Periscopia

Think about it. When a drum is beaten, it sounds great, doesn't go anywhere, and is just fine after the beating ends.

Poor old Sleepy Joe just doesn't realize it's the perfect analogy! It's so perfect that you have to wonder if it wasn't cooked up by Trump's campaign operatives and fed to Sleepy Joe via a mole.

The one word difference apparently changes the meaning of a large portion of the book which follows it. I remember seeing a couple of piles of these at the Strand in NYC, brand new at the time which I think was in the mid to late 1990s. The concept was explained on the inside dust jacket and/or in a Preface.

I almost bought them, but then wondered if I'd ever really have the time or patience to read them both, and decided that since I already had a bazillion books and was about to buy a bunch more that night which were all cheaper, I'd take a pass. Every few years, I remember them and google a bit, and never find anything. I have no recollection what the story was about. I have a

It's really frustrating trying to search for real threads on news topics, when there's no way to exclude the increasingly numerous bot subreddits that post every single article published at source X. You can sort by most comments OR most recent, but most recent brings up a mountain of bot posts, and most comments can't be fine-tuned more than "past 24 hours" or "past week". Nor do I necessarily want to focus on the giant echo-chamber subs that tend to generate the highest number of comments. Often I'd like to see what some of the smaller, less herd-like subs are saying about a particular current event. But I don't like having to wade through dozens of bot-sub results to find the small r

I'm about at the end of my rope. RCN representatives keep claiming they know how to help, and then breaking things instead.

I was (without my knowledge) unable to receive any e-mails for nearly 24 hours, with no way to trace who may have gotten an "invalid e-mail address" bounceback, due to something a rep did to try to fix something else (which still isn't fixed). Then the rep who "fixed" the problem the first rep caused, screwed up the downloading settings worse than they were screwed up to begin with, causing a mountain of old messages in my inbox to start downloading onto my Blackberry. So I had to shut off my Blackberry, before it got crashed by 1000s of messages downloading (whic