John C Wright recently published a comment on teaching by a teacher [http://www.scifiwright.com/2017/04/a-teacher-on-teaching/] and it certainly has a lot to pay attention to. I’m reproducing it in full, because otherwise I’d have to cop out and just tell you to go read the whole thing [http://www.scifiwright.com/2017/04/a-teacher-on-teaching/]. > Teachers having been bearing the brunt of criticism for educational policies that they did not want nor create. Yes there are bad teachers, just like…
Vox recently asked why aren’t people buying e-books [https://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/04/why-arent-you-buying-books.html]? Of course, the ilk reply. Me, personally, I actually buy a LOT, though the handful of books that would make it on my limited shelf space these days I will get in paperback, with a stronger preference for philosophy, history, and technical material there. I enjoy the feel of physical books, but the lack of space and the sheer convenience of nor carding several small paper br…
A long while back I had read a book by Chris Dolley called Resonance. It is, in retrospect, one of the best introductions to exactly how crazy-making gaslighting can be. Sadly, his next book was one I couldn’t finish. No, that’s not what was going on, but the utter sense of unreality the main character had was so well done that several people I know who’d dealt with Narc’s and other cluster-B types literally could not get through the first chapter. I’d also recently rewatched Ghost in the Shell…
Cataline Sergius throws himself on the grenade to watch the new version of the Handmaid’s Tale [https://reactionarytimes.blogspot.com/2017/04/live-blogging-handmaids-tale.html] . I raise a glass to his sacrifice, so that the rest of us don’t have to. > A Handmaid’s Tale was cobbled together out of random bits of 1984 and Revolt in 2100 back in 1985, by noted crackpot and winner of the Extreme Canadian Award, Margret Atwood. As I indicated the setting is stolen. As is the plot and subtext. T…
I first heard of this song shortly before it became popular in the states when someone said the song title refers to how he thinks of a borderline/narcissist they’d flushed out of their lives. “Just someone I used to know.” Leo’s cover is fun. Just because – the original – some nifty use of paint/etc. for effect.…