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The beach is empty, which I most definitely don’t hate for myself. I am, of course, hopeful that tourists return soon to this wonderful area.
Not having to step over 5 rows of vacationers is not something I mind, as you can probably guess. Plus, I can listen to my book without headphones because there’s nobody here to be disturbed by the sound.
Here’s the most recent video, by the way. It caused such a scandal that people started unsubscribing en masse. There are viewers who can’t tolerate any criticism of Trump. They are leftists at heart. They need an idol they can worship and a party line they need to parrot. This is not OK because we already have a Left in this country. What we need is an alternative to its lockstep fanaticism.
Florida is in a category all its own:
A great state, a great vibe, a great sense of humor.
In 1987-88, it suddenly became possible in the moribund USSR to publish and discuss things that previously we hadn’t been allowed to know about. Suddenly, everybody was subscribing to a dozen thick journals that printed all sorts of forbidden novels, essays, memoirs, historical treatises, poems, etc. People would stop in the middle of a park and strike up a debate with complete strangers. Large groups would form to observe the discussion and express support for one of the debaters. My parents were of the debating kind, and many an outing in my childhood was interrupted by my father stopping in a square or on a busy street corner and starting a spontaneous lecture on some utterly random but heretofore forbidden topic. Crowds would gather fast, and I’d sigh hopelessly, realizing that we weren’t going to be able to leave that spot for at least an hour.
People were finally free to talk about things that mattered. To read, to debate, to think. It was an extraordinary time when the life of the mind flourished, and there weren’t enough hours in the day to read all the exciting new books and share your thoughts about them. The stultifying decades of being forced to parrot the party line were over. We knew that a lot had been concealed from us “for our own good”, and anybody who could point the way to where the truth could be found became an instant hero.
People walked around with the overwhelmed and happy look of prisoners who had been let out of a dungeon and were seeing the sunshine and the flowers for the first time. These were the people in my parents’ circle and others like them. The intelligentsia, the thinking individuals. Of course, there were also those who hated the changes, and they were possibly even more numerous. They didn’t want to be exposed to any new ideas. They wanted to be told what to think and to be allowed to persecute those who thought differently. The conflict between these two groups was never resolved and later spilled out into a war.
But that’s not what I’m talking about here. My point is that this is exactly how it feels in America today. All of the new publishing houses, books, ideas, thoughts. We don’t stop in the middle of the park like my Dad had to because we have social media for that purpose. But the feeling and the excitement are the same.
And that’s really great. It means freedom will always win in the end.
Yes, he had no clients. Ghislaine Maxwell is in jail for procuring children to rape for absolutely no one. This makes a lot of sense.
Female achievement will never be the same as male achievement. Look at the difference in how Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez got access to Jeff Bezos’s wealth.
Nobody will make all the effort if they don’t have to.
We are back at our favorite place in Florida:
It was devastated by hurricanes two years ago but locals have been rebuilding like crazy. Everything is back open but the beach is still empty.
It’s such a magical place.
Yes, I’m sure all those Russian-speaking Jews in Brighton Beach walked right across the long border that the US has with Russia.
It’s become fashionable to be militantly stupid and feel no embarrassment.
Yes, yes, it’s on both sides. Right-wingers have a prattly Mexican congresswoman who recently decided that Orthodox Christianity was banned in Ukraine.
We are surrounded by absolute idjits.
Dems are having a normal one, celebrating and mocking the Texas flood where, among other victims, over two dozen little girls were killed or went missing at a Christian summer camp.
As somebody who once bought a faux-leather wallet for 36 million, I happen to know that making everybody on Earth billionaires is not a great plan.
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