Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
I'm not sleepy
and there ain't no place I'm goin' to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning,
I'll come followin' you
Take me for a trip upon
your magic swirling ship
All my senses have been stripped
And my hands can't feel to grip
And my toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin'
I'm ready to go anywhere,
I'm ready for to fade
Unto my own parade
Cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it
Fix
Or
Repair
Daily
Always
Heading
East
And
Downhill
(seen em twice)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIRP4gydheQ&t=21s
Quite the photographic capture, DT. Thinking about the sign, though, makes
me think of a comment I read on AMD,
amidwesterndoctor.com, the other day.
The writer described an actual flood he
and his wife experienced after he unwisely (by his own admission) tried barreling through something like I imagine a “ford”
to be .He lost his truck and they almost lost their lives.
The address I cite is well-worth exploring by the way. He or she (I think he) is a real doctor and chooses to be anonymous because of his anti-mainstream philosophy. His main focus is on DMSO,
a chemical popular in the 60’s for its healing properties and then sabotaged by the health bureaucracies but he writes about everything medical you can imagine.
Do you have a working link to that midwestern doctor?
The one provided doesn’t work. Thanks.
I think the link will work without the beginning “a”. He’s on substack and part of his “handle” is The Forgotten Side of Medicine. If the link doesn’t work I will be glad to forward one of his
articles to DT & he can forward to you.
The Dr. is well worth it.
Yes, that works. Thanks.
An interesting take on book reading by Vox Day.
Now, the Castalia sale went very well, despite the fact that our prices were actually LOWER than they were a year ago. This, ironically, also points to economic contraction, because historically, books do best during periods of contraction and inflation since it’s a) cheaper to stay home than go out and b) books offer some of the highest value-per-dollar of any entertainment option.
I worked it out on last night’s Darkstream. The average individual reads at 238 words per minute. There are about 1.2 million words in the 10-volume set of the Junior Classics. It will therefore take around 84 hours to read through them once. At the retail price of $349.99, that’s a price of $4.16 per hour.
Compare that to the price of a ticket to a 90-minute movie, which is $16.08, or $10.72 per hour. Except you can, and you will, re-read the Junior Classics, and multiple people can read them. In a household with children, the cost per hour is probably around 65 cents. So, it makes sense that as the economy contracts and people find themselves staying at home more, they tend to read more and purchase more books.
https://voxday.net/2025/12/03/the-collapsing-economy/
Ghostsniper, I agree totally that this is an interesting take on book reading by Vox Day. We provided our children with books and still do to this day and they are in their 50’s. Grandchildren also. One very important set of books was the Value Tales by the Johnson’s. You can only purchase them on e-bay but in my family’s opinion they are worth their weight in gold. Thanks.
Joe, looks like you can get them on amazon too.
https://www.amazon.com/ValueTale-Multiple-Value-Tales-Book/dp/B000OFI0BW
“Warning: no breakdown lane”
Pascal’s Wager
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The Structure of Pascal’s WagerPascal’s Wager posits that human beings bet with their lives on whether or not God exists. It can be summarized in a few key points:
Pascal argues that, given these possible outcomes, it is rational to believe in God because the potential gain (eternal happiness) far outweighs the potential loss (a finite earthly life).
https://tinyurl.com/4a7my6pn
Meanwhile, this.