Caveat: Links #95

Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.

An illustration from the internet.

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A quote.

“What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.” ~ Terry Pratchett


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Caveat: Links #94

Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.

An illustration from the internet.

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A quote.

“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.” – John Stuart Mill


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Caveat: Links #92

Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.

An illustration from the internet.

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A quote.

“The great trouble with religion – any religion – is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence.
One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason – but one cannot have both.” – Robert A. Heinlein


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Caveat: Boat outta water

#SoutheastAlaska #Photography

An autumnal ritual, we got the boat out of the water.

A picture of the end of the boathouse (a metal shed, like a quonset) with a boat pulled up in front of it on the customized boat trolley (on a track); mid-background has dock and another boat; Alaskan sea inlet and opposite forested shoreline in distance

I work on cleaning it a bit, tomorrow, but the bottom is remarkably free of nefarious barnacles – probably a consequence of how late we put it in the water this year. I’m grateful for the neighbors’ help on pulling it out this morning – Arthur’s situational awareness is so minimal, these days, that he was in fact seemingly unaware of what we were doing. Some of that is his deafness, but he also just really tuned out of reality most of the time.

Despite his unawareness during the proceedings, Arthur nevertheless managed to find the gumption to go down after we’d “parked” the boat to inspect our work, and offer a few pointless criticisms. This is why it can be so draining caring for and interacting with him – the few times he exits his solipsistic bubble, it’s as often to criticize or complain as it is anything else.


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Caveat: Links #89

Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.

An illustration from the internet.

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A quote.

“Desire is, by nature, childlike and chary of government. The day we begin to qualify it by the righteousness of its political content is the day we begin to prescribe some desires and prohibit others. That way lies moralism only.” – Andrea Long Chu


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Caveat: Links #88

Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.

An illustration from the internet.

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A quote.

“It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one’s bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one’s head under the cover, giving one’s self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind…” – Marcel Proust


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Caveat: Poem #2998 “Fall’s flight”

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The seagull sat, observing things.
 The tide, the rocks, a swimming fish.
A duck that ducked, some rippling rings.

The seagull sat, observing things.
 I wonder if the bird might wish
that Fall was slower with its wings.

The seagull sat, observing things.
 The tide, the rocks, a swimming fish.

– a triolet.


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