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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _The Dawn_, 1881

I stand by this post.

Thing that is NOT A CAT walks through the front yard, Aug17 2025.

"Isn't life a hundred times too short to be bored?" -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Beyond Good and Evil_, 1886

"A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against the author when he praises his second book at the expense of the first (or vice versa) and then asks the author to be grateful for that." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Mixed Opinions and Maxims (1879)

"Stuprate" has current significance. Well, always, actually...but some interpretations of the word are applicable to currently powerful people.

The book I'm reading had two words I had to look up. The first was "ordure", which was in a nearby dictionary and was a pleasant surprise. The second was "stuprate", which was not in three dictionaries, two hardbound and one softcover. The huge Webster's Unabridged had it. It's also online.

"England's High Church would sooner forgive someone for attacking thirty-eight of its thirty-nine articles of faith than for attempting to take away one-thirty-ninth of its cash income." -- Karl Marx, _Capital_, 1867

I got my Eureka Altima back in what, 1990 or so. Had some babysitting cleanup to do. Maybe I had it before that...can't remember. Keep up part replacement and regular greasing (oil? haha) and it should work forever.

YouTube video by ThatVacuumGuy Eureka Altima 2006 (2996)

New filters in the 30+-year-old Eureka Altima vacuum cleaner. It is, once again, one of the loudest, most powerful vacuum cleaners in the entire world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAng...

Judge says he'll approve opioid settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue and Sackler family A federal bankruptcy court judge on Friday said he will approve OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma’s latest deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids that includes some money for thousa...

Make the Sacklers pay. apnews.com/article/purd...

"I have done that," says my memory. "I cannot have done that," says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually -- memory yields." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886)

(This precedes Freud's theory of repression.)

‘I can’t take any more of this,’ then-Prince Andrew wrote during Epstein scandal, emails reveal New emails released in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal have renewed sexual assault allegations against the man once known as Prince Andrew.

"As the man formerly known as Prince Andrew" is the beginning of a news story. LOL. apnews.com/article/prin...

Poor Ted Cruz.

It's not health insurance. It's insurance.

It has little, if anything, to do with health.

"Insurance is the second oldest profession." -- Insurance salesman and father of a close friend

Not sure about the 1990s meme applying to my 1960s/1970s school days. The definitions are different...but I wanted to achieve *my* goals, not *theirs* (not sure that's understood, but...), and mine were fuzzy. Constantly moving.

I wonder if I *had* an ideal. I bet, for everyone, YMMV.

I suspect very few reach their ideal.

Years ago, I decided to re-paint all the trim in my house. Got that done, was pleased, *and* was pleased at what I'd learned doing it (transcended the goal). Then I decided to re-paint every wall and ceiling. Damn the goalposts.

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

They do weird things. Here's what happened recently, in my neighborhood, when a train stopped on its tracks.

Not how one soul comes close to another but how it moves away shows me their kinship and how much they belong together. -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Mixed Opinions and Maxims, 1879

This was found at takebackkentucky.com/uncategorize...

What happened to Bobbie Coleman? Are photos of her...well, I found what appears to be one. Does she still have a job?

Any other photos of Bobbie Coleman? For someone with such a prominent post in that party, it seems she's been cleansed from the Internet.

"The worst readers are those who proceed like plundering soldiers: they pick up a few things they can use, soil and confuse the rest, and blaspheme the whole." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Mixed Opinions and Maxims_ (1879)

Another "free steak dinner" US mail arrived. Sure enough, it's about retirement income. I'd never been to one of these, and I'm not sure I want to eat steak. Sigh.

It's an art form.

When I was looking for a house, I liked using a powerful flashlight on walls and corners. It didn't matter much but I wanted to see if others were as bad as I was at making things match up. Esp. kitchen countertops where they meet a door or dishwasher. Moulding = coverup.

When the Supreme Court decides to not hear a case, does that mean "Go away, not worth my time"?