Saturday on Substack - 5.VIII.2023
Welcome back to Saturday on Substack, where I share a bit of what I’ve been doing over the past week. It’s been one of those weeks where I just blinked and the entire week flew by. I remember thinking about starting this post on Monday, and not getting that done, then on Thursday, but I didn’t have time, and here we are on Saturday again.
Writing
Books
I finished Malachi Martin’s Windswept House! I think I read over 300 pages of it this week, but I did want to be done with it, and return it after renewing it three times. I started a book review, but had a million other things going on, so I’ll probably publish it on Monday, God willing. It was really, really good, and I’d say that for a book that was published in 1996, it is eerie how much of what Martin wrote about was prophetic. Either that, or evil rarely thinks up of anything new, just the same old temptations over and over.
I did find Joy Corey’s The Tools of Spiritual Warfare, and I would love to finish it this week; I tend to be a disorganized person, and I’m hoping bringing back in the routine of reading will help some.
After that, I have The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me by Paul Joseph Fronczak. Except he isn’t Paul Joseph Fronczak. He’s Jack Rosenthal… I’ve paged through it some; it looks good.
Reading
Zuck's Ghost Town: Twitter Clone Threads Suffers 82% Engagement Drop | Breitbart I’m all for Threads being an expensive mistake for Meta
Health and Heaing, Water and Blessing | Gretchen Joanna The one place that makes me want to visit San Francisco is this church. Hopefully, this will happen.
Shady Park Tempe won its appeal in noise dispute with Mirabella ASU | AZCentral - Old news here, but I still find it interesting that a retirement community was built on the campus of Arizona State. I mean really, what could go wrong with that? *L*
Biden admin begins enforcing nationwide lightbulb bans, igniting backlash from GOP: 'Liberal fantasies' | Fox News - Nudge, nudge.
St. Boniface (Chicago) - Chicago has lost a lot of churches with redevelopment and gentrification and stuff. Good to see that one of them won the battle, BUT it looks like the building will be transformed into residential units… *sigh*
Electric Vehicles: Suffering Under Their Policies | Stately McDaniel Manor - So, if electric cars aren’t enough for you, how about electric jeeps? Electric HMMVs? Electric tanks? What could possibly go wrong?
Skiplagging: What It Is, And Why It Is Controversial - Don’t try it on American Airlines, first of all. I don’t understand why the airlines are so upset about this - they overbook flights all the time, and no one asks to be reimbursed for the “missing” segments, so what is the problem?
Redefining Death Would Pull The Plug On Brain-Damaged Patients | The Federalist - This is a very, very scary place. I recommend that the book Ghost Boy by Martin Pistorius be read by everyone just to get some idea of how much we don’t understand when it comes to brain injury.
Learning
I love how some of these places have “how-tos” for the most basic of stuff because sometimes my mind just doesn’t engage…
Parachuting beavers created a fire-resistant wetland | EarthSky.org
Listening
Tucker Carlson Full Speech at Turning Point Action Conference - The Last Refuge
This was amazing. I may end up subscribing to the Daily Wire because of it:
Watching
(I think Windswept House seriously cut into time to watch things on Youtube!)
Music
Laugh a Little
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