On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:37:45 -0800 (PST), "artyw2@yahoo.com"
<artyw2@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:10:09?PM UTC-6, Lynn McGuire wrote:

�Author Chuck Tingle uninvited from Texas book festival over mask�

https://www.chron.com/culture/article/chuck-tingle-tla-conference-18600608.php

�The Texas Library Association has since apologized and re-extended its
invitation.�

You have got to be kidding me. This guy writes trash.

I was sure this would be about Covid.

It's about Republican stupidity, really. Although these people have
apparently recovered a bit.

For more Republican stupidity, consider the assertions that, in
Florida, schools are banning dictionaries and encyclopedia for their
sexually explicit content.

This is the inevitable consequence of living in an alternate reality.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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On 1/12/2024 8:57 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:37:45 -0800 (PST), "artyw2@yahoo.com" <artyw2@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:10:09?PM UTC-6, Lynn McGuire wrote:

“Author Chuck Tingle uninvited from Texas book festival over mask”

https://www.chron.com/culture/article/chuck-tingle-tla-conference-18600608.php

“The Texas Library Association has since apologized and re-extended its >>> invitation.”

You have got to be kidding me. This guy writes trash.

I was sure this would be about Covid.

It's about Republican stupidity, really. Although these people have apparently recovered a bit.

For more Republican stupidity, consider the assertions that, in
Florida, schools are banning dictionaries and encyclopedia for their
sexually explicit content.

This is the inevitable consequence of living in an alternate reality.

Its probably considered an unexpected bonus.

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

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On 1/11/24 17:37, artyw2@yahoo.com wrote:

On Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:10:09 PM UTC-6, Lynn McGuire wrote:

“Author Chuck Tingle uninvited from Texas book festival over mask”

https://www.chron.com/culture/article/chuck-tingle-tla-conference-18600608.php

“The Texas Library Association has since apologized and re-extended its
invitation.”

You have got to be kidding me. This guy writes trash.

I was sure this would be about Covid.

I was sure it would be about Covid too. But it was about a strange guy
instead. What some of my compatriots would describe as a "weird
motherfucker". While the TLA could have done a better job of checking
this guy out before inviting him, HE could have been more gracious about accepting their apology. But he decided to be an ass instead. Why am I
not surprised?

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On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 12:35:36 -0800 (PST), Andrew McDowell
<mcdowell_ag@sky.com> wrote:

On Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 7:54:24?PM UTC, Dave wrote:

On 1/11/24 17:37, art...@yahoo.com wrote:

On Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:10:09?PM UTC-6, Lynn McGuire wrote:

�Author Chuck Tingle uninvited from Texas book festival over mask�

https://www.chron.com/culture/article/chuck-tingle-tla-conference-18600608.php

�The Texas Library Association has since apologized and re-extended its >> >> invitation.�

You have got to be kidding me. This guy writes trash.

I was sure this would be about Covid.

I was sure it would be about Covid too. But it was about a strange guy
instead. What some of my compatriots would describe as a "weird
motherfucker". While the TLA could have done a better job of checking
this guy out before inviting him, HE could have been more gracious about
accepting their apology. But he decided to be an ass instead. Why am I
not surprised?

Even I had heard of Chunk Tingle. Heaven knows what it will do to my recommendations, but just searching for Chunk Tingle on Amazon and looking at the titles suggests that this is not your standard SF author, unless my view of SF authors has been

unacceptably skewed by my weekly listen to the Baen Free Radio podcast. For some reason, I also got a sponsored link to The Odyssey (Annotated) which looks like it really is an annotated edition of Homer's work. It is slightly odd, but not in the style
of Chunk Tingle. Apparently it is the author's follow-on to a work he published in 1897 and it is written partly to defend his thesis that the writer of the Odyssey was a young woman living in Trapani Sicily, who appears in the story as Nausicaa.

A theory Robert Graves used as the plot of his novel /Homer's
Daughter/. He uses the basic setup (father goes away, mother is
distressed, stranger appears and rights things) as the inspiration for
the basic framework. In Graves' case, he also thought the 10 year
journey home in the poem itself was based on a trip around Sicily.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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On Sun, 14 Jan 2024 03:05:17 -0800 (PST), Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote:

On Friday 12 January 2024 at 16:57:13 UTC, Paul S Person wrote:

On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:37:45 -0800 (PST), "art...@yahoo.com"
<art...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:10:09?PM UTC-6, Lynn McGuire wrote:

�Author Chuck Tingle uninvited from Texas book festival over mask�

https://www.chron.com/culture/article/chuck-tingle-tla-conference-18600608.php

�The Texas Library Association has since apologized and re-extended its >> >> invitation.�

You have got to be kidding me. This guy writes trash.

I was sure this would be about Covid.

It's about Republican stupidity, really. Although these people have
apparently recovered a bit.

For more Republican stupidity, consider the assertions that, in
Florida, schools are banning dictionaries and encyclopedia for their
sexually explicit content.

This is the inevitable consequence of living in an alternate reality.

Snopes Web site says the dictionaries are not banned,
they have been withdrawn while they are checked
for words with a sexual meaning. ><https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/01/11/florida-dictionary-removal/>

Such as bang, lay, root, roger, and cornhole,
I suppose. Feel free to nominate favourites of
your own.

Considering that, when I was young, pretty much everything seen in
films that was not said to refer to drugs was said to refer to sex,
that should not be hard to do.

Keeping in mind that these are schoolchildren, "menses" may, all by
itself, be enough, who can say?
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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