astonishingly high quality throughout all the seasons. Black Sails and The Borgias as well. As I mentioned above, re The Beach novel:

Since the Biden administration and its spokespeople have been talking up the two state solution again, one might will have thought so. But then Israel bombed Iran in Syria and Iran retaliated so, "That put an end to that!" crowed Bibi&ilks, who have always been opposed to that. P.S. check your Private Messages! Sent you something from the LRB.

They are Saying that even her fellow nazis in Congress are beginning to view her as beyond the pale!

I kinda thought that would be the case.

Somehow I was certain you weren't finding the situation just very very very comical!

No.

Opinion The unspoken story of why Israel didn’t clobber Iran By David Ignatius Columnist |April 19, 2024 at 7:10 p.m. EDT https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/19/israel-iran-retaliate-diplomacy/ Also, um muted response in exchange for the US vetoing the UN resolution for Palestinian statehood? https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/middleeast/us-united-nations-resolution-palestine-membership-intl/index.html

There are still the slaughter houses and meat packing plants, where children are working right now, at least in the USA.

I'd put Mindhunter on those lists somewhere. ~~~~ The Beach is an old book, which is why people may not know it. Written by Brit Alex Garland, published in 1996. I read it when it came out. This may have been peak wanderjhar era for the prosperous Young of 'the West' to 'exotic' locations, post the dissolution of the Soviet Empire, before 9/11; they all wrote about their travels one way or another. Or tried to. Or like Ethan Hawke, made a film franchise even, starting with Before Sunrise (1995).

Exploitation and real harm is being done to children in the workforce. To say the fascist ilks are determined to take us all the way back is not a joke. Like removing all the protections for women's health they are re already removing protections for children. Yet, they are always howling about protecting children from evil -- while of course committing evil upon children -- including sexual abuse -- constantly. Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits A House committee approved the bill along with others to reduce unemployment benefits and workers' compensation wages. https://www.nola.com/news/politics/legislature/la-lawmakers-vote-to-remove-lunch-breaks-for-child-workers/article_ef234692-fd9e-11ee-99f5-771c7366107a.html Republicans Want to Take Away Child Workers' Lunch Breaks Published Apr 18, 2024 at 4:00 PM EDT Updated Apr 18, 2024 at 9:12 PM EDT https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-child-workers-lunch-break-louisiana-1891929 Despite hazardous working conditions, many states are rolling back child labor laws "Finding just one child in harm's way is one too many," a labor official says. https://abcnews.go.com/US/despite-hazardous-working-conditions-states-rolling-back-child/story? Child labor laws are under attack in states across the country Amid increasing child labor violations, lawmakers must act to strengthen standards Report • By Jennifer Sherer and Nina Mast • March 14, 2023 https://www.epi.org/publication/child-labor-laws-under-attack/

Dominic West -- from Jimmy McNulty to King Charles III!

So ... this guy ... martyred himself for his messiah who has told us what the US IS? Is that right? This is what a martyr is, actually, not a guy who is oppressed by woman teaching in a classroom? I am very confused. However may all the ilks of his ilk do the same and teach us all what we need to know! Eventually like God I'll sort it out. Thnx. O wait, didn't we have a long discussion not that long ago about what horrible selfish people are who commit suicide by fire, whatever, are?

That ... that is shitty, and gouging. https://www.amazon.com/Shōgun-Complete-Novel-James-Clavell/dp/B0CMYP5HQ7 In Spain stacks of them were being sold in the bookstores, but in a single volume, just like the original was -- in paperback, no less. Of course, nowadays in the USA, with print book production being so cramped (publishers outsourced that long ago to Asian countries) books this big are really hard to get contracts for within any sort of timely fashion..