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it's actually a lot of fun to bark.
dogs find it pretty funny.

it has to be sincere

we've had 3 over the years. one damn near got me. but in a hollow, you can't really see them. suddenly, there's an intense whirlwind and cracking of trees. in five seconds it's on the ridge. safe. so different than twisters in the plains. you could see the path of down trees on google earth. I hiked...

(according to undisclosed sources)

They DID steal the election!
(But not from Trump.)

I can't vote for him either.
Too much like Hillary.

Adults screw up everything. Kids can work it out; duke it out, even. When the 'grown-ups' get involved, the kids learn how to be just like them. deceptive, petty, hypocritical, cruel and boring. good thing they wear reasonable clothes. something uglier generally emerges from suppressed expression. d...

semi-synchroniously, last nite i started reading "Questioning the Millennium" by Gould.
it was on my bookshelf for years, but somehow i'd never read it.
(Or, my memory is getting that bad.)
anyway,
good stuff; good writer

We americans are frequently told that this is the wealthiest nation on earth. It speaks volumes about the nature of wealth. good thing gen z isn't having it. they (allegedly) are rejecting the 'dream' of marriage; kids; a house; a car... they see the dream as the nightmare its become. Meanwhile, we ...

In all seriousness, it's true that there are some great coutcomes for people who eschew traditional education for their kids in favor of homeschooling or even more unorthodox ways of raising and educating children. It's also true that there are kids who are homeschooled, and end up ignorant and une...

arthwollipot wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:02 am I may be old, but how good is Ommadawn?

https://open.spotify.com/album/200p7O3r ... faKM1cTXCg

only heard "Tubular Bells", which somehow reminds me of Catholic priests. Didn't know of Ommadawn. Thanks.
(surprised he wasn't more famous. Looks intense.)

reminds me of homo erectus. they had a good run. more than 1,000,000 years. not sure what killed them.