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December 01, 2013

Sunday Morning Book Thread 12-01-2013: Gratitude [OregonMuse]


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The Old Thanksgiving

What Are You Thankful For?

Me, I'm thankful to God for my wife, the lovely Mrs. Muse, my children, and the fact that He has caused us to live in a prosperous, secure country. Even in these days where we're thinking that it's all falling apart, our lives are still more prosperous, comfortable, and secure than 99% of the people who have ever lived. Oh, there might have been a Pharaoh or two who had it better, but when I look at the sarcophagus of a long-dead king who the archeologists tell me died of an infection caused by an abscessed tooth, I realize we have something that all the mighty Pharaohs did not: dentistry.


Fat, Drunk, And Delusional Is No Way To Go Through Life, Son

OK, so I assume nobody's reading this because you're all out buying Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked by Chris Matthews, and can't wait to get it home to read it. Me, I think it's funny when I see those who call themselves "progressives" yearning for the supposed glories of a bygone golden age. But apparently Matthews couldn't lay off the scotch long enough to do the writing, because the book is a giant load of poo, at least according to this lefty professor who reviewed it for the NY Times, and really, if your book sucks so bad that even the true believers over at the Times can't stomach it, shouldn't you start thinking about packing it in?

Also, it always cracks me up when I hear lefties like Matthews bemoaning "incivility", as if their side didn't invent it, didn't expand it, and didn't propagate it at every opportunity. They think all the disgustingly vile rhetoric they've hurled continuously at every conservative starting with Goldwater and continuing on through Nixon, then Reagan, Gingrich, Bush, Palin, etc. has been flushed down the memory hole. I think what they mean by "incivility" is really "conservatives talking back".

And those of you who just can't get enough of Tingles will be pleased to hear that all of his books (and he's written more than I thought) have been bundled into one big, corpulent, wheezing, drunken Kindle collection, a complete steal at $69.99.

Thanks to moron commenter 'ontherocks' in last week's book thread for the tip.



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The New Thanksgiving

(I stole this week's artwork from http://www.mardecortesbaja.com)


More On Phreaking

A few weeks ago, I recommended the book Exploding the Phone, which is a history of the original phone hackers (or 'phreaks' as they were called back then) who figured out how to work the telephone system and make phone calls all over the world without paying for them. The book has a companion website including a download section that contains a number of the original technical articles the original phone phreaks used to learn how to hack the system.

The phreaking activity caught the attention of über-hippie Abbie Hoffman (author of Steal This Book) who started to publish the "Youth International Party Line" newsletter, which was packed full of tips and tricks to hack the telephone system. Unfortunately, the Exploding the Phone website doesn't have any copies of this newsletter, which I think is kind of odd, given the wealth of information it does have.

But, not to worry, a moron spent some time scouring the internet and discovered that some has scanned all the issues of this newsletter into one big PDF file. It is available here. (Or, here is the direct link to the PDF file itself).

That ought to keep you nerds busy for awhile.

Thanks to 'Hank Curmudgeon' for tipping me off to this, and for the links.


Books By Morons

I should have taken care of this last week, but alas, I have been remiss to mention that Celia Hayes' new book was released a few days ago. She describes the story as "a sort of adventure western, about two young Englishwomen, coming to Texas in 1876" or, if you will. "Mrs. Gaskell meets Zane Grey". The Quivera Trail is available on Nook and on Kindle, either one for $4.99.


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I received an email this week from a moronette who requested that I mention her husband's book, All American: Two Young Men, the 2001 Army-Navy Game and the War They Fought in Iraq by Steve Eubanks has been published. The 2001 edition of the annual Army-Navy football game, due to the 9/11 events, was the most watched ever, and the book describes how two young men, West Point cadet Chad Jenkins and Naval Academy midshipman Brian Stann, played against each other that day, and how they then met again ten years later in Iraq.

That other smart military blog, Blackfive.net, rates this book very high.


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A few months back, I mentioned the 'Dream' series by authorJ.J. DiBenedetto about a young girl and her adventures that result from her extraordinary ability to see into other people's dreams. All five novels in this series have been wrapped up into one Kindle package along with a new 'Dream' short story, for $7.99. Of course, the individual novels (Dream Student, Dream Doctor, Dream Child, Dream Family, and Waking Dream) can still be purchased individually.


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So that's all for this week. As always, book thread tips, suggestions, rumors, threats, and insults may be sent to OregonMuse, Proprietor, AoSHQ Book Thread, at aoshqbookthread, followed by the 'at' sign, and then 'G' mail, and then dot cee oh emm.

What have you all been reading this week? Hopefully something good, because, as I keep saying, life is too short to be reading lousy books.

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