If you are talking about Hunters and Sandworms, yes, skip them, or read them as you might curiously look at a film of some catastrophe. One word:seaworms.

The Tleilaxu also restart those memories using “trauma.” That always added to the tragedy of his character.

Nice meta.

Well, that does appear to be the scene where he is about to leave the lovely Caladan, where he has spent his entire life near the ocean, and go to Arrakis, which is all desert. I would be bummed to.

Not to mention the Zenshia and the Orange Catholic Bible.

That logo is amazing. From one of the later book covers, maybe? But the use of the curve - so simple yet obvious only in hindsight.

From what I remember, weren’t they built to trap water and cool the skin?

Oh stay with it. They will get interesting and wierd, especially Leto II. God Emperor is my favorite of the series.

Her most convincing argument to a lot of her supporters was “there will be no separation of men’s and women’s public bathrooms any more.” It seems insane now, but as a kid, I heard that one over and over. These people and their toilet issues. Freudan almost.

TBH, smarmy describe Schlafley pretty well in general. She was an accomplished troll, starting every press conference by stating that her husband gave her permission to be there.

Now THAT’S a meme. I am a sucker for the classics.

Even Gavin Newsom is barely getting coverage.

It used to be that a 1500 page book was considered long. Then it was 1000. Now Gravity’s Rainbow? Wow. At this rate, 250 pages is going to be a non-starter for people.

In related news, Georgia’s governor, Brian Kemp, claims he just learned about carrier transmission “just within the last 24 hours.” He is seriously trying to say that he did not know that people without symptoms could transmit Covid-19 until yesterday.From WaPo

I saw that and the engineers cryptic, “I am going to expose them,” comment. On a hunch, I googled. Yep, another Qanon nutjob. This conspiracy theory is easily the most dangerous one yet in that it is encouraging idiots’ paranoia and that leads to irrational, violent reponses. People are going to get killed, if they…

What did Hunter Biden do that was bad? Someone was dumb enough to throw a bunch of money at him because they thought it would somehow influence policy. It did not. Hunter Biden did nothing illegal. And firing that prosecuter was the exact opposite of what Joe Biden would have done if he wanted to protect his son.…

Kushner again. And yet the GOP wants to investigate Hunter Biden. 

For what it’s worth, here is the court decision for Marion Pitch v USA. The link is to the 11 Circuit court in Atlanta. I believe the tl;dr (for the 104 page decision) reason for the decision is in footnote 9:

Part of the larger problem of the increasing use of “independent contractors” as a way around providing real employment. It is amazing that you have, here in California, so many people who are being screwed by this system so willing to defend it. “I can set my own schedule.” A decent employer would work with you on…

I agree. I liked his comments about the F35. It line up with just about everything I (admittedly a nobody who just like to read about aircraft) have read about it (well, except by its cheerleaders).