![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In It’s Even Worse Than You Think, Johnston exposes shocking details about the Mexican border wall, and how American consumers will end up paying for it, if it ever gets built climate change, and all about Scott Pruitt who spent much of his career trying to destroy the agency he now heads stocking-not draining-the swamp, despite his promise to do the opposite, Trump has filled his cabinet with millionaires and billionaires and the Kleptocracy, where Donald Jr. New York Times bestselling author and longtime Trump observer David Cay Johnston shines a light on the political termites who have infested our government under the Trump administration, destroying it from within and compromising our jobs, safety, finances, and more. From David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the bestselling The Making of Donald Trump, comes his New York Times bestseller about how the Trump Administration’s policies will affect our jobs, savings, taxes, and safety-completed revised and updated. ![]()
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![]() Writer: Grant Morrison Artist: Frank QuitelyĬomic Book Herald is reader-supported. Publication Dates: January 2006 – October 2008 Little did I know, All-Star Superman would help me explain the very existence of Action Comics as a comic book trove.Ĭomic Book Run: Absolute All Star Superman Seemed like a fun idea to read All-Star Superman before Morrison’s new take on Supes in Action Comics. ![]() More on all these particular comics at a later date – for now, I mention this to explain why I felt so suddenly compelled to consume Grant Morrison‘s All-Star Superman, a giant omnibus edition I’ve admired on my shelves for half a year now. The DC New 52 has roped me into buying issues 1-8 of both Animal Man and Action Comics. It was with some hesitation, then, that I recently branched out into the the world of comic shops and single issue arcs. AT LEAST THEY’RE WHOLE! MOSTLY! A LOT OF THE TIME! This is why I’m so into collecting trade paperback issues/graphic novels/whatever you want to call them. Each issue is merely a component of a greater design and it’s generally not until they’re taken together that they form an arc (40 cubits by 40 cubits). Comic books – in there purest form – are serial testaments to a realm of unfinished story. This is, perhaps, odd for an individual so desperately in love with the medium, but I prefer my stories whole (just like my women! wait… well, never mind). ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve never been much of a comic book collector. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments 1q84 reddit![]() When Komatsu proposes the plan to rewrite Air Chrysalis, Tengo points out flaws/risks in the plan but continues forward anyway. At the start of the book, Tengo is somewhat passive in his life. This book is about charting your own path in life. When I finished, I thought to myself, so what? What's the purpose for writing this book? What's the message? Here's my interpretation. It's not perfect by any means which I'll discuss later in this post, but overall, it was an interesting read and I'm glad that I took the plunge and finished the whole thing. I liked the concept of the book and I feel like it's very unique in it's own right. ![]() ![]() When I first saw this book there was something telling me that I should read it and I'm glad that I did. I'll start by saying that I actually enjoyed the book. This post will have a lot of spoilers and will assume that you've already read the book. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Lu by jason reynolds![]() ![]() I swear, sometimes she just be talking to be talking. Don’t believe lightning won’t hit the same tree, or the same house, or the same person more than once. ![]() And I like the nickname, but I don’t believe that. Or as my mom calls me, Lu the Lightning Bolt, because lightning so special it don’t never happen the same way or at the same place twice. ![]() Mine Too. (both cowritten with Jason Griffin) and Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. His many books include All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely) When I Was the Greatest The Boy in the Black Suit Stamped As Brave as You For Every One the Track series (Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and Lu) Look Both Ways Stuntboy, in the Meantime Ain’t Burned All the Bright (recipient of the Caldecott Honor) and My Name Is Jason. He was also the 2020–2022 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. ![]() Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a Kirkus Award winner, a UK Carnegie Medal winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, an Odyssey Award Winner and two-time honoree, the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors, and the Margaret A. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Anarchy utopia![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The struggle to be perfect is nothing more than the struggle for a monoculture of replicated human beings. Perfection also means that there is an image of perfect. If we are dismissing any utopia, let it be the United States which is nothing more than a living (and failing) experiment in perfection. ![]() Once every four years in the US, we try to make our republic a little better by choosing someone to rule it. And there is always an attempt to recreate or fix this pillar called democracy - an ideology of a perfect society which is run by majority rule. There are always new technologies being created in order to perfect us as human beings: cosmetic surgeries, life-extending drugs, genetic therapy, etc. It’s not a perfect society that we are living in, but we are always striving for perfection, whether as individuals or as a society. Right now we are living out Plato’s dream of the perfect society, outlined in the Republic. In other words, people dismiss anarchy because they believe anarchy means “utopia”. Most dismissals of anarchy or anarchist ideas come through the belief that for an anarchy to work, perfection is requirement. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Home Work by Lloyd Kahn![]() ![]() Perfect for a student or single person wanting to get away from mortgage payments or just wanting to get rid of “stuff.”įrom a ready-made reclaimed tiny home to an off-grid house-on-wheels, colourful caravans, cob houses, tree-houses, and houseboats, Tiny Homes is a treasure trove of innovative designs by professional architects and self-taught builders. Kahn provides an inspirational pictorial of every conceivable small structure folks call “home.” And small does mean small – 500 sq ft small. ![]() In an era that has seen the North American home jump from 800 sq ft in the 1950s to the sprawling 2,300 sq ft house of today, perusing Lloyd Kahn’s, Tiny Homes, the latest book in his Shelter series, is a refreshing view into the wonderful world of small houses.Ī growing number of people have decided to scale back and simplify their lives by choosing to build smaller, more efficient homes. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Gushee changing our mind![]() ![]() Gushee, distinguished university professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University, plans to explain his apparently newfound views on homosexuality at a Nov. ![]() For those who know about Gushee … this has been a long time in coming.” ![]() This is not the kind of announcement that sends shockwaves through evangelicalism. In fact, earlier this year Gushee endorsed a book making revisionist arguments about the Bible and homosexuality. That he is making this announcement now shocks no one. “He’s been on a leftward slide for many years now on a range of issues. “This is no surprise for those who have been following David Gushee’s career,” Denny Burk, professor of biblical studies at Boyce College wrote in an Oct. NASHVILLE (BP) - Baptist ethicist David Gushee’s declaration that he now believes not all homosexual behavior is sinful is a predictable next step following a decades-long intellectual trajectory, evangelical leaders have said. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Ron's Big Mission by Rose Blue![]() ![]() ![]() Now I have really and truly enjoyed the authors' presented narrative, the textual flow of this inspiring story it is both engaging and informative but fortunately without being neither too melodramatic nor drily factual. Naden's Ron's Big Mission, a fictionalised account of a real incident in space shuttle astronaut Ron McNair's childhood (Ron McNair was one of the seven astronauts who lost their lives in the 1986 Challenger explosion), shows how a simple and more importantly how a non-violent act of civil protest and courage against racially discriminatory regulations (and by a nine year old child at that) can challenge racist attitudes, can change unjust and discriminatory rules and regulations for the better. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Old Man's War by John Scalzi![]() ![]() The story itself is a great change from the standard sci fi fayre, its not all about the tech, although it is of course mentioned and in some cases explained, its more about the characters, who are engaging and memorable. ![]() William Dufris does a fantastic job, a minor quibble may be his grasp of the female voice for those characters, somebody else said he said like a drag queen, that's a spot on description, but it doesn't in any way detract from his excellent narration of the story, clear, concise, with a great ability at bringing home the jokes like they were meant to be read. I was listening to this in my car on a long journey home from Scotland, and at times it had me crying with laughter, particularly the drill sergeant scenes. I am currently 6 hours in, and think its worth writing a review already. Unnexpectedly funny, new take on Sci Fi ClicheĪt first when the book began I thought the story was going to be a slow, drab affair, but about 10 minutes in my mind was changed. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Heart of europe peter wilson![]() Though the title of Holy Roman Emperor retained prestige, rising states such as Austria and Prussia wielded power in a way the Empire could not. The source of its continuity and legitimacy was the ideal of a unified Christian civilization, but this did not prevent emperors from clashing with the pope over supremacy-the nadir being the sack of Rome in 1527 that killed 147 Vatican soldiers. Yet the Empire remained stubbornly abstract, with no fixed capital and no common language or culture. ![]() By the mid-tenth century its core rested in the German kingdom, and ultimately its territory stretched from France and Denmark to Italy and Poland. Heart of Europe traces the Empire from its origins within Charlemagne's kingdom in 800 to its demise in 1806. And its legacy can be seen today in debates over the nature of the European Union. ![]() Yet as Peter Wilson shows, the Holy Roman Empire tells a millennial story of Europe better than the histories of individual nation-states. Voltaire distilled the disdain of generations when he quipped it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor. "The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome. ![]() |