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The Nationwide Book Ban Bill Moves to the House: How to Take Action Now The nationwide book ban bill, HR 7661, has progressed out of committee and into the House. Here's what you need to know to take action.

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A Scattering of Ashes About Some Potentialities of Poetry Language, Logos, Eros, and the Possibility of Return

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A Note on Beauty Beauty and the Sublime, the Numinous, Evolution, and Joy

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The Jeffrey Babbitt 2025 Holiday Show, with Special Guests! YouTube video by Jeffrey Babbitt

Come see The Jeffrey Babbitt Holiday Show with Special Guests on Tuesday December 23 between noon and 4pm here: www.youtube.com/live/SvKqGA6... ... Tips accepted to help my struggling family: PayPal.me/JBabbittMI, Venmo.com/u/jeffreybabbitt, Cash.me/$babbaid, gofund.me/0f530ec85

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The Patriot Post’s Thanksgiving: An Evaluation I had never heard of The Patriot Post, although it tells me that it is "highly acclaimed" and "the nation's leading digest of conservative news and opinion" (no external sources listed for that information). But it is the first defense of the traditional Thanksgiving story that I found. (Side note: My search was conducted on Mojeek in order to bypass the liberal echo chamber that semantic search engines such as Google and Bing tend to put me in.

The Patriot Post’s Thanksgiving: An Evaluation

I had never heard of The Patriot Post, although it tells me that it is "highly acclaimed" and "the nation's leading digest of conservative news and opinion" (no external sources listed for that information). But it is the first defense of the…

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Brothers, in Arms (a work in progress) On my most memorable Thanksgiving Eve

This one time in the mid-late-90s, my friend Rich and I went to one of two gay clubs in Kalamazoo, the one for the older, sadder homosexual men, called Brothers.

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Opening Show Jitters On the 10-minute plays I haven't finished yet

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Ugh, 54.

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Self-Love on a Terrible Mission Being a Mental Adventure of a Former Kid with Potential

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Literary friends:

Looking to define beauty and spirituality for a paper on Diane Seuss. Recommendations for specific poems? Figuring Whitman, Keats, Baudelaire might also have something illuminating. Any of their writings or writing about them that would help?

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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep ...

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The Truth About Halloween: Final Report, 2025 Well, here it is: A day after All Souls Day/All Saints Day 2025, and, with other priorities, I was unable to get far in answering any of the questions I posted in the last post. I will present what information and sources I have found and pick it up next year about this time. Published During the "Satanic Panic" (1980-1994)

The Truth About Halloween: Final Report, 2025

Well, here it is: A day after All Souls Day/All Saints Day 2025, and, with other priorities, I was unable to get far in answering any of the questions I posted in the last post. I will present what information and sources I have found and pick it up…

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Eros and thanos in the walls of the finely ordered room of logos.

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frank 16, "What is it you feel, I asked Kurt..." by Diane Seuss

One of @dseuss.bsky.social 's poems that have a soundtrack. My 1st time listening to Ravel's String Quartet. Realizing how at least frank 13-16 present a world behind, before, between our own, like the infinitely divisible numbers within any interval of ordinary numbers.

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Diane Seuss sonnet "To return from Paradise..." from frank: sonnets, p 15

So much buried in this, just beginning to suss it out after a crowded page of notes, half of which probably go in the wrong direction, but my inkling, again spirit/flesh, Romantic/Decadent, truth/lies... what it is to be human ... @dseuss.bsky.social frank "To return from Paradise"

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Evaluating Sources: CARS, CRAAP, ACT UP, & SIFT Evaluating Sources using CARS: Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, Support. From URL Before I look into any claims in my Truth About Halloween series, or in any other research project, I must have a strategy for evaluating my sources of information. Fortunately (or unfortunately, if you feel overwhelmed by the tyranny of choice), there are plenty to choose from. CARS…

Evaluating Sources: CARS, CRAAP, ACT UP, & SIFT

Evaluating Sources using CARS: Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, Support. From URL Before I look into any claims in my Truth About Halloween series, or in any other research project, I must have a strategy for evaluating my sources of…

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The Truth About Halloween: Scary Stories The following stories are accounts of Halloween propagated by conservative Christians as fact, culled from various places on the internet. I make no claims as to the veracity of any of this, but I will make every effort to prove them true. As any good scientist can tell you, I cannot prove absolutely that any of these things did not happen.

The Truth About Halloween: Scary Stories

The following stories are accounts of Halloween propagated by conservative Christians as fact, culled from various places on the internet. I make no claims as to the veracity of any of this, but I will make every effort to prove them true. As any good…

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I pray they get their loves ones back however Netanyahu is a fucking Butcher

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The Ethics of Writing/Editing: Researching Lived Experience I am performing a developmental edit on a story by a friend in which the protagonist is a drug addict. As an addict myself, in recovery, I know a little about the subject, but not about this particular drug. I also have a personal interest in making sure the story is told accurately and does not misrepresent addicts. My friend the writer did his research, but it was clinical in nature.

The Ethics of Writing/Editing: Researching Lived Experience

I am performing a developmental edit on a story by a friend in which the protagonist is a drug addict. As an addict myself, in recovery, I know a little about the subject, but not about this particular drug. I also have a personal…

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Is there a virtual human library with a recovering addict? Would I call the NA hotline and put out feelers? Is there an ex-junkie speaker's bureau?

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Say I was writing a story about a heroin addict and wanted to know how it feels to overdose, without actually going through the experience. I personally know some recovering addicts. But what if I didn't?Whom could I talk to?

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The Truth About Halloween! Around 2011, or maybe late 2010, I downloaded this audio file of the interview of an evangelical preacher (as I recall, a D.Div. or Th.D. or some kind of Bible college doctor) on the "True History and Meaning of Halloween." My interest in it was ironic. I love Halloween, the idea that the veil between the living and dead is lifted and that frightening, terrifying creatures and entities come out to play.

The Truth About Halloween!

Around 2011, or maybe late 2010, I downloaded this audio file of the interview of an evangelical preacher (as I recall, a D.Div. or Th.D. or some kind of Bible college doctor) on the "True History and Meaning of Halloween." My interest in it was ironic. I love Halloween,…

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A Boone to Pick with Stefanie Stefanie Boone, defendant in a defamation suit after throwing around insults like “groomer” and “pedo,” wraps herself in the flag for the camera. I’m reading up on the…

Who has more pedophiles, librarians or pastors?

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Search Engine Test 2.c & 2.d: Science.gov and Mojeek This is the second and final post in the Search Engine Test 2.0, using the keywords spacetime expanding. I wanted to try a science-specific search site, and Science.gov, as a government site, seemed a good place to start. The results are a little unexpected in a couple of ways, but unsurprisingly much more technical than I need or can readily comprehend.

Search Engine Test 2.c & 2.d: Science.gov and Mojeek

This is the second and final post in the Search Engine Test 2.0, using the keywords spacetime expanding. I wanted to try a science-specific search site, and Science.gov, as a government site, seemed a good place to start. The results are a…

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Search School: Jessamyn West on the Trail of Miss Crabb, part 1 I decided to reconstruct Jessamyn West's research trajectory in Miss Crabb: librarian and poet because I wanted to learn from the best. Although, as a librarian, I'm ashamed Jessamyn's claim that "many librarians could replicate this process," this was a solid opportunity to test myself and sharpen my research skills. Step 1: The preliminary search. Using the information at hand--in this case, an old postcard addressed to "Miss Crabb, library, Berea, KY"--we perform a simple search using more than one search engine.

Search School: Jessamyn West on the Trail of Miss Crabb, part 1

I decided to reconstruct Jessamyn West's research trajectory in Miss Crabb: librarian and poet because I wanted to learn from the best. Although, as a librarian, I'm ashamed Jessamyn's claim that "many librarians could replicate this…

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Search Engine Test 2.a & 2.b: Google vs. Bing I've heard great things about Bing, but, as a Google guy, I've resisted. So, I gave it a shot with the keyword search spacetime expanding. Both sites search semantically, attempting to "make sense" of the search terms, and both use crawlers to discover web content. A note on the notations: 404 - not found/bad link L/E - last edited…

Search Engine Test 2.a & 2.b: Google vs. Bing

I've heard great things about Bing, but, as a Google guy, I've resisted. So, I gave it a shot with the keyword search spacetime expanding. Both sites search semantically, attempting to "make sense" of the search terms, and both use crawlers to discover…

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About Mojeek I ran a search for the keywords spacetime expanding on Mojeek, and it did not shower me with right-wing perspectives. (Now that I say that out loud, it sounds like a ridiculous expectation.) Something of a surprise, given the results of the Ben & Jerry's search yesterday. So I wanted to find out more about Mojeeķ. Apparently, Mojeek features a lexical search, searching for the words and phrases you enter.

About Mojeek

I ran a search for the keywords spacetime expanding on Mojeek, and it did not shower me with right-wing perspectives. (Now that I say that out loud, it sounds like a ridiculous expectation.) Something of a surprise, given the results of the Ben & Jerry's search yesterday. So I wanted…

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Why I Ignore AI Search Results Stories like RFK’s embarrassingly inept use of AI in May of this year and a recent article about people asking librarians to find phantom books make it clear that something is dreadfully wron…

AI hallucinations and research on the H3LP desk. theh3lpdesk.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/w...

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Time, Entropy, & Zeno’s Arrow Paradox My own current research project grows out of my close reading of A. S. King’s YA novel Switch (2021). The premise of the novel is that Earth is stuck in a fold in time and space. Time has bee…

Adventures in research! Read this theh3lpdesk.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/t... ... and then hit me up on Fiverr www.fiverr.com/s/99g8vjj

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Hey folks. Starting up my Fiverr gigs again. If you need help researching, writing, editing, or proofreading, I'm your person. HMU! 💼📝👍💻 www.fiverr.com/s/dDqRpE2

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