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Collapse of Democracy/Civilization/etc.

Today’s Playlist

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Gravediggers of American Democracy

When the Truth is Found To Be Lies

When the truth is found to be lies,And all the joy within you dies.When the garden flowers are dead, Your mind, your mind is so full of redTears are running down your breast….- Grace Slick / Somebody to Love

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Book Club Food Guerrero Mexico Movies

Prayers for the Stolen (part IV of IV)

Moral Musings and Iguanas The Moral Dilemma It’s so easy to look down from our throne of bounty, our luxury WLBOTT world, and ask these questions. The WLBOTT world, where we have unlimited ramen noodles and health care in the form of Vick’s Vap-o-rub and generic Tylenol. It’s hard to imagine anyone in America as […]

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Book Club Guerrero Mexico Movies

Prayers for the Stolen (part III of IV)

References Jennifer Clement (author of Prayers for the Stolen) Guerrero, Mexico Chilpancingo The movie and part I of the book are set on the outskirts of Chilpancingo, a city about an hour northeast of Acapulco. Chilpancingo de los Bravo (commonly shortened to Chilpancingo) is the capital and second-largest city of the Mexican state of Guerrero. […]

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Book Club Guerrero Mexico Movies

Prayers for the Stolen (part II of IV)

Book .vs. Movie Similar vignettes propel the story in both the movie and the book – hiding in makeshift foxholes, the classroom antics, the operation to transform Maria’s cleft pallet…. The book is divided into three parts. The movie roughly corresponds to the first part. In the second part of the book, a teen-aged Ladydi […]

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Book Club Guerrero Mexico Movies

Prayers for the Stolen (part I of IV)

The Movie Prayers for the Stolen follows a group of young girls, their families, and their community, as they struggle against poverty and oppressive evil. The movie takes place almost exclusively in a rural village in the mountainous jungles an hour’s drive from Acapulco. The movie focuses on a poor rural Mexican Indian girl, Ana […]

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Canada Collapse of Democracy/Civilization/etc. WLBOTT Corporate

What a Friend We Have in Canada!

One of the perks of being a world-wide corporate conglomerate is that WLBOTT has reliable assets all over the world, especially in America’s darkest hour. Consider the following email exchange:

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England Meaning of Life Outer Space Scholarship/Erudition TechnoBLOTT

Dr. Who: The Missing Years

A WLBOTT RESEARCH PROPOSAL [Thanks to UC#1 for his research proposal] One of the great unsolved mysteries of life is, “How can I watch the missing ‘Dr Who’ episodes?” Extensive research has been done in BBC archival sites, personal collections and homes of known hoarders, but many of the early episodes remain lost to the […]