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“Would you happen to have a Ben Hur 1860? The third edition. The one with the erratum on page 116.”
Not on the bus, but close by. Constantly distracted while scanning the shelves and looking at what’s hanging on the walls.
Not on the bus, but close by. Constantly distracted while scanning the shelves and looking at what’s hanging on the walls.
Looking for a reputable antiquarian bookseller in or near Massachusetts to assess and possibly purchase a large library.
Thank you.
Thank you.
April 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Looking for a reputable antiquarian bookseller in or near Massachusetts to assess and possibly purchase a large library.
Thank you.
Thank you.
General Jack D. Ripper: “Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake …. children's ice cream!”
April 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
General Jack D. Ripper: “Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake …. children's ice cream!”
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I couldn't help but write up some quick thoughts trying to capture the sheer insanity (and illegality!) of that Trump group chat. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-short-...
Six Short Thoughts on the Most Insane Trump Story of All Time
Trump's "Team of Amateurs" Screwed Up in the Most Hilarious (and Troublesome) Way
www.doomsdayscenario.co
March 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I couldn't help but write up some quick thoughts trying to capture the sheer insanity (and illegality!) of that Trump group chat. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-short-...
Whew! I feared William Boot had been disappeared on a flight to El Salvador’s megaprison.
A new must-read dispatch.
“This week was marked by stunningly brazen, unquestionably illegal, and unconstitutional assaults on the nation’s historic traditions of due process and free speech…”
A new must-read dispatch.
“This week was marked by stunningly brazen, unquestionably illegal, and unconstitutional assaults on the nation’s historic traditions of due process and free speech…”
By week’s end, the Musk-Trump partnership increasingly resembled less a functional constitutional democracy and more a mafia-style racketeering organization that blended private business profit with official government power. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-musk...
Trump, Musk Shred Constitutional Protections as Country Lurches Toward Mafia State
This week's news roundup by our intrepid foreign correspondent William Boot, as it should be covered by the US media
www.doomsdayscenario.co
March 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Whew! I feared William Boot had been disappeared on a flight to El Salvador’s megaprison.
A new must-read dispatch.
“This week was marked by stunningly brazen, unquestionably illegal, and unconstitutional assaults on the nation’s historic traditions of due process and free speech…”
A new must-read dispatch.
“This week was marked by stunningly brazen, unquestionably illegal, and unconstitutional assaults on the nation’s historic traditions of due process and free speech…”
🚨🚨🚨 “We aren’t just outside the bounds of normal constitutional operations; we’re several standard deviations outside anything America has ever experienced before. We can clearly see what’s happening is wrong—illegal and unconstitutional—and the actors who can do something about that just … aren’t.”
We're living through not a "constitutional crisis" but a "constitutional crash" — the sudden, ER-style flatlining of the healthy biorhythms of our 249-year-old constitutional order. Our national system is dead on the table—can it be shocked back to life? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...
America's "Constitutional Crash"
This isn't "just" a crisis.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
March 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🚨🚨🚨 “We aren’t just outside the bounds of normal constitutional operations; we’re several standard deviations outside anything America has ever experienced before. We can clearly see what’s happening is wrong—illegal and unconstitutional—and the actors who can do something about that just … aren’t.”
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🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
There were layers of historic irony in the Kennedy Center booing last night. Just look at the concert program. @pablo.show @nicollewallace.bsky.social @esglaude.bsky.social
Added ironic context re J.D. Vance getting booed at the Kennedy Center: The concert featured Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 2 written for David Oistrakh, born in Odessa Ukraine. 1/2
March 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
There were layers of historic irony in the Kennedy Center booing last night. Just look at the concert program. @pablo.show @nicollewallace.bsky.social @esglaude.bsky.social
Added ironic context re J.D. Vance getting booed at the Kennedy Center: The concert featured Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 2 written for David Oistrakh, born in Odessa Ukraine. 1/2
March 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Added ironic context re J.D. Vance getting booed at the Kennedy Center: The concert featured Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 2 written for David Oistrakh, born in Odessa Ukraine. 1/2
[email protected] Please give us an update on the status of William Boot. I fear his press credentials may have been revoked and he has been expelled from the United States.
Trump Intent on Transforming U.S. into Pariah State
William Boot's latest dispatch
www.doomsdayscenario.co
March 9, 2025 at 11:17 PM
[email protected] Please give us an update on the status of William Boot. I fear his press credentials may have been revoked and he has been expelled from the United States.
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The KOOP Radio interview with STARMAN director Robert Stone:
www.lightscameraaustin.net/robert-stone...
The documentary — about NASA engineer, sci-fi novelist, and UT alum Gentry Lee — screens today and Saturday during #SXSW. #Starman #GentryLee #SXSW2025
www.lightscameraaustin.net/robert-stone...
The documentary — about NASA engineer, sci-fi novelist, and UT alum Gentry Lee — screens today and Saturday during #SXSW. #Starman #GentryLee #SXSW2025
March 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The KOOP Radio interview with STARMAN director Robert Stone:
www.lightscameraaustin.net/robert-stone...
The documentary — about NASA engineer, sci-fi novelist, and UT alum Gentry Lee — screens today and Saturday during #SXSW. #Starman #GentryLee #SXSW2025
www.lightscameraaustin.net/robert-stone...
The documentary — about NASA engineer, sci-fi novelist, and UT alum Gentry Lee — screens today and Saturday during #SXSW. #Starman #GentryLee #SXSW2025
“‘Starman’ reconnects us to [the] original cosmic rapture and wonders … returns us to that moment when the promise of space carried a spiritual thrust. It says that our desire to explore other worlds, and to find life on them, filled a religious hunger in us. But that we all kind of forgot that.”
‘Starman’ Review: An Outer Space Documentary That’s Out of This World
Full of extraordinary footage, Robert Stone's blissed-out mind-bender of a movie meditates on the possibilities of life in the universe.
variety.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“‘Starman’ reconnects us to [the] original cosmic rapture and wonders … returns us to that moment when the promise of space carried a spiritual thrust. It says that our desire to explore other worlds, and to find life on them, filled a religious hunger in us. But that we all kind of forgot that.”
“Apparently [public-spirited citizens’] hard-won progress is to be wiped out, as a politically minded Administration returns us to the dark ages of unrestrained exploitation and destruction.” — Rachel Carson, in 1953 when The Fish and Wildlife Service was targeted for closure.
Rachel Carson’s Brave and Prescient 1953 Letter Against the Government’s Assault on Science and Nature
“The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth — soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife… Their administration is not properly, and cannot be, a matter of politi…
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March 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
“Apparently [public-spirited citizens’] hard-won progress is to be wiped out, as a politically minded Administration returns us to the dark ages of unrestrained exploitation and destruction.” — Rachel Carson, in 1953 when The Fish and Wildlife Service was targeted for closure.
The latest weekly installment on the Trump/Musk junta, “the greatest voluntary and intentional squandering of global goodwill and friendship in recorded history”… with a fitting and bitter coda noting the regime’s effort to pressure to release Andrew Tate and his brother…
I believe the US media would be more honest about wanna-be dictator Donald Trump and the seizure of our government by Elon Musk’s junta if it was happening overseas, so here’s my weekly news roundup in the style of such over-the-top dispatches: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-inte...
Trump Intent on Transforming U.S. into Pariah State
William Boot's latest dispatch
www.doomsdayscenario.co
March 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The latest weekly installment on the Trump/Musk junta, “the greatest voluntary and intentional squandering of global goodwill and friendship in recorded history”… with a fitting and bitter coda noting the regime’s effort to pressure to release Andrew Tate and his brother…
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March 1, 1925: Viking Press is formed in New York. The book publishing partnership of Harold Guinzburg and George Oppenheimer, recent college graduates in their 20s, adopts the name as a “symbol of enterprise, adventure and exploration in the publishing field.” 1/2
March 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
March 1, 1925: Viking Press is formed in New York. The book publishing partnership of Harold Guinzburg and George Oppenheimer, recent college graduates in their 20s, adopts the name as a “symbol of enterprise, adventure and exploration in the publishing field.” 1/2
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The great French actress Catherine Deneuve dedicated the César Awards ceremony to Ukraine,while wearing a Ukrainian flag on her jacket lapel.
Honored and grateful for the outpouring of support for Ukraine across the world, and across different industries!
Honored and grateful for the outpouring of support for Ukraine across the world, and across different industries!
March 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The great French actress Catherine Deneuve dedicated the César Awards ceremony to Ukraine,while wearing a Ukrainian flag on her jacket lapel.
Honored and grateful for the outpouring of support for Ukraine across the world, and across different industries!
Honored and grateful for the outpouring of support for Ukraine across the world, and across different industries!
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Yes, the Trump-Vance performance yesterday was a disaster and a danger. But let’s not lose sight of the fact that Trump’s rant about Hunter Biden’s bedroom and bathroom and all things Russiagate was demented, real mad king stuff. Dude is tormented and unable to control himself. Completely nuts.
March 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Yes, the Trump-Vance performance yesterday was a disaster and a danger. But let’s not lose sight of the fact that Trump’s rant about Hunter Biden’s bedroom and bathroom and all things Russiagate was demented, real mad king stuff. Dude is tormented and unable to control himself. Completely nuts.
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If there was any lingering doubt, it’s over. The gravestone for the American Century will record that it was finally declared dead on February 28, 2025. R.I.P. Pax Americana. The sacrifices of past generations in two world wars have been squandered and undone.
Selection of German headlines this morning:
“It’s now the law of the jungle”
“The former leading power of the West can no longer be relied upon.”
“Now it's up to the Europeans”
“The worst case is now the new normal”
“The free world needs a new leader”
“It’s now the law of the jungle”
“The former leading power of the West can no longer be relied upon.”
“Now it's up to the Europeans”
“The worst case is now the new normal”
“The free world needs a new leader”
March 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
If there was any lingering doubt, it’s over. The gravestone for the American Century will record that it was finally declared dead on February 28, 2025. R.I.P. Pax Americana. The sacrifices of past generations in two world wars have been squandered and undone.
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The US Embassy in Stockholm has removed the ”We Stand with Ukraine” banner that has hung on its walls for 3 years. Shame.
March 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The US Embassy in Stockholm has removed the ”We Stand with Ukraine” banner that has hung on its walls for 3 years. Shame.
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"If 'Moral Man and Immoral Society' teaches us that justice requires the mobilization of countervailing power, then 'The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness' reminds us that democratic values must be actively cultivated and defended" www.liberalcurrents.com/if-reinhold-...
If Reinhold Niebuhr Could Speak to Us Today, What Would He Say?
Democratic values must be actively cultivated and defended, or they will be captured and deformed.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"If 'Moral Man and Immoral Society' teaches us that justice requires the mobilization of countervailing power, then 'The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness' reminds us that democratic values must be actively cultivated and defended" www.liberalcurrents.com/if-reinhold-...
Know your enemy.
Interesting bookshelf details in the NYT profile and photo of Chris Murphy (D-CT)
“Mr. Murphy has spent the past three years immersing himself in the literature and ideas of the “new right,”… reading thought leaders like Curtis Yarvin and Patrick Deneen.“ 1/2
Interesting bookshelf details in the NYT profile and photo of Chris Murphy (D-CT)
“Mr. Murphy has spent the past three years immersing himself in the literature and ideas of the “new right,”… reading thought leaders like Curtis Yarvin and Patrick Deneen.“ 1/2
February 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Know your enemy.
Interesting bookshelf details in the NYT profile and photo of Chris Murphy (D-CT)
“Mr. Murphy has spent the past three years immersing himself in the literature and ideas of the “new right,”… reading thought leaders like Curtis Yarvin and Patrick Deneen.“ 1/2
Interesting bookshelf details in the NYT profile and photo of Chris Murphy (D-CT)
“Mr. Murphy has spent the past three years immersing himself in the literature and ideas of the “new right,”… reading thought leaders like Curtis Yarvin and Patrick Deneen.“ 1/2
Haven’t done this in a while.
Books spotted on the bottom shelf of Ben Rhodes’ bookshelf when on MSNBC this week.
Lots of old Heritage Club editions, Robert Hughes on American Art, and an Illustrated Hobbit. 1/2
Books spotted on the bottom shelf of Ben Rhodes’ bookshelf when on MSNBC this week.
Lots of old Heritage Club editions, Robert Hughes on American Art, and an Illustrated Hobbit. 1/2
February 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Haven’t done this in a while.
Books spotted on the bottom shelf of Ben Rhodes’ bookshelf when on MSNBC this week.
Lots of old Heritage Club editions, Robert Hughes on American Art, and an Illustrated Hobbit. 1/2
Books spotted on the bottom shelf of Ben Rhodes’ bookshelf when on MSNBC this week.
Lots of old Heritage Club editions, Robert Hughes on American Art, and an Illustrated Hobbit. 1/2
Another valuable eyewitness dispatch from the coup.
Kudos for this detail: “[Musk’s] social media company — a less successful version of the Chinese microblogging site Weibo that’s known as “X” and now largely populated by Nazis and the many mothers of Musk’s 13 children…”
Kudos for this detail: “[Musk’s] social media company — a less successful version of the Chinese microblogging site Weibo that’s known as “X” and now largely populated by Nazis and the many mothers of Musk’s 13 children…”
My weekly column and news roundup of our national crisis, written in the style of how the US media would—with more clear-eyed authority—cover these events if they were happening overseas: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...
"King Donald I" Accelerates White Nationalist Purge of Military Leaders
A suggested guide to how the US media should be bravely—and clearly—covering our national crisis
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Another valuable eyewitness dispatch from the coup.
Kudos for this detail: “[Musk’s] social media company — a less successful version of the Chinese microblogging site Weibo that’s known as “X” and now largely populated by Nazis and the many mothers of Musk’s 13 children…”
Kudos for this detail: “[Musk’s] social media company — a less successful version of the Chinese microblogging site Weibo that’s known as “X” and now largely populated by Nazis and the many mothers of Musk’s 13 children…”
Read between the lines in the bio of homeschooled 23-yr old computer prodigy Luke Farritor, now part of the DOGE team. No sign he’s taken classes in literature, political science, history, psychology, sociology, or philosophy.
At UNL’s Raikes School he skipped a class on Business Law and Ethics.
At UNL’s Raikes School he skipped a class on Business Law and Ethics.
This is Luke Farritor. He is the 23 year old that fired all the staff in charge of our nuclear arsenal.
Don't worry, though. He completed an internship with SpaceX, so I'm sure he is clearly qualified to determine whether our nuclear arms should be adequately staffed by qualified persons. 🤯🤯🤯
Don't worry, though. He completed an internship with SpaceX, so I'm sure he is clearly qualified to determine whether our nuclear arms should be adequately staffed by qualified persons. 🤯🤯🤯
February 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Read between the lines in the bio of homeschooled 23-yr old computer prodigy Luke Farritor, now part of the DOGE team. No sign he’s taken classes in literature, political science, history, psychology, sociology, or philosophy.
At UNL’s Raikes School he skipped a class on Business Law and Ethics.
At UNL’s Raikes School he skipped a class on Business Law and Ethics.
Bizarre historical footnote in a NYT obit for Mad Man Ad Man Ron Travisano:
At Guantánamo Bay interrogators tortured chained prisoners with flashing lights, forced enemas, and loudly and repeatedly playing the TV commercial for Meow Mix.
At Guantánamo Bay interrogators tortured chained prisoners with flashing lights, forced enemas, and loudly and repeatedly playing the TV commercial for Meow Mix.
Ron Travisano, Adman Behind Singing Cats and Joe Isuzu, Dies at 86
The art director for Meow Mix and other memorable commercials, he began his career at the dawn of a creative revolution on Madison Avenue.
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Bizarre historical footnote in a NYT obit for Mad Man Ad Man Ron Travisano:
At Guantánamo Bay interrogators tortured chained prisoners with flashing lights, forced enemas, and loudly and repeatedly playing the TV commercial for Meow Mix.
At Guantánamo Bay interrogators tortured chained prisoners with flashing lights, forced enemas, and loudly and repeatedly playing the TV commercial for Meow Mix.