Women Who Kill by Ann JonesMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
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Review: Witchcraft in the Western Tradition
Witchcraft in the Western Tradition by Jennifer McNabbMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
In episode one (about one minute in) of The Coming Storm "The Dead Body" Gabriel Gatehouse begins to investigate QAnon by recalling an online course "Witches, drawing, and storytelling" with "Louisa Maria Mccormick. Mccormick give context by describing how early in the age of printing, The Malleus Maleficarum and the Construction of Witchcraft: Theology and Popular Belief gave energy to a popular period of bloody witch hunts, despite leading figures decrying it. The implication is the myths from online forums bred with social media is a similar story. This series of lectures tracks from the same book and series of persecutions to delineate a Wester Tradition of prejudice, animosity, and hate unloosed.
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Saturday, January 22, 2022
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Review: Son of a Grifter: The Twisted Tale of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the Most Notorious Con Artists in America: A Memoir by the Other Son
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Review: Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA
Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA by Tim MakMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was a fascinating detailed look at the drift of the NRA from its Field & Stream base to embrace rightwing politics and hitch its money and direction to Trumpism. This led to bankruptcy and losing the faith of significant blocks of its members. Along the way there was an almost hysterical reaction to massacres such as that at Sandy Hook Elementary. In 2012, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre gave a speech claiming the solution was not fewer guns, but more guns, in schools. Wayne LaPierre comes across as a truly incompetent, spineless leader whose malleability was the tool for vendors, his wife, executives, etc. to access the wealth donated by members. Indeed, he seemed in this telling to have the best indication of a spine when his own comfort and privilege were threatened.
Former NRA president Oliver North is someone I did not necessarily have a high opinion of before, but is one of the most detailed stories here of someone trying to move the Association in the direction of its goals through legal, ethical means.
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Witchcraft in the Western Tradition by Jennifer McNabb My rating: 4 of 5 stars In episode one (about one...
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