What BOOK are you reading right now?

yeah, Begley's the author

one of my favourite radio talk wonks has been raving about it intermittently for months now

I saw the movie too. It really was quite silly. It went nowhere near anything interesting apart from the flash of Glenda Jackson's tits which weren't all that inviting.

I remember thinking it was silly then, wonder what I'd think now. A prance by Russell? Since I haven't read Lawrence's fiction, I've no way to make decisive statements.

Maybe you should try it osso.

I asked a local bookseller what I should take on the plane with me. Without hesitation she grabbed a book that she said all the of the staff loved. It's called The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Shaffer and Barrows. I was dubious, but after a few pages it seems like a good read. It's (so far) a series of letters exchanged between a woman author and her colleagues, friends, etc. It's set in England just after WWII ended.

Are you posting in flight littlek?

No. I leave tomorrow.

You're flying somewhere? Let me wish you well.

RELICS OF EDEN. A really good work on the investigations into the genomes of apes and humans. The "fossil DNA" as coined by Sean Carroll, is exposed by using the well known statistical technique of data mining. DM is used heavily i n marketing, particle physics, mining ,and medical patterning. Genomes are amazingly complex strings of connected information made up of miles and miles of three part repetitions of four chemical bases arranged in "base pairs". These repetitions form only sequences of 20 amino acides that occur on chromosomes in specific orders for each species and each common ancetsor and "genetic cousin" of that species. The familial genetics of humans and apes is made up of profoundly similar DNA seuqences , and differ only in areas that clearly show the separation of man and chimpanzee from earlier relatives in the family Hominidae. ALL of te unused DNA that apes carry, is included in the genome of humans (in the areas called "junk). Data mining has clearly shown the fields of "fossil" DNA as it is preserved and never discarded in the genome of humans and monkeys. If we didnt evolve from a monkeys uncle , why do we still carry the monkies DNA in a corner of our own genome?

Authored by DAniel Fairbanks. Its an end to Creationist arguments and ID attempts at playing at science.

So what the hell does that mean? One has to laugh. "Amazingly complex" ??? I ask you!! No doubt the "base pairs" are also amazingly complex. And when you have them boxed off there will be more amazing complexities going on forever and ever.

You're just entertaining yourself effemm reading stuff that flatters you into thinking you can understand, define and control things. And then you use phrases such as that.

It's all the same is that psuedo-science. It's a travesty of science. Made for the wannabee segments of society who blow it onto us as if it is some kind of superior form of humanity. It's bullshit.



Empty words. The universe is built mathematically. All the forms in it have that same source. Why is what we are descended from more important than what will descend from us? Is it so nobody can think about social consequences with their head full of the past.

"History is bunk". Henry Ford.

"Don't look back". All the best writers.

"Leave your stepping stones behind something calls for you." Bob Dylan.

Your man is no end of anything. Neither Creationism, ID, Islam, Voodoo etc.

It's just a response to a frustration at being unable to take part in action.

Read The Classroom chapter in Women in Love. There are other points of view. I have a deal of sympathy with Hermione. That doesn't mean I altogether agree. I just recognise it as an argument to be considered. You don't and therein lies your blinding bigotry.

I wouldn't like that argument to be Orwelled out of human consciousness so that it could no longer even be thought.

Why would someone want to be an asshole?

I read The Man Who Would be King by Kipling yesterday. Trying to decide if it's worth buying the LOTR trilogy to read next (the worth part has a lot more to do with the fact that I'm going to have to read it on my phone, since I can't find them in hard copy here).

Any time spendi posts something, Its usually done in a fashion like the chapter with "George" the swamper in Steinbecks Wayward Bus. The chapter was fun but wholly irrelevant to the entire story. Spendi's the same way, cept hes not much fun and I worry about when his head is gonna explode.


Speaking of Steinbeck, I brought the combined Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday to read on this little field trip.

You're short of something to worry about in that case.

I have a nice Wayward Bus. I'll check it out.

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. I ran across the A&E series on my Netflix and enjoyed them very much. It occured to me that I, somehow, managed to have never read this in high school or the years since. So I am reading it now.

robert, have you not read the lord of the rings series?

if you haven't, you would much better enjoy them as a book i would think.

I have an old set gathering dust, and a friend over at the country post office with verra little to do most days...(we could figger out how to do slow mule to bumflip South America)

I totally disagree.

you couldn't read it off a phone anymore than i could, cowboy...



i was gonna say what book i'm reading but can't find it right now.

it was the latest john sanford series paperback. something prey i think...

Huhh? Your phone?

Maybe I stumbled into a joke.

I'm sure you've heard of on-line book stores...

What's wrong with paperbacks?

Enemy At The Gate by Andrew Wheatcroft

Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe

Early in the book, but enjoyable thus far.