I’ve always been circus folk.

All hail the Great God Mammon! Bow before Him! Sacrifice your Children and Elders that you may experience His Bounty! Yeah, this is about Money again. Get over it. Money is a mechanism for facilitating Trades. That’s it. The Neo Liberal Elite think you can’t handle the notion so it’s best to keep the Peasants …

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I have been reliably informed by an Online Test (and you know how accurate those are) that I swear like a Millennial and it’s true I’m on a constant lookout for new words and ways to string them together. The temptation to use another title more descriptive of Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly …

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I must admit my primary reaction to John Oliver’s piece this week on One America News is thank goodness it’s not about Coronavirus.

Some more funny stuff from lindybeige. Houses Toilets

Parents and other people with replacement humans in their lives (fortunately not me since I’ve no place for the leftovers) may rejoice as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand has declared the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny ‘Essential Workers’. Easter Bunny and tooth fairy are ‘essential workers,’ New Zealand prime minister says by …

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Even the most conservative estimates suggest that eventual exposure to Coronavirus is inevitable for 90% of the population here in the United States. Now, it’s not Pancreatic Cancer and Doctors can help but you’ll probably be very, very sick and you could die. What we are doing now with the Social Distancing is attempting to …

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So lindybeige is a YouTuber I encountered because of my interest in Medieval Warfare. Among other things he makes a compelling case that Spears are better than Swords (you can make them as long as you like, they don’t take much metal or time to produce, and you can throw them) but I can’t imagine …

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Still kinda thinking that Acela thing is a good idea. With BoJo Hospitalized does that mean she’s a reigning Queen? Thought Cromwell settled that. And it’s not quite- I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, …

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Stanford vs. Wisconsin: 2019 NCAA Women’s Volleyball National Championship from January 21st. Don’t bother pretending you watched it live.

Been watching a lot of Gold Rush. , Not enough Open Prairie? , Over Wyoming? I don’t think I’ll ever get over Wyoming.

At the turn of the 20th Century there was a huge struggle between two Industrial Titans over the fundamental nature of our Electrical Power Grid. There’s a new movie with Benedict Cumberbatch now available on PPV but I think I’ll wait until it gets posted on Netflix or HBO (waiting on Ford vs. Ferrari too). …

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