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Crazy amounts of money continue to be spent in San Francisco to shift the city rightward. We saw it in March with the purge of progressives on the Democratic County Central Committee after a heavily funded campaign by moderates under the ‘Democrats for Change’ slate. Astroturf (fake grassroots) groups like GrowSF, TogetherSF, StopCrimeSF, Neighbors for a Better SF (backed by a Republican mega-donor), Families for a Vibrant SF, and Committee …

Kamala Harris is a radical liberal who would raise taxes, take away guns & health insurance, and explode the size and power of the federal gov’t. She wants to recreate America in the image of what’s happening on the streets of Portland & Seattle. We won’t give her the chance. — Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) August 11, 2020 Here are all the times ex-GOP Rep. Liz Cheney ripped “radical” Kamala Harris …

Sojourn Booksellers, Stevens Point, WI(Like The Indie Bob Spot on Facebook and follow The Indie Bob Spot on X)When you enter Sojourn Booksellers you will be leaving the streets of Stevens Point behind and SOJOURNING into a new dimension. A dimension that will take you back in time to a space in an 1880s building that features an old-school brown wooden floor, the original tin-plate ceiling, and long ago tales …

This week’s theme: John Coltrane as a sideman (mostly) with Red Garland. Artists include John Coltrane, Red Garland, Donald Byrd, Philly Joe Jones, Paul Chambers, Arthur Taylor, George Joyner.The post Podcast: John Coltrane with Red Garland, Prestige first appeared on jazzcollector.com.

Having recently viewed the hobbit trilogy, which included the Hobbit an Unexpected Journey, the Hobbit, the Desolation of Smaug, and the Hobbit the Battle of the Five Armies I was looking for more information about dragons and Smaug. This is a short treatsie on that topic.

This list of top 10+ essential books for educators provides clear ideas and helpful strategies to renew your love for teaching. These books for educators cover topics from the core of education to understanding the mindsets that lead to success

Current status: ~500 unreads in my RSS feed (and that’s after some aggressive scanning and running through some of the higher-volume-but-lighter-weight stuff). ~100 open tabs of stuff to either finish reading, share, or process in some way. Inbox is read but I’ve got a handful of messages to still respond to (apologies if you’re waiting). Been terrible at keeping in touch in general, so you could apply that statement to …

My band saw came with a mitre gauge. I do not use it all that much, but it sure is handy sometimes – so I need to keep it nearby. And why not go way overboard and make it in a complicated way? Why? Because I can. I snagged a nice piece of oak from the scrap bin and cleaned up the best face with my hand plane and got …

Programming note: Bits about Money has been a bit irregular recently.I’ve recently booted up the Complex Systems podcast. It is now up to more than a dozen episodes, including interviewing my dad on real estate development (which is something of a BAM deep (curb) cut). The podcast features Bryne Hobart and other guests you’d probably enjoy on a weekly basis. Since I am more of a writer and very plausibly …

One specific activity kept me pretty busy during September – getting the Fleurieu & Kangaroo Island Sound Map up to date! Over the years, every update has taken a little longer to pull together. This is because of a few factors: I record a lot more sites that I used to. These site recordings made over a given period are collated together for a large/annual releases. This year’s update features …

Today we observe that the Israeli state under Netanyahu has spent a full year “defending itself” by killing a child every 48 minutes.

1. Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes - Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in treating type 1 diabetes by using reprogrammed stem cells. A woman was successfully treated by receiving a transplant of these cells into her abdominal muscles. Following the transplant, she was able to maintain stable blood sugar levels without insulin for over a year. This is the first time such an approach has shown to be effective in …

One of my favorite things about Go is its distribution process using the go install command. With go install, I don’t have to deal with the trouble of setting up brew, npm, pip, or any other package manager separately like I had to with some languages. It just works out of the box!Now a while back, I built a command-line (CLI) app in Go. I wanted to add a simple …

We don’t really know much about Tomas, other than what we can infer from the photographs and words he left behind. Oh, and there are the snippets of memories by his grandson Terje (Terje Abusdal, the photographer), who was too young to ask more questions around the time Tomas took his pictures. Tomas moved in with Terje’s family after his wife had died. He was already in his seventies. Even …

I caused a ruckus on social media when I pointed out that a Venn diagram commonly posted on Strong Towns and by American urbanists in general about taxes, services, and urbanism, is completely false: The truth is that the overwhelming majority of taxes and services are about things that don’t meaningfully depend on local density. The overwhelming majority of those services are not even locally provided. In the United States, …