![]() The point is that all political parties want the endless growth Ponzi scheme, no matter what the price of pollution and destruction. I hate to use dollars, especially now that we are printing trilllions and seems like we could forever… But as the money / energy transition proceeds, digital and paper money will be worthless, energy worth everything. Hell, it’s probably a lot higher than that. The second article estimates we’re using up $7.3 trillion of free natural resources a year. I first discovered him after reading “The Hype about Hydrogen”, which should have ended all the false hopes about this zero-energy resource, yet the hype continues today. ![]() Romm has written a great deal about the crisis we’re in (though from a climate change, not energy decline point of view). Romm’s post was originally at but has vanished from the internet and lives today only here. And I’d guess for anyone under 60 years old today with peak oil likely to have happened in 2018. Joseph Romm writes that the exponential growth Ponzi Scheme is consuming the resources of the next 100 billion people. ![]() Source: Lu (2021) Visualized: The Biggest Ponzi Schemes in Modern History. ![]()
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![]() Muir was an amateur naturalist, and his descriptions of rocks and vegetation show a command of basic mineralogy and botany. Published in 1911, only three years before his death, Muir's My First Summer in the Sierra recalls his first trip to the range more than forty years earlier. Muir also co-founded the Sierra Club in 1892, providing a formal organization for environmental activists to continue working for the preservation of the nation's mountain ranges. His work was instrumental in the creation of the national parks, including Yellowstone, Yosemite, Mount Rainier, and Grand Canyon National Park, and his writing inspired many of the conservation programs enacted by President Theodore Roosevelt, including the first National Monuments by Presidential Proclamation. ![]() ![]() Muir feared that the United States as he had witnessed it would gradually become overdeveloped, and he wrote extensively about the importance of protecting the natural landscape and wildlife of the country. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911.Ībout the Author: Naturalist John Muir (1838–1914) was a Scottish-born wilderness explorer, best known for his adventures in the glaciers of Alaska and California's Sierra Nevada. ![]() ![]() That was followed by a 3.75-inch The Saga Collection figure of Stormtrooper Lucas in 2006 and Baron Papanoida, his character from Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, in the Lucas Collector's Set – also in 2006. ![]() According to, Hasbro released George Lucas as a 3.75-inch figure of rebel pilot Jorg Sacul as a Star Wars Celebration II exclusive in 2002. Hasbro as released George Lucas action figures in the past, but this was the first in the 6-inch, premium Black Series format. ONE BRAND NEW STAR WARS BLACK SERIES 50TH ANNIVERSARY GEORGE LUCAS IN STORMTROOPER DISGUISE 6 INCH ACTION FIGURE. ![]() And if you want one for yourself, pre-orders are available now on Amazon. See the George Lucas Stormtrooper Black Series figure on Amazon You can see the photos of the new George Lucas Black Series figure (26.49) below. Best Buy also has a similar Star Wars sale going that you can shop right here. Note that the Ahsoka Tano Black Series figure isn't featured in that sale, but it is available here on Amazon for only $9.99 (60% off). The prices on select Black Series and Vintage Collection figures have been slashed by as much as 60%. ![]() ![]() You can browse through the entire sale right here while it lasts. The George Lucas (In Stormtrooper Disguise) Black Series figure deal is part of a large Hasbro Star Wars figure sale that's happening right now on Amazon. ![]() ![]() Yeah, this was everything I could have wanted to Dusty’s HEA. What the hell is wrong with that guy? Please, please tell me we get to read his story and that he's redeemed and that I will love him, too. Okay, I have to mention Archer for a sec. Which was the perfect love that Dusty and Ash shared. ![]() ![]() But, thankfully, the misunderstandings didn’t last too long and we were able to get to more of the good stuff. They had some struggles to overcome and there were a couple big misunderstandings, and that can usually rub me the wrong way if it goes on for pages and pages. It was romantic, realistic and rocketed the sexual tension up to almost unbearable levels. They went out, met each other’s friends and had some playful flirting before moving to the next step. And get this, they actually took the time to, ya know, date and everything before they had The Sex. ![]() With their loving words, their thoughtful gestures and the realistic development of their relationship, I was the one with the insta-love. Dusty and Asher hit me square in the chest over and over again. ![]() But all those books? They didn't get it right. "I've been waiting to feel like this since I was a kid and I used to sneak my mom's romance novels. Their stories are loving and sweet and adorable and hot as all hell. Them being together is like perfection, it’s like… like, I just want to hug my kindle to my chest and never, ever let go. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Josie and her mother, Chrissy, eventually return. Josie is lifted and is beginning to exhibit the symptoms of an unexplained illness that sometimes accompanies genetic engineering and can result in death. The AFs are visited by various children and parents, but Klara particularly likes Josie, who promises from outside the window to buy her someday. For several days, an industrial instrument Klara names the Cootings Machine is parked in front of the store, and the smoke it generates obscures the sunlight. AFs are solar powered, and Klara comes to view the sun as an omniscient being with special powers after mistaking a homeless man waking up for a healing miracle. Klara is uniquely observant and adept at noticing and analyzing emotional cues. They are directed and cared for by “Manager,” and they take turns occupying the store window. Klara, along with her friend Rosa and other androids, begin in an AF store. Wealthy families therefore also buy android AFs (Artificial Friends) to keep their children company. Because they take classes with online tutors, children have little opportunity to socialize. In the world of Klara and the Sun, most wealthy families pay to have their children “lifted,” a genetic engineering procedure that enhances academic performance, without which there are minimal educational and professional opportunities. ![]() ![]() It is often described as one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature.Ī man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.įirst published in the San Francisco Examiner, July 13, 1890. Bierce's abandonment of strict linear storytelling in favor of the inner mind of the protagonist is an early example of the stream-of-consciousness narrative mode. The story is known for its irregular time sequence and unexpected ending. The main theme of this short story i that there is no romance or glory in war. He thinks of his family and tries to figure out a way to jump off the bridge and swim away, but the soldiers drop him before he carries out his idea. The theme of this particular story quickly came to mind after initially concluding the reading, the author is trying to convey that nobody can escape death and. ![]() Six soldiers guard him on the bridge where the sentence will be carried out. Weekly Reading Group: Ambrose Bierces The Story of a Conscience and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Peyton Farquhar is a wealthy landowner and slave owner who is sentenced to be executed in Alabama during the American Civil War. ![]() An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Book download in PDF, ePub & Mobi by Ambrose BierceĪn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is a short story by Ambrose Bierce and first published in 1890. ![]() ![]() ![]() Power Rangers: Dino Fury (Nickelodeon/Netflix)īrandi Carlile, In These Silent Days (Low Country Sound/Elektra Records)īROCKHAMPTON, ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE (RCA Records/Question Everything)ĭemi Lovato, Dancing with the Devil. High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (Disney+) "Claudia and the Sad Goodbye" The Baby-Sitters Club (Netflix) ![]() ![]() "Whatever Floats Your Float" Madagascar: A Little Wild (Hulu/Peacock) Summer Camp Island (Cartoon Network/HBO Max) "Joie de Jonathan" Fancy Nancy (Disney Junior) "Gonzo-rella" Muppet Babies (Disney Junior) ![]() "Berry Bounty Banquet - Part 2" Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City (WildBrain Studios/YouTube Kids) Master of None Presents: Moments in Love (Netflix) The Christmas House 2: Deck Those Halls (Hallmark Channel) No Ordinary Man (Oscilloscope Laboratories) Parallel Mothers (Sony Pictures Classics) The Obituary of Tunde Johnson (Wolfe Video) West Side Story (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) Winners of the 33rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards are marked in bold.Įternals (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)Įverybody's Talking About Jamie (Amazon Studios) A tip sheet with a breakdown of nominations by media and trends among the nominees is available at NOMINEES FOR THE 33RD ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community and the issues that affect their lives.īelow is the full list of nominees for the 33rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards. ![]() ![]() This festival involves lots of coffins … and your cousin is going to suffocate in one of them. Now imagine, your cousin Alex is going to be trapped in a coffin on the night when everyone in your hometown of Isla Huesos (which, by the way,means Island of Bones) celebrates a kind of Festival of the Dead tradition. She’s trying to kill you so as to punish your boyfriend. Now imagine that having died and been revived by him in the past, you’re back in Hades, faced with a choice of – do I stay or do I go? Keep imagining because things are going to get worse! Your grandmother is possessed by a Fury, yes, an evil creature from Greek mythology. ![]() Imagine if your boyfriend is actually the ruler of the underworld, yep, that’ll be Hades. ![]() (Available from Kalahari and Exclusive Books) ![]() ![]() ![]() Because Dixon made an unsure start in the department, he is concerned about losing his position at the end of his probationary first year. The action takes place towards the end of the academic year. Dixon is a northern, grammar school-educated, lower middle class young man and uneasy with the pseudo-intellectual values he meets in academic society. It seems a disastrous trajectory but Jim is 'lucky' and the novel ends with him in possession of a measure of affluence, the London life he craves and the girl. The comedy of the novel is Dixon's rebellion against the cant and pretension he meets in academic life and the uncontrolled escalation of this from private fantasy to public display. Jim Dixon is a medieval history lecturer at a redbrick university in the English Midlands. The year in which the novel is set is not explicit but cannot be later than 1951. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re expecting Dimaline to provide a lot of backstory, to explore why a lot of humanity has lost the ability to dream, etc., then you will be disappointed. ![]() This is not a long book, and it doesn’t overstay its welcome. ![]() Rather than focusing on the wider issues of th world, however, Dimaline confines herself mostly to the personal stories of Frenchie and his companions, tracing how each of them came to by where they are now, punctuated by the events of life on the road. So, non-Indigenous people have set up new “schools,” and bands of Recruiters roam the countryside looking for Indigenous fugitives they can capture to harvest the bone marrow in which dreaming resides. In this near-future narrative (about sixty years out, I think), Dimaline recapitulates the horrors of colonialism and residential schools through a new lens: no one except Indigenous people can dream. So The Marrow Thieves was fighting an uphill battle, yet Cherie Dimaline manages to make me appreciate the intensity of the experience.įrenchie is a 15-year-old Indigenous (Anishnaabe, I think?) boy who, after losing his immediate family, falls in with another group of Indigenous survivors on the run. In particular, I’ve never been a fan of The Road–style stories of survival of small groups. My enjoyment of post-apocalyptic, dystopian fiction is waning heavily these days. ![]() |