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An American's Reading List: What Should Everyone Read?
Most of us are all too aware of the failings of the current American educational system. Home schooling is one antidote, but what about for people who have survived its leftist indoctrination intact, but are still handicapped by the many inadequacies of a typical trip through public school and college?
What to read? There are lists...the 100 great books comes to mind...but some of those lists assume a basic knowledge of world and American history, and I fear that that supposition is incorrect. The Bible, The Iliad, Plato, St. Augustine, Shakespeare, Dante, Machiavelli, Adam Smith, Chesterton, Conrad, The Federalist Papers, Gibbon, etc. It's a huge list, and a daunting one. So...where to start? Maybe five books per year, and a five year limit. So 25 books that will provide the basis for an understanding of Western philosophy and American Exceptionalism. Yup, it's a tall order, and I don't think it is possible. But the idea is to pique an interest in the topic, not to provide a comprehensive list. So...me first. "Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn."Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: The ARC of History at September 16, 2018 02:05 PM (I2/tG)
These are the books that's shaped much of the world we inhabit today.
After that's its pretty much Lock, Burke, Alexis De Tocqueville, Aristotle, Machiavelli, you know, the usual suspects.
Posted by: Kreplach at September 16, 2018 02:07 PM (kT3/m)
Posted by: John Gault at September 16, 2018 02:13 PM (vrcSl)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at September 16, 2018 02:15 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: colfax mingo at September 16, 2018 02:15 PM (tCvhJ)
Posted by: Pete in TX at September 16, 2018 02:16 PM (2RBkF)
Posted by: Winston at September 16, 2018 02:16 PM (wgCUV)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 02:16 PM (Et1Ic)
Posted by: Surfperch at September 16, 2018 02:17 PM (hVHEm)
Posted by: pep at September 16, 2018 02:17 PM (T6t7i)
Henry Mayhew's "London Labour & the London Poor."
Theodore Dalrymple's "Life at the Bottom."
Terry Pratchett's "The Colour of Magic."
Posted by: aelfheld at September 16, 2018 02:18 PM (Zy9Yy)
Posted by: Surfperch at September 16, 2018 02:18 PM (hVHEm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 02:18 PM (Et1Ic)
Posted by: DR.WTF? at September 16, 2018 02:19 PM (T71PA)
Posted by: bluebell at September 16, 2018 02:20 PM (C1PQi)
Posted by: Surfperch at September 16, 2018 02:20 PM (hVHEm)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at September 16, 2018 02:20 PM (j4zcI)
Machiavelli, Adam Smith, Chesterton, Conrad, The Federalist Papers,
Gibbon, etc.
Yeah, no. The average person's attention span just isn't that long, nor is their vocabulary sufficient to the task. Comprehension is right out.
Stick to the basics, condensed to the really important bits. Example: you don't need to read about barrels of herring per country to get the gist of the free market (Smith).
Posted by: pep at September 16, 2018 02:20 PM (T6t7i)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 16, 2018 02:21 PM (6qErC)
Posted by: tmitsss at September 16, 2018 02:21 PM (xlzu7)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 02:16 PM (Et1Ic)
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Try emailing CBD. I'll bet he could help you.
cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.
Posted by: bluebell at September 16, 2018 02:23 PM (C1PQi)
Posted by: Buck Ofama at September 16, 2018 02:23 PM (uc7du)
Basic economics.
Vision of the anointed.
The quest for cosmic justice.
The trilogy - Race & Culture, Migration & culture, Conquest & Culture.
Posted by: harbqll at September 16, 2018 02:23 PM (ffpKJ)
Posted by: hogmartin at September 16, 2018 02:23 PM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 16, 2018 02:21 PM (6qErC)
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Not a half bad idea...in so many aspects.
Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2018 02:24 PM (dI3/S)
Posted by: rammajamma at September 16, 2018 02:25 PM (xceTB)
Posted by: kallisto at September 16, 2018 02:25 PM (VyOxI)
Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 02:25 PM (T4oHT)
Posted by: Captain Obvious at September 16, 2018 02:25 PM (bZ76Y)
Posted by: Kaner at September 16, 2018 02:26 PM (rR7m4)
Posted by: Votermom's phone now on Team Gloom Sub Duty at September 16, 2018 02:26 PM (VpGSD)
Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 02:26 PM (T4oHT)
Posted by: Nurse ratched at September 16, 2018 02:26 PM (PkVlr)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (now more than ever)
Witness by Whittaker Chambers
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn (maybe the best book ever)
With The Old Breed by EB Sledge
1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Seven Per Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer (because it's fun, at least for Sherlock Holmes fans)
Posted by: ncc at September 16, 2018 02:26 PM (fWbdp)
- The Call of the Wild
- Lonesome Dove
- Gone With The Wind
- Grapes of Wrath
- On The Road
- Last of the Mohicans
- My Side of the Mountain
- The Liberal Tradition in America ["liberal" here meaning "classical liberal"]
Posted by: Bert G at September 16, 2018 02:28 PM (OMsf+)
Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2018 02:28 PM (NFEMn)
Posted by: Deacon Bleau at September 16, 2018 02:29 PM (yScAF)
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill
...English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900, Andrew Roberts
Replenishing the Earth, James Belich
Democracy in the Dominions, Brady Alexander
Posted by: RioBravo at September 16, 2018 02:29 PM (iQKgg)
Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2018 02:30 PM (NFEMn)
Posted by: Kaner at September 16, 2018 02:30 PM (rR7m4)
Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2018 02:31 PM (dI3/S)
Posted by: The Oort Cloud - Source of all SMODs at September 16, 2018 02:32 PM (oiwwc)
Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2018 02:32 PM (NFEMn)
Posted by: Captain Obvious
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Meh, maybe. I read the follow-up book (a friend pressed it on me), River Horse, and found it fairly insipid. Haven't read 'Highways' so I cannot comment directly.
Anyone who adopts the name 'William Least Heat-Moon' ought to be viewed as suspect. I would describe the book as Ken Burns, with overtones of Garrison Keilor.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 02:32 PM (Et1Ic)
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 16, 2018 02:32 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: Insomniac at September 16, 2018 02:32 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Cascadia at September 16, 2018 02:32 PM (OFAdG)
And the complete collection of Calvin and Hobbs cartoons. (4 books in the set.)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 16, 2018 02:33 PM (iiixZ)
Posted by: The Oort Cloud - Source of all SMODs at September 16, 2018 02:32 PM (oiwwc)
Anthem, then. It's about 100 pages.
Posted by: hogmartin at September 16, 2018 02:33 PM (y87Qq)
Posted by: The Oort Cloud - Source of all SMODs at September 16, 2018 02:32 PM (oiwwc)
Might as well tell them to read something in it's original Greek or Latin.
Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2018 02:33 PM (NFEMn)
Posted by: jmel at September 16, 2018 02:33 PM (OeWgo)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 16, 2018 02:33 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: notofthebody at September 16, 2018 02:34 PM (+qKeD)
Posted by: kallisto at September 16, 2018 02:34 PM (VyOxI)
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 16, 2018 02:32 PM (xPl2J)
The Daybreakers
Posted by: Bert G at September 16, 2018 02:34 PM (OMsf+)
Posted by: Insomniac at September 16, 2018 02:34 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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Receives the Mike Hammer Stamp of Approval.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 02:35 PM (Et1Ic)
Posted by: Insomniac at September 16, 2018 02:35 PM (NWiLs)
I read it aloud to my kid brother when he seven or eight. And yes I used the n word, with an explanation.
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 16, 2018 02:36 PM (1UZdv)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 02:36 PM (Et1Ic)
Posted by: The Oort Cloud - Source of all SMODs at September 16, 2018 02:32 PM (oiwwc)
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Yeah, who is doin' the readin' here? The same and usual suspects who have always been inclined to read in the first place. Or is this a fantasy quest, that everyone of the population will dig in?
Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2018 02:36 PM (dI3/S)
Posted by: Insomniac at September 16, 2018 02:36 PM (NWiLs)
As Jay Leno might say, "I'm shocked! There are straight male ballet dancers?"
Posted by: Pete in TX at September 16, 2018 02:36 PM (2RBkF)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 02:36 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: Ama at September 16, 2018 02:36 PM (dPhJk)
Posted by: Insomniac at September 16, 2018 02:35 PM (NWiLs)
Yeah but his convex polyhedra? Solid.
Posted by: hogmartin at September 16, 2018 02:37 PM (y87Qq)
If you can get through all that (it's about a dozen volumes) you can get through anything.
Posted by: The Oort Cloud - Source of all SMODs at September 16, 2018 02:38 PM (oiwwc)
I dunno. All this prescriptive list stuff feels like vegetables, you should read it because it's good for you.
I did just finish Huck Finn again this week, so that's a bully suggestion. I think I'll read it ever five or ten years.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 16, 2018 02:38 PM (fuK7c)
1. Kavanaugh's accuser is now on the record: Her name is Christine Blasey Ford
2. Ford has offered a detailed account of sexual assault by Kavanaugh
3. Ford's account corroborated by therapists notes from 2012
4. Ford passed a polygraph test by former FBI agent
Woman is a Registered Democrat and a professor and the polygraph was administered by a former FBI agent who now works for a law firm who works for the DNC
From Conservative Treehouse
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 02:38 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: Ama
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Ditto Franklin's Northwest Passage account. Oh, wait...no survivors.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 02:39 PM (Et1Ic)
If there was one thing Ayn Rand understood, nobody wants to read boring books by educators and pundits on politics and ideology so she went with a fictional narrative. That said there's probably not that many people who finished Atlas Shrugged, it gets a bit boring and high handed itself.
Personally I'd rather read David McCullough type Bios/Novels. Just finished The Wright Brothers, good read.
Posted by: lowandslow at September 16, 2018 02:39 PM (ye3s4)
No; Nobody should have "Fifty Shades of Rape/Bondage fantasy" on
theirreading list. I haven't yet found anyone I knew who admitted to
reading it. I'm afraid that my opinion of them would immediately take a
nose dive.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 02:36 PM (AllCR)
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Strongly disagree. While I have no interest in reading the stuff, I definitely appreciated the secondary effects of my wife reading it. IYKWIM.
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018 02:40 PM (B/PO4)
Lighten up, Francois. It was a joke.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 16, 2018 02:40 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: kallisto at September 16, 2018 02:40 PM (VyOxI)
Posted by: Weasel at September 16, 2018 02:40 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: pep at September 16, 2018 02:17 PM (T6t7i)
Penicillin will clear that right up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 16, 2018 02:41 PM (iwUO9)
Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 02:42 PM (T4oHT)
Also good: "The Loved One," by Evelyn Waugh. Hollywood as it always was.
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018 02:42 PM (B/PO4)
Yes, I realize that. I didn't know one couldn't give a serious opinion about a joke of a book.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 02:42 PM (AllCR)
Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men is a far better book than either movie. It's part mystery, part a story of political corruption, it's ultimately a story of morality and personal responsibility.
Radical Son by David Horowitz is his growing from a red diaper doper baby to his realization through his association with the Black Panthers that the revolution is never going to come and the left is thoroughly corrupt.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at September 16, 2018 02:42 PM (+y/Ru)
Now, that's not fair, Fen. There was a time when every woman in America was reading it.
I tried to read it to try to understand how women think. That part didn't work. I did get 49 pages into it, which is how long it takes to get to the first sex scene, and then I tossed it.
The sex scene was utterly unremarkable. She shattered into a million pieces upon each orgasm.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 16, 2018 02:42 PM (fuK7c)
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'The Rifle Book', by Jack O'Connor.
A classic.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 02:42 PM (Et1Ic)
Red Sox Century: The Definitive History of Baseball's Most Storied Franchise,
and
Red Sox Nation: The Rich and Colorful History of the Boston Red Sox
Posted by: Alex Cora at September 16, 2018 02:43 PM (VpTMN)
This went out in 1945 and was read by millions of Americans. Hayek is an academic and his original prose can be a slog, so I recommend this version.
Reagan was a closet intellectual and a fan of Hayek
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 16, 2018 02:43 PM (1UZdv)
Modern Times, Paul Johnson
A Patriots History of the United States, Schweikart and Allen
Posted by: alan w at September 16, 2018 02:43 PM (YLzLe)
Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 02:42 PM (T4oHT)
1984
Gulag Archipelago
Posted by: Insomniac at September 16, 2018 02:43 PM (NWiLs)
"The House of the Seven Gables" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Frontiersman" by William C. Eckert
"A Wilderness So Immense" by Stephen Ambrose
"Silver John the Ballad Singer" by Manly Wade Wellman
"Roughing It" by Mark Twain
"Valiant Ambition" by Nathaniel Philbrick
"Shiloh" by Shelby Foote
Posted by: exdem13 at September 16, 2018 02:43 PM (Jywc3)
History of Russia and the Russians. Dense dry read. irreplaceble.
Non-fiction American frontier:
Lewis and Clark unabridged daily journals.
Posted by: 13times at September 16, 2018 02:44 PM (K3B2k)
Posted by: timbo at September 16, 2018 02:44 PM (imHLA)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 02:44 PM (AllCR)
Kenneth L Roberts.
Yes it's a historical novel. Not only is it good reading but it gives a glimpse into the Revolutionary war during the Northern invasion by British General Burgoyne.
Posted by: Beartooth at September 16, 2018 02:44 PM (TP072)
Or at least it was...
We also read Heart of Darkness and got to watch Apocalypse Now afterwards for literary comparison.
Those were the days!
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018 02:45 PM (B/PO4)
I'm not saying this happily, just reporting the situation as I see it.
Moving forward, I predict that in the very near future the vast majority of people will never read ANY book of any kind, ever. People will read, of course, but not book-length material.
Books as a concept lasted from about 1500 to about, I'd say at an outer limit, 2050. Beyond that, they will merely be an esoteric niche artifact, owned by only a small subset of the population.
With that depressing introduction, the one book I'd really recommend for people to read is The Blank Slate, by Steven Pinker. It's not about "Western philosophy and American Exceptionalism," but instead deconstructs the fundamental flaws undermining basically all leftist and "progressive" thought. This one book will vaccinate the mind of anyone who reads it against the ruinous assumptions that lead to all the wrong philosophies in the modern western world.
Posted by: zombie at September 16, 2018 02:45 PM (c+2jX)
69OT "1. Kavanaugh's accuser is now on the record: Her name is Christine Blasey For"
As if this wasn't set up by DNC ops. Feinstein drops it after the Committee Hearings are over, plays hero by keeping her name out of it, the Democrats call for a postponement till we know more and today she bravely come forward trying to force Grassley's hand.
Grassley needs to ignore it.
Posted by: lowandslow at September 16, 2018 02:45 PM (ye3s4)
The Bible
Plato's Republic
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Hamlet
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Much Ado About Nothing
Henry IV (Parts 1 and 2)
The Leviathan
On Government
The Wealth of Nations
The Federalist Papers
On Liberty
Moby Dick
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Shelby Foote's The Civil War
The Influence of Sea Power upon History
A History of the English Speaking Peoples
The Communist Manifesto
Mein Kampf
The Koran (hoping I get an ISWYDT)
The Guns of August
The Second World War
The Best and the Brightest
Capitalism and Freedom
On Nuclear War
The Conscience of a Conservative
Kissinger: The White House Years
The Shining
Salem's Lot
The Godfather
Helter Skelter
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Give War a Chance
Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 16, 2018 02:45 PM (1T8y6)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 02:45 PM (Et1Ic)
Posted by: Winsomedove at September 16, 2018 02:45 PM (tNtUz)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 02:46 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 02:46 PM (T4oHT)
And NO, not every woman in America. I didn't read it. people who buy the dreck which sometimes appears on the NYT list of top books aren't every woman in America
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 02:46 PM (AllCR)
I just read that, too. I'm on a Twain binge.
It's a mess, it's a mish-mash. There's autobiography, there's tall tales, there's flat out lies, newspaper writing, and travelogue all mixed together.
Glad I read it but I wouldn't put it on anyone's to do list.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 16, 2018 02:46 PM (fuK7c)
Albion's Seed, Fischer (as per Taro T. above)
The Nine Nations of North America, Joel Garreau
American Nations, Colin Woodard
Cultural Regions of the United States, Raymond Gastil
The Shaping of America, D.W. Meinig (4 vol)
Regions Apart, E. Grabb and J. Curtis
Posted by: RioBravo at September 16, 2018 02:46 PM (iQKgg)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 02:46 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018 02:47 PM (B/PO4)
Posted by: alan w at September 16, 2018 02:43 PM (YLzLe)
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I used that for American History for my kids in high school.
I also have their two-volume Patriot's History of the Modern World for 20th Century.
Posted by: bluebell at September 16, 2018 02:47 PM (C1PQi)
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at September 16, 2018 02:47 PM (sxl80)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 02:47 PM (Et1Ic)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 16, 2018 02:47 PM (IROzs)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 16, 2018 02:47 PM (IROzs)
The Progressive (née Public) Broadcasting System has been hyping a program called "The Great American Read" which I have, so far, managed to avoid.
My guess would be that both have a significant bent in a certain direction.
Posted by: 11B40 at September 16, 2018 02:48 PM (evgyj)
She did recall the name in 2102 during a therapy session and husband felt that someday he might be nominated to the Supreme Court !!! and needed to be stopped.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 02:48 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at September 16, 2018 02:48 PM (sxl80)
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 16, 2018 02:48 PM (1UZdv)
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018 02:48 PM (B/PO4)
I would add Peter Schweizer's Extortion. It helps to know how your legislature works.
For biography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, for the effects of dependency on a populace.
For fiction, I agree with the recommendations of Louis L'Amour. Specifically, I'd recommend The Comstock Lode. "Any medicine-show man can spout words, if they are written for him. It takes no genius to sound well. To act right and at the right time is something else again."
I'd add Animal Farm. Understanding the ending is critical to any functioning democracy.
Several months ago I started a Goodreads bookshelf for books I consider a civic necessity. Link in nic.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 16, 2018 02:49 PM (2lndx)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 02:49 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: zombie at September 16, 2018 02:49 PM (c+2jX)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie
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Whiskey, followed by whiskey...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 02:49 PM (Et1Ic)
Woman is a Registered Democrat and a professor and the polygraph was administered by a former FBI agent who now works for a law firm who works for the DNC
From Conservative Treehouse
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 02:38 PM (AllCR)
Polygraph means zero, zilch, nada. People who have fanstastic ideation will "pass" a poly test because it's what they believe, dammit! And accomplished liars can "train" to beat a polygraph test.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 16, 2018 02:50 PM (iwUO9)
In retrospect, I'm glad I treated the girls I fucked/almost fucked in college and pre-marriage like the hoodrats that they were/are.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 16, 2018 02:50 PM (IROzs)
Always wanted to read Grant's biography.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 16, 2018 02:47 PM (IROzs)
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It's a pretty good read and written very honestly. He was in a race against death and wrote with great candor. One of the better Civil War memoirs.
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018 02:50 PM (B/PO4)
Posted by: Dharma Institute at September 16, 2018 02:50 PM (u8R6W)
Posted by: NCKate at September 16, 2018 02:50 PM (Jv60O)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 02:50 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 16, 2018 02:50 PM (fuK7c)
Posted by: kallisto at September 16, 2018 02:51 PM (VyOxI)
Unless you know the intelligence of the reader, you cannot make suggestions that will have the desired impact.
Everything on your list, from the Bible to Gibbon, supposes a properly prepared mind and an IQ north of 120. Oh, and English mastery with a vocabulary beyond the Urban Dictionary. Not a big audience.
The beauty of home-schooling is that reading can be tailored to the individual pupils. Start with McGuffey and in 10 or 12 years, a small fraction of your students might reach Gibbon.
Posted by: Uncle Kenny at September 16, 2018 02:51 PM (PRDg/)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 16, 2018 02:47 PM (IROzs)
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It's a pretty good read and written very honestly. He was in a race against death and wrote with great candor. One of the better Civil War memoirs.
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018 02:50 PM (B/PO4)
and available online for free.
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 02:51 PM (yQpMk)
Its amazing how far the Readers Digest has fallen, they also published a condensed version of Whittaker Chamber's Witness. RD is a good example of how most of the publishing industry has been seized by the left for the lazy. Susan Sontag in one of her honest moments said: ''Imagine, if you will, someone who read only the Reader's Digest between 1950 and 1970, and someone in the same period who read only The Nation or The New Statesman. Which reader would have been better informed about the realities of Communism? The answer, I think, should give us pause. Can it be that our enemies were right?''
Posted by: alan w at September 16, 2018 02:52 PM (YLzLe)
But now it's out there, so everyone will revert to type and play the roles that have been assigned to them.
The Democrats will go into High Dudgeon and Righteous Indignation Mode,
The Media will amplify this
Scared Republicans will wobble. But whether they topple or not, will depend on Grassley and Kavanaugh himself.
Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2018 02:52 PM (NFEMn)
Most of my friends are women-church woman and pastors. Now while they could lie about it I don't think they were lying when they said they had no interest in reading it and hadn't read it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 02:53 PM (AllCR)
"Hondo"
"Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" (the formula used by the Nazi's in order to gain power is the playbook being used by the left today)
"Harrison Bergeron" is a short story, but should be required reading.
"1984"
I could probably keep going, but these spring to mind.
Though, if I were going to recommend just one book, it would be the Bible.
Posted by: Blake - used scripting salesman at September 16, 2018 02:53 PM (WEBkv)
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Not until it consistently fails...
Posted by: RioBravo at September 16, 2018 02:53 PM (iQKgg)
Posted by: kallisto at September 16, 2018 02:53 PM (VyOxI)
Posted by: 13times at September 16, 2018 02:53 PM (K3B2k)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 02:45 PM (Et1Ic)
*scribbles Spillane's Mike Hammer Basically Just Gut-Punches Everybody There Is onto the list*
Posted by: hogmartin at September 16, 2018 02:53 PM (y87Qq)
It brought Getttysburg alive to me like nothing else.
Also, anything by Bruce Catton. His Centennial History of the Civil War (three volume) is amazing, pretty much set the tone for everything that followed. The first book "The Coming Fury" is a deep look at how things broke down in 1860.
Must-read for those who think we are in Civil War II.
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018 02:53 PM (B/PO4)
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Almost too many of his novels and short bits to name!
"Profiles in Courage", allegedly by JFK
"Time Safari" by L. Sprague de Camp
"The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
"The Bear" by William Faulkner
"Falkenberg's Legion" and its sequels by Jerry Pournelle
"A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams
"I, the Jury" by Mickey Spillane
"Patriots" and "Redliners" by David Drake
Posted by: exdem13 at September 16, 2018 02:54 PM (Jywc3)
Posted by: Al Bundy at September 16, 2018 02:54 PM (2cuLk)
Allen Drury: Advise and Consent
James Gould Cozzens: The Just and the Unjust
James McPherson: Battle Cry of Freedom
Robert Caro: The Power Broker
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2018 02:54 PM (LsBY9)
Books as a concept lasted from about 1500 to about, I'd say at an outer limit, 2050.
Next up: talking rings
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 16, 2018 02:54 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 02:54 PM (yQpMk)
Everything on your list, from the Bible to Gibbon, supposes a properly prepared mind and an IQ north of 120. Oh, and English mastery with a vocabulary beyond the Urban Dictionary. Not a big audience.
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I understand your point, but reading The Bible, or even Gibbon-- with some of his antiquated terms--hardly requires an IQ of 120.
If it does, then I've been selling myself short all these years....
Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2018 02:55 PM (NFEMn)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 02:55 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: kallisto at September 16, 2018 02:51 PM (VyOxI)
As has been noted before, if it took place in a trailer park instead of a hi-rise, FSOG would've been an episode of Criminal Minds.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 16, 2018 02:56 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Average Jen at September 16, 2018 02:56 PM (KLk9u)
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There used to be a website that threw out random quotes from Gibbons' The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as sort of a more advanced Magic 8 Ball. Maybe you could do the same with Fifty Shades.
"Should I go to the mall with Buffy and Skip or do my homework?"
"Then he tied her to the bed and brought out the whip."
"I'm never leaving the house again!"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at September 16, 2018 02:57 PM (+y/Ru)
The New York Yankees Illustrated History
(Oh wait - Do picture books count?)
Posted by: Alex Cora at September 16, 2018 02:57 PM (VpTMN)
We know you can lie and still pass a polygraph.
But can't you also lie about administering one?
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018 02:57 PM (B/PO4)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 02:55 PM (yQpMk)
Ah, but because she's a "professor" and a liberal Democrat , she must be believed--or else.
Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2018 02:57 PM (NFEMn)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 02:57 PM (AllCR)
Pretty much anything by C.S. Lewis but especially Mere Christianity.
Posted by: Average Jen at September 16, 2018 02:56 PM (KLk9u)
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The Screwtape Letters. Re-read them a couple of weeks ago. Spot on about everything happening.
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018 02:58 PM (B/PO4)
Posted by: NCKate
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'Dreams of My Father'. Brilliant insights and recollections.
Posted by: Composite Girl Friend at September 16, 2018 02:59 PM (Et1Ic)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 16, 2018 02:59 PM (fuK7c)
Posted by: zombie at September 16, 2018 02:49 PM (c+2jX)
I second this. Out of Rand's works, this is the best, and also most concise. In addition, Whittaker Chambers' Witness is a compelling look at the anti communist fervor of the 50's, and why it was completely justified. Also, the Venona Papers.
Posted by: moki at September 16, 2018 02:59 PM (mFoNl)
Posted by: kallisto at September 16, 2018 02:53 PM (VyOxI)
I should have added the qualifier that a trained liar or mental case could defeat a polygraph operated by a competent and honest operator. If the operator is partisan, or venal, then any test is worthless from the git go.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 16, 2018 02:59 PM (iwUO9)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2018 03:00 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 16, 2018 02:32 PM (xPl2J)
Or all of them as I have...more than once.
Posted by: Traveling Man &&&& at September 16, 2018 03:00 PM (JVddv)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:00 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: Grad School Fool at September 16, 2018 03:00 PM (swEzU)
Posted by: 13times at September 16, 2018 03:01 PM (K3B2k)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 16, 2018 03:02 PM (ZX8Kg)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:02 PM (yQpMk)
I'm not calling BS on the author of that essay. I'm just pointing out that my personal experience doesn't support throwing the majority of Swedes under the sleigh.
Posted by: Muad'dib at September 16, 2018 03:02 PM (qvdxK)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 16, 2018 03:02 PM (ZX8Kg)
somebody told him his name got mentioned in it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 16, 2018 03:03 PM (iwUO9)
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Same about Churchill's 'The Gathering Storm', first of his 6 volume WWII memoir.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 03:03 PM (Et1Ic)
Disagreeing with Pep--we're not actually talking about an "average people" reading list. This is for the top quartile.
The topic is books EVERYONE should read. My point stands.
Posted by: pep at September 16, 2018 03:03 PM (T6t7i)
Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Crusade in Europe"
Rick Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy
H.W. Crocker's "Yanks"
Samuel Eliot Morison's "History of US Naval Operations in WWII" series (What? It's ONLY 15 volumes!)
Posted by: DMO at September 16, 2018 03:03 PM (AUOno)
Posted by: kallisto at September 16, 2018 03:03 PM (VyOxI)
I used to say that truck drivers (who listen to Rush while "at work") knew more about the detail of CAGW than Upper West Side readers of The New York Times.
Siberian tree rings for the win!
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 16, 2018 03:03 PM (1UZdv)
Posted by: kallisto at September 16, 2018 02:51 PM (VyOxI)
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I didn't read it either and I don't know anyone who did. Zero interest and frankly it just sounds like utter trash.
Posted by: bluebell at September 16, 2018 03:03 PM (C1PQi)
Oh shit, there's more. This is bad.
The accuser, Blasey-Ford, had a DNA test done in 2016. She's 0.65% African-American.
So now it's a Hate Crime, too.
This is bad.
#goodbyekavanaugh
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:03 PM (SFIp6)
There's a place for Gibbon, Churchill, etc., but he pioneered the readable, anecdote-fueled style of popular history.
He wrote the text for the American Heritage illustrated Civil War book, btw. I know most people focus on the pictures, but the text is great.
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018 03:04 PM (B/PO4)
+1 for Road to Serfdom, The Camp of the Saints, Atlas Shrugged, and all Sowell recommendations...
Posted by: Slash Buzz at September 16, 2018 03:04 PM (q6wMa)
The Barack Obama reading list:
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2018 03:00 PM (LsBY9)
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What a showboating farce the man was and continues to be.
Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2018 03:04 PM (dI3/S)
Posted by: Bert G at September 16, 2018 03:04 PM (OMsf+)
Posted by: Muad'dib at September 16, 2018 03:02 PM (qvdxK)
The author went to some length to describe how she belonged to a circle of young Leftists, so not ordinary Swedes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 16, 2018 03:04 PM (iwUO9)
just pointing out that my personal experience doesn't support throwing
the majority of Swedes under the sleigh.
Posted by: Muad'dib at September 16, 2018 03:02 PM (qvdxK)
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I think the Swedes are doing a fine job of throwing themselves under it.
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018 03:05 PM (B/PO4)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:05 PM (SFIp6)
#goodbyekavanaugh
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:03 PM (SFIp6)
My guess is this has less to do with derailing the nomination than it does giving cover to vulnerable Senate Dems to vote against and, as always, to taint the Repulican forever as they did Thomas.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at September 16, 2018 03:06 PM (rnXGe)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:06 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Hadrian
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Which would explain why his 'Library' will contain NO books.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 03:06 PM (Et1Ic)
And supposedly they passed on investigation but the person who now supposedly gave a polygraph test is a former FBI agent.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:07 PM (AllCR)
On the Origin of Species..., Charles Darwin
The Eight Wilderness Discovery Books (collection), John Muir
Wilderness Warrior, Douglas Brinkley
Rightful Heritage, Douglas Brinkley
The Quiet World, Douglas Brinkley
Posted by: RioBravo at September 16, 2018 03:07 PM (iQKgg)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 03:06 PM (Et1Ic)
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I still can't wrap my head around that.
Posted by: bluebell at September 16, 2018 03:07 PM (C1PQi)
It will have misspelled NCAA brackets though.
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:07 PM (yQpMk)
2) Nassim Taleb's Skin in the Game. Want to know why we are constantly ruled by idiots? This book can help explain it. Something everyone can enjoy from the 21st century's most underrated personality.
3) Starship Troopers. As one of sci-fi's true progenitors, this book has it all, from a realistic look into a global military dictatorship to the mindset of realistic Space Marines before they were called that. Will be remembered long after Jemison is widely dismissed as the apex of affirmative action culture.
4) The Screwtape Letters. Devils exist, of that I am sure, and CS Lewis must have mightily enjoyed putting them to mockery, almost as much as the blithe leftie atheists the book puts pins into. A classic and definitely worth opening your mind to.
I like many of the books above, but quite a few are wholly inaccessible even to modern intellectuals. Besides, I find timeless truths are going to carry long after archaic ideologies have died out. The Constitution is wholly inadequate to govern a people without firm morality and the Christian religion, so a newer thesis must be devised.
Posted by: trev006 at September 16, 2018 03:07 PM (U/EEq)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:07 PM (AllCR)
"Former", as in "fired"?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 16, 2018 03:08 PM (iwUO9)
The worst part of her "assault," the victim says, according to the notes of her therapist, is the party was playing the song "St Elmo's Fire" so now everytime she hears that song, or sees Jamie Gertz or Emilio Estevez, she has a seizure.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:08 PM (SFIp6)
And college professor turned general, Joshua Chamberlain is the big hero, and one of the most remarkable soldiers in American history,
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 16, 2018 03:09 PM (1UZdv)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:09 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at September 16, 2018 03:10 PM (rnXGe)
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Joe Haldeman's "The Forever War" is a good follow-up.
Posted by: Blake - used scripting salesman at September 16, 2018 03:10 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:10 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:10 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: bluebell
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Which is a good thing.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 03:11 PM (Et1Ic)
Posted by: kallisto at September 16, 2018 03:11 PM (VyOxI)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:09 PM (yQpMk)
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On the same day that lawyer/client confidentiality walked out the door.
Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2018 03:11 PM (dI3/S)
according to the notes of her therapist, is the party was playing the
song "St Elmo's Fire" so now everytime she hears that song, or sees
Jamie Gertz or Emilio Estevez, she has a seizure.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:08 PM (SFIp6)
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Seriously? Because St. Elmo's fire came out in 1985. When was the alleged assault again?
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018 03:11 PM (B/PO4)
I read the recent Grant biography not too long ago and one of the things that struck a cord with me was the author's appreciation of President Grant's efforts in regard to protecting and advancing the freed slaves.
I don't think that I have ever heard any Negro- American leaders express any appreciation of those efforts.
Posted by: 11B40 at September 16, 2018 03:11 PM (evgyj)
I often see glimpses of Conrad's brilliant style in CBD's Food Thread.
Posted by: Weasel at September 16, 2018 03:11 PM (MVjcR)
people without firm morality and the Christian religion, so a newer
thesis must be devised.
Posted by: trev006
No need. Dictatorship has always been with us.
Posted by: pep at September 16, 2018 03:12 PM (T6t7i)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:09 PM (yQpMk)
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On the same day that lawyer/client confidentiality walked out the door.
Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2018 03:11 PM (dI3/S)
HIPAA laws for thee but not for the Ds.
Posted by: Bert G at September 16, 2018 03:12 PM (OMsf+)
If I were frustrated I'm sure i could find something more pleasantly erotic that a book about a naive bimbo and her controlling nutty Boyfriend.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:13 PM (AllCR)
Therapist notes reveal she had to block out the entire '80's decade from her memory because she had nightmares that Brett Kavanaugh and Ronald Reagan and Don Johnson (Miami Vice) were locking her in a closet.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:13 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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OT? We could write a book here, '50 Shades of OT'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 03:13 PM (Et1Ic)
For his pure mastery of the English language, anything by Joseph Conrad,
although I particularly like Typhoon and Other Stories as a collection.
I often see glimpses of Conrad's brilliant style in CBD's Food Thread.
Posted by: Weasel at September 16, 2018 03:11 PM (MVjcR)
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I am a yuuuge Conrad fan. Youth: A Narrative is great, Typhoon is brilliant, and a dark take is The End of the Tether.
The man understood the sea and its impact on men.
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018 03:13 PM (B/PO4)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:07 PM (AllCR)
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"FBI Agent." Wow. Thats the Gold Standard of credibility, right?
I crack myself up sometimes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 16, 2018 03:14 PM (ZX8Kg)
Posted by: Blake - used scripting salesman at September 16, 2018 03:14 PM (WEBkv)
Also, Henry James' Turn of the Screw, although it takes some getting used to because the sentences are exhaustingly long.
WTF is it with the spell check? It red underlined "exhaustingly!"
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at September 16, 2018 03:14 PM (v1udk)
Posted by: freaked at September 16, 2018 03:14 PM (UdKB7)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 03:14 PM (Et1Ic)
The McCain family just released a statement saying John's last words were #IBelieveHer.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:15 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 03:13 PM (Et1Ic)
I read that as "of the ONT".
Which wouldn't be much of a stretch either.
Posted by: hogmartin at September 16, 2018 03:15 PM (y87Qq)
Okay, that was funny.
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at September 16, 2018 03:16 PM (v1udk)
Well, I usually try to wait until after 100 comments. I didn't then because I'm so PO'ed by the news.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:16 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:16 PM (SFIp6)
I crack myself up sometimes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 16, 2018 03:14 PM (ZX8Kg)
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The left now considers the FBI as the zenith of all humanity.
Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2018 03:16 PM (dI3/S)
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at September 16, 2018 03:16 PM (rnXGe)
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And don't ever show her a red solo cup.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 16, 2018 03:16 PM (ZX8Kg)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:16 PM (AllCR)
That was probably my biggest moral lesson about The Lord of the Rings was that obligation.
Tolkein despised Wagner ... which I found strange since the story of Turin, and most of the Silmarillion was crushingly grim and hard.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 16, 2018 03:17 PM (rnAwa)
Are we in a similar situation to 1860?
Posted by: clutch at September 16, 2018 03:17 PM (kiSdp)
Well, I usually try to wait until after 100 comments. I didn't then because I'm so PO'ed by the news.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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As difficult as it is, just remember that the workers of iniquity are being set up for a fall.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 03:18 PM (Et1Ic)
Remember: No One Believes Any of this Bullshit.
This is only for Republicans' benefit -- to spook the Cucks.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:18 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at September 16, 2018 03:16 PM (rnXGe)
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The interest in the Chinese driver, who happens to be a spy, and drove Sen. Feinstein around for twenty effing years, seems to be over, also.
Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2018 03:19 PM (dI3/S)
The man understood the sea and its impact on men.
There's lots of Conrad free on Kindle. I've read Heart o' Darkness and downloaded Typhoon.
Where would you go next?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 16, 2018 03:19 PM (fuK7c)
Eventually,
I just think he's a good and decent man who does wants to serve and now he has to go through hell.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:19 PM (AllCR)
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Are there Citadel cadets charging cannon at Battery Park in Charleston? That would be an early sign.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 03:20 PM (Et1Ic)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 16, 2018 03:20 PM (rnAwa)
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at September 16, 2018 03:16 PM (rnXGe)
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The interest in the Chinese driver, who happens to be a spy, and drove Sen. Feinstein around for twenty effing years, seems to be over, also.
Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2018 03:19 PM (dI3/S)
Which also makes one wonder if Feinstein is a Chinese asset.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 16, 2018 03:20 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at September 16, 2018 03:16 PM (rnXGe)
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The interest in the Chinese driver, who happens to be a spy, and drove Sen. Feinstein around for twenty effing years, seems to be over, also.
Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2018 03:19 PM (dI3/S)
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These stories don't advance the agenda.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 16, 2018 03:20 PM (ZX8Kg)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 16, 2018 03:20 PM (OBcoN)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:20 PM (AllCR)
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Joe Haldeman's "The Forever War" is a good follow-up.
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I'm not sure what was meant by a military dictatorship. The human civilization in Starship Troopers was a federal republic, with the franchise being restricted to veterans, i.e., those who have already put their butts on the line.
I second the Forever War. An additional SciFi classic would be Voyage from Yesteryear by James Hogan.
Posted by: MichiCanuck at September 16, 2018 03:21 PM (zPXxR)
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at September 16, 2018 03:22 PM (0OmEj)
Posted by: Muthaucker at September 16, 2018 03:22 PM (tN9hD)
Churchill's History of the English Speaking people's
Killer Angel's
Posted by: Jean at September 16, 2018 03:22 PM (j0Mw7)
I could never get through reading the Iliad, moby dick, hated war and peace, hated that turgid repeative Atlas Shrugged and Ayn Rand's cold, antiseptic athiesm. Anthem was okay. I just don't like Ayn Rand. De Tocqueville's democracy in america is a hard civics read
Loved Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. The sun also rises is like reading about insufferable wastelings. I never quite understood that one.
Read Gibbons Roman empire? Ugh. Churchill's six volume set on WWII is good but Churchill is pretty biased in his retelling.
Posted by: 13times at September 16, 2018 03:22 PM (K3B2k)
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at September 16, 2018 03:22 PM (v1udk)
Posted by: 3240 fps at September 16, 2018 03:22 PM (r9UYA)
By giving cover, do you mean an excuse for the Heitkamps, Testers, Mcasskill, etc. to vote no? My opinion is that won't work.
Posted by: clutch at September 16, 2018 03:22 PM (kiSdp)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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See: Bork, Thomas.
These people care nothing about the well-being of the country, their neighbors, friends, or family. They care only about establishing a single-party totalitarian system. Anything else is secondary.
They are people without honor or integrity.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 03:23 PM (Et1Ic)
Knock wood that continues.
Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at September 16, 2018 03:23 PM (dEQP3)
So...any displays of racism and anti-Americanism displayed today at the nfl games?
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:23 PM (SFIp6)
You can start with nothing and make it in America, if you work.
Posted by: Eric Lindholm at September 16, 2018 03:23 PM (HkEoS)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 03:23 PM (Et1Ic)
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Having no conscience is a basic qualification for a leadership position in the Dem party.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 16, 2018 03:24 PM (ZX8Kg)
If 15 volumes is too long, he summarized it into The Two Ocean War.
Walter Boyne also wrote a good single volume WW2 naval battle summary, called Clash of Titans
Posted by: Slash Buzz at September 16, 2018 03:24 PM (q6wMa)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:19 PM (AllCR)
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Therein lies the secret saucie of the Democrat playbook: Make the process so odious for conservatives that no one other than committed leftists want to work in government.
Posted by: Blake - used scripting salesman at September 16, 2018 03:24 PM (WEBkv)
Every young boy, and maybe every young girl too, should read Hatchet. So that they keep in mind (at least in the back of their mind) that they are never more than one disaster away from fighting for survival. But also so that they know that, despite the odds, survival is achievable....
Posted by: Castle Guy at September 16, 2018 03:24 PM (Lhaco)
Posted by: kallisto at September 16, 2018 03:25 PM (VyOxI)
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 16, 2018 03:25 PM (1UZdv)
They are people without honor or integrity.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
The Left is Shameless & Unaccountable.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:25 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot
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In my case, it would be that I have found the cure for cancer, and concealed it. I also know who shot J.R.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 03:25 PM (Et1Ic)
You can start with nothing and make it in America, if you work.
Posted by: Eric Lindholm at September 16, 2018 03:23 PM (HkEoS)
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Read it, bought a few copies to give away. Excellent choice.
Posted by: Blake - used scripting salesman at September 16, 2018 03:25 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at September 16, 2018 03:25 PM (0OmEj)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:25 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 16, 2018 03:25 PM (rjbMC)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:25 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at September 16, 2018 03:23 PM (dEQP3)
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Great news! Continued wishes that you and your new little car stay safe and dry from this troubling storm.
Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2018 03:25 PM (dI3/S)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 03:23 PM (Et1Ic)
But they are dedicated. Fanatically so.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 16, 2018 03:26 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Castle Guy at September 16, 2018 03:24 PM (Lhaco)
I agree with this sentiment and this recommendation.
Posted by: hogmartin at September 16, 2018 03:26 PM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 03:26 PM (T4oHT)
A drunk teenage boy tried to kiss her and cop a feel at a party several decades ago. And she didn't think it merited filing a police complaint, or telling his parents, or even telling her own parents at the time. In fact, according to her own telling, she didn't mention this alleged assault to anybody until 2012 -- which was 30 years after she says it happened.
But we should keep Kavanaugh, a man with an exemplary record, off the Supreme Court because she remembers feeling scared that he might "inadvertently kill her"? Are you kidding me? A drunken teenage grope has now morphed in her imagination from an attempted rape to an attempted murder.
Beyond ludicrous.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 16, 2018 03:26 PM (fqUgw)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at September 16, 2018 03:26 PM (3AbHG)
Posted by: Ignoramus
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Heh. "We won, Hitler lost."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 03:26 PM (Et1Ic)
The Left acts with Impunity.
And that is 100% our fault.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:25 PM (SFIp6)
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Absolutely.
Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2018 03:26 PM (dI3/S)
Thanks for the update; Today in church we prayed for neighbors to the South affected by the storm.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:26 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: Insomniac at September 16, 2018 03:20 PM (NWiLs)
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Especially since she has gotten rich from her husband's doing business in/with China.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at September 16, 2018 03:27 PM (I16G8)
As for the Iliad, I'd just finished reading Robert Graves's translation of the Iliad. In its own way the book is a hoot.
Posted by: Comanche Voter at September 16, 2018 03:27 PM (Sda6L)
Posted by: Insomniac at September 16, 2018 03:20 PM (NWiLs)
Worth investigating for sure. That means Repubs won't do it.
Posted by: clutch at September 16, 2018 03:27 PM (kiSdp)
But they are dedicated. Fanatically so.
Posted by: Insomniac
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Often the case with the mentally unstable.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 03:27 PM (Et1Ic)
Posted by: MichiCanuck at September 16, 2018 03:21 PM (zPXxR)
When the franchise is restricted that heavily, and to a small core of people, the common term has been dictatorship, even when there is no individual figure to centralize all power in. The Soviet dictatorships were organized along such lines after Stalin, partly to prevent a repeat of Stalinist excess.
In the Starship Troopers universe, the military does not seek excessive privilege and judges itself at least as harshly as the common people. So it is hardly malevolent. But it isn't even as free as the Founders originally made the American union.
Posted by: trev006 at September 16, 2018 03:28 PM (U/EEq)
https://tinyurl.com/ya4qcuyo
Posted by: Bert G at September 16, 2018 03:28 PM (OMsf+)
The Left clearly has a plan for the next few days. They've got Kav locked in a complete denial. She said she wanted to remain anonymous, and now she's voluntarily taking lie detector tests.
What's next
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 16, 2018 03:29 PM (1UZdv)
Where would you go next?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 16, 2018 03:19 PM (fuK7c)
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Lol, I have most of his stuff on that fussy old thing we call paper.The Duel.
Not about the sea, utterly brilliant. So good, people thought it was real.
Youth: A Narrative is very good and the, er, N-word of the Narcissus is also quite intriguing. Was the guy sick or faking it, or did he become sick by faking?
I swear, his description of the sky and sea make me want to shade my eyes while reading it. I think I've gotten mild headaches just from imagining the eye strain.
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018 03:29 PM (B/PO4)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:29 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 03:27 PM (Et1Ic)
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I used to laugh at Michael Savage's characterization of leftism being a mental disease.
Yeah, well, he was right and I was wrong.
Posted by: Blake - used scripting salesman at September 16, 2018 03:29 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 02:38 PM (AllCR)
2012? 2012??
What was that, 30 years on?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 03:30 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:30 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:30 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 16, 2018 03:30 PM (0ogQG)
Posted by: Traveling Man &&&& at September 16, 2018 03:30 PM (JVddv)
#goodbyekavanaugh
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:03
Christ Sooth, Kavanaugh is going nowhere.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at September 16, 2018 03:30 PM (FTXAT)
#goodbyekavanaugh
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:03
Christ Sooth, Kavanaugh is going nowhere.
Except to SCOTUS.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at September 16, 2018 03:30 PM (FTXAT)
Posted by: Calm Mentor
You shut your whore mouth.
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 16, 2018 03:31 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 16, 2018 03:31 PM (1UZdv)
Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 03:31 PM (T4oHT)
Cosmos (Carl Sagan)
The Day the Universe Changed and/or Connections (James Burke)
Posted by: Rusty Bill at September 16, 2018 03:31 PM (HBMMh)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:31 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:31 PM (SFIp6)
Therapist notes reveal she had to block out the entire '80's decade from her memory because she had nightmares that Brett Kavanaugh and Ronald Reagan and Don Johnson (Miami Vice) were locking her in a closet.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:13 PM (SFIp6)
I am still trying to understand why she go see The Rapist.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 16, 2018 03:31 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: Weasel at September 16, 2018 03:31 PM (MVjcR)
I don't believe it. I'm just reporting what has been reported.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:31 PM (AllCR)
https://tinyurl.com/ya4qcuyo
Posted by: Bert G at September 16, 2018 03:28 PM (OMsf+)
Palo Alto University?
Never heard of it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 03:31 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Weasel at September 16, 2018 03:31 PM (MVjcR)
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"To Serve Man?"
Posted by: Blake - used scripting salesman at September 16, 2018 03:31 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 16, 2018 03:29 PM (1UZdv)
I wish Kavanaugh could just come out and say he'd never even had a drink until age whatever. How many people get sloppy drunk at 15?
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at September 16, 2018 03:32 PM (rnXGe)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 02:38 PM (AllCR)
2012? 2012??
What was that, 30 years on?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 03:30 PM (YqDXo)
Ford's account to the therapist said 4 high level men assaulted her.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at September 16, 2018 03:32 PM (FTXAT)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:03
REMAIN CALM! ALL IS WELL!
Posted by: Chip Diller at September 16, 2018 03:32 PM (XKT2l)
His collected works (short stories, novels, and other writings, are in a 2-volume set from Library of America.
Absolutely incredible e writing sizzles off the page...
Posted by: Slash Buzz at September 16, 2018 03:32 PM (q6wMa)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:32 PM (yQpMk)
Hesitant and then he saw the light!
Now must read the book.
Posted by: Lone Ranger at September 16, 2018 03:32 PM (iYt4/)
The result will be epic at the base level, of course, but I genuinely think the Dems can and will push enough Republicans to signal against him.
Posted by: trev006 at September 16, 2018 03:32 PM (U/EEq)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:31 PM (AllCR)
I'm sure. I didn't mean to suggest you did believe it.
As indicated previously, I take a very dim view of allegations of decades-old misbehavior, a forteriori when such allegations are oh so convenient politically.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 03:32 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:33 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at September 16, 2018 03:30 PM (FTXAT)
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He is going to his place as an Associate Justice to SCOTUS until being sworn in as a Justice.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at September 16, 2018 03:33 PM (I16G8)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:25 PM (yQpMk)
I don't know, but here's a unit patch that Sobieski inspired:
https://tinyurl.com/y8tzrwts
Posted by: Bert G at September 16, 2018 03:33 PM (OMsf+)
never even had a drink until age whatever. How many people get sloppy
drunk at 15?
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at September 16, 2018 03:32 PM (rnXGe)
Many, many people get sloppy drunk at 15... I doubt Kavanaugh was one of them but there are many.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at September 16, 2018 03:33 PM (FTXAT)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:33 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: bluebell
You could if your hair was longer, just sayin'.
Posted by: JT at September 16, 2018 03:33 PM (3ofL6)
He was 17. A lot of kids. Especially in suburbs when parents go away.
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 16, 2018 03:34 PM (1UZdv)
Posted by: bluebell
You could if your hair was longer, just sayin'.
Posted by: JT at September 16, 2018 03:33 PM (3ofL6)
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Is she now speaking publicly about 'the haircut'?
Posted by: Weasel at September 16, 2018 03:34 PM (MVjcR)
The ONLY way Kavanaugh will withdraw is if the Left and Fake News peel off just one Republican senator.
Because one will turn into two, and so on.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:35 PM (SFIp6)
Yeah, love paper but Kindle is convenient and free is right in my budget.
Free books on Kindle have let me check out authors I'd never have gone to the trouble for.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 16, 2018 03:35 PM (fuK7c)
https://tinyurl.com/y8tzrwts
Nice.
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:35 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: JTB at September 16, 2018 03:35 PM (V+03K)
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 16, 2018 03:34 PM (1UZdv)
He was born Feb 1965. This happened in 1980.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at September 16, 2018 03:35 PM (rnXGe)
by Ace
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:33 PM (SFIp6)
"What would the three laws of Moronics be?" would be a thread by itself.
Posted by: hogmartin at September 16, 2018 03:35 PM (y87Qq)
he will withdraw his nomination. The -stupid- Republican Party made
this inevitable with their smears against Roy Moore, and now Republicans
can't point to much difference between this versus that. Beyond "well,
this guy is just better than Roy Moore. He went to an Ivy, fer godsake."
The result will be epic at the base level, of course, but I
genuinely think the Dems can and will push enough Republicans to signal
against him.
Posted by: trev006 at September 16, 2018 03:32 PM (U/EEq)
That will not happen... it cannot be allowed to happen if the Republicans are to be able to do anything or hold any position in the future. They will always be able to trot out liars and crazy people who actually believe what they are saying.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at September 16, 2018 03:35 PM (FTXAT)
Palo Alto University?
Never heard of it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 03:31 PM (YqDXo)
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It's where people go to get teaching jobs who aren't qualified to be hired by a real university.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 16, 2018 03:35 PM (ZX8Kg)
books and I must point out that his last book, Last of the Breed was especially good.
Posted by: JT at September 16, 2018 03:35 PM (3ofL6)
Are we in a similar situation to 1860?
Posted by: clutch
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Are there Citadel cadets charging cannon at Battery Park in Charleston? That would be an early sign.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 03:20 PM (Et1Ic
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This is why history is so important. Catton's first book in his trilogy (The Coming Fury) does a deep dive into the political situation so you can get a sense of just how screwed up everything was.
Basically, the Dems were a national majority but so torn by competing factions that they hated each other more than the opposition. You also had an 1860s version of purity spiral where they outdid one another to try to be the most "woke" in terms of platform and what they would accept.
So the politics are interesting, but also interesting was how the federal government made matters worse by shipping arms and munitions to vulnerable southern depots and forts so that if - perish the thought - the Southern states went into rebellion, they'd have lots of weapons ripe for the taking.
At the same time, the North was also gearing up. Look up "Wide Awakes" sometime. They were Republican "storm troopers" that did night marches and practiced drilling maneuvers.
Basically both sides were openly gearing up for something, and I just don't see us there yet. Then again, one war doesn't have to look like the one before it.
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018 03:36 PM (B/PO4)
Posted by: JTB at September 16, 2018 03:36 PM (V+03K)
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at September 16, 2018 03:35 PM (rnXGe)
But they were playing music that didn't come out until 1985?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:36 PM (AllCR)
never even had a drink until age whatever. How many people get sloppy
drunk at 15?
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at September 16, 2018 03:32 PM (rnXGe)
I got sloppy drunk exactly once in high school, and I believe I was 15, or maybe barely 16.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Ready for Winter at September 16, 2018 03:36 PM (XKT2l)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 16, 2018 03:36 PM (OBcoN)
Tomorrow, we'll probably hear from at least one former Republican senator, expressing dismay at Kavanaugh, urging he withdraw.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:36 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 16, 2018 03:36 PM (1UZdv)
Posted by: Marian Booker at September 16, 2018 03:37 PM (lGgl/)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:37 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:37 PM (SFIp6)
Yeah, too intermingled now. Less Bull Run and more Sarajevo.
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:37 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:36 PM (AllCR)
Pretty sure the St. Elmos Fire post was a joke.
I'm curious how old the accuser was.
Reports are coming out that this woman spent the past few days deleting every social media account.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at September 16, 2018 03:38 PM (rnXGe)
https://tinyurl.com/ya4qcuyo
Posted by: Bert G at September 16, 2018 03:28 PM (OMsf+)
Palo Alto University?
Never heard of it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Well, it's no Burlington College, that's for sure.
Posted by: Jane Sanders at September 16, 2018 03:38 PM (Et1Ic)
What's the over-under on Lugar?
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:38 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at September 16, 2018 03:35 PM (rnXGe)
But they were playing music that didn't come out until 1985?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:36 PM (AllCR)
In which case he was 20 and out of high school.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at September 16, 2018 03:38 PM (FTXAT)
Favorite part was the story of the three travelers getting stuck in a blizzard and promising to give up their vices.
The next day after they were fine... Well, human nature. Twain was brilliant in his examples of human nature!
Posted by: Sugar plum fairy #etc at September 16, 2018 03:38 PM (ETFzT)
Posted by: Weasel
I suspect anyone she told is gonna get stabbed
if they mention it.
Posted by: JT at September 16, 2018 03:38 PM (3ofL6)
The -stupid- Republican Party made this inevitable with their smears against Roy Moore, and now Republicans can't point to much difference between this versus that.
No sentinent being could be so obtuse, stupid and gutless to give serious credence to these obviously politically-driven absurdities.
Oh, it's the Republicans you're talking about.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2018 03:38 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:39 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at September 16, 2018 03:35 PM (rnXGe)
So he's one year older than me. Cool. And yes, kids drank back then.
It'll be nice to have a SCOTUS justice who was not around when the Charelston was all the rage.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Ready for Winter at September 16, 2018 03:39 PM (XKT2l)
273 The human civilization in Starship Troopers was a federal republic, with the franchise being restricted to veterans, i.e., those who have already put their butts on the line.
Posted by: MichiCanuck at September 16, 2018 03:21 PM (zPXxR)
When the franchise is restricted that heavily, and to a small core of people, the common term has been dictatorship, even when there is no individual figure to centralize all power in. The Soviet dictatorships were organized along such lines after Stalin, partly to prevent a repeat of Stalinist excess.
In the Starship Troopers universe, the military does not seek excessive privilege and judges itself at least as harshly as the common people. So it is hardly malevolent. But it isn't even as free as the Founders originally made the American union.
Posted by: trev006 at September 16, 2018 03:28 PM (U/EEq)
Um, nobody was denied the service obligation. Example was the blind cripple who enlisted for service would be found some task they could accomplish. You just had to sign up. I was going to say get off your butt and sign up but that would invalidate the cripple example.
So the franchise is theoretically 100%. A lesser figure is FREE CHOICE!
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at September 16, 2018 03:39 PM (e1mEI)
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at September 16, 2018 03:32 PM (FTXAT)
What?? In high school? Or integrated over her entire life?
She sounds like a nut job to me. How likely is that four high level men assaulted one person who herself was never in a high position?
This reminds of a story from academia. A colleague's grad student accused another grad student of assaulting her (somehow - not rape-rape, but I've forgotten what). It was plausible, as the guy was a bit of a player, and from a Third World country, and thus not entirely au fait with American mores.
My colleague - who is the salt of the earth - responded with sympathy and support, but apparently not enough for this gal.
Next, she accused him of assaulting her. Now this was ridiculous, as he's pretty much like a Bob Newhart type, and quite possibly the very last person on earth likely to do this.
She went to the dean, and the shit was about to hit the fan generally, when she started accusing the dean of assaulting too.
That, of course, tore it. She obviously was in need of psychiatric care.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 03:39 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018 03:11 PM (B/PO4)
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Are you sure? You'd think her script writers would check that.
He's born in 1965.
And she heard a song from 1985.
But this is when he was in high school.
At age 20.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 16, 2018 03:40 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:40 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2018 03:40 PM (dI3/S)
So recovered memory.
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 16, 2018 03:41 PM (1UZdv)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2018 03:41 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 16, 2018 03:41 PM (QDnY+)
Never heard of it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 03:31 PM (YqDXo)
Get this, they offer a B.S. in "Psychology and Social Action".
Quelle surprise.
Posted by: Bert G at September 16, 2018 03:41 PM (OMsf+)
Lindsay Graham is safe.
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:41 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: GT 5.0 at September 16, 2018 03:41 PM (08HPG)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:41 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: JT at September 16, 2018 03:41 PM (3ofL6)
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at September 16, 2018 03:35 PM (FTXAT)
None of that is wrong, but:
https://globalnews.ca/news/3898543/jeff-flake-campaign-
donation-roy-moore-opponent/
Jeff Flake absolutely will come through with another backstab, and that should be enough for another Republican to send out signals. That's goodbye Kavanaugh.
Posted by: trev006 at September 16, 2018 03:41 PM (U/EEq)
Posted by: Weasel at September 16, 2018 03:42 PM (MVjcR)
Some great recommendations by the Horde! Personally speaking, Bill Bennett's "America, The Last Best Hope" (2 volumes) is the best American history I have ever read. Not only is it well-written, but the reader can just fly through it in no time flat because it doesn't get bogged down. After reading this book, I understood for the first time just how much the assassination of Abraham Lincoln impacted our nation at the time. It brought me to tears.
And no, never read Fifty Shades of Grey. Not even interested.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 16, 2018 03:42 PM (RkS3d)
Oh, she took the lie detector test in August; How interesting.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:42 PM (AllCR)
A) cower before their masters in the media
B) stick a shiv in Trump's back
C) put off a strong conservative vote until they are safely in the minority party again.
The chickenshit is strong in that flock.
Posted by: Dharma Institute at September 16, 2018 03:43 PM (u8R6W)
Also Cheyenne
Posted by: JT at September 16, 2018 03:43 PM (3ofL6)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:43 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:43 PM (AllCR)
Has anyone explored Kavanaugh's Vietnam draft deferment yet?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Grassy knoll, man. Grassy. Knoll.
Think about it........wheels within wheels..........
Posted by: Puddleglum, undisclosed location at September 16, 2018 03:43 PM (+QYmp)
You're giving the left the benefit of the doubt. This is a classic Big Lie technique: (1) lie. (2) lie big. (3) watch your targets say, well, even though lie might be true, big lie cannot possibly be true.
And so lie lives on.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 16, 2018 03:43 PM (2lndx)
Posted by: Weasel at September 16, 2018 03:42 PM (MVjcR)
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I'm on it!
Posted by: Andie Sullivan at September 16, 2018 03:44 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: Weasel
He was an excellent swimmer.
Posted by: JT at September 16, 2018 03:44 PM (3ofL6)
Has anyone explored Kavanaugh's Vietnam draft deferment yet?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2018 03:41 PM (LsBY9)
I'm waiting for her to claim her put in a crate on top of his car and drove around.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 03:44 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: jb at September 16, 2018 03:44 PM (CIBIw)
This weekend is a major event in the equestrian world, the FEI World Equestrian Games, held (unfortunately) in Tryon, NC. Approximate attendance runs 400K people from the world over. Horses flown in from all over the globe.
Well, I grieve for the animal, but the poor creature was doomed on the day that it was named:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yc32lnex
I note in passing that it was a gelding.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 03:45 PM (Et1Ic)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:43 PM (AllCR)
Mitosis.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 03:45 PM (YqDXo)
The only other songs from that time I could remember were:
I Wear My Sunglasses At Night
the soundtrack from Top Gun
But I figured "St Elmo's Fire" would be the best fit.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:45 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: blake - cement canopy salesman at September 16, 2018 03:45 PM (WEBkv)
Real Ponies Don't Go Oink by Patrick F McManus
Posted by: Dharma Institute at September 16, 2018 03:45 PM (u8R6W)
Or perhaps have a beloved celebrity read it aloud to me. Kind of like when Gilbert Gottfried read passages from 50 Shades of Grey (laughed so hard I almost pissed my pants)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Ready for Winter at September 16, 2018 03:45 PM (XKT2l)
Apropos of comments this week, is there any evidence that Jan III
Sobieski's charge with the "Winged Hussars" against the Orcs Ottomans at
Vienna was the origin of Theoden's Charge at Minas Tirith?
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:25 PM (yQpMk)
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Yes. Even down to using the spire of the St. Stephen's cathedral as a lookout waiting for aid to arrive. Just like Denethor sitting in the White Tower.
Of course there are some big differences, (no Nazgul), but yeah, that's the inspiration. That charge must have been something else, btw. The Holy League brought out every relic they had, heard a mass on the morning of the attack and went all-in. They knew history hung in the balance.
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018 03:45 PM (B/PO4)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:43 PM (AllCR)
Four high-level men? In high school? So the Prom King, the class president, the QB of the football team ... who's the fourth? I guess the president of the AV club is off the hook.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 03:46 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at September 16, 2018 03:32 PM (FTXAT)
What?? In high school? Or integrated over her entire life?
She sounds like a nut job to me. How likely is that four high level
men assaulted one person who herself was never in a high position?
This reminds of a story from academia. A colleague's grad student
accused another grad student of assaulting her (somehow - not rape-rape,
but I've forgotten what). It was plausible, as the guy was a bit of a
player, and from a Third World country, and thus not entirely au fait
with American mores.
My colleague - who is the salt of the earth - responded with sympathy and support, but apparently not enough for this gal.
Next, she accused him of assaulting her. Now this was
ridiculous, as he's pretty much like a Bob Newhart type, and quite
possibly the very last person on earth likely to do this.
She went to the dean, and the shit was about to hit the fan generally, when she started accusing the dean of assaulting too.
That, of course, tore it. She obviously was in need of psychiatric care.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 03:39 PM (YqDXo)
Her account to the therapist was that 4 boys from an elite boys school attacked her. She is now saying that the therapist "wrote it down wrong" (?!?!!!??) and that what she had ACTUALLY said was that there were 4 boys total at the party.
She is lying or delusional and the Senate Judiciary Committee has already said, in response to this article, that they are going forward to confirm Kavanaugh.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at September 16, 2018 03:46 PM (FTXAT)
That made me laugh
Call your Senators again if they're R's. I can't call mine because they are Senator Spartacus and Bob "I like underage teen hookers" Menenedez
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:46 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: George Patton at September 16, 2018 03:46 PM (rjbMC)
I'm not recommending either. I'm asking. They were required reading in High School.
Posted by: Northernlurker at September 16, 2018 03:46 PM (jlPtK)
Animal Farm
Federalist Papers
Oeconomicus - Xenophon
Ender's Game
Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at September 16, 2018 03:47 PM (PpAPO)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 16, 2018 03:41 PM
I was going to suggest that long ago but bit my tongue
Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 03:47 PM (T4oHT)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:42 PM (AllCR)
The polygraph guy was all booked up the last 38 years.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 03:47 PM (YqDXo)
Dude was all up in his mom. Sick.
Posted by: See if it sticks at September 16, 2018 03:47 PM (UdKB7)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 16, 2018 03:47 PM (/qEW2)
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Really, I thought it was teenage boys at a party? None of them were "high level men" in 1982.
Sounds like part of her fantasy is to be important. "High-level men" desired her. Oooooooh. Guess that sounds better than "I was once groped by a drunk teenage boy."
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 16, 2018 03:48 PM (fqUgw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:43 PM (AllCR)
It appears the narrative is falling apart like a Jack in the Box biscuit.
Excellent.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Ready for Winter at September 16, 2018 03:48 PM (XKT2l)
who's the fourth? I guess the president of the AV club is off the hook.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity
Chess club. It was O-Muse.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2018 03:48 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2018 03:49 PM (NFEMn)
Posted by: Chris Wright at September 16, 2018 03:49 PM (oczdw)
Posted by: josephistan at September 16, 2018 03:49 PM (Izzlo)
She is lying or delusional and the Senate Judiciary Committee has already said, in response to this article, that they are going forward to confirm Kavanaugh.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at September 16, 2018 03:46 PM (FTXAT)
Haven Monaghan strikes again.
How reliable are the therapist's notes if her notes messed up something that simple and straightforward?
Unless the Dems figure if this flies, they'll include a couple more Repubs on the list and get their money's worth.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 03:49 PM (YqDXo)
Mein Kampf
The Koran (hoping I get an ISWYDT)
Actually, an anti-book list is a good idea. Know your enemy. Try to see why such large numbers of people find evil books compelling in the first place. Test yourself to see if you're astute enough to spot the problems as they arise.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 16, 2018 03:50 PM (/qEW2)
herself had a 2 hour plus in-person interview Fryday, with two guys, one of whom would be her immediate boss if hired.
this was the "First!" in person interview, as all previous ones where over the phone.
decision to be made "early next week", so we're mildly hopeful, but....
#goodthoughts!
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 16, 2018 03:50 PM (rjbMC)
Buster Keaton did it better in Steamboat Bill Jr.
Posted by: Miklos, ready for his closeup at September 16, 2018 03:50 PM (zCyNd)
It appears the narrative is falling apart like a Jack in the Box biscuit.
Just shows the brutal effect of this violent rape.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2018 03:50 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:42 PM (AllCR)
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It won't register as deception on the polygraph if the person being tested believes it.
And no doubt this woman believes it. She wants it to be true. So to her, it is true.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 16, 2018 03:50 PM (fqUgw)
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 16, 2018 03:41 PM (1UZdv)
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Ah, she remembers it all so vividly --- EXCEPT for any details that one might conceivably be able to check, such as the date and location.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 16, 2018 03:50 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 03:51 PM (T4oHT)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Ready for Winter at September 16, 2018 03:51 PM (XKT2l)
Hate to admit this, but I listened to Synchronicity II the other day and it was like hearing it for the first time. Kind of a great song.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:51 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: Northernlurker at September 16, 2018 03:51 PM (jlPtK)
Posted by: Miklos, ready for his closeup at September 16, 2018 03:50 PM (zCyNd)
+++
Buster Keaton was amazing.
Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2018 03:51 PM (dI3/S)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:51 PM (yQpMk)
Kav has been portrayed as the Ultimate Boy Scout. (and he is), hence this attack. Would never work on Trump, and man have they tried.
I thought something like this would be fabricated from his time at a Yale fraternity. Instead we get high school, FFS
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 16, 2018 03:52 PM (1UZdv)
Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2018 03:49 PM (NFEMn)
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It actually seems like putting a name and a story behind it makes it easier to ignore as blatant bullshit, not harder.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at September 16, 2018 03:52 PM (I16G8)
Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2018 03:52 PM (NFEMn)
I appreciate the update. Will continue to keep her in prayer and do let us know. If I'm not around-which may be hard to believe ;^) please send me an e-mail. You're my prayer assistant; You know how to reach me! :^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:52 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 03:39 PM (YqDXo)
May I reccommend Palo Alto University? They have a clinic.
Posted by: Herr Prof. Dr. Dr. Miklos Molnar at September 16, 2018 03:52 PM (zCyNd)
Yeah, that's true, isn't it?
Brett Kavanaugh was on Candidate Trump's "list" of potential nominees for The Court, wasn't he.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:53 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: shibumi at September 16, 2018 03:53 PM (QKV7o)
Basically both sides were openly gearing up for something, and I just don't see us there yet. Then again, one war doesn't have to look like the one before it.
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018
A typical insurgency. Not a lot of brutal fighting but a lot of death dealt out by extreme left and right. Thats where the Happy Fun Camps start up.
A brief note: the left right rumbles will take place where they always take place, in the middle ground where everybody just wants to be left alone. Let the false flags abound!
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at September 16, 2018 03:53 PM (e1mEI)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:54 PM (AllCR)
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Especially since we now know she's a Dim contributor and a Bernie supporter. IOW, a committed leftist. So she has motive to lie, because there is nothing those people won't do or say to keep Trump's picks off SCOTUS.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 16, 2018 03:54 PM (fqUgw)
Posted by: Weasel at September 16, 2018 03:42 PM (MVjcR)
He viciously kicked his mother in the bladder on numerous occasions.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 16, 2018 03:54 PM (NWiLs)
any details that one might conceivably be able to check, such as the
date and location.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 16, 2018 03:50 PM (0jtPF)
Or number of assaulters.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at September 16, 2018 03:54 PM (FTXAT)
Exactly. The story is bullshit. First, there are no "high level men" in high school. Hell, there are no MEN in high school; they're still boys.
Second, how would you keep track of them *cough* years on? Unless they're in the news all the time - which is inconceivable for four random high school boys - how would you have any idea whether they were now "high level" or not? Who here had ever heard of Kavanaugh before this?
Third, who are the other three, since she seems to know that they are now "high level" and nobody would ever characterize a high school boy as "high-level." Let's hear their story.
The story stinks. It just needs a broken glass coffee table to round out the narrative.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 03:54 PM (YqDXo)
George Costanza went on to work for the FBI?
I did not know that.
Posted by: Miklos, in a vintage Johnny Carson suit at September 16, 2018 03:55 PM (zCyNd)
I read them more than anything else, trying to find something different to fix for supper.
Posted by: ALH at September 16, 2018 03:55 PM (6Zmow)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2018 03:55 PM (LsBY9)
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Yes.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 16, 2018 03:55 PM (fqUgw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:55 PM (AllCR)
I just read that, too. I'm on a Twain binge.
It's a mess, it's a mish-mash. There's autobiography, there's tall tales, there's flat out lies, newspaper writing, and travelogue all mixed together.
Glad I read it but I wouldn't put it on anyone's to do list.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 16, 2018 02:46 PM (fuK7c)
I would; I've read it maybe 15 times. It is a deeper work than it may appear at first glance, and one thing it does very well, between the lines, is make clear what Americans are, how they think, and how they live with a sense of their own freedom down to their bones. As I suspect CBD was saying with his selection, I think that may be the most important thing missing from the education that the kids are currently getting.
Also it's really funny. There are several anecdotes in the book that I can't think of without chortling.
"While other youths were frittering away in frivolous amusements the precious years of budding vigor which God had given them for useful preparation, this boy was patiently enriching his mind with information concerning turnips."
Posted by: Splunge at September 16, 2018 03:55 PM (Vb4BV)
She'll probably come out at a new conference next to make it even harder to question her.
Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2018 03:52 PM (NFEMn)
The Dems will promise her a book and movie deal. Here today, gone tomorrow.
Posted by: colin at September 16, 2018 03:56 PM (jPjCK)
Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2018 03:49 PM (NFEMn)
It shouldn't. She didn't even go to the same high school. She can't prove the two even knew each other (based on other witnesses). Except for this one uncorroborated event.
But now that she's id'd, I hope Kavanaugh sues her into oblivion. Leftists have got to be smacked down hard to deter them from engaging in this bullshit.
This trick can only work if the cucks in the senate let it.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 16, 2018 03:56 PM (/qEW2)
I read them more than anything else, trying to find something different to fix for supper.
Posted by: ALH at September 16, 2018 03:55 PM (6Zmow)
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Only one.
Posted by: Weasel at September 16, 2018 03:56 PM (MVjcR)
The Right Stuff
Young Men and Fire
Empire of the Summer Moon
The Long Grey Line: Westpoint class of '66
Posted by: Blutarski at September 16, 2018 03:56 PM (+Tibp)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 03:57 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 16, 2018 03:41 PM (1UZdv)
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Ah, she remembers it all so vividly --- EXCEPT for any details that one might conceivably be able to check, such as the date and location.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 16, 2018 03:50 PM (0jtPF)
It is seared - seared, I tell you - into memory.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 03:57 PM (YqDXo)
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Well we know one of the other "high level men" who was at the party, in fact in the "rape" room, and that's Mark Judge.
Judge is a published writer. I don't know if that qualifies as "high level" in her mind, but apparently it does. Judge says that he never saw Kavanaugh do anything like what the woman claims, and that it would have been totally out of character for him.
So of the 4 high-level men at the party, two are on record as saying this "rape" never happened.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 16, 2018 03:58 PM (fqUgw)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 16, 2018 03:50 PM (/qEW2)
Mein Kampf was easy, though Hitler was never as rabidly insane as portrayed. The Manifesto was easy after simple profs (borrowed from Starshp Troopers) destroyed the thing.
The Koran is very tough, at least if you approach it from anything but a Christian perspective. It can stand for tolerance or uncompromising jihad, but then most religious movements have a similar duality. A certain type of Muslim makes Islam completely insane, which is why Indonesia and Afghanistan are very different societies.
Posted by: trev006 at September 16, 2018 03:58 PM (U/EEq)
school. She can't prove the two even knew each other (based on other
witnesses). Except for this one uncorroborated event.
But now that she's id'd, I hope Kavanaugh sues her into oblivion.
Leftists have got to be smacked down hard to deter them from engaging in
this bullshit.
This trick can only work if the cucks in the senate let it.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 16, 2018 03:56 PM (/qEW2)
Kavanaugh is a public figure and is unlikely to win a libel suit because of that... especially if this women is mentally ill which she certainly appears to be.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at September 16, 2018 03:58 PM (FTXAT)
Posted by: ALH at September 16, 2018 03:58 PM (6Zmow)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:59 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 03:55 PM (AllCR)
I thought so too. But that raises my second question: how would you know that now, unless they're in the news a lot? How do you keep track of four students from another high school for 38 years?
And most appositely of all: how ARE the other three?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 03:59 PM (YqDXo)
She was 15 at an underaged drinking party in a private home. Were there any responsible adults around? Was she drunk? high?
Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 16, 2018 04:00 PM (/+bwe)
That, of course, tore it. She obviously was in need of psychiatric care.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 03:39 PM (YqDXo)
I'm certain she believed all of it to be true, the way a paranoid schizophrenic believes the microscopic aliens living in his air vents are telepathically monitoring him.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 16, 2018 04:00 PM (NWiLs)
Unless the friends is a public figure, he has a very good case though.
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 04:00 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: ALH
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I would loan you my copy of 'The Charleston Cookbook', but it's a bit soggy just now. I do have a copy of 'Manifold Destiny, the Guide to Cooking on Your Automobile Engine', if you are interested.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 16, 2018 04:00 PM (Et1Ic)
And most appositely of all: how ARE the other three?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 03:59 PM (YqDXo)
+++
She sounds like a stalker. Mental.
Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2018 04:01 PM (dI3/S)
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at September 16, 2018 03:32 PM (FTXAT)
Actually, she said four high level "beings".
And the FBI closes the Solar observatory with no explanation.
WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!!!!
Posted by: Art Bell's bartender at September 16, 2018 04:01 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: olddog in mo at September 16, 2018 04:01 PM (Dhht7)
Posted by: Insomniac at September 16, 2018 04:02 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at September 16, 2018 03:58 PM (FTXAT)
My antennae began to twitch a bit when I learned that she's a clinical psychologist, frankly. Some people go into mental health practice because they themselves are a bit off dead center.
The four "high level men" thing makes my antennae twitch uncontrollably.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 04:02 PM (YqDXo)
"The Right Stuff"
There you go, there's no better novel to highlight Americana. Manly men, flying, tech nerds, family, innovation, freedom. It's got it all.
Posted by: lowandslow at September 16, 2018 04:02 PM (ye3s4)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 03:59 PM (YqDXo)
Sorry, make that WHO are the other three?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 04:03 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 04:03 PM (SFIp6)
My favorite cookbooks are compilations of recipes from church groups or school PTA's. I have an oldie from an elementary school with the best recipe I've found for ham & potato casserole. It's great for Christmas ham leftovers.
Posted by: ALH at September 16, 2018 04:03 PM (6Zmow)
__________________
That Temple woman who got a $3 million+ pay-off from Bill Cosby, then had him criminally prosecuted anyway, was the same way.
This Cosby groping incident was the most painful and horrible thing that ever happened to her, and it scarred her and changed her life forever, but she's not sure when it happened. Could have been in March, no maybe January, no must have been late December. Well, for sure it was during one of those months, and it was such a horrible event that her life was never the same after that day -- whenever that day was!
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 16, 2018 04:03 PM (fqUgw)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Ready for Winter at September 16, 2018 04:04 PM (XKT2l)
This trick can only work if the cucks in the senate let it.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 16, 2018 03:56 PM (/qEW2)
Uh oh.
Posted by: rickl at September 16, 2018 04:04 PM (sdi6R)
Nothing quite this extreme, but I have a HS acquaintance who has reimagined an incident from HS to pretend she's part of #metoo. While in HS, a special needs boy grabbed this girl's butt. She was a very "strong" girl in HS and needed all of 2 seconds to wheel around and kick him in the crotch for coming near her. A couple of decades later, she puts together a tearful Facebook post that says Trump's election has brought back this painful memory!
True story.
Posted by: BethinPA at September 16, 2018 04:04 PM (WemuP)
Well, then it's a good time to inform you Gilligan's Island episode when the girls have a "beauty contest" is on.
It's a good one.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 04:04 PM (SFIp6)
Whichever was still within the statute of limitations.
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 04:05 PM (yQpMk)
Try "Following the Equator", if only for the account of Mark Twain trying to surf.
No photos exist, but the picture in my mind is a source of permanent amusement.
Posted by: Miklos, hanging nine at September 16, 2018 04:05 PM (zCyNd)
If you insist on primary sources though, Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France seems fairly essential. I didn't notice anything about Burke (secondary or primary sources) above.
Posted by: bear with assymetrical balls at September 16, 2018 04:05 PM (H5knJ)
"Roughing It" by Mark Twain
Try "Following the Equator", if only for the account of Mark Twain trying to surf.
No photos exist, but the picture in my mind is a source of permanent amusement.
Posted by: Miklos, hanging nine at September 16, 2018 04:05 PM (zCyNd)
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Is that the same book where Twain finds the Hawaiian maidens frolicking naked in the surf and thoughtfully gathers up all their clothing and sits on it so it won't get stolen.
The guy was brilliant.
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018 04:07 PM (B/PO4)
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 16, 2018 04:07 PM (1UZdv)
"Unless the friends is a public figure, he has a very good case though."
If he sues, he's an ass for going after a damaged woman. If he doesn't sue, it's proof he assaulted her. He's fucked either way. The problem with decades old allegations.
Posted by: lowandslow at September 16, 2018 04:07 PM (ye3s4)
That was Roughing It.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 16, 2018 04:08 PM (fuK7c)
That's it. If we hadn't had lab benches almost adjacent to each other, and habitually worked late into the night, I'd never have known that either.
But she knows what became of FOUR guys from a different high school? Bullshit.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 16, 2018 04:08 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Octopus at September 16, 2018 04:09 PM (A2KHh)
Posted by: Dharma Institute at September 16, 2018 04:10 PM (u8R6W)
You know what the best book is? Whatever Mom or Dad reads with their kids to show them its importance. There are seventh and eighth grade boys who are voracious readers of fiction and nonfiction because their families and the local librarians tricked them into thinking it was cool. Field and Stream has some high end writing btw.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 16, 2018 04:10 PM (/+bwe)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 04:11 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2018 04:12 PM (LsBY9)
indeed to get "kids" to read at all is a challenge, and constant texts and social media has certainly not trained them for chapter by chapter development.
Someone did a "for dummies" type extremely condensed version of To Kill a Mockingbird (iirc). It was real good, except when it flipped into SJW mode and changed the meat of the book.
But short and punchy, is what is required to get into the short attention span brain today, I suspect. Or maybe South Park and JibJab need to do some American Exceptionalism series.
The Preamble to the constitution, would be a pretty good Short and Punchy assignment in am 8th grade civics class, with some other supporting documents to drive home the points (e.g. selected Federalist Papers). Continue with discussions of federalism, and various conflicts of the founders, and how we got "here".
Posted by: illiniwek at September 16, 2018 04:12 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 04:12 PM (yQpMk)
Yes, that Larry Page. Even then 'google' was one of his favorite words.
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at September 16, 2018 04:14 PM (B/PO4)
Unless the friends is a public figure, he has a very good case though.
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 04:00 PM (yQpMk)
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Catch-22. She MAKES him a public figure by slandering him --- especially if he denies the charge to the media.
Then, you see, he has "gone public" of his own volition.
That's how our rulers protected those NBC affiliates that doctored George Zimmerman's 911 tape.
Yes, our laws DO need some correction.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 16, 2018 04:14 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 04:14 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 04:14 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at September 16, 2018 04:14 PM (CeJUf)
Posted by: freaked at September 16, 2018 04:14 PM (UdKB7)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 04:15 PM (yQpMk)
Well, that's always a good thing! :^) I don't always know where I am-mentally speaking. ;^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 04:15 PM (AllCR)
Yes, our laws DO need some correction.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 16, 2018 04:14 PM (0jtPF)
Richard Jewell did get money, not that it helped him much.
Posted by: Miklos, with an exception at September 16, 2018 04:16 PM (zCyNd)
Oh sad.
"Tinker" from Lovejoy is mort.
Lovejoy is one of my favorite tv serials. I watch episodes all the time.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 04:16 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 16, 2018 04:16 PM (rjbMC)
How Soon is Now, by the Smiths with that jackass Morrissey.
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at September 16, 2018 04:16 PM (v1udk)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 16, 2018 04:17 PM (/+bwe)
or they just fabricated the notes like the FBI can fabricate their notes on witnesses, and even selectively change the notes later.
Where are the notes from her 1982 psychiatrist? She really didn't seek help till 2012?
Posted by: illiniwek at September 16, 2018 04:17 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at September 16, 2018 04:16 PM (v1udk)
Morrissey, somehow, has gone from being The World's Biggest Whiner to being highly politically incorrect. Not liking immigration to the UK, in particular.
Posted by: Miklos, it goes to show you never can tell at September 16, 2018 04:18 PM (zCyNd)
And because they go public--she won't be able to sue them for libel.
Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2018 04:19 PM (NFEMn)
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at September 16, 2018 04:19 PM (v1udk)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at September 16, 2018 04:19 PM (CeJUf)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 04:14 PM
Are you my long lost twin? I started going to parties in college because of meeting people at football games.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 16, 2018 04:20 PM (/+bwe)
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at September 16, 2018 04:16 PM (v1udk)
Morrissey, somehow, has gone from being The World's Biggest Whiner to being highly politically incorrect. Not liking immigration to the UK, in particular.
Posted by: Miklos, it goes to show you never can tell at September 16, 2018 04:18 PM (zCyNd)
I always liked Morrissey and The Smiths.
Yeah, he can be a dick, but I admire him for speaking his mind--and then never offering a weasely apology when the shit hits the fan....
Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2018 04:20 PM (NFEMn)
or they just fabricated the notes like the FBI can fabricate their notes on witnesses, and even selectively change the notes later.
Where are the notes from her 1982 psychiatrist? She really didn't seek help till 2012?
Posted by: illiniwek at September 16, 2018 04:17 PM (Cus5s)
If the FBI is involved, color me skeptical. To say the least.
Posted by: rickl at September 16, 2018 04:22 PM (sdi6R)
The Right doesn't play that game. That's why stuff like the persists.
Posted by: freaked at September 16, 2018 04:23 PM (UdKB7)
Posted by: JS Adair at September 16, 2018 04:23 PM (2X0wR)
Unbelievable!!
hahahahaha @ the nfl's "contractual obligations"
I just flipped past the game, Chiefs vs Steelers, with 18 seconds left in a close game, they turned off the game!
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 04:23 PM (SFIp6)
Even that twink knows you can't whine without a head due to muslim barbers!
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at September 16, 2018 04:23 PM (v1udk)
Posted by: freaked at September 16, 2018 04:23 PM (UdKB7)
Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2018 02:31
At work we have an Encyclopedia Britannica from 1818. It's undated but says Illinois is a territory that will become a state later in the year, hence 1818. Very detailed about obscure stuff, lists advisors to the Sultan of th Ottoman Empire.
For books for the list I'd suggest "1984" And "Fahrenheit 451".
Posted by: Farmer at September 16, 2018 04:25 PM (yJ1e6)
Um, Brett Kavanaugh was in the spotlight in 2006 during his confirmation.
Democrat Shits gave him a hard time, then, too.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 04:25 PM (SFIp6)
I was just really shy and bookish (except on stage in parts other than myself) and I either didn't know when someone wanted to ask me out because they just talked to me on the phone and didn't ask directly, or they told me later, "I wanted to ask you out but didn't have the courage."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 04:26 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 04:15 PM (yQpMk)
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She certainly hung out with the rich kids, the super-elite prep school boys.
Which is why it actually IS plausible that she would be aware of their later successes.
I suspect that she (and her parents) were very socially conscious, so to speak.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 16, 2018 04:27 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Richard Yerkes at September 16, 2018 04:27 PM (tLa8P)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 03:51 PM (yQpMk)
According to her faulty memory, she came 4 times.
Ok, I denounce myself.
Posted by: Traveling Man &&&& at September 16, 2018 04:28 PM (JVddv)
Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at September 16, 2018 04:28 PM (fRU2t)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 04:28 PM (AllCR)
There's an excellent (albeit highly controversial) historian named Howard Zinn that every American should read.
Posted by: Richard Yerkes
Hahahahaha, okay, Dick.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 04:29 PM (SFIp6)
I missed some opportunities that way too. Oh well, it is what it is. I guess everything turned out according to God's plan.
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Posted by: kallisto at September 16, 2018 04:29 PM (kD8Fh)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at September 16, 2018 04:19 PM
They CAN read but it is mostly a chore to them.
I have been delighted how the local school and library have turned reading into a normal thing again. A lot of current event articles are used for pro and con writing and debating, too. Last year all the little hunters ended up talking about gun safety after reading both sides of the Gun Ban debate and their classmates were more intrigued than nervous about 12 year olds using firearms.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 16, 2018 04:29 PM (/+bwe)
Democrat Shits gave him a hard time, then, too.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at September 16, 2018 04:25 PM (SFIp6)
And then made up some shit and placed it in the "To Be Used Later If Nominated for SCOTUS" envelope.....
Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2018 04:29 PM (NFEMn)
The problem w/ all that good news for the lefties is that if she believes it happened, and it didn't she'll still pass the poly. There's a reason they are inadmissible in court and Congress should follow that legal guideline.
Posted by: Farmer at September 16, 2018 04:30 PM (yJ1e6)
I missed some opportunities that way too. Oh well, it is what it is. I guess everything turned out according to God's plan.
---------------------------------------------------
And I didn't know when someone WANTED me to ask them out.
I was shy.
And slow....
Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2018 04:30 PM (NFEMn)
Bitch.
Posted by: kallisto at September 16, 2018 04:31 PM (kD8Fh)
My husband didn't even initially ask me out. We just worked together and were friendly and he said "I'm going to the art museum." It was my mother who said that I should tell him, "May I come to the art museum with you?" The rest is history. :^) I think mores have changed a lot now but I think it used to be hard for some men to ask women out if they were naturally reticent and didn't want to be rejected.
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Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 04:32 PM (AllCR)
Although it's an early date, you will not find a better examination of how men act in groups, and how they have acted throughout history, than is contained here. You want to understand why and how Facebook and Twitter have turned into mob madness, it's here. You want to see into every market folly that has ever taken place, and every Elon Musk that has showed up in the generations before ours, they're here.
Signature Quote: "Men, it is has been well said, think in Herds, it will be seen that they go Mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 16, 2018 04:33 PM (k1TUh)
Posted by: Hurricane567 at September 16, 2018 04:34 PM (0F4t5)
Posted by: Richard Yerkes at September 16, 2018 04:27 PM (tLa8P)
Hahahahaha... no.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at September 16, 2018 04:34 PM (FTXAT)
/Sarc.
Here's the bottom line, the Democrats simply do not care who they have to destroy to advance their satanic agenda.
We really need to go scorched earth on these fucking animals.
Diane Feinstein shold not even be in a position to pull this crap but because the GOP is a useless pile of dogshit, here she is pulling this!
The GOP is a useless pile of dog shit.
Posted by: Kreplach at September 16, 2018 04:34 PM (kT3/m)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 04:26 PM
You are my twin. Except I wanted to hit my friend for telling me 20 years later that he wanted to ask me out but did not. He married a high maintenance woman who wanted not to work MORE than she wanted to be a SAHM.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 16, 2018 04:38 PM (/+bwe)
"The Gulag Archipelago" -- Solzhenitsyn
"The Politics of Prudence" -- Kirk (backup choice and good primer for American Conservatism)
Posted by: Sapwolf at September 16, 2018 04:40 PM (IDzNv)
Posted by: Hurricane567 at September 16, 2018 04:34 PM
I read that just this year and there is too much background a reader needs to know unless it is used in a history course.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 16, 2018 04:41 PM (/+bwe)
The GOP is a useless pile of dog shit.
Posted by: Kreplach at September 16, 2018 04:34 PM (kT3/m)
Grassley has already said they are going ahead with the Thursday vote and implied that the accusation is unbelievable.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at September 16, 2018 04:41 PM (FTXAT)
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at September 16, 2018 04:41 PM (FTXAT)
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I hope he weathers the criticism and stays with this.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at September 16, 2018 04:43 PM (I16G8)
"Witness" by Whitaker Chambers, an absolutely indispensable autobiography for Americans.
Posted by: Sapwolf at September 16, 2018 04:43 PM (IDzNv)
My mom would not have married my father if it weren't for her mother's intervention. Mom was already engaged to a guy who was working in Belgium. My dad showed up in their hometown when he was on leave from Germany, and she caught his eye. He liked her a whole lot. Mom did not want to pursue due to her already engaged status, but grandmom saw a big big opportunity to get her kid installed in AMERICA.
When dad came back to the States, he started getting letters from my mom. (except they were really written by grandmom). And so on and so on and shoobee doobee doo...
Posted by: kallisto at September 16, 2018 04:43 PM (kD8Fh)
Glad Grassley is showing some balls; I hope people will call him too because the left is sure as heck going to call their Senators.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 04:43 PM (AllCR)
A good book on Mythology ( Bullfinch or Edith Hamilton)
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Prince by Machiavelli
Either Night by Eli Wiesel or Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Gulag Archipelago by Soltzenitzen or We The Living by Rand
Anything by Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe, and HG Wells
Tolkien
Posted by: Votermom's phone now on Team Gloom Sub Duty at September 16, 2018 04:44 PM (GSy5R)
I remember Imus being captivated by this book, he went on and on about it for about a month when it first published.
Posted by: kallisto at September 16, 2018 04:44 PM (kD8Fh)
That's a great story.
My mother saying "Why don't you call him?" struck me as funny because she was born in 1923 and in her era woman just didn't usually ask men out. I was sorry that my mother died before he and I actually became an item rather than just friends and before we married. She liked my future husband.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 04:46 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 04:32 PM (AllCR)
This. And having a brother who --though we sort of resembled each other--was considered much more handsome didn't help. They wanted HIM.
Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2018 04:47 PM (NFEMn)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 04:48 PM (AllCR)
Glad Grassley is showing some balls; I hope people will call him too because the left is sure as heck going to call their Senators.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 04:43 PM (AllCR)
I'm not TOO worried because when it comes to appointing conservative justices , Trump and the vast majority of the GOP are on the same page.
Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2018 04:49 PM (NFEMn)
Camus, The Stranger
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Swift's Gulliver's Travels
Posted by: newyorkslim at September 16, 2018 04:50 PM (pW+3f)
Posted by: lowandslow at September 16, 2018 04:51 PM (ye3s4)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 04:43 PM (AllCR)
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There are only a few Dems in Trump states that were ever going to vote for him anyway. Let them burn up the phones, wasted energy.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at September 16, 2018 04:53 PM (I16G8)
Then 10 American novels everyone should read:
1. The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
2. Light in August - Faulkner
3. Moby Dick - Melville
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain
5. An American Tragedy - Dreiser
6. Blood Meridian - McCarthy
7. Henderson the Rain King - Bellow
8. Bonfire of the Vanities - Wolfe
9. The Iceman Cometh - O'Neill
10. The Big Sleep - Chandler
(Dos Passos' USA trilogy is superb, but that's 3)
Then 10 European novels
1. Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
2. Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevski
3. The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevski
4. Mysteries - Hamsun
5. Growth of the Soil - Hamsun
6. Nostromo - Conrad
7. The Stranger - Camus
8. Madame Bovary - Flaubert
9. Laughter in the Dark - Nabokov
10. Rabelais
Finally, 10 "world" literature:
1. Palace Walk - Mahfouz
2. The Autumn of the Patriarch - Garcia Marquez
3. Love in the Time of Cholera - Garcia Marquez
4. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter - Vargas Llosa
5. Capt. Pantoja and the Secret Service - Vargas Llosa
6. A Bend in the River - Naipaul
7. Guerrillas - Naipaul
8. Thousand Cranes - Kawabata
9. Labyrinths - Borges
10. P.G. Wodehouse
After that, on to history, poetry and philosophy! Always open to discussion and debate re: any listed or omitted. Pura vida!
5.
10.
Posted by: James Varney at September 16, 2018 05:00 PM (Ptg1/)
Unfortunately in this Congress, even a vast majority is insufficient against the unified criminal party. We can get by with two defections tops.
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 05:01 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 05:02 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 05:02 PM (yQpMk)
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If you read the WaPo story on the accuser, it says that her husband claims she mentioned Kavanaugh by name during the 2012 counseling sessions when she first recounted the alleged attack story. She said that he was a federal judge and that she worried that he might one day be appointed to the Supreme Court.
So she knew in 2012 that her would-be rapist/killer was already a federal judge, but she didn't contact the FBI, or her congressperson, or make any complaint about him then. Apparently it's okay to have would-be rapist/killers on the federal bench, just not on the Supreme Court.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 16, 2018 05:02 PM (fqUgw)
Posted by: rickl at September 16, 2018 05:03 PM (sdi6R)
1. Road To Serfdom. Friedrich Hayek
2. Liberal Fascism. Jonah Goldberg (before he became a cuck)
3. The Big Lie. Dinesh D'Souza
Posted by: dri at September 16, 2018 05:05 PM (SJnjL)
Posted by: Florence, former hurricane at September 16, 2018 05:05 PM (SFIp6)
Posted by: JudyNM at September 16, 2018 05:06 PM (S64y2)
Nice list.
Now what are the essential books that everyone with an 85 IQ should read?
Posted by: rickl at September 16, 2018 05:06 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 05:01 PM (yQpMk)
Traitor Jeff Flake, cucky Ben Sissy, and Never Trumper Thom Tilis are on the Judiciary Committte. Opposing them are hardline Dem progs.
I genuinely don't think Kavanaugh will make it past the Committtee.
Posted by: trev006 at September 16, 2018 05:12 PM (U/EEq)
Now what are the essential books that everyone with an 85 IQ should read?
Posted by: rickl
I seriously doubt that you have an 85 IQ.
Posted by: JT at September 16, 2018 05:13 PM (ywGCt)
Posted by: rickl
A compilation of recent Democrat Party platforms?
Posted by: Farmer at September 16, 2018 05:23 PM (yJ1e6)
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 16, 2018 05:27 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Sam Adams at September 16, 2018 05:28 PM (VDbGO)
out before they vote. Sasse and Flake will be next and the shitshow
continues.
Posted by: lowandslow at September 16, 2018 05:29 PM (ye3s4)
It's just starting too, huh? Thanks for the info Mitch.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 05:30 PM (AllCR)
From it's opening sentence: "People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day." to it's last: "This ends my true account of how I avenged Frank Ross's blood over in the Choctaw Nation when snow was on the ground." it is a superb piece of storytelling and the story it tells is American to the core.
Posted by: John F. MacMichael at September 16, 2018 05:31 PM (iuRR5)
out before they vote. Sasse and Flake will be next and the shitshow
continues.
Posted by: lowandslow at September 16, 2018 05:29 PM (ye3s4)
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Good grief! I hope Grassley ignores this poofter DIABLO and is going to hold the vote anyway.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at September 16, 2018 05:33 PM (I16G8)
Now what are the essential books that everyone with an 85 IQ should read?
Posted by: rickl
I seriously doubt that you have an 85 IQ.
Posted by: JT at September 16, 2018 05:13 PM (ywGCt)
I'm just saying that there are a lot of people like that out there, and they vote.
Most of the books discussed here are over their heads, in some cases way over their heads.
What books are available that make the case for free-market capitalism and limited Constitutional government that this demographic might possibly read and understand?
Posted by: rickl at September 16, 2018 05:34 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: vivi at September 16, 2018 05:34 PM (11H2y)
Woman says she was able to escape when Kavanaugh's friend Mark Judge jumped on top of them sending them all tumbling and she was able to get away.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 05:35 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: Sam Adams at September 16, 2018 05:37 PM (VDbGO)
Yep, all they had to do is hang together on this but nope.
The GOP is a full of ideological confused and morally inconsistent idiots and fucktards...
or alternatively...
The GOP is a useless pile of dog shit.
Posted by: Kreplach at September 16, 2018 05:38 PM (kT3/m)
Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at September 16, 2018 05:38 PM (9GumG)
I think Flake is going to vote Nay, btw.
Posted by: Grump928(C) Believes America to be the Middle Kingdom at September 16, 2018 05:02 PM (yQpMk)
I don't think he will.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at September 16, 2018 05:41 PM (FTXAT)
Posted by: OncebittenTwiceasFly at September 16, 2018 05:42 PM (IrO2y)
Posted by: Sam Adams at September 16, 2018 05:43 PM (VDbGO)
Posted by: Sam Adams at September 16, 2018 05:43 PM (VDbGO)
The title, according to a prologue to the book, comes from "...a game song, once popular with Southern children." It goes:
"Who fears the Devil? says James unto Jim,
Who fears the Devil? says Jim unto Joan,
Who fears the Devil? says Joan unto John---
Not I! Not I! says John all alone."
Wellman came back to this character and wrote some, I think, five novels starring John published in the late 70s and early 80s.
Interestingly, Wellman never used "Silver John" or "John the Ballad Singer" himself. These were publishers inventions for marketing purposes. Though I will agree it can be awkward discussing the character without some such term.
Posted by: John F. MacMichael at September 16, 2018 05:51 PM (iuRR5)
This could be it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKH-GijnAGk
Posted by: rickl at September 16, 2018 05:52 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 16, 2018 05:53 PM (3ug33)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 05:35 PM (AllCR)
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seriously?
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at September 16, 2018 06:01 PM (CE6iV)
First, his recommendation of Bruce Catton @173 above. I give a loud "Amen!" to this. Bruce Catton is one of the best Civil War historians. I owe him a debt of great gratitude for first introducing me to this amazing era in our history.
Second, his mention @276 above of Joseph Conrad's story "The Duel". Ridley Scott made an excellent movie version of this titled "The Duellists" (1977). Well worth watching.
Posted by: John F. MacMichael at September 16, 2018 06:03 PM (iuRR5)
Can't recall where I read it now, (I've been checking different things) but yes, I don't think it was a parody.
I'm sure that by the time she testifies secretly before Congress she'll have al the details worked out
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 06:05 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: The Media at September 16, 2018 06:08 PM (qlTN9)
She's just pissed cause she lost at Twister.
Posted by: freaked at September 16, 2018 06:08 PM (UdKB7)
with a current picture of his accuser and it says "Judge Kavanaugh assaulted her 35 years ago" and the second picture has a picture of Kavanaugh
and underneath is...and so did whoever Trump nominates to Ginsburg's seat later this year.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 06:11 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2018 06:12 PM (AllCR)
And if we're talking about dense prose, whaddabout all the Hayek mentions here? I'm a big Hayek fan, but man his stuff is *dense* (even The Road to Serfdom). You can get some of the same thing and have more fun with P.J. O'Rourke.
I love JudyMN's Michael Connolly recommendation; I'm a huge fan. I think he towers above today's American thriller/detective/crime novels. Bosch is a terrific character. I do think Connolly's gotten a little virtue signaling and a shade SJW the last few years, but he is superb.
And anyone can read him, Chandler, MacDonald.
Posted by: James Varney at September 16, 2018 06:14 PM (Ptg1/)
Year two, probably The Abolition of Man, Animal Farm, Carson's Gifted Hands, Gatto's Dumbing Us Down, and Friedman's Free to Choose.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 16, 2018 06:14 PM (3ug33)
Posted by: James Varney at September 16, 2018 06:18 PM (Ptg1/)
Posted by: Anon at September 16, 2018 06:19 PM (JaFtz)
Posted by: Edward at September 16, 2018 06:19 PM (dleWl)
1. "From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life," by Jacques Barzun. The title says it all - a history of western politics and culture between the years 1500 and 2000. I cannot agree with Barzun's infatuation with Napoleon, but with that one caveat, I know of no better survey of our culture in print.
2. "Birth of the Modern: World Society, 1815-1830," by Paul Johnson. A brilliant survey of the advent of "modern" times.
3. "The Oxford History of the American People," by Samuel Eliot Morison. An overview of American history up through World War II, by one of our finest historians.
4. "Abraham Lincoln," by Benjamin Thomas. This is the best one-volume biography of Lincoln that I've seen, and is also a good capsule history of the Civil War. Understanding that war is essential to understanding modern America.
5. "The Making of the Atomic Bomb," by Richard Rhodes. Rhodes brilliantly describes the advent of the Bomb, from the discovery of the atom to the destruction of Hiroshima. In effect, it's a brief history of physics in the first half of the 20th century, and of the weapon that it spawned.
I would supplement these with music: Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Vaughn Williams, Debussy ... etc.
Posted by: Brown Line at September 16, 2018 06:51 PM (S6ArX)
Posted by: James Varney at September 16, 2018 06:55 PM (Ptg1/)
Posted by: James Varney at September 16, 2018 06:56 PM (Ptg1/)
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Heinlein)
The Maltese Falcon (Hammet)
The Big Sleep (Chandler)
The Right Stuff (Wolfe)
Posted by: Kristian Holvoet at September 16, 2018 08:22 PM (ihVYB)
If you want your mind blown, read Twain's "Letters from the Earth" . It will make you wonder about whatever you beleive.
Posted by: Sum dum guy at September 16, 2018 08:33 PM (faFC1)
Posted by: Arch Stanton at September 16, 2018 08:42 PM (qHJDl)
Posted by: Greg at September 16, 2018 09:03 PM (2Gdeb)
Posted by: MimiStamper at September 16, 2018 09:29 PM (Kpbco)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving.
The Princess Bride by William Goldman.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
Posted by: Editor at September 16, 2018 09:36 PM (FdjhG)
1. Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie
2. Elizabeth 1 by Anne Somerset
3. A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk by Robert W. Merry
4. Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
5. John Adams by David McCullough
6. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
7. Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation by Harlow Giles Unger
8. Henry Clay: The Essential American by David S. Heidler
9. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
10. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
11. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
12. James J. Hill & The Opening of the Northwest by Albro Martin
13. Coolidge by Amity Shlaes
14. Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen
15. The Cave and the Light: Plato vs. Aristotle by Arthur Herman
16. Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt
I also think reading about how the values of the West compare with other cultures is a great way to better understand our world.
17. Shogun by James Clavell (Historical Fiction)
18. Tai-Pan by James Clavell (Historical Fiction)
19. Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific by Robert D. Kaplan
20. Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power by Robert D. Kaplan
21. What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis
22. Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia by Rachel Bronson
23. The Shia Revival by Vali Nasr
24. Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin
25. The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire by Alan Palmer
26. The Crimean War: A History by Orlando Figes
27. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
Posted by: Vercingetorix at September 16, 2018 09:39 PM (mxX3r)
Posted by: Jdemps at September 16, 2018 10:10 PM (8kqlm)
So far I'm though
Autobiography, by Ben Franklin
Apology by Socrates
Phedo, Socratese
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius,
Assorted Essays, Bacon
Areopagitica by Milton
Next up is Religio Medici
Basically, I've been working my way through the Harvard Classics on Audiobook. I'm probably also going to throw in some Orpheus, so I can understand Shakespeare a bit better too.
Posted by: Voyager at September 16, 2018 11:35 PM (DruXY)
Posted by: PaddyBeaner at September 17, 2018 12:15 AM (jlmBM)
Macbeth
The Merchant of Venice
King Lear
Jane Austen
Moby Dick
The Great Gatsby
Red Harvest
The Maltese Falcon
The Thin Man
The Glass Key
I, The Jury
Funeral in Berlin
The Friends of Eddy Coyle
Cogan's Trade
The Rat on Fire
Kennedy for the Defense
Posted by: Wit's End at September 17, 2018 02:34 AM (ROYpB)
ALL of Heinlein's Science Fiction juveniles are worth reading, even for adults.
As an aside, you can get scads of books on Military History free at US Army Center of Military History.
https://history.army.mil/catalog/browse/title.html
Sometimes the books are slow to download, though, and the download attempt will frequently crash if , in boredom while waiting, you open a second site.
Posted by: Alan D McIntire at September 17, 2018 08:24 AM (PEAAy)
Posted by: Michael McClain at September 17, 2018 09:04 AM (lz4Mw)
Posted by: SarahSue at September 17, 2018 11:18 AM (eJ2ds)
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (now more than ever)
Witness by Whittaker Chambers
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn (maybe the best book ever)
With The Old Breed by EB Sledge
1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Seven Per Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer (because it's fun, at least for Sherlock Holmes fans)
The Federalist Papers
- The Call of the Wild
- Lonesome Dove
- Gone With The Wind
- Grapes of Wrath
- On The Road
- Last of the Mohicans
- My Side of the Mountain
- The Liberal Tradition in America ["liberal" here meaning "classical liberal"]
Modern Times, Paul Johnson
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill
...English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900, Andrew Roberts
Replenishing the Earth, James Belich
Democracy in the Dominions, Brady Alexander
The Sleepwalkers, Christopher Clark
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
Frankenstein
Dracula
Camp of the Saints
Patriots (AJ Langguth)
The Daybreakers
65 Endurance, Shackelton's south pole misadventure
David McCullough type Bios/Novels. Just finished The Wright Brothers, good read.
"75 Applied Ballistics for Long Range Shooting by Brian Litz."
Posted by: M at September 17, 2018 08:01 PM (qUYMo)
Tolkien
The Loved One," by Evelyn Waugh.
Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men
Radical Son by David Horowitz
'The Rifle Book', by Jack O'Connor.
Red Sox Century: The Definitive History of Baseball's Most Storied Franchise,
Red Sox Nation: The Rich and Colorful History of the Boston Red Sox
A Patriots History of the United States, Schweikart and Allen
"The Sketch Book" by Washington Irving
"The House of the Seven Gables" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Frontiersman" by William C. Eckert
"A Wilderness So Immense" by Stephen Ambrose
"Silver John the Ballad Singer" by Manly Wade Wellman
"Roughing It" by Mark Twain
"Valiant Ambition" by Nathaniel Philbrick
"Shiloh" by Shelby Foote
Angel in the Whirlwind
History of Russia and the Russians
Lewis and Clark unabridged daily journals.
A Rabble in Arms Kenneth L Roberts.
Heart of Darkness and got to watch Apocalypse Now
The Bible
Plato's Republic
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Hamlet
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Posted by: M at September 17, 2018 08:02 PM (qUYMo)
Much Ado About Nothing
Henry IV (Parts 1 and 2)
The Leviathan
On Government
The Wealth of Nations
The Federalist Papers
On Liberty
Moby Dick
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Shelby Foote's The Civil War
The Influence of Sea Power upon History
A History of the English Speaking Peoples
The Communist Manifesto
Mein Kampf
The Koran (hoping I get an ISWYDT)
The Guns of August
The Second World War
The Best and the Brightest
Capitalism and Freedom
On Nuclear War
The Conscience of a Conservative
Kissinger: The White House Years
The Shining
Salem's Lot
The Godfather
Posted by: M at September 17, 2018 08:03 PM (qUYMo)
Helter Skelter
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Give War a Chance
Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World
Responsibility and Judgement, Hanna Arendt
Roughing It" by Mark Twain
The Nine Nations of North America, Joel Garreau
American Nations, Colin Woodard
Cultural Regions of the United States, Raymond Gastil
The Shaping of America, D.W. Meinig (4 vol)
Regions Apart, E. Grabb and J. Curtis
The Cops Are Robbers,
Patriot's History of the Modern World for 20th Century.
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Lonesome dove
The Progressive (ne Public) Broadcasting System has been hyping a program called "The Great American Read" which I have, so far, managed to avoid.
"With the Od Breed by EB Sledge"
Victor Davis Hanson The Soul of Battle
Peter Schweizer's Extortion
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Comstock Lode
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/21430140-jerry?shelf=civic-necessity
Anything by Laurence tribe or Paul krugman
Col. Jeff Cooper in Rolf Nelson's book
Shane"
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"Hondo"
"Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" (the formula used by the Nazi's in order to gain power is the playbook being used by the left today)
"The Killer Angel."
Also, anything by Bruce Catton.
"Profiles in Courage", allegedly by JFK
"Time Safari" by L. Sprague de Camp
"The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
"The Bear" by William Faulkner
"Falkenberg's Legion" and its sequels by Jerry Pournelle
"A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams
"I, the Jury" by Mickey Spillane
"Patriots" and "Redliners" by David Drake
Allen Drury: Advise and Consent
James Gould Cozzens: The Just and the Unjust
James McPherson: Battle Cry of Freedom
Robert Caro: The Power Broker
Whittaker Chambers' Witness
163 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Robert Leckie's "Helmet for my Pillow"
Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Crusade in Europe"
Rick Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy
H.W. Crocker's "Yanks"
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Samuel Eliot Morison's "History of US Naval Operations in WWII" series (What? It's ONLY 15 volumes!)
Unintended Consequences by John Ross?
To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth by Jeff Cooper.
On the Origin of Species..., Charles Darwin
The Eight Wilderness Discovery Books (collection), John Muir
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Wilderness Warrior, Douglas Brinkley
Rightful Heritage, Douglas Brinkley
The Quiet World, Douglas Brinkley
Joe Haldeman's "The Forever War"
"201 For his pure mastery of the English language, anything by Joseph Conrad, although I particularly like Typhoon and Other Stories as a collection. "
Anne Rice's Interview With a Vampire.
Henry James' Turn of the Screw
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Bullfinch or Edith Hamilton's Mythology.
norse myth ragnarok
Voyage from Yesteryear by James Hogan.
The Political Theory of the American Founding-Thomas G. West
Ben Franklin s Autobiography
Churchill's History of the English Speaking people's
Killer Angel's
Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.
"Scratch Beginnings" - Adam Shepard
The Two Ocean War.
Walter Boyne also wrote a good single volume WW2 naval battle summary, called Clash of Titans
Hatchet
258 everything by Raymond Chandler
263 Red Badge of Courage
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Sometimes A Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Muldoon's Book of Limericks.
Sea of Glory (Nathaniel Philbrick)
Cosmos (Carl Sagan)
The Day the Universe Changed and/or Connections (James Burke)
https://www.loa.org/books
the red badge of courage
I'll add the Lewis and Clark Journals, Memoirs of Ulysses Grant, anything by Eric Sloan, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Jubal Sackett, the Heinlein juveniles, books about the battles of Kings Mountain, Cowpens, and a biography of the Swamp Fox, essays of EB White and the original Conan stories which I consider quintessential American.
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Battle Cry of Freedom
Anabasis
Bill Bennett's "America, The Last Best Hope" (2 volumes) is the best American history I have ever read.
The Human Comedy by Saroyan
Real Ponies Don't Go Oink by Patrick F McManus
Infantry Attacks, by Erwin Rommel
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Animal Farm
Federalist Papers
Oeconomicus - Xenophon
Ender's Game
Abolition of Man.
Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl.
The Courage to Create, Rollo May
The Right Stuff
Young Men and Fire
Empire of the Summer Moon
The Long Grey Line: Westpoint class of '66
treasure island
Mark twain following the equator
Coulter's last book
"Tinker" from Lovejoy
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Gone with the Wind
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, MacKay, 1835
Mig Pilot: The Final Escape of Lt. Belenko
"The Gulag Archipelago" -- Solzhenitsyn
"The Politics of Prudence" -- Kirk
A good book on Mythology ( Bullfinch or Edith Hamilton)
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Prince by Machiavelli
Either Night by Eli Wiesel or Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Gulag Archipelago by Soltzenitzen or We The Living by Rand
Anything by Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe, and HG Wells
Tolkien
Carl Becker, The Declaration of Independence
Camus, The Stranger
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Swift's Gulliver's Travels
So, obviously the classics. Let's say 10 every person should read some of: Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Herodotus, Thucydides, Virgil, Livy, Dante, Shakespeare and Cervantes
Then 10 American novels everyone should read:
1. The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
2. Light in August - Faulkner
3. Moby Dick - Melville
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain
5. An American Tragedy - Dreiser
6. Blood Meridian - McCarthy
7. Henderson the Rain King - Bellow
8. Bonfire of the Vanities - Wolfe
9. The Iceman Cometh - O'Neill
10. The Big Sleep - Chandler
(Dos Passos' USA trilogy is superb, but that's 3)
Then 10 European novels
1. Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
2. Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevski
3. The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevski
4. Mysteries - Hamsun
5. Growth of the Soil - Hamsun
6. Nostromo - Conrad
7. The Stranger - Camus
8. Madame Bovary - Flaubert
9. Laughter in the Dark - Nabokov
10. Rabelais
Finally, 10 "world" literature:
1. Palace Walk - Mahfouz
2. The Autumn of the Patriarch - Garcia Marquez
3. Love in the Time of Cholera - Garcia Marquez
4. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter - Vargas Llosa
5. Capt. Pantoja and the Secret Service - Vargas Llosa
6. A Bend in the River - Naipaul
7. Guerrillas - Naipaul
8. Thousand Cranes - Kawabata
9. Labyrinths - Borges
10. P.G. Wodehouse
1. Road To Serfdom. Friedrich Hayek
2. Liberal Fascism. Jonah Goldberg (before he became a cuck)
3. The Big Lie. Dinesh D'Souza
Michael Connelly is my fav of contemporary authors.
"True Grit" by Charles Portis.
A Man Called Intrepid by William Stevenson
God and Gold- Walter Russell Mead
Dune
Manly Wade Wellman's stories of "Silver John the Ballad Singer"
Johnny Tremain
Second, his mention @276 above of Joseph Conrad's story "The Duel". Ridley Scott made an excellent movie version of this titled "The Duellists" (1977). Well worth watching.
Toqueville's Democracy in America
It'd be Johnny Tremain, Mere Christianity, Brave New World, Sowell's Basic Economics, and Bonhoffer's The Cost of Discipleship.
Year two, probably The Abolition of Man, Animal Farm, Carson's Gifted Hands, Gatto's Dumbing Us Down, and Friedman's Free to Choose.
Mark Levin has gotten rich on books like that (and they're worth reading) and as I mentioned earlier, P.J. O'Rourke (Parliament of Whores still stands up well). Then you can get a free subscription to Imprimis, Hillsdale College's mailer, that often has something good.
'30 Seconds Over Tokyo'
The Sorrows of young Werther.
1. "From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life," by Jacques Barzun. The title says it all - a history of western politics and culture between the years 1500 and 2000. I cannot agree with Barzun's infatuation with Napoleon, but with that one caveat, I know of no better survey of our culture in print.
2. "Birth of the Modern: World Society, 1815-1830," by Paul Johnson. A brilliant survey of the advent of "modern" times.
3. "The Oxford History of the American People," by Samuel Eliot Morison. An overview of American history up through World War II, by one of our finest historians.
4. "Abraham Lincoln," by Benjamin Thomas. This is the best one-volume biography of Lincoln that I've seen, and is also a good capsule history of the Civil War. Understanding that war is essential to understanding modern America.
5. "The Making of the Atomic Bomb," by Richard Rhodes. Rhodes brilliantly describes the advent of the Bomb, from the discovery of the atom to the destruction of Hiroshima. In effect, it's a brief history of physics in the first half of the 20th century, and of the weapon that it spawned.
I would supplement these with music: Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Vaughn Williams, Debussy ... etc.
Starship Troopers (Heinlein)
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Heinlein)
The Maltese Falcon (Hammet)
The Big Sleep (Chandler)
The Right Stuff (Wolfe)
Twain's "Letters from the Earth"
This Hallowed Ground (Bruce Catton)
Edmund Burke's speech on reconciliation with America, 1775.
The short stories of Edgar Allan Poe.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving.
The Princess Bride by William Goldman.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
I think reading a biography is a great way to appreciate history, for example:
1. Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie
2. Elizabeth 1 by Anne Somerset
3. A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk by Robert W. Merry
4. Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
5. John Adams by David McCullough
6. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
7. Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation by Harlow Giles Unger
8. Henry Clay: The Essential American by David S. Heidler
9. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
10. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
11. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
12. James J. Hill & The Opening of the Northwest by Albro Martin
13. Coolidge by Amity Shlaes
14. Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen
15. The Cave and the Light: Plato vs. Aristotle by Arthur Herman
16. Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt
I also think reading about how the values of the West compare with other cultures is a great way to better understand our world.
17. Shogun by James Clavell (Historical Fiction)
18. Tai-Pan by James Clavell (Historical Fiction)
19. Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific by Robert D. Kaplan
20. Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power by Robert D. Kaplan
21. What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis
22. Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia by Rachel Bronson
23. The Shia Revival by Vali Nasr
24. Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin
25. The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire by Alan Palmer
26. The Crimean War: A History by Orlando Figes
27. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
Robert Massey's Peter the Great
So far I'm though
Autobiography, by Ben Franklin
Apology by Socrates
Phedo, Socratese
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius,
Assorted Essays, Bacon
Areopagitica by Milton
Next up is Religio Medici
Red Sky at Morning, by Richard Bradford
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
The Merchant of Venice
King Lear
Moby Dick
Jane Austen
The Great Gatsby
Red Harvest
The Maltese Falcon
The Thin Man
The Glass Key
Funeral in Berlin
The Friends of Eddy Coyle
Cogan's Trade
The Rat on Fire
Kennedy for the Defense
I, The Jury
https://history.army.mil/catalog/browse/title.html
Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater
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