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I think it's natural to want your grandkids to be better off than you were. Not necessarily hypocritical. It probably depends on how far you go with it.

Who are some of y'all's favorite artists? Rembrandt is my favorite. I'll never forget seeing this in person. Blew me away.

Tax the rich, sure. At the same rate we tax everybody else. No stupid, 10,000-page tax code where you can write off your trip to the Caymans as missionary work.

One of these days, I'll start a blog or podcast to get this out of my system.

Mountain biking as a participant. Hockey or football as a spectator.

Get a job where people bother you on your phone 24/7

I've always wanted a brown bess.

Black powder looks interesting but hard to get into. Wow.

My sister is due to give birth around that time. The family will be: 1. Gathering at the hospital. 2. Helping her and my brother in law take care of the baby. 3. Staring at her awkwardly while munching on potatoes.

It's more dangerous, but I like doing mountain biking trails alone. Great way to get up close and personal with nature.

Russian novel FTW.

Sunday after church. I'm on my back deck overlooking a river and a bunch of turned trees. Straw hat on my head, pipe in my mouth, pale ale in my holder, comfy camping chair on my bottom. I don't know what I'd be reading. Stalin isn't exactly relaxing, but I'm determined to finish that...

I wonder what politicians were like before the "hot mic."

I could write a book in response, but I'm going to restrain myself. :ROFL: Suffice it to say at the early stages, the Bolsheviks didn't have much in the way of a mass appeal. The Marxist believers were mostly better-educated, upper-middle-class people. They knew enough to be dangerous. The...

The Birds bored me to death. Hard to believe that was the same genius who gave us Vertigo and Rear Window. Yes, that was a neat aspect of those films too. Even movies with lackluster stories had some neat visuals. No CGI

A lot of good songs in that one. And Howard Keel was the man.

Sounds like a great list for around Reformation Day!

Well you'd probably dig the book I'm reading now. Kotkin got access to a lot of new, declassified material. This is probably the third book-length account of the Revolution I've read and it's the best. A real page-turner too! And man. There are days I'd like to teach The Hobbit for a living.

Hmmm. That's something to think about. I don't know if I'd characterize even the guise of Communism as practical, especially by the time Stalin assumed power. Maybe more materialist and therefore less mystical by comparison. Minor quibble there- you're right that Nazism wasn't as systematic.