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I didn't click the links. I guess I was afraid something might take aim at me! Our Europeans friends hate us enough already SFG! We don't need to add fuel to the flames. I can hang my skirts in peace tonight, then.

Big Nope to that one But I would never try to take that notion away from another person, or child. Life is brutal and he will learn that, though not directly from me. Tis not for me to give him a fantastical notion nor to strip him of it. I have toyed with the idea of attending the Unitarian...

oh SFG surely you are making these comments in jest. How could a fellow book lover and alleged rational person not see the slippery slope we are on here in this country? Are you trapped in a Nebraskan solipsism? A Midwestern mind warp? This upsets me right down to my last layer of crinoline.

I usually run from anything in a series:eek: but one day far in the future I'd like to read Trollope from Barchester Towers all the way through, what 45 or so novels? I read the first Barchester Towers, The Warden, several years ago and it was, surprisingly, rich and interesting with...

No guns, the factors won't play out in the same stupid ways. All of the ills can't be fixed. The expression of them could be mitigated with some sensible controls. I work in MO (a "right to carry" state) and each day read the signs posted all over our building "No concealed weapons...

Yes, Justin and Abeced, you are both so right. It's a great function of self-awareness and discipline. And head knowledge doesn't always translate into behavior. Plus, don't you both, as Americans, detect that sense of entitlement in too many folks over here? It's embarrassing! The notion that...

Watch the news...you want to know why I lack basic trust in most humans: Justin, This makes my point for me! The instinct to defend is primitive, basic, and can be pushed past if we want to move our species further. We all have the innate desire to defend and protect. But when we make...

I think it should be as difficult for the average person to buy a gun as it would be to obtain dynamite. Ranchers, hunters, people who actually have a legitimate purpose for owning a firearm, could be determined and controlled. Those who say they fear "gun control" are being disingenuous. It's...

Oh but many, many Americans care very much what the rest of the world thinks of us. And more importantly what we think of ourselves. These good people just aren't in power right now, but hopefully that will change in the next couple of years. Because of our processes, change here doesn't happen...

This would be a good start. I'm less and less sympathetic to this problem because of the underlying attitude many Americans have about food which is- We have so much, darn it we deserve to be full all the time. -Or something along those lines. It's almost a congratulatory thing at every meal in...

Jimmy Mac- Martha Reeves & The Vandellas

Dawkins I just adore the analogy of the outstretched arm and fingertips. And Dawkins is right. But his screeching tone, from what I gather, is not the way to bring people into the light of reason. Giving a reader the scalded dog treatment, for one who might be on the fence and ready to take the...

New Attitude - Patti LaBelle

This is such an interesting thread and I'm wondering if, through all the years of his taking a moralist stance and admonishing Germans about not facing their pasts, he was trying to come to terms with his own culpability. Seems rather obvious now that he may have been given extra voom toward...

The Fly - U2

East of Eden is my favorite Steinbeck so far. Read The Pearl and The Red Pony long ago, but read Eden 3yrs ago for my face to face book club. Wow, what a staggering read. The symbolism aside, the clarity of the prose and dialogue held me rapt for hours at a time. I glanced through this thread...

Welcome, mogo. Enjoy!

yes, mogo, what a good point about the dialogue, especially between Elizabeth and Darcy and between Elizabeth's aunt and uncle. Good, true irony also, very funny. The only thing that I sort of don't care for about Austen are her happy endings. I don't know why that is, but the endings seem...

This does sound like fun. And doable.

Man on the Moon - REM ...great new avatar, poppy. Love beautiful things and think they should be all around....