A piece of Italy my brother brought back for me

@bookerdana Oh yeah, when I need a snack or washroom breaks!!

@MrAlmostCrazy Keepin' it real ,man..stretch and walk around 🚶🏻‍➡

@bookerdana I am considering a smart phone of some sort so I can be mobile with audible playing, just not there yet!!

@MrAlmostCrazy Just don't trip over the ottoman 😱

@bookerdana Hell no, but I might be learning about the Ottoman Empire!! 🤯

@MrAlmostCrazy Personally I can't look up AND down at the same time....just be careful otto

@bookerdana Have to practice looking up and down first in a safe position like in a recliner, then gradually make it more elaborate. I figure at least, it's all theoretical for me. Currently listening to Henry Kissinger's Diplomacy, he seems like a pretty sound and level headed guy, mentioned Metternich during Napoleon times and I've seen a Metternich bio in the Plus Catalog!! ... although judging by a review he gives scant time on key cold war events like the Cuban missile crisis and the Suez canal thing. And is warm and cuddly towards Nixon's policies.

@MrAlmostCrazy See Dr Strangelove..he Dr K nearly started WW III in the early 70s

@bookerdana I have that!! If I see it, I'll put it in and listen to it too!!

@bookerdana Oooooh I just assuming Henry was a reputable source, haha, but its just a few clicks away to get quick informative and freshly presented information.

@MrAlmostCrazy Arab Israeli war..went to Defcon 1 b/c we were going in unilaterally...

@bookerdana Yikes!! Bombing of Cambodia i've been watching about, and a whole ep. of Face the Nation, from 1985 with John Kerry and John McCain. More use of YT is called for before much more utterance of things!!

@MrAlmostCrazy We mustn't assert without assurance of Youtube Central..so wrong..we might be quoted😤

@bookerdana Preach it bro!! ... currently watchinga 54m interview with a Edward Snowden, I remember he was a talk of the town a decade or so ago, but I never got through my skull what it was really about, on the journey to KNOWLEDGE, can't do it without YouTube!!

@MrAlmostCrazy And where do they get THEIR knowledge🤔 I imagine the motivations behind Snowden are complex,like Ellsberg before him,certainly altruism is part of the larger picture

@bookerdana Schools, books, and life experiences!! For me I don't have much life experiences. Learning is the Vice President of Literature, and Literature is letting Learning to sit on the throne and conduct some regal business by zipping through time, to gradually develop a spatial and temporal container for History.

@MrAlmostCrazy There are GOOD History books out there

@bookerdana There sure are, i'm drawn to Political History, I stand by the view that that Caro multi-volume on LBJ is worth the time to read, and maybe listening would be easier to digest it at first.

@MrAlmostCrazy Why the diversion to Snowden..wrong era,man🤷‍♀

@bookerdana It's what I was currently watching! For Caro I need to wait, YT is immediate and can infuse a density of diversity.

@MrAlmostCrazy Or DD,so beloved by all