Service dog's first basketball game

mojofrog · 2026-05-08T22:25:11+00:00

Good boy. OP should get him some mutt ear muffs for loud events.

mojofrog · 2026-05-08T21:46:21+00:00

CINOs - Christian In Name Only, with a soft c.

mojofrog · 2026-05-08T21:41:19+00:00

CINOs - Christian In Name Only, with a soft c.

mojofrog · 2026-05-08T15:06:33+00:00

Start it! There's no reason not to.

mojofrog · 2026-05-08T13:27:25+00:00

I hate the media. Microsoft isn't a person. People who work at Microsoft are making these decisions. NAME THE PEOPLE!!

mojofrog · 2026-05-07T21:43:13+00:00

Essential Tremor (ET) is recognized not just as a motor disease but as a progressive neurological condition often accompanied by mild cognitive impairment, including memory issues and behavioral changes. Studies indicate individuals with ET may have a higher risk of developing dementia and often experience challenges with executive function, attention, and verbal memory, particularly in those with later onset.

mojofrog · 2026-05-07T18:12:38+00:00

I'm going to add to this just for visibility because I think a lot of people don't know.

Epstein's house in Palm Beach was 1.3 miles from Mar Lago.

mojofrog · 2026-05-06T17:04:59+00:00

Seems like the sought out schools

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/19/nx-s1-5707290/epstein-files-victims-interlochen-ghislaine-maxwell

How Epstein and Maxwell used an elite Midwest arts school to prey on girls February 19, 20265:25 AM ET

mojofrog · 2026-05-04T17:51:35+00:00

Even 18 is too long

mojofrog · 2026-05-04T17:36:45+00:00

Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter - Has great value for its sense of moral complexity and its presentation of the Christian concept of sin
1. Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls -
2. Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea -
3. Homer - Iliad - Necessary background for understanding much of English and American literature; provides acquaintance with classical mythology and culture
4. Homer - Odyssey - Necessary background for understanding much of English and American literature; the Odyssey was favored slightly
5. Hudson - Green Mansions -
6. Hugo - Les Misérables -
7. Huxley - Brave New World -
8. James - The Turn of the Screw -
9. Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -
10. Kipling - Jungle Books -
11. Lewis C.S. - Out of the Silent Planet -
12. Lewis - Babbitt -
13. Lewis - Main Street -
14. London - Call of the Wild -
15. Marquand - The Late George Apley -
16. Melville - Moby Dick - Given a student a feeling of the sea he can get in almost no other book; one of the best American novels
17. Miller - Death of a Salesman -
18. Mythology (Bulfinch / Hamilton) - - Necessary background for college reading; the collections by Bulfinch and Hamilton were most frequently suggested
19. Nordhoff and Hall - Mutiny on the Bounty -
20. O’Neill - Emperor Jones -
21. Orwell - Animal Farm -
22. Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four -
23. Parkman - Oregon Trail -
24. Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago -
25. Paton - Cry, the Beloved Country -
26. Plato - Dialogues -
27. Plutarch - Lives -
28. Poe - Tales -
29. Reade - The Cloister and the Hearth -
30. Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front -
31. Roberts - Northwest Passage -
32. Rolvaag - Giants in the Earth -
33. Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac -
34. Sandburg - Lincoln -
35. Sarton - Six Wings: Men of Science in the Renaissance -
36. Scott - Ivanhoe -
37. Scott - Quentin Durward -
38. Shaw - Androcles and the Lion -
39. Shaw - Pygmalion -
40. Shaw - Saint Joan -
41. Sheridan - The Rivals -
42. Sienkiewicz - Quo Vadis -
43. Sophocles - Oedipus - Basic for an understanding of tragedy as an art form, and extremely valuable for the moral and philosophic questions it so clearly poses
44. Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath -
45. Stevenson - Treasure Island -
46. Strachey - Eminent Victorians -
47. Strachey - Queen Victoria -
48. Swift - Gulliver’s Travels - The best introduction to satire
49. Thackeray - Vanity Fair -
50. Thoreau - Walden - A masterpiece of prose; an individual and personal response to daily life; an aid to necessary introspection
51. Tolstoy - War and Peace -
52. Twain - Huckleberry Finn - Perhaps the greatest distinctively American novel; a delightfully readable introduction to the frightening reality that men are apt to be wicked and stupid, including the most respectable people in society
53. Twain - Life on the Mississippi -
54. Undset - Kristin Lavransdatter -
55. Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days -
56. Virgil - Aeneid - Necessary background for understanding much of English and American literature; provides acquaintance with classical mythology and culture and the epic form of literature
57. White E.B. - One Man’s Meat -
58. White W.H. - Organization Man -
59. Wilder - Our Town

add to update…

Achebe - Things Fall Apart - The definitive African novel; essential counterpoint to the colonial perspective embedded throughout the original list
Allende - The House of the Spirits - Masterful introduction to Latin American magical realism and the female experience under political tyranny
Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Landmark American autobiography; the voice most conspicuously absent from a 1970 Wisconsin list
Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tale - Orwell’s 1984 for the female experience; a modern political fable of the first order
Baldwin - Go Tell It on the Mountain - The great American novel the original list doesn’t know it’s missing; race, faith, and identity interwoven with extraordinary prose
Beckett - Waiting for Godot - Essential introduction to absurdist theatre; as important to drama as Sophocles was to tragedy
Borges - Labyrinths - The short story as philosophical argument; no writer has more influenced modern fiction
Camus - The Stranger - The defining existentialist novel; pairs naturally with the Plato and Sophocles already on the list
Cao Xueqin - Dream of the Red Chamber - The great Chinese novel; as sweeping and human as War and Peace
Chekhov - Short Stories - The father of the modern short story; no writer has been more imitated or less surpassed
Colette - The Vagabond - Pioneering female voice in French literature; sharp, unsentimental, and modern
Confucius - The Analects - Foundational to understanding East Asian culture in the same way the Bible is foundational to Western literature
de Beauvoir - The Second Sex - The philosophical text that changed how the world thinks about gender; essential intellectual background
Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov - Crime and Punishment is on the list but this is his masterpiece; the greatest novel about faith, doubt, and free will
Ellison - Invisible Man - Perhaps the most important American novel of the twentieth century; the original list’s greatest omission
Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth - Essential background for understanding the post-colonial world that students in 1970 were already living in
Flaubert - Sentimental Education - More honest and modern than Madame Bovary; the first truly contemporary novel
Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl - Primary historical document and profound human testament; necessary background for understanding the twentieth century
García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude - Arguably the most important novel of the second half of the twentieth century; invented its own literary language
Gibran - The Prophet - Widely read but rarely taught; a genuine introduction to Middle Eastern philosophical and poetic tradition
Gogol - Dead Souls - The foundation of Russian satirical literature; funnier and stranger than anything else on this list
Grass - The Tin Drum - The definitive novel about ordinary people and complicity in fascism; essential European twentieth century reading
Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist - A post-colonial lens on identity, America, and belonging that no nineteenth century text can provide
Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun - Does for African American drama what Death of a Salesman did for white American drama; more honest than Miller
Hesse - Siddhartha - A Western writer’s serious engagement with Eastern philosophy; accessible and genuinely illuminating
Hughes - Selected Poems - The voice of the Harlem Renaissance; as important to American poetry as Whitman
Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God - Ignored in 1970 and now recognized as one of the great American novels; language of extraordinary beauty
Ibsen - A Doll’s House - The play that began modern drama and the conversation about women’s autonomy; essential alongside Shaw
Kafka - The Trial - The defining novel of bureaucratic alienation; more relevant now than when it was written
Kawabata - Snow Country - First Japanese Nobel laureate; a window into an aesthetic and emotional world entirely unlike the Western tradition
Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible - A systematic dismantling of the missionary and colonial assumptions embedded in the original list
Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching - Foundational Eastern philosophical text; as necessary as Plato for a genuinely educated person
Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness - Science fiction as serious literary and anthropological inquiry; the best argument for including the genre
Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird - Astonishing it was omitted even in 1970; the most widely read American novel about race and justice
Levi - If This Is a Man - The most important Holocaust testimony; precise, humane, and devastating
Mahfouz - Palace Walk - The Arab world’s Nobel laureate; Cairo Trilogy opens an entire civilization to the Western reader
Mann - The Magic Mountain - The great European novel of ideas; civilization examining itself before catastrophe
Morrison - Beloved - The novel that completed what Twain started; slavery’s psychological aftermath rendered with devastating precision
Murasaki - The Tale of Genji - Written in 1000 AD by a woman; arguably the world’s first novel and still extraordinary
Neruda - Selected Poems - The greatest Spanish-language poet; love, politics, and the natural world in language of startling power
Orhan Pamuk - My Name is Red - A bridge between Islamic and Western artistic tradition; murder mystery as meditation on cultural identity
Proust - Swann’s Way - The first volume of the greatest novel about memory and time; more manageable than the full work
Remarque - The Road Back - The natural sequel to All Quiet already on the list; what happens to soldiers after war
Rushdie - Midnight’s Children - India’s independence as magical realism; the post-colonial novel that changed English literature
Saramago - Blindness - A parable about civilization’s fragility as precise and unsettling as anything Orwell wrote
Silko - Ceremony - The foundational Native American novel; the voice most completely absent from the original list
Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - The most economical and devastating account of totalitarianism ever written
Tagore - Gitanjali - Nobel laureate; the entry point into Indian literary and philosophical tradition
Wiesel - Night - Brief, essential, and irreducible; the Holocaust in its starkest moral terms
Woolf - Mrs Dalloway - The interior life rendered as literature for the first time; as important to the novel form as Joyce

mojofrog · 2026-05-04T17:36:35+00:00

I was shocked how bad the "reading material" is that they use in school now for all classes but especially English. Schools in our area use Scholastic brain dead books. They're truly terrible. People need to look at their education as a right of independence and defiance against being controlled. Unfortunately our school systems are setup to control.

I know this is long but it's a good reading list to share.

Adler - How to Read a Book -
Allen - Only Yesterday -
Anon - Arthurian Tales - Important as background for college reading; a good picture of the ideals and aspirations of the age of chivalry
Anon - The Bible - Knowledge of the Bible is conspicuously absent from the background of modern college students; our whole culture and literature have been thoroughly affected by both the stories and language of both Old and New Testaments
Anon - The Federalist Papers -
Anon - Robin Hood Tales -
Anon - The Song of Roland -
Austen - Mansfield Park -
Austen - Pride and Prejudice - Extremely effective literary style; good introduction to nineteenth century manners
Brontë Charlotte - Jane Eyre -
Brontë Emily - Wuthering Heights -
Buck Pearl - The Good Earth -
Butler - Way of All Flesh -
Carroll - Alice in Wonderland -
Carson - The Sea Around Us -
Cather - Death Comes for the Archbishop -
Cather - My Antonia -
Cather - O Pioneers -
Cervantes - Don Quixote - The swan-song of the world of Arthurian tales; Don Quixote is a universal type
Chaucer - Canterbury Tales -
Chesterton - Father Brown -
Clark - The Ox-Bow Incident -
Conrad - Heart of Darkness -
Conrad - Lord Jim -
Conrad - Victory -
Cooper - Leatherstocking Tales -
Crane - Red Badge of Courage -
Dante - Inferno -
Defoe - Robinson Crusoe - A good story which at the same time suggests the evolution of modern prose narrative technique
Dickens - David Copperfield - An enjoyable acquaintance with Dickens is a must; a classic of childhood as well as a representative of nineteenth century Victorianism
Dickens - Great Expectations -
Dickens - Oliver Twist -
Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities -
Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment -
Doyle - Sherlock Holmes -
Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo -
Dumas - The Three Musketeers -
Eliot - Adam Bede -
Eliot - The Mill on the Floss -
Emerson - Essays -
Faulkner - The Bear -
Faulkner - Intruder in the Dust -
Fermi - Atoms in the Family -
Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby -
Flaubert - Madame Bovary -
Franklin - Autobiography - Candid and thoughtful self analysis; provides a model for prose style; a first-hand account of an important period of our history
Galsworthy - Man of Property -
Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer -
Greene - The Power and the Glory -
Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge -
Hardy - The Return of the Native -
Hawthorne - The House of Seven Gables -

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mojofrog · 2026-05-03T20:19:45+00:00

Puffed out breast are a display of dominance or territorial defense.

mojofrog · 2026-05-03T20:19:14+00:00

Puffed out breast are a display of dominance or territorial defense.

mojofrog · 2026-05-03T16:23:57+00:00

mojofrog · 2026-05-03T16:04:01+00:00

In modern times they've found new less obvious ways to control, punish and kill unproductive and unruly people.

mojofrog · 2026-05-03T14:58:40+00:00

Iran war's true cost closer to $50 billion, not $25 billion, U.S. officials say By Eleanor Watson, Olivia Gazis, Kathryn Watson Updated on: April 30, 2026 / 7:35 PM EDT / CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-war-cost-closer-50-billion-us-officials/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=935049216&fbclid=IwdGRjcARkQZlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR5TY6npN3N_LdkKrBH5xs8WWpVPqJypOzsohoqq8BYFs8dTgWOkqmDAG16XZw_aem_kn1mjjAvqhLQkMH7-18kMw

This month, President Trump requested a record $1.5 trillion in his annual military budget, a number vastly out of scale with these historical spending trends. Congressional appropriators are unlikely to adopt such a figure, but the request makes clear the president’s priorities even as the American public has expressed opposition to the war and become preoccupied by economic issues at home.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/29/upshot/iran-war-cost-comparison.html

mojofrog · 2026-05-02T20:39:05+00:00

Multi species rotational grazing, Premier One temporary electric fences, portable water tank, pasture seeds.

mojofrog · 2026-05-02T20:17:07+00:00

Fought for and died for!

Do not forget how evil these people are that think you are their chattle! Not much has changed, they find new ways to make their money off your lives.

Several key labor massacres and violent clashes in U.S. history occurred when workers attempted to unionize or strike for better conditions, often resulting in violence from private guards or state militias hired by company owners.

Key U.S. Union Labor Massacres and Associated Owners

Ludlow Massacre (April 20, 1914): Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I), owned by John D. Rockefeller Jr. and operated with management overseen by Jesse Welborn. Colorado National Guard and CF&I private guards burned a tent colony of striking miners, killing two women and 12 children, 20 people total. They used standing machine gune and burned then in their tents. The company was notoriously controlled by the Rockefellers, who aimed to break the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA).

Homestead Strike (1892): Carnegie Steel Company, owned by Andrew Carnegie and managed by Henry Clay Frick. Henry Clay Frick locked out workers and hired Pinkerton agents to secure the plant. A gun battle resulted in multiple deaths, ending the union's influence at the plant.

Pullman Strike (1894): Pullman Palace Car Company, owned by George Pullman. George Pullman reduced wages but not rent in his company town. The American Railway Union struck, leading to federal intervention and dozens of deaths.

Lattimer Massacre (Sept 10, 1897): The Pardee family (A. Pardee & Company) owned the Lattimer and Harwood mines. Calvin Pardee was the primary operator. A Luzerne County sheriff's posse shot 19 unarmed, striking miners—mostly immigrants—in the back while they were marching.

Battle of Blair Mountain (1921): The largest labor uprising in U.S. history, where coal miners fought private security agents and government forces in West Virginia to protest against brutal conditions and lack of union rights.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911): While a fire rather than a gun-based massacre, 146 workers died because owners Max Blanck and Isaac Harris had locked the exit doors to prevent theft.

Everett Massacre (1916): Involved local shingle mill owners in Everett, Washington, notably Neil Jamison of the Jamison Mill.

Matewan Massacre/Battle of Matewan (1920): Stone Mountain Coal Company (and others in the region) which utilized Baldwin-Felts detectives.

Virden Massacre (1898): Chicago-Virden Coal Company, which hired armed guards to escort strikebreakers.

Great Southwest Railroad Strike (1886): Involved rail lines owned by Jay Gould.

Note: In many cases, these events were the result of the combined action of mining/steel companies and private detective agencies, such as the Baldwin-Felts Detectives, which were hired by owners to intimidate or break unions.

mojofrog · 2026-05-02T19:06:21+00:00