Easy Eye
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More of a listener than a talker these days.
Ada Lovelace chuckles, thinking of her dad, Lord Byron.
December 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Ada Lovelace chuckles, thinking of her dad, Lord Byron.
I can't see a Darwin or a Jefferson or a Shelley (Mr & Mrs) without a classical education.
I'm biased though; I studied the Great Books.
It's also important to bring the foundation of our historic elite education and culture to hoi polloi.
I'm biased though; I studied the Great Books.
It's also important to bring the foundation of our historic elite education and culture to hoi polloi.
December 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I can't see a Darwin or a Jefferson or a Shelley (Mr & Mrs) without a classical education.
I'm biased though; I studied the Great Books.
It's also important to bring the foundation of our historic elite education and culture to hoi polloi.
I'm biased though; I studied the Great Books.
It's also important to bring the foundation of our historic elite education and culture to hoi polloi.
Anyway, I love that they brought so much joy to you and so many other people. The way kids experience books is so magical.
It's so great you had that in your life.
It's so great you had that in your life.
December 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Anyway, I love that they brought so much joy to you and so many other people. The way kids experience books is so magical.
It's so great you had that in your life.
It's so great you had that in your life.
I can see that. That's how I feel ASOIAF. I'm about 10 years too old for prime HP readership, so I read them as an adult. Definitely a different experience!
In general I like MG books because they're carefully crafted jewels, and I didn't find that in HP, but the movies are like that.
In general I like MG books because they're carefully crafted jewels, and I didn't find that in HP, but the movies are like that.
December 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I can see that. That's how I feel ASOIAF. I'm about 10 years too old for prime HP readership, so I read them as an adult. Definitely a different experience!
In general I like MG books because they're carefully crafted jewels, and I didn't find that in HP, but the movies are like that.
In general I like MG books because they're carefully crafted jewels, and I didn't find that in HP, but the movies are like that.
This is my favorite recentish MG series, the first 2 books, anyway.
www.goodreads.com/series/11740...
Seriously, don't sleep on Newberry winners and medalists. They really pick them well.
www.goodreads.com/series/11740...
Seriously, don't sleep on Newberry winners and medalists. They really pick them well.
December 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This is my favorite recentish MG series, the first 2 books, anyway.
www.goodreads.com/series/11740...
Seriously, don't sleep on Newberry winners and medalists. They really pick them well.
www.goodreads.com/series/11740...
Seriously, don't sleep on Newberry winners and medalists. They really pick them well.
Generally, middle grade and some YA are held to higher literary standards than most genre literature.
I consider _Wind in the Willows_ one of the greatest pieces of English literature. Maybe the most beautiful English novel ever.
I suspect Rowling refused editing as success grew and it shows.
I consider _Wind in the Willows_ one of the greatest pieces of English literature. Maybe the most beautiful English novel ever.
I suspect Rowling refused editing as success grew and it shows.
December 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Generally, middle grade and some YA are held to higher literary standards than most genre literature.
I consider _Wind in the Willows_ one of the greatest pieces of English literature. Maybe the most beautiful English novel ever.
I suspect Rowling refused editing as success grew and it shows.
I consider _Wind in the Willows_ one of the greatest pieces of English literature. Maybe the most beautiful English novel ever.
I suspect Rowling refused editing as success grew and it shows.
I read a lot of middle grade fiction because some are the most well written and crafted novels.
It was odd to me that people liked the later books more than the first. The first is well organized and elegant, while the later ones become bloated and sloppy, the prose gets markedly worse.
It was odd to me that people liked the later books more than the first. The first is well organized and elegant, while the later ones become bloated and sloppy, the prose gets markedly worse.
December 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I read a lot of middle grade fiction because some are the most well written and crafted novels.
It was odd to me that people liked the later books more than the first. The first is well organized and elegant, while the later ones become bloated and sloppy, the prose gets markedly worse.
It was odd to me that people liked the later books more than the first. The first is well organized and elegant, while the later ones become bloated and sloppy, the prose gets markedly worse.
These age ranges are way off.
December 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
These age ranges are way off.
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Link to the full hearing is here! Guess it did end up on YouTube.
Really humbled and grateful for the opportunity. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Urg4...
Really humbled and grateful for the opportunity. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Urg4...
Our Values at Stake: DHS Overreach and Violations of U.S. Citizen Rights
YouTube video by SenatorBlumenthal
m.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Link to the full hearing is here! Guess it did end up on YouTube.
Really humbled and grateful for the opportunity. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Urg4...
Really humbled and grateful for the opportunity. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Urg4...
Honestly, I think the Humanities are necessary to open the expressive humanity and curiosity of people who are inclined that way. But novels written before, say, 1985 had more effect on developing openness and theory of mind among most people. Men started reading them later than women.
December 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Honestly, I think the Humanities are necessary to open the expressive humanity and curiosity of people who are inclined that way. But novels written before, say, 1985 had more effect on developing openness and theory of mind among most people. Men started reading them later than women.
To be fair, those guys were also torn from their parents at age 7 so they could be beaten and abused at the boarding schools where they learned this stuff.
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
To be fair, those guys were also torn from their parents at age 7 so they could be beaten and abused at the boarding schools where they learned this stuff.
Moms dragging a toddler and a baby in a carrier up the StairMaster while the four year old eats French fries that missed the trash can and the six year old disappears to stare at the Swarovski Chrystal display.
December 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Moms dragging a toddler and a baby in a carrier up the StairMaster while the four year old eats French fries that missed the trash can and the six year old disappears to stare at the Swarovski Chrystal display.
"Kirk finds Trelane seated on a courtroom bench, dressed in the white wig and robes reminiscent of an English circuit judge. Trelane reads charges of "treason", "conspiracy", and "fomenting insurrection", and then, silencing Kirk's protests, condemns Kirk to death by hanging."
December 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
"Kirk finds Trelane seated on a courtroom bench, dressed in the white wig and robes reminiscent of an English circuit judge. Trelane reads charges of "treason", "conspiracy", and "fomenting insurrection", and then, silencing Kirk's protests, condemns Kirk to death by hanging."
From wiki:
"Spock reasons that Trelane knows only the forms of earth history and not the substance; the equivalent of someone 900 light years away from earth who is studying earth history through a telescope but having no concept that 400 years have passed."
"Spock reasons that Trelane knows only the forms of earth history and not the substance; the equivalent of someone 900 light years away from earth who is studying earth history through a telescope but having no concept that 400 years have passed."
December 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
From wiki:
"Spock reasons that Trelane knows only the forms of earth history and not the substance; the equivalent of someone 900 light years away from earth who is studying earth history through a telescope but having no concept that 400 years have passed."
"Spock reasons that Trelane knows only the forms of earth history and not the substance; the equivalent of someone 900 light years away from earth who is studying earth history through a telescope but having no concept that 400 years have passed."
Not to be confused with the episode featuring an immature, spoiled and impetuous god-like Liberace character obsessed with Earth's martial history. He treats the crew members like toys and a mirror is the source of his power.
Kirk ends the drama by slapping him.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Squ...
Kirk ends the drama by slapping him.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Squ...
The Squire of Gothos - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Not to be confused with the episode featuring an immature, spoiled and impetuous god-like Liberace character obsessed with Earth's martial history. He treats the crew members like toys and a mirror is the source of his power.
Kirk ends the drama by slapping him.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Squ...
Kirk ends the drama by slapping him.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Squ...
That's the game, right? They change the definition of "life" and then stake a claim to the concept.
It's like taking over a deep sea oil rig, calling it "America" and then saying only people on the rig are Americans.
It's like taking over a deep sea oil rig, calling it "America" and then saying only people on the rig are Americans.
December 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
That's the game, right? They change the definition of "life" and then stake a claim to the concept.
It's like taking over a deep sea oil rig, calling it "America" and then saying only people on the rig are Americans.
It's like taking over a deep sea oil rig, calling it "America" and then saying only people on the rig are Americans.
Unitary judicial theory.
December 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Unitary judicial theory.
Catastrophic plans aren't even available to people over the age of 30.
December 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Catastrophic plans aren't even available to people over the age of 30.
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I'm not saying flag officers should be treated as heroes, but good Lord, this is a man who has not the faintest grasp of appropriate social and professional behavior in any context outside a Fox News studio or his weird rape cult heretic church.
December 4, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I'm not saying flag officers should be treated as heroes, but good Lord, this is a man who has not the faintest grasp of appropriate social and professional behavior in any context outside a Fox News studio or his weird rape cult heretic church.
I wouldn't even take this as some evil but profitable thing.
This guy is out of his mind, generally. He is not wise and he has no insight.
Stability and predictability, with open avenues or trade are what's good for business.
This guy is out of his mind, generally. He is not wise and he has no insight.
Stability and predictability, with open avenues or trade are what's good for business.
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I wouldn't even take this as some evil but profitable thing.
This guy is out of his mind, generally. He is not wise and he has no insight.
Stability and predictability, with open avenues or trade are what's good for business.
This guy is out of his mind, generally. He is not wise and he has no insight.
Stability and predictability, with open avenues or trade are what's good for business.