How to download free books directly via your Kindle’s built-in Web browser? Alas, Project Gutenberg and most other public domain sites aren’t optimized right now for devices with small screens and slow browsers. And free download guides—with links to public domain books—are not as easy and convenient to use as they could be. Enter FreeKindleBooks.org. [...]
I mentioned recently that my sister Julesie gave me Season 1 of "The Muppet Show" for my birthday. One of the best sketches from the DVD set is one that most of us (all except for Jim of course, who, because of a childhood full of "wasteful" activities that kept him away from the television**--like playing outside and reading--does not have a brain that is a magnet for catch phrases,...
“Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.” – Bo Bennett quotes “How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’.” – Martin Luther quotes (German Priest and Scholar whose questioning of certain church practices led to the Protestant Reformation. 1483-1546) “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if...
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Mamacita says: What’s that? STUPIDITY? How intensely politically incorrect! Gotta love something that’s politically incorrect! Well, I do, anyway. Euphemisms are for the weak. Euphemisms cheapen our language, and draw our attention away from important things. 1. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. — Albert [...]
LOUISIANA LETTER:If the marsh areas are destroyed, the consequences for the flow of the Mississippi will be significant – with serious and lasting repercussions for the US economy
I’m currently reading Rules of Thumb, 52 Truths For Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self, by Alan M. Webber. Webber has serious thought leader/biz cred since he was the co-founder of Fast Company magazine. As one might expect of a professional, thinking journalist, Webber has written a book that is easy to read, imminently dippable [...]
"It’s time to move Hal Holbrook off the Oscar bubble and into the fold. The 84-year-old actor delivers arguably the performance of his career in That Evening Sun, director Scott Teems’s terrific adaptation of the William Gay short story “I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down.” Holbrook plays Abner Meecham, a Tennessean banished by his lawyer son (Walton Goggins) to a...
Not content to remain permanently in the shadow of the succès fou of Jonah’s magnum opus Liberal Fascism: From Mark Twain to Oat Bran Muffins, John J. Miller, the resident dork at America’s Shittiest Website™ and perpetrator of the 100 Most Awesome Conservative Rock Songs, has become an author (of sorts). His long-awaited masterpiece [...]
In 1519, Hernan Cortés landed with a fleet of 12 ships near present day Veracruz, Mexico. The flotilla held 500 Spaniards, 300 natives, a dozen horses and a few cannons. Cortés’ aim was to conquer the Aztec Empire and take possession of its great wealth. The legend is that before launching the attack, Cortés burned his ships to prevent his men from retreating. Through the...
(Associated Press) Police in North Carolina say they will bring new charges in the case of a 5-year-old girl whose body was found nearly a week after a man is accused of kidnapping her from her Fayetteville home.
(By John Murawski, john.murawski@newsobserver.com) The nation's biggest manufacturing site for Kellogg's snacks began laying off employees in Cary this morning as part of a corporate reorganization. The Battle Creek, Mich.-based company is moving ahead with plans to cut $1 billion in annual costs, but spokesman Kris Charles would not disclose the number of local jobs to be cut.