2018

1. La Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri

2. Of Mice & Men by John Steinbeck

3. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll

4. Bhagavad Gita (Anonymous)

5. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

6. The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer

Thank you, 2018.  

Inferno ~ Dante Alighieri

Broken Media, Broken Politics

I read this today & enjoyed it.  

WHOLE ARTICLE: https://digboston.com/broken-media-broken-politics/

*** "The point is that a polity where a Charlie Baker can be incredibly popular is a broken polity.  And a news media that enables him is a broken news media.  Baker does not represent even the interest of the white middle class that keeps voting him into office, let alone the working class as a whole.  A media that was doing its job would make that patently clear.  Every hour of every day.  Yet it does the opposite.  Because it too is controlled by the same rich and powerful interests that control politics and ensure pols like Baker keep getting elected.  Whether those pols call themselves Democrats or Republicans.  So to fix politics, we have to fix the media...And the fix starts with journalists who are independent and strive to tell the truth about problems in media and the political system.  Every hour of every day.  Beyond that there's not much to say."*** 

PIRATE CAPTAIN JIM ~ SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Shel - I too have seen this phenomenon in life. 

*** 

"Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim.
"But Captain Jim, I cannot swim."
"Then you must steer us through the gale."
"But Captain Jim, I cannot sail."
"Then down with the galley slaves you go."
"But Captain Jim, I cannot row."
"Then you must be the pirate's clerk."
"But Captain Jim, I cannot work."
"Then a pirate captain you must be."
"Thank you, Jim," says Captain Me.

Protect Yourself Against Cyberthreats: How to Create a Strong Password - USAA

https://communities.usaa.com/t5/Your-Future/Protect-Yourself-Against-Cyberthreats-How-to-Create-a-Strong/ba-p/202065

2017 - Subterranean homesick blues

Thank you, 2017. 



1. The Aeneid by Virgil
2. Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
3. Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
4. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
5. Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

6. The Alchemist by Paolo Coehlo

7. Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson
8. The Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

9. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

10. The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer

11. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

12. A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen

13. Going Into Town : a Love Letter to New York by Roz Chast