Missive #341 Published 3 September 2024
This book was not any easier to read than the prior two histories, 1939 and Silent Conflict. It picks up where Silent Conflict left off and takes you to 1939. Most historians when writing about a period focus on country leaders; this author focuses on the country diplomats with the leaders taking a back seat. Good history but difficult reading for me.
Missive #340 Published 1 September 2024
Continuing The Federalist Papers.
Federalist No. 28
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 #339 Published 30 August 2024
50. Nine Months for a Baby
Nasruddin’s wife had given birth to a child barely three months after their wedding.
“Pardon me for asking,” said Nasruddin, “but doesn’t it usually take nine months for babies to be born?”
“That’s right,” she replied.
“But then how could you have had this child so soon?” he asked.
“It’s simple arithmetic,” she answered.
Missive #338 Published 26 August 2024
There was heavy cloud cover this morning and we had a few sprinkles when we started our walk. I decided not to chance getting wet and we did a potty walk. Maybe get in a mid day walk and maybe not.
I was late getting the posting up for yesterday. Got involved in the dual boot project again and forgot about doing anything else. I now have what I think to be a good bootable thumb drive with Android operating system on it. When I try to boot that it fails and continues to boot up the default operating system.
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.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.