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As Trumpland gets darker and darker, this blog gets brighter and brighter. We have much to celebrate.

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SSIG Is Back!

Good news, Wafers: Spinning Straw Into Gold is finally back online:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1635610532/ref=sr_1_21?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1491540168&sr=1-21&keywords=morris+berman

Given the vagaries of American publishing these days, it took forever, but it is at long last back in print. If you didn't buy it way back in 2013, here's an opportunity to purchase the new improved edition (with almost identical content).

One thing did, however, get lost in translation, and this is a first for me: the Customer Reviews got wiped out when the book went offline in 2013, and cannot be retrieved. There were something like 21 reviews; if I remember correctly, something like 18 were very positive, and something like 3 very negative. Since Amazon cannot restore this lost material, I want to make an appeal to those of you who did write a review way back when to rewrite and repost it again, if that's at all possible. I realize that you are not likely to still have your original review in your possession, but perhaps you could skim your copy of the book as a reminder, and then send in something to Amazon based on your memory or impression. I realize this is a strange thing to ask, but inasmuch as Amazon did permanently remove the previous set of Customer Reviews, there isn't much else I can do at this point.

I thank you all, and for the 1st or 2nd time--happy reading!

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Well, Wafers, we can get all excited and blame Trumpi for the chaos and disaster that is engulfing the US, but really, Don is but a reflection of ourselves. There are so many articles on what we are doing to ourselves on a daily basis, it's hard to keep up. Here's just one (somebody cited this on the previous post):

http://wqad.com/2016/02/29/mans-powerful-letter-about-the-struggles-of-being-a-teacher-getting-a-lot-of-attention/

Our future is riots, martial law, detention centers, and nationwide dementia. Meanwhile, there are two little words that the progs cannot absorb into their tender little brains: "It's over." I mean, come on guys: Is the Pope Catholic? Does a bear shit in the woods?

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Well, Wafers, time for a new post. Only problem is, I have nothing to say. My mind is as blank as that of George Bush. But let's look on the positive side of things (despite my creeping senility). We are slowly coming up on post #300; on 11 years of blogdom (in April); and on 3 million--count 'em!--hits. Could anything be more splendid? When I 1st began this blog, everyone laughed. "Forget it!" they cried. "It'll never get up off the ground!" To which I replied: "But they told the same thing to the Wright Brothers. They mocked Galileo. And look at how history regards them today." "But you aren't the Wright Brothers," they countered; "you aren't Galileo." "No," I responded; "but I am a Wafer with a blog!" And as they say, the rest is history. Waferdom proved to be the only enduring force on the planet, the only--only, mind you--force for good. The highest form of consciousness. And in addition, after nearly 11 years of waging war with them, we defeated the trollfoons. Crushed them out of existence. They have crawled back under the rocks whence they first emerged, beaten and humiliated. So all in all, my critics proved to be wildly off base.

A salute, then, to us: the finest people on the planet (all 171 of us), the only ones working day and night in the interests of Truth and Beauty.

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Janis

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It's like there are these days when I wake up, and I think about Janis. I can't help it; I think about Janis. Jesus, it was a voice, and a decade, like no other:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76H1cGkdcwM

For my parents, it was Enrico Caruso; for me, it was Janis.

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Another Interview with Guadalajara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7lq9znCWgg