Gordon Calhoun

I wonder if the spot price of lead has changed.

Ever notice how the least likable characters are the most morally intact? Except maybe Paul and Linda McCartney…they seemed to do all right for the short cameo they had. But Lisa isn’t typically scoring a lot of ‘like points’ unless she’s being uncharacteristically mean or sneaky. I suppose Maggie giving Homer a non-toxic playdoughnut was a nice gesture that endeared her to me a little more…but if it had been a real donut, well I’m not sure if the endearment would have been as deep.

I guess the Simpsons helps us cope with the darker tendencies lurking in our midbrains…and it feels kinda…nice.

That part where the constellation of cybershits all over the country suddenly went Maximum Overdrive and plowed into all the nation’s public libraries and burned all the books was pretty impactful.

It got too weird to watch after the starlink satellites started shooting laser beams to blind anyone who voted blue. I had to learn from my kids, who kept watching, about the parts showing the compulsory Neuralink implants and subsequent shock-induced enslavement.

The Things We Make by Bill Hammack is engaging and talks about the history of engineering as its own pioneering thing (and not just a practical application of scientific discoveries).

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn is pretty engaging.

1491 by Mann is a particular favorite of mine.