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John’s 2025 Year in Books
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Too Close to Miss (Mara Cunningham Series, #1)
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2011
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Too Hard to Handle (Mara Cunningham Series, #2)
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2012
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Too Late to Run (Mara Cunningham Series, #3)
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2014
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FATHER JOHN'S FAVORITE FAMILY RECIPES, VOLUME II
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what they gonna do with a lightning rider?
You can tell someone’s trying to bullshit you when they’re selling you on possibilities. Lots of things are possible. But we live in the actual and we’re heading toward the likely. If someone’s sales pitch focuses more on the possible than the actual, they are trying to distract you. They are dazzling you with the money you might win while they’re shifting three cards around on a cardboard box. Fi
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“No two social scientists agree on what “fascism” really is (though everyone agrees it’s terrible!). But historical examples that most people agree to call fascist states all had in common a strong national ideology and a standing army. The State is not just the governor in a fascist country: We are the State, the State is Us.
The State is the source of polite behavior and moral instruction. And we know our State – and therefore our ideology – are better than that of neighboring States because our standing army is so much stronger than theirs. If our army is defeated, it has nothing to do with insufficient manpower or poor strategy or losing the arms race. It’s because we were sabotaged by traitors, or because the National Will at home wasn’t strong enough (see “We are the State”; above).
Such circular reasoning appeals to the hunter-gatherer instincts which ten thousand years of civilization have not yet eradicated. We want to belong to a tribe. We also want to belong to the right tribe: the strongest tribe, the one that can best protect us. And we want to provide for the tribe with which we identify so closely. Appealing to people’s desire for strength and safety can open any door.”
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The State is the source of polite behavior and moral instruction. And we know our State – and therefore our ideology – are better than that of neighboring States because our standing army is so much stronger than theirs. If our army is defeated, it has nothing to do with insufficient manpower or poor strategy or losing the arms race. It’s because we were sabotaged by traitors, or because the National Will at home wasn’t strong enough (see “We are the State”; above).
Such circular reasoning appeals to the hunter-gatherer instincts which ten thousand years of civilization have not yet eradicated. We want to belong to a tribe. We also want to belong to the right tribe: the strongest tribe, the one that can best protect us. And we want to provide for the tribe with which we identify so closely. Appealing to people’s desire for strength and safety can open any door.”
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“It's like I told you last night son. The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight, he added”
― Lonesome Dove
― Lonesome Dove
“For that is what conservatism is: a meditation on—and theoretical rendition of—the felt experience of having power, seeing it threatened, and trying to win it back.”
― The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
― The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
“We will go out into the world and plant gardens and orchards to the horizons, we will build roads through the mountains and across the deserts, and terrace the mountains and irrigate the deserts until there will be garden everywhere, and plenty for all, and there will be no more empires or kingdoms, no more caliphs, sultans, emirs, khans, or zamindars, no more kings or queens or princes, no more quadis or mullahs or ulema, no more slavery and no more usury, no more property and no more taxes, no more rich and no more poor, no killing or maiming or torture or execution, no more jailers and no more prisoners, no more generals, soldiers, armies or navies, no more patriarchy, no more caste, no more hunger, no more suffering than what life brings us for being born and having to die, and then we will see for the first time what kind of creatures we really are.”
― The Years of Rice and Salt
― The Years of Rice and Salt
“The trouble with big empires is that the enemy is far away and there is weather in between.”
― The Lion House
― The Lion House
