Ed Frey – A Four Score Graybeard

Missive #270 Published 1 May 2024

I had my last breakfast , this stay, at the Morning Cafe in Bisbee on Saturday. That was also my last shopping trip to Bisbee; stocked up enough to last me a couple of weeks I hope. While being close to the laundromat from Safeway I got laundry done as well. Then drove into Old Bisbee where I had a short wait for The Old Bisbee Roaster to open and grind #5 of cofee for me. I have been ordering from him online for a few years but this was the first time that I was close enough to stop by and pick it up.

Got started doing the month end house cleaning chores on Sunday. Finished doing them on Monday plus I got the holding tanks dumped and water tank filled. So I'm ready to get on the road to my next camp. It is not going to be a very long drive but I'm planning on making it longer than it need be by going out of my way to make a few stops.

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Missive #269 Published 29 April 2024

Eva Lotte Louise Joan Vlaardingerbroek is a Dutch right-wing activist and a legal philosopher by education. She has been particularly vocal about the issues surrounding farmers in the Dutch farmers' protests and is noted for her criticism of the Dutch government under prime minister Mark Rutte. Here is the transcript from her CPAC Hungary speech held Budapest, Hungary. The Main Stream Media gave passing mention to Prime Minister Viktor Orban's remarks at the meeting but have avoided Eva's. This speech is the reason why the Biden administration and Western elites are so desperate to control speech. They can’t allow the people to have access to free thoughts and differing ideas.

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Missive #268 Published 28 April 2024

Continuing The Anti-Federalist Papers

Agrippa XIX
by James Winthrop
To the Massachusetts Convention

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Missive #267 Published 26 April 2024

32. NASRUDDIN RESCUES THE MOON

Nasruddin’s house happened to catch on fire while Nasruddin was in the coffeehouse. One of his neighbors came bursting in to tell him the bad news.

“Nasruddin!” he shouted. “Come quickly! Your house is on fire!”

Nasruddin jumped up and ran to see what had happened. It was true: his house really was on fire. Flames were shooting up into the air and the whole structure was about to collapse.

Nasruddin, however, just stood there smiling.…

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Missive #266 Published 22 April 2024

The third novel [and last] in a World War I alternate history series [Black Chamber] where America's greatest weapon against Germany is Black Chamber secret agent Luz O'Malley and technical genius Ciara Whelan. Only they can protect America's best hope of winning the war.

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Missive #265 Published 21 April 2024

Continuing The Federalist Papers.

Federalist No. 19
The Same Subject Continued: The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union
Author: Alexander Hamilton and James Madison
To the People of the State of New York:

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Missive #264 Published 19 April 2024

31. THE SUN OR THE MOON?…

Slot machines, revamped by evermore compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry's revenue mainstay. Drawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll explores the dark side of machine gambling—a solitary, rapid, continuous form of play that has less to do with the competitive thrill of winning than with the pull of "the machine zone," as gamblers call the trancelike state they enter.

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Missive #263 Published 18 April 2024

Most of Pollan's books are about food and eating but this one about architecture was very interesting. I enjoy the way he ties the main subject of a book to side issues that relate to that subject. If you expect this book to be a 'how to' build a hut then you will be disappointed but if you want to read a well written book then give this a try. I'll be reading more of his plants, cooking and eating books as time permits.

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Missive #262 Published 15 April 2024

Great book. Not a great novel. But rather a highly thought provoking Socratic dialogue with an agenda to introduce the reader to evidence based, experimentally derived public policy creation and the behavioral engineering world view.
It's important to remember, the book was first published in 1948. So yes, much of it is dated. But it's brash, atheistic, rational, highly pragmatic, dialectical approach would be ahead of its time if it were written in 2019.
Skinner is perhaps the most misunderstood and wrongly maligned Psychologist ever. But in the age of internet based, algorithmic behavioral tracking, behavioral forecasting and behavioral modification, ignore Skinner at your own peril.

Author name: Ed Frey