tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64023494133878702042024-03-13T09:56:49.123-04:00Jumping BailFiction stranger than truthjdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.comBlogger3099125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-145236387276320152018-12-31T16:53:00.000-05:002018-12-31T16:53:26.120-05:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">Good-bye 2018</span></b><br />
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See y'all n the other side.<br />
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<br />jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-61410113269814836582018-03-31T06:00:00.000-04:002018-03-31T06:00:26.816-04:00<b>The telegraph, railroad . . .</b><br />
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. . . and the Pony Express<br />
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It’s often thought that railroad and the telegraph killed
the Pony Express. But in fact, both were not only around when the Pony started,
the service made use of both. This is a map of the train line that brought mail
from the East – including and especially New York City – to St. Joseph, the
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<br />jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-2546577102318982312018-03-29T05:30:00.000-04:002018-03-29T05:30:15.357-04:00<br />
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“<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Of thundering hooves and
priority mail: a lively history of the short-lived but much-evoked Pony
Express. As novelist and pop historian DeFelice (The Helios Conspiracy, 2012,
etc.) acknowledges throughout, there's not much that we know with absolute
certainty about some of the players and events in the Pony Express effort, a
private enterprise for which records are not always available. The service was
fast—a letter could cross half the continent in 10 days thanks to the relay
system of riders and fast horses—but "the idea of speed was really the
important thing" in a time when telegraph lines were going up and plans
for a transcontinental railroad were being conjured. The key players were an
unlikely mix of slaveholders, frontiersmen, freighters, and entrepreneurs who
saw opportunity in providing a communications infrastructure to a military
stretched out across a vast, sparsely settled region. But there's much more to
the Pony Express than just business history, for it threads into a landscape
populated by young legends-to-be like Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok,
whose stories DeFelice happily weaves into the narrative: Courage and stamina
were desiderata, of course, but as he notes, "if gunplay figured into it,
so much the better, but you didn't have to be literally wild to be celebrated.
Being tenacious and undaunted in the face of myriad hardships would do."
There's plenty in the memories of supposed riders like Cody to suggest truth
but not much hard evidence to say that they were actually onboard, which lends
a nice hazy touch to the whole legend. Soon enough—in just a couple of
years—the likes of Western Union, founded by an associate of Samuel Morse,
"whose greatest genius was his ability to acquire and merge the various
small companies operating local lines," would put an end to the Pony
Express, but for all that, it lives on in memory. Good stuff for Western
history buffs, to say nothing of fans of the Post Office.”<o:p></o:p></span></blockquote>
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(West Like Lightning has been selected for the airline’s
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<br />jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-60319103010452444672018-03-27T04:00:00.000-04:002018-03-27T04:00:15.821-04:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">History Book Club . . .</span></b><br />
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. . . picks up West Like Lightning<br />
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We now have a website:<br />
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<br />jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-47978949497360416772018-03-16T10:37:00.002-04:002018-03-16T10:37:17.647-04:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">Reality copies art . . .</span></b><br />
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. . . or something like that. Consider:<br />
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The plot of Helios Conspiracy and this from today's NYT:<br />
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Maybe Trump will call on Andy Fisher to help him out.<br />
<br />jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-89883381381538266532018-01-26T19:01:00.002-05:002018-01-26T19:01:35.570-05:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks for the plug</span></b><br />
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West Like Lightning is highlighted at the almost-very end.<br />
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Thanks! Really excited about this book.jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-67954051709419378672018-01-25T20:17:00.000-05:002018-01-25T20:17:02.413-05:00<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The trail</span></b><br />
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One piece of the puzzle:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">It's the summer of 2014. A hacker from the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD has penetrated the computer network of a university building next to the Red Square in Moscow, oblivious to the implications. One year later, from the AIVD headquarters in Zoetermeer, he and his colleagues witness Russian hackers launching an attack on the Democratic Party in the United States. The AIVD hackers had not infiltrated just any building; they were in the computer network of the infamous Russian hacker group Cozy Bear. And unbeknownst to the Russians, they could see everything.</span></blockquote>
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<a href="https://s.vk.nl/s-a4561913/?_sp=78d8c244-65a4-4e16-8d7e-ee7452af884c.1516929048418" target="_blank">Story.</a><br />
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Couldn't have done this better in a novel.jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-86772224872074216292018-01-10T20:00:00.000-05:002018-01-10T20:00:05.688-05:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">Lemons are a mobster's best friend</span></b><br />
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New theory on how the mafia started: it was all in the lemons.<br />
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<a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mafia-lemons-citrus-sicily-economics" target="_blank">Article.</a>jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-19139709924874428262018-01-08T15:22:00.000-05:002018-01-08T15:22:04.965-05:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">Weaponized Facebook</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #090909; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 16px;">We still don’t know the exact degree of collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign. But the debate over collusion, while important, risks missing what should be an obvious point: Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other platforms were manipulated by the Russians to shift outcomes in Brexit and the U.S. presidential election, and unless major changes are made, they will be manipulated again. Next time, there is no telling who the manipulators will be.</span></blockquote>
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<a href="https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/january-february-march-2018/how-to-fix-facebook-before-it-fixes-us/#.WlJCwtx0qu8.twitter" target="_blank">How to fix it.</a><br />
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<br />jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-2270587974260203582018-01-07T10:54:00.003-05:002018-01-07T10:54:46.969-05:00<br />
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<br />jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-41956512130278721012018-01-06T17:01:00.000-05:002018-01-06T17:01:34.118-05:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">Censorship . . .</span></b><br />
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. . . . is still censorship, even if they want your book to replace the one (in this case, Ray Bradbury's <i>Fahrenheit 451</i>) they ban.<br />
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“Filth,” that parent called Bradbury’s work, as she pressed for it to be removed from an eighth grade reading list. The concerned mom leading the banning effort didn’t see its prophetic relevance. All she saw was a vulgarity, the word “bastard,” which she felt was inappropriate for her 13-year-old daughter. “I’m just trying to keep my little girl a little girl,” she said.<br />This kind of book-banning effort isn’t unusual, but this one was a gut punch. Why? Because the parent organizing the banning effort suggested that Bradbury’s work should be replaced with something more acceptable to her.<br />Among her suggestions for more “suitable” material: my own dystopian novel, <em style="border: 0px none rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When the English Fall</em>.<br />I cannot imagine receiving a more troubling and heartbreaking endorsement.</blockquote>
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Note that the author is himself a pastor.jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-40064526355360726392018-01-05T07:10:00.000-05:002018-01-05T07:10:06.755-05:00<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Portrait of the artist . . .</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 17px;">Like most struggling artists, Harry Bertschmann is hoping to be discovered. Unlike them, he already has a pedigree: he has shown his work alongside Mark Rothko, Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell while they were still alive and in their prime. In 1958, a large Bertschmann canvas was featured in the Carnegie International exhibition in Pittsburgh, a rarefied achievement for any artist, let alone one in his mid-20s. Since then, Mr. Bertschmann has painted or drawn nearly every day of his adult life, producing a body of work that has been praised by some of the art world’s foremost tastemakers. Yet he has remained virtually unknown.</span></blockquote>
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There are many hundreds of men like Mr. Bertschmann; hopefully he and his wife will find some financial success soon.<br />
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/nyregion/the-struggling-artist-at-86.html" target="_blank">Story.</a>jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-29547649417761734042018-01-04T06:05:00.000-05:002018-01-04T06:05:15.438-05:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">Math</span></b><br />
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People talk about a decline in American military power and look for exotic answers. The obvious one is staring them in the face:<br />
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You get what you pay for.<br />
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Drowning government in a bathtub has consequences.jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-7328851264414149902017-12-31T18:00:00.000-05:002017-12-31T18:00:39.032-05:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">Out with the old . . .</span></b><br />
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. . . in with the new (year, that is)<br />
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<br />jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-80923003752655031802017-12-30T13:00:00.000-05:002017-12-30T13:00:51.819-05:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">Star Wars</span></b><br />
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Finally managed to see the new Star Wars installment and like it. But I kept wondering - When is Captain Picard going to show up and say, "Resistance is futile"?<br />
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<br />jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-11222781868940751112017-12-30T06:02:00.003-05:002017-12-30T06:02:58.143-05:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">Russia props up international outlaw</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;">LONDON/MOSCOW — Russian tankers have supplied fuel to North Korea on at least three occasions in recent months by transferring cargoes at sea, according to two senior Western European security sources, providing an economic lifeline to the secretive Communist state.</span></blockquote>
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Shocking. Just shocking.<br />
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<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-tankers-have-smuggled-oil-north-korea-breach-u-n-n833531" target="_blank">Story.</a><br />
<br />jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-2529856724714496152017-12-29T19:18:00.000-05:002017-12-29T19:18:08.621-05:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">Inspired by someone?</span></b><br />
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Taya Kyle and I are working on a book of inspirational stories focusing on people who have struggled through adversity and gone on to help others in big and small ways. So far we have a wide range – from a young man who asked for donations for a food bank rather than candy at Halloween to a woman who was instrumental in establishing a university in war-torn Afghanistan.<o:p></o:p></div>
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jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-64308836683195506352017-12-28T06:04:00.003-05:002017-12-28T06:04:30.191-05:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">Tax 'revolts'</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">1773: American protest taxes by tossing tea in harbor.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">There's a dissonance there I can't quite get my head around.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span>jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-32433921999169175052017-12-24T02:00:00.000-05:002017-12-24T02:00:07.394-05:00<br />
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<br />jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-9038623235506386002017-12-22T07:42:00.004-05:002017-12-22T07:42:32.394-05:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">First flight . . .</span></b><br />
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<br />jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-32858686622008414922017-12-17T02:00:00.000-05:002017-12-17T02:00:44.384-05:00<br />
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<br />jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6402349413387870204.post-22422002391340123462017-12-16T11:24:00.000-05:002017-12-16T11:24:22.610-05:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">A Place of Absence</span></b><br />
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I haven't seen this yet, but the topic is gripping. Andrew McLaren was involved in it, so you know it's good:<br />
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<span style="font-family: ProximaNova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The Caravan of Mothers is an organization of brave Central American women, who embark on an epic yearly bus journey throughout Mexico in a desperate search for their sons and daughters that have disappeared on the grim journey to the United States. For the last thirteen years the Caravan of Mothers have created empowerment for these poor, indigenous peasant women that have become political and human rights activists by forming this alliance to find their loved ones. </span></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-place-of-absence_us_5a3169e1e4b06a512dd69cc7" target="_blank">More on the movie.</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.aplacefilm.com/" target="_blank">The movie's website.</a>jdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15587846633717391540noreply@blogger.com0