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Director, BookoftheDay.org. @bookofthedayorg.bsky.social USCG Veteran. Advocate for civil discourse. Occasional person of interest. RTP.NC.USA
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youtu.be/Ex-ibI2MWIg?...

Just posting this so I can find it again. There's something inside this I need to understand. By working together, the crowd lost its wisdom. youtube.com/shorts/Hb-w7...

Celebrating my 100th day on Bluesky! I like it; think I'll keep it.

Just heard that Steven Miller attended Duke University. As a Carolina fan, I really didn't need another reason to hate Duke, but here we are.

Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

A bell is no bell until you ring A song is no song until you sing Love in your heart was not put there to stay Because love is not love till you give it away.

When democrats get power, they drive it like they borrowed it from a friend and don't want to get it dirty. When republicans get power, they drive it like they stole it.

This is also a valuable resource for sky users theblue.report

A Bible quote for the #resistance: Job 38:11 "Thus far shall you come, and no farther..."

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States ... nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov

From the mean church lady...

I read Robert A. Heinlein's novel 'Stranger in a Strange Land' about 50 years ago (I was 16). The Fair Witness character has stuck with me ever since. If you ask a Fair Witness "what color is that house?" she'll look and say "it's white on this side." I've tried to live that way.