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A conversation with my husband: DH : How could you not have read “Tale of Two Cities”? It has the most famous opening line ever… Me : “Call me Ishmael?” DH : Ok, the second most famous opening line ever. As it happens, we read the same authors but different books. In grade school I slogged through Dickens’ “Great Expectations” but DH read “Tale Of Two Cities” and so on. I found lists of the best books ever written, boiled it down to a reasonable number, then downloaded the .epubs from Project Gutenberg . If you like my ebook selection, please donate to Project Gutenberg ! These ebooks are all Public Domain in the U.S., that is, legal to download and to share . The books are in .epub format, suitable for side-loading into your Barnes & Noble Nook or Amazon Kindle . There is also an addon for FireFox called EPUBReader . Download these three .zip archives and enjoy! Part 1 of 3 – Gutenberg A Portrait of the Artist...

To the Native Americans, breath and spirit were one and the same. A baby wasn’t instilled with a soul until he took his first breath. In Latin “spiritus” can mean either breath or soul. Dying, “expiration,” means both that final breath and the departure of the soul. Photo Credits Pod Source: Flickr Author: Raymond Larose

This was my favorite song as a kid. My friend Max respun it for me. Rolf Harris – Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport – Max’s Mix 2008

Asperger’s dropped from revised diagnosis manual | General Headlines | Comcast xfinity.comcast.net Asperger’s will be dropped from the next revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , the book that standardizes diagnostic criteria for mental illness. Brilliant. By eliminating an autism spectrum, the psychiatrists will be encouraging discrimination against “Aspies” (their word for themselves) who have higher IQs and marginally better social skills, i.e. are more capable of working. All in all, it’s looking as if the DSM-V is categorizing the mentally ill by the DRUGS used to treat their illness. Dangerous. It’s not that Aspies are at risk losing services, it’s that in order to get services they are at risk being treated – both in the medical and the social sense – as if they are sicker than you really are. Simplify, Leslie… I mean the high-functioning autistics will have to prove every day that they a...

I’ve discovered that the Dewey Decimal System is too exact for what I am doing here. I’ll be changing the categories to something simpler and deleting some tags too.