(The links I wanted to share on the ninth of August were only two Zazzle links. They're included here.)
Books
A censored, or filtered, or "gatekeeper"-ed, Internet is a dead Internet. Who's going to pay to connect to yet another channel for what Big Business and Big Government have decided to sell you the lowly individual? We already had television. So, day by day, we watch our e-friends drop out of Facebook, Twitter, Youtube. So, day by day, we're about to see them drop out of the Internet.
This may not be all bad. If the Internet can't be protected by laws ensuring its freedom of speech, freedom of association, right to privacy, right not to buy, freedom of choice, etc., then it's better that the Internet go down fast, before it has a chance to become a tool of tyranny.
Meanwhile, farewell to Tom Cox on Twitter...it surprises me, because I've not seen this book in the real world, but Bookshop is able to sell it for me. In fact, I might be able to use income I may get from Bookshop to order a copy there! If you can already afford to buy a book online, click here.
Health News
Oh per-lease, Senator Paul. It's not that Fauci didn't lie. It's not that he is or has ever been any more than a selfish, amoral liar, or that he's ever failed to put the indulgence of his "gay" friends ahead of the well-being of the nation. It's not that he didn't warble about paying those of us who actually had COVID-19 for serum while torturing beagles instead. We all know he did those things. It's that he's so geriatric and looks so pitiful--what good purpose can be served by using federal time and money to go after him, now that he's retired? What good reason is there not to move forward with closer supervision of his successors and more protection of individuals' rights, instead? And what about that glyphosate ban?!
In Rand Paul's defense, I will say that he's grown up around a man who both preached and demonstrated that...some...people never get too old to engage fully with life. Ron Paul never asked or needed any accommodation to his age, and merely grew more inspiring as he grew older--rather like Grandma Bonnie Peters, or her Aunt Mildred Wolfe of Orlando. Young people could talk frankly and firmly, with no loss of due respect, to them in the weeks before they died; they were our seniors in experience and our equals in strength and energy up to the end of their lives.
Fauci is clearly a different, weaker breed of human. He's retired, and he was obviously more than ready to retire. Going after him looks almost as bad as going after poor old Dianne Feinstein--or President Biden. If it is necessary, or even justifiable, the public needs to know all about the reason why. The public does have an enormous amount of spleen to vent, as news straggles in that our poor vaccinated friends are still going down with COVID, but I think the public would prefer to vent it on someone who's still an active menace to the public health.
I nominate any and all people working in decision-making positions at Bayer.
Poems
Melissa Lemay (writing from the Left, though the thought expressed in the poem is certainly non-partisan) posted a provocative poem this week. I thought my comment was long enough to be a separate post, but I hope she leaves it up. I think it may be useful to anyone who (still) feels that her thought is "awful." (Trigger warning: it's about people "sleeping" in funereal gardens. Obviously I don't advocate using burial grounds for any other purpose. I do like the idea of not expanding them.)
As a Protestant I doubt I'll ever miss a site called traditionalcatholicpriest.com. As a human being, however, I deplore its having been censored. Protestants have always felt that the Catholic hierarchical system is just too tempting to the egos of men not to be abused, that it has been used by the Evil Principle and may eventually become The tool of the Evil Principle. When Rome starts torturing and killing heretics, that will be the time for good Catholics to reject the tradition and community they cherish. So long as Rome is content with disowning heretics, this web site supports the right of Christians to be Catholics if they find fellowship in that church. A "woke" Pope's disowning the likes of traditionalcatholicpriest.com is,,.a bad sign. The Internet is another terrible temptation to the egos of men. Real people are thinking seriously that their party can "rule the world." We need, in the secular world if not in the churches, formal protections of freedom of speech, freedom of association, privacy--a complete ban on anything Orwellian, by law! I don't think the Internet will last as a tool of global tyranny; it's too expensive to be sustainable as that. But it certainly is, already, tempting people...to the great distress of sincere Christians, such as this priest evidently was, who want to use the Internet as a way to help humankind.
Zazzle
The "Save the Butterflies" key tag can, of course, be customized to feature other butterflies...or other images, in aid of the butterflies.
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