The Fascists Won’t Need to Burn Books in the Future, Because They Won’t be Reading Anyway.

This article from today (LA Times, August 23, 2019) is pretty depressing. I think of myself as pretty lucky as not having to eventually see the worst of things to come, but as for my nephew, I don’t know. He’ll walk across paperless libraries with not shelves but docking stations. He wrote a couple of …

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

Sinclair Lewis This quote explains pretty much most of US political history and the lies and propaganda we swim through, if not at times, accept. What ever happened to ‘the government of the people”? Read the quote again.

Subvert the Dominant Paradigm

It’s an old 60’s saying, something that hasn’t sunk in as much as the urge to conformity in thinking. What does it mean to you? If you have the time, think a little about it. subvert: undermine the power and authority of (an established system or institution). paradigm: intellectual perception or view, accepted by an …

Typing club in Riverside, Sunday Night.

This was the first event I attended here, but felt welcome. The cafe was entirely cash-only, so water was good enough for me. That’s putting you on notice if you brave the steps down here. It was a nice night and we went over some common repair problems and tricks, but we went to the …

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