Believe, Not Believe
Pictured: Gatlinburg, Tennessee site of Americana.
From foxnews.com: Here’s the latest victim of Trump Derangement Syndrome. In 2018 Rebecca Makkai’s novel The Great Believers was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and received the ALA Carnegie Medal and the LA Times Book Prize. She recently sent out a tweet urging “normal people” — non-Trump voters — to avoid wearing any type of red hat, saying they scare people. It has received more than 19,000 likes. Call me an unbeliever — and I’ve always felt abnormal.
Headline at FN: “SAN FRANCISCO OFFICIALS BRAND NRA A ‘DOMESTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION’.” Will they refer to members as “justice-involved person” as they now do to convicted felons?
I suppose this will fall on deaf ears, as it refutes the mainstream media’s narrative, but I’ll cite it anyway. In an op-ed piece at nypost.com, Bjorn Lomborg, who believes climate change is a long range threat, calls out those who play politics with the issue, who lie to scare those who are not paying close attention. Here are excerpts, edited by yours truly: “When hurricanes Harvey and Irma both hit mainland US in quick succession in 2017, critics claimed this was the “new normal.” In fact, those two storms, along with Michael in 2018, were the only three major hurricanes greater than a Category 3 to hit the continental US in the last 13 years. That’s a record low since 1900. For comparison, the average over the same time frame has been nearly eight major hurricanes… The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that “no robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricane, have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin… adjusted for population and wealth, US hurricane damage actually has not even gone up since 1900. As a percentage of global GDP, global weather damage dipped from 1990–2017… And while it’s true that climate change will likely make hurricanes become somewhat stronger, it will also make them less frequent… our first priority isn’t cutting carbon. Rather, we need to improve building codes… And we should not allow so many houses to be built on vulnerable coastlines. One way to achieve that would be to stop subsidizing home insurance for building houses most likely to get wiped out in hurricanes — literally a subsidy for building irresponsibly.” Thank you, sir.
The left must be so disappointed that hurricane Dorian stayed off shore. If the season’s other storms fail to do significant damage, leftists will have to find other ways to the recession they desire.
Last night in MLB: For the first time in major league history a pitcher made his debut facing a sibling. Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman Colin Moran was struck out by his older brother Brian of the Miami Marlins. Imagine the banter at future family gatherings. Kudos to both for making it to the highest level.
When people ask about the floating book shop’s returns, they seem not to believe that brisk business has nothing to do with the weather. There have been sessions when conditions were ideal, and I went home with little or nothing; and others when cash poured in despite gloominess or raw cold. The latter occurred today. My thanks to the two gentleman who bought five books in Russian between them, and to the one who donated five; and to Stew and Janet, who purchased four children’s books, including Curious George, and two DVDs; and to the couple who went home with two Stephen King paperbacks, Bag of Bones and Four Past Midnight; and to the woman in the mechanized wheelchair who selected Revival in hardcover by the horror master; and to the young woman who chose Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage; and to the woman who approached while I was packing up and bought two kids’ books, one of them The Little Mermaid.
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