Missive #337 Published 25 August 2024
Continuing The Anti-Federalist Papers
Brutus IX
by Robert Yates
To the Citizens of the State of New-York
Missive #336 Published 23 August 2024
49. Nasruddin’s Toothache
Nasruddin had a terrible toothache. It had been hurting for days, getting worse every day. It hurt when he lay down; it hurt when he was standing up. He tried putting warm compresses on it, but that did not help. Warm salt water did not help either. Nasruddin’s wife felt sorry for him at first, but she eventually lost her patience. “If that were my tooth,” she finally told him, “I would go have it removed.”
“If it were your tooth, I’d have it removed too!” Nasruddin shouted back at her. “The problem is that it’s my tooth, not yours.”
Missive #335 Published 19 August 2024
The Illuminatus! Trilogy comprises three parts which contain five books and appendices: The Eye in the Pyramid (first two books), The Golden Apple (third and part of fourth book), Leviathan (part of fourth and all of fifth book, and the appendices). The parts were first published as three separate volumes starting in September 1975. In 1984 they were published as an omnibus edition and are now more commonly reprinted in the latter form.
Missive #334 Published 18 August 2024
Continuing The Anti-Federalist Papers
Brutus VIII
by Robert Yates
To the Citizens of the State of New-York
Missive #333 Published 16 August 2024
48. Nasruddin’s Lost Key
Nasruddin was walking around his yard, peering down at the ground and muttering to himself.Nasruddin’s wife came out and asked him, “Did you lose something?”
“I’ve lost my key,” said Nasruddin.
“I’ll help you look,” said his wife.
Some time passed, and his wife was ready to give up. “Do you have any idea just where exactly you might have dropped it?” she asked.
“I dropped it somewhere in the basement,” Nasruddin replied, not looking up.
“Then why are you looking for it out here?” she exclaimed.
“It’s dark in the basement,” Nasruddin said. “There’s more light out here.”
Missive #332 Published 15 August 2024
This deeply informed book traces the dramatic history of early Soviet-western relations after World War I. Michael Jabara Carley provides a lively exploration of the formative years of Soviet foreign policy making after the Bolshevik Revolution, especially focusing on Soviet relations with the West during the 1920s. Carley demonstrates beyond doubt that this seminal period—termed the "silent conflict" by one Soviet diplomat—launched the Cold War. He shows that Soviet-western relations, at best grudging and mistrustful, were almost always hostile. Concentrating on the major western powers—Germany, France, Great Britain, and the United States—the author also examines the ongoing political upheaval in China that began with the May Fourth Movement in 1919 as a critical influence on western-Soviet relations.
Missive #331 Published 13 August 2024
A collection of essays on society, environment, politics and economics written between 2012 and 2014. This is the second book in the Collapse Chronicles which are compilations of blog posts to ClubOrlov. I have a quoted from two of those essays here.
Missive #330 Published 11 August 2024
Continuing The Federalist Papers.
Federalist No. 27
The Same Subject Continued: The Idea of Restraining the Legislative Authority in Regard to the Common Defense Considered
Author: Alexander Hamilton
To the People of the State of New York:
Missive #329 Published 10 August 2024
Created by the bestselling SF novelist Jerry Pournelle, THERE WILL BE WAR is a landmark science fiction anthology series that combines top-notch military science fiction with factual essays by various generals and military experts on everything from High Frontier and the Strategic Defense Initiative to the aftermath of the Vietnam War. THERE WILL BE WAR is a treasure trove of science fiction and history that will educate and amaze new readers while reminding old ones how much the world has changed over the last three decades. Most of the stories, like war itself, remain entirely relevant today.
Missive #328 Published 9 August 2024
47. WHAT THE QUARREL WAS ABOUT
Nasruddin and his wife awoke to the sound of men quarreling outside. The shouting got louder and louder.“I’ll go see what they are quarreling about,” said Nasruddin.
He then lit a lamp and went downstairs.
His wife heard him open the front door. Almost immediately, the shouting stopped. She wondered what Nasruddin had said to stop the quarrel so quickly.
“What happened?” she asked when he came back to bed.
“When I opened the door, one of them grabbed my lamp, and then they both ran off,” Nasruddin replied. “I suppose they must have been quarreling about my lamp!”