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Using Books as Medicine

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By Royal Star/Kokayi Nosakhere At 2 pm, three days before the 2024 Kwanzaa holiday began, I did it again. I have a habit. It is such an obsession, I am forced to confess my failings to resist it multiple times a week on social media. Because I am a nerd, I like books. READING! No, let me be clear. I like reading. Books just happen to be my favorite way of reading. As a life hack, I search out used bookstores near colleges and universities. The reason why should be obvious: the quality of books. For me, the commercial market can not compete with books published in certain time periods by those who lived through those time periods. The closer to a diary, i.e. primary document, the better. Meaning, grandma’s letters about the Great Depression are more valuable to me than a professor’s summary of the Great Depression, even if the professor is weaving in all of the angles: political, economic and social. For my standards, Smith Family Bookstore is a gem. It is located in the railroad tracks...

Hating Immigrants in the Name of a Holy Immigrant

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             Right on cue for the year...tyrannical faux evangelicals are engaging in their annual cosplay of persecution as they persecute all others.  Isn't it grand how those who refuse to acknowledge and respect the beliefs of others and go out of their way to hinder their practices LOVE to pretend to be under attack?  The same "PROTECT THE CHILDREN" and "WE ARE ALL APART OF THE HUMAN RACE"  are the same ones that BLATANTLY go out of their way to have their actions display the polar opposite of the "sentiment".        Most notably, these are the same subset of human beings who LOATHE immigrants that contain melanin while [attempting] to weaponize their holy immigrant.  Do not feign shock. These are the very same people who revel in sharing tales of their non-English-speaking grandparents entering the country via devious means and "Achieving the American Dream".  But what can you expect depth from pe...

The Manifesto of Luigi Mangione

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  “To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit ...