Month: November 2024

Uncle Josh on the Six Words again

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I started a project earlier this year about Six Words, It kind of went away as I got distracted but I have been thinking about them, and today I answered a question or Reddit that brought them back to the forefront. Ultimately the question was about reputation. At least my answer was about reputation. For …

Uncle Josh on Canons

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I read this Reactor.com article about how there is “no canon in Tolkien”. It’s been sitting in my head ever since. I have also been one of those people who worried that a TV show or movie was fundamentally changing the canon of some intellectual property. I am changing in how I view these things, …

Uncle Josh on his writing career

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It is November, which means novel-writing month for many, even though the NaNoWriMo organization has fallen apart and seems to have no desire to put itself together again. I can sympathize with that. I am, as of today, close to 20,000 words behind the goal, with most of my words going to various projects, not …

Uncle Josh on the Wealth Tax

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My mind was all over the place today, and I know with the next president there is no way on God’s blue earth we’ll see a wealth tax in this country, but I wanted to get to grips with it and understand it. The detractors (i.e. billionaires) who argued against it claim it would bankrupt …

Uncle Josh is Scared

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There are only a few times in my life I have felt this bad about everything: September 11 2021, 2016, and 2024. The last time Leader Dearest was in charge he had people who actually understood how the country worked with some respect for the rule of law. They all told us not to give …