High tech got you down?

I've seen a few more changes of the seasons than a lot of folks have, some of the high tech stuff that's out there today is just too out there for me…..

I'm not afraid of it, you understand, I'm not a Princess-phone Luddite or anything, I have unlimited text messaging on my cell phone, I carry a flash drive in my pocket….

But, I confess, Google Glasses aren't for me.

So, here's the thing: high tech is in the eye of the beholder.

Check out this once-upon-a-time, state-of-the-art graphic of Civil War facts and chronology:

The Comparative Synoptical Chart Co. obviously published this in the 19^th century, I couldn't get a date for it, but obviously it was high tech back in the day….

Maybe you should put the Google Glasses on before you tackle this one.

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/08/colonial-sex-manual.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/07/history-repeats-itself.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/07/i-double-dog-dare-ya.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/05/coast-to-coast-flights-good-old-days.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/04/not-fit-for-king.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/07/trash-talk-to-king-george.html

"Could you repeat that question, please?"

What makes them do it?

Right now, I'm not talking about the Republicans in the House, who voted on Thursday to deprive almost 4 million poor people of food stamp assistance next year (and almost 3 million more—each and every year—for the next nine years). The right wing is in charge there….

No, I'm talking about the folks who live in Owsley County, Kentucky.

Owsley County, in southeastern Kentucky, is the poorest county in America. Half of the people in Owsley County receive federal aid to buy food. Food stamps help keep these people alive.

Now, Owsley County is red on the political map, it's a Republican stronghold, 98% white, 81% voted Republican in 2012.

The folks in Owsley County are represented by Congressman Hal Rogers (R), who voted "Yes" to slash food stamps.

Why do the folks in Owsley County, and millions like them, continue to vote for politicians whose votes in Congress are explicitly contrary to their personal and economic best interests?

What makes them do it?

Could you repeat that question, please?

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/10/whos-going-to-jail.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/10/were-cooking-planet-part-11.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-new-politically-correct.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/10/heres-what-budget-deal-cost-you.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/10/to-all-bibliophiles-iceland-or-bust.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/10/but-dont-close-national-parks-in-my.html

Same old, same old….

The House Republicans are going to do it again.

They are applauding themselves about passing a bill that everyone on the surface of the planet knows will not pass the Senate and will not become law. They're not doing "government," they're diddling.

The GOP will vote for a bill to continue funding the federal government and to de-fund the Affordable Care Act—so-called "Obamacare."

I think this will be the 43^rd time for the House Republicans, in their useless quest to cut back or eliminate the important health care reform law.

They keep doing useless, headline-grabbing stuff like this, and they pay no attention to enacting legislation that will boost growth in our national economy and help create jobs for millions of Americans who want to work.

Why does anyone keep re-electing the people who aren't doing The People's work?

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/07/no-no-be-truck-driver.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-do-nothingest-congress-ever.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/06/memo-to-congress-what.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/06/we-think-congress-well-yknow-sucks.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-value-of-voter-apathy.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/05/all-politics-is-local.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/04/are-we-forgetting-majority-rule.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2012/08/dont-vote-for-incumbents.html

Takin' it easy….

See, I think a lot of folks don't really know how to take it easy, so, as a public service, I'm offering this hint:

Even if you're dressed to go to work, you can still take a few minutes for yourself, in the library….

And if you ARE taking it easy, tramping through the bosky glades, and you feel like you'd like to just flop for a while and read something, this is the kind of book store you need to find….

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/09/picking-right-book.html

           

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-wisdom-of-christopher-morley.html    

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/06/guilty.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/06/sweet-dreams.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/05/with-dragons-you-want-tidy.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/05/another-kind-of-book-club.html

The good old library....

The big old brass plaque on the wall in the library's entrance lobby said, in Roman numerals, MCMVIII.

So, OK, the women at the desk knew the library is old, one of them proudly said "1905" when I asked. And they were proud to point out the recent addition, a large room filled with stacks and filling up with people as we walked through minutes after the library opened.

The American history section was more than decent. That's my standard of excellence.

And the very big, very old carved wooden American eagle standing guard at the stairway was more than excellent. That's one of my standards of decency....

Books and birds and MCMVIII, I was loving' it....

Dream sequence....

Imagine waking up to find that everyone cared -- really cared -- mostly about the right things.

The other day the rector asked for contributions to an "End 68 Hours Of Hunger" campaign.

With initial disbelief, I heard him explain that the project aims to provide food to children who are so poor that they get nothing to eat in the 68 hours between the subsidized school snack they get on Fridays and the subsidized school breakfast they get on Mondays.

It's real hard to get an education when your stomach is shriveled from prolonged hunger.

For a sec, I though about trying to go without eating for 68 hours....then I dropped an appropriate gift in the plate.

On the list of "right things to care about," feeding hungry children is right up there.

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2012/02/wisdom-of-jesse-jackson-sr.html

The Syria thing....

The Syria thing is a mess.

Shame on Congress for dithering, as usual, and failing to take a stand against the horrific use of poison gas against civilians.

Shame on Putin and Russia for obstructing justice (i. e., a swift international response to Assad), and for obscenely proposing to force Assad to voluntarily turn over his chemical weapons for supervised destruction....does anyone on the surface of the planet think that's going to happen?

Shame on President Obama for not staying the course and insisting that the U. S. do the right thing without transparent diplomatic shenanigans.....

I support Tom Friedman's idea: the U. S. should send arms to the good guys on the Syrian rebel side, and President Obama should insist every day, day after day, that every government on earth should condemn the Syrian government.

The first ring of Hell....

Yesterday I would have denied the possibility....

Today I spent enough time in a new book store to convince myself that I didn't see anything I want.

I think, clearly, that I just didn't spend enough time there....I'll guess it's the first time in 25 years that I walked out of a bookstore without a bag.

Je suis manqué.

Picking the right book….

   

See, you never can tell what's going to happen when you're in the middle of a book, so it's pretty smart to think ahead, make sure you have yourself covered and all….

Here's a clue about how to pick the right book:

On the other hand, this is a pretty good fall-back strategy:

Now, if you force me to pick one, I'm going to say "To Kill A Mockingbird" is the book I want you to pry out of my hands, when you find me….

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/03/and-step-on-it.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2012/12/guard-cat.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/05/wear-old-coat.html

The wisdom of Jon Stewart

"I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way.

        I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house,

                 we had an enormous feast,

 and then I killed them and took their land."

Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz "Jon Stewart" (b. 1962)

You know who he is….

Yeah, the dark side of the Pilgrim saga…..

Stewart says in a sort of funny way what many of us never knew or maybe just don't think about too much….

In fact, most of the indigenous peoples on the Atlantic coast in the 17^th century weren't killed by Europeans in battle…..they were struck down by the diseases the Europeans brought to America.

Within a generation or two after first contact with Europeans, 90% of the Indians were dead.

That's one of the reasons why successive waves of new colonists thought North America was "an empty  paradise"—most of the people who had already lived there were gone.

 http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/07/trash-talk-to-king-george.html

Income inequality getting worse….

Income inequality isn't going away, but you probably already know that.

By one measure, the income gap between "the 1%" and the rest of Americans got wider last year—it reached the widest split in records going back to 1928.

The Associated Press reports that the top 1% of folks who reported income last year got almost 20% of all income (that is, wages, pensions, dividends and capital gains).

The top 10% of earners raked in almost half of all that income.

Since June 2009—the bottom of the financial meltdown, more than four years ago—95% of all reported income GAINS went to the top 1 per cent.

Presumptively, most of those really high-earning folks did it legally. Let's say, sincerely, good for them….we can just forget for the moment about those obscene CEO salaries….

So, what's the big deal?

The big deal is that these folks aren't spending all those gains the way the other 99% would spend the money if they had it, and the national economy lags accordingly.

The big deal is that too much of this income is not actually being taxed "at the highest tax rate," what with preferential low-ball tax rates for capital gains and tax loopholes that the rich can use to their advantage, and stuff like that…

The big deal is that the richest folks, overall,  give a smaller percentage of their income to charity than the poorest folks do.

The big deal is that the top 1% aren't paying a rightful portion of their income in federal taxes.

 

Here's more from Katrina vanden Heuvel on WashingtonPost.com.

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/06/dont-give-til-it-hurts.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/05/having-fun-at-disney.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/05/389000-millionaires-in-new-york-city.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/03/maybe-diana-would-have-done-it.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/01/some-people-have-too-much-moneypart-2.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2012/12/some-people-have-too-much-money.html

"With a little help from his friends…"

'Course you're gonna depend on your mother, but when a guy needs a little more help, he wants to know his friends have got his back….

Hand me the doggie treat box, we're gonna need some here….

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/08/listen-to-this.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/08/git-along-little-doggie.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/08/bed-breakfast-essentials.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/07/focus-on-love-part.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/06/take-care-of-ones-you-love.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/06/sometimes-you-really-need-somebody.html

The wisdom of the Cherokees (part 24)

"A change of season comes softly."

The wisdom of the Sequichie of the Cherokees

Indubitably, a change of season comes softly….

Life changes often come softly, I feel surprised, sometimes, when I realize that my life has changed, or I have made a new path, sometimes without conscious intention….if it's a good path, I welcome it.

The Cherokees also say:

"A woodland path is good medicine for a weary walker…"

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/06/social-networking-old-as-hills.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/02/see-with-eyes-of-artist.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2012/10/walkin-dogs.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2012/09/dogs-and-stuff.html

Who benefits?

Matt Miller at WashingtonPost.com estimates that unreasonably high costs of drugs and health care, combined with ineffective and unnecessary  treatments, and outright fraud, cost Americans $1 trillion every year in "excess" health care expenses.

That's a trillion reasons why we need more effective health care reform as a national priority.

Of course the point isn't simply to save money—but saving $1 trillion, or even a big chunk of that big chunk, would make millions and millions and millions more available to pay for health care that actually makes you and me healthier, and makes lots more Americans healthier.

Why won't our federal government allow the Social Security system to negotiate on prices with big drug companies?

Why aren't we building new prisons to hold all of the quack doctors and flim-flam artists who are fraudulently draining the health care system of way too much money?

Why are we using federal government tax revenues to help pay for drug research, when Big Pharma is hauling Big Profits to the bank?

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/08/higher-health-insurance-rates-for.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/05/surveys-as-silly-as-they-get.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/03/another-reason-we-need-health-care.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/02/health-care-cost-reform-another-step.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/02/time-bomb-for-health-care-costs.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2012/12/health-care-reformthe-ups-downs.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2012/06/reflection-on-supreme-court-ruling.html

An exciting day!

It's good to feel contentment about the day ahead.

Maybe it's the Breakfast of Champions that does it….

Maybe it's the anticipated joy of walking along with a friend, having a good talk about stuff that counts….

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/05/non-sumus-pulvis-et-umbra.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-wisdom-of-benjamin-franklin-part-7.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-wisdom-of-your-dog.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/01/climb-every-mountain.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2012/12/do-you-know-where-your-childs-head-is.html

The real skinny from John Cleese….?

Some Internet sites report that John Cleese, British actor, writer and tall person, has issued the following alert:

UPDATE ON THREAT ALERTS IN EUROPE

The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent events in Syria and have therefore raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved."

Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to "Irritated" or even "A Bit Cross." The English have not been "A Bit Cross" since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies nearly ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorized from "Tiresome" to "A Bloody Nuisance." The last time the British issued a "Bloody Nuisance" warning level was in 1588, when threatened by the Spanish Armada.

The Scots have raised their threat level from "Pissed Off" to "Let's get the Bastards." They don't have any other levels. This is the reason they have been used on the front line of the British army for the last 300 years.

The French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from "Run" to "Hide." The only two higher levels in France are "Collaborate" and "Surrender." The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France 's white flag factory, effectively paralyzing the country's military capability.

Italy has increased the alert level from "Shout Loudly and Excitedly" to "Elaborate Military Posturing." Two more levels remain: "Ineffective Combat Operations" and "Change Sides."

The Germans have increased their alert state from "Disdainful Arrogance" to "Dress in Uniform and Sing Marching Songs." They also have two higher levels: "Invade a Neighbour" and "Lose."

Belgians, on the other hand, are all on holiday as usual; the only threat they are worried about is NATO pulling out of Brussels.

The Spanish are all excited to see their new submarines ready to deploy. These beautifully designed subs have glass bottoms so the new Spanish navy can get a really good look at the old Spanish navy.

Australia, meanwhile, has raised its security level from "No worries" to "She'll be right, Mate." Two more escalation levels remain: "Crikey! I think we'll need to cancel the barbie this weekend!" and "The barbie is cancelled." So far no situation has ever warranted use of the last final escalation level.

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/08/les-quatres-saisons.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/08/first-tv-commercial-circa-1941.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/07/history-repeats-itself.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/07/i-double-dog-dare-ya.html

Tom Friedman: some Syria wisdom….

Tom's back, folks, here's his Sept. 4 piece on what the U.S. should do in Syria to do the right thing: say "No" to use of poison gas.

Before taking instruction from Mr. Friedman, my position on this damnable Syria thing was pretty simple: it's despicable for a government to use poison gas on its own people (or any people), there should be a whole lot of outrage around the world to condemn it, the U.S. should take the lead and draw a line in the sand: No poison gas weapons. Punish Assad!

Honestly, I was hoping President Obama would order our very powerful military to bomb some military target in Syria back to the Stone Age….

But in his "Arm and Shame" piece, Friedman has shaken off the intellectual lethargy that's afflicted him for some time.

Tom says:  let's give arms to the "good guys" among the Syrian rebels, and bolster their fight against the brutal Syrian government and its military forces…let's publicly and stridently condemn Assad and Syrian leaders, in every international forum and in all our diplomatic contacts with other governments, and let's call out the world leaders and governments that don't join us…

Tom says: let's do an unlimited moral response, let's be The Good Guys in every way, and take a pass on a one-time military strike that won't stop Assad, but will be condemned by half the world….

Pass it on.

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/08/lets-have-some-revulsion-please.html

The wisdom of the Cherokees (part 23)

“When we lean solely on the past,

           we remember vividly the things that never were.”

The wisdom of the Sequichie of the Cherokees

Good one.

In the same category with “don’t learn how to fight the last war,” and this other gem from our Cherokee ancestors:

"We have the power to keep yesterday in its place

      and make the most of today.

           Yesterday was the foundation, but today is the house."

 

'course, you can't just order optimism in the drive-through:

23,000 gun deaths since Newtown….

Slate.com estimates that more than 23,000 Americans have died from gunshot wounds since the tragic murders of school children in Newtown, Connecticut, last December.

It’s an estimate.

Maybe the real number is only 22,871 who died because we have too many guns in America.

Would you feel better if the real number is only 22,462?

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/07/wait-what-about-economy.html 

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/05/slow-motion-mass-murder.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-new-reason-for-gun-control-legislation.html

David Frost, R.I.P.

 “He’s turned his life around.

      He used to be depressed and miserable.

           Now he’s miserable and depressed.”

Sir David Paradine Frost (1939-2013)

British journalist, very smart guy

David Frost was, very self-consciously, a pretty smart guy. He was very entertaining, if your taste runs to very self-consciously pretty smart guys being themselves.

I suspect that David Frost was almost always being himself and was never lonely, at least not much.

He was a master of laconic verbal sparring, and rose to lofty heights when he interviewed the rich, the famous and the otherwise. His Nixon interviews are educational.

I don’t know who he was describing in the aphorism quoted above. Poor fellow.

David Frost, requiescat in pace.

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2012/12/ravi-shankar-rip.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2012/08/neil-armstrong-rip.html

Let's have some revulsion, please….

In all the public debate and news coverage about Syria and Assad's use of chemical weapons to kill his own people, I'm not hearing too much general outrage about that fact.

Let's have a moment of silence, and let's put aside the antiseptic arguments about whether there should be a "limited" response or how many nations will support punitive action.

Then let's talk about the horror and evil of killing one's own countrymen with ghastly weapons.

In my mind, that's also one of the main points in this dialogue.

Death by poison gas is grisly, it's despicable.

Imagine watching your child die in a plume of poison gas....

Let's feel more outrage.

    

Watch out! Wild horses!

Pony burger, anyone?

See, here's the thing: I bet most of us think wild horses are romantic, all-American, beautiful, proud and free…. you can picture the herd on the high plains, rippling muscles, with the floating manes, the precious ponies, the endangered hallmark of the American West….

Ooops. Science magazine says we're just about this close to a "serious wild horse crisis." There are just too many of those beautiful critters. They're destroying rangeland and disrupting the ecosystem, and some of the horses are starving to death. An adult horse needs 20-40 pounds of forage every day.

There are roughly 33,000 wild horses roaming free in the American West. The Bureau of Land Management has a legal mandate to maintain the herds at a total of 23,622 horses—much easier said than done. Those pesky stallions keep doing their thing, you know?....the BLM estimates that we could have 100,000 wild horses in a half dozen years.

And here's the other thing: the BLM spent $75 million last year in its failing attempts to manage the size and health of the herds. If nothing changes, the government could spend $1.1 billion over the next decade-plus just to keep the horses alive.

That's a billion dollars that should be spent on other policy initiatives: education, health care, climate change, you name it.

People regularly eat horse steaks and pony burgers in France, China, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Germany, Belgium, Japan, Switzerland and Scotland.

And it is legal in the U.S. to sell horse meat for human consumption.

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/02/pythons-still-rule-in-everglades.html

Rising college tuition: somebody has to pay….

From President Obama on down, the public and private complaint is "college costs too much, why is tuition going through the roof?"

I've been asking the same question, and it's personal: I am deeply involved in the affairs and the success of my alma mater, I'm one of those alumni who know the words—both verses—of the school song.

So I offer this fabulously interesting analysis of why college tuition has been rising since the year 2000—this cuts right to the bone:

A current WashingtonPost.com series, "The Tuition Is Too Damn High," is taking a careful look at tuition and college finances in general.

Here's the short version of why college tuition rose during the 2000-2010 decade, a period when federal aid to college education and college students was increased:

  

1. Public colleges and universities (all but the "research" universities) didn't raise spending during 2000-2010, but their state funding was cut drastically, so tuition went up to cover the shortfall. Students and their parents are paying directly to make up for the state cutbacks.

   Public community colleges have actually cut their spending during 2000-2010, but their state funding has been cut back so much that tuition had to be raised.

2.  Private non-research colleges and universities have been boosting spending per student only moderately. However, endowment revenues and donations from college boosters have declined, so tuition is up more than 23%  during 2000-2010.

3.  Big public and private research universities are boosting their spending, and raising tuition to cover it. You want the prestige, you gotta pay for it.

There it is, in the old nutshell. Not a pretty picture.

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-three-year-degree.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-new-voodoo-paying-for-college.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/07/delayed-payment-for-college-tuitiongoofy.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/05/kids-dont-learn-from-people-they-dont.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/04/teachers-who-are-2-who-dont-measure-up.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/02/making-college-cheaper.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2012/05/college-for-everyonenope.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2012/04/hungry-hungry-hearts.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2012/03/3-out-of-4-aint-good.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2012/01/wisdom-of-frederick-douglass.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2011/12/some-children-left-behind.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2011/12/wisdom-of-malcolm-forbes.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2011/12/wisdom-of-jonathan-kozol.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2010/03/no-child-left-behind-redux.html

Book review: The Kingdom of the Kid

Book review: The Kingdom of the Kid: Growing Up In The Long-Lost Hamptons

By Geoff Gehman (b. 1958)

State University of New York Press, Albany, NY 2013

238 pages

I stepped outside my comfort zone to read Geoff Gehman's memoir about some of his childhood years in the "long-lost Hamptons." I'm glad I did.

If you have a particular point of view about memoirs, either for or against, try to forget it and pick up The Kingdom of the Kid, and just settle in for the ride.

This is more than a prosaic romp through childhood memories, it is a paean celebrating a child's-eye-view of life.

Gehman is a writer who likes to "linger over words," that's my kind of writer. His prose, his stories, his memories…sassy, salty and singular.

Gehman is a poet, too. Repeatedly, he offers lush insight into his industrious youth, his friendships with the young and the old, his affinity for the place, the "long-lost Hamptons" where Geoff and his pals spent the good old days.

He describes the scene as he observed mourners in the Wainscott Cemetery:

"…I sat on my bike in the school parking lot, shaded by grand sycamores, and watched visitors treat the cemetery with reverence. They placed flowers by graves, prayed on their knees, cried on their backs. They stared at the sky, held séances in broad daylight, eavesdropped on eternity.

"Those pilgrims taught me the morality of mortality. Without asking anyone I learned to walk around the stones, to respect the dead as if they were alive."

In every chapter he offers another little piece of his heart.

Good reading. Real good.

[Also see review in The Morning Call, Allentown, PA by Bill White, July 27, 2013]

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http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/01/book-review-farewell-to-arms.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-wisdom-of-harper-lee.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-art-of-rafael-sabatini.html

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