The Gulag Archipelago - Solzhenitsyn The Long Walk - Slavomir Rawicz

The Spy who came in from the Cold, damn good book. You have some great ones in your list.

Damn, I also forgot Foundation. very important series.

Yes, Tolkein is a must. I missed that in my list, one of the most important books of my youth. Two Years before the Mast, good. Will look into your list.

Connections - James Burke
The Northwest Passage - Kenneth Roberts
Assignment in Utopia - Eugene Lyons
A Fire in the Deep - Vernor Vinge
The Ladder of Rivers: The Story of I.P. (Print Olive) - Harry E. Chrisman
At least one book by J. Frank Dobie
The Stand - Stephen King
The Brass Ring - Bill Mauldin
At least one book by Tony Hillerman
The Last 100 Days - John Toland
QB VII - Leon Uris

If you like your flute.

Yup. The deniers will deny it now but that's the incontrovertible truth.

You actually used the word you are trying to think of - deniers. Those people aren't scientists, they're an experiment. Double blind study. What you need to ask yourself and your denier friends is how much more obvious does a situation have to be before you admit you're wrong?

That was funny, I wonder how many liberal butt plugs just hit the floor in anger when you pointed out the obvious.

Yup

Remember when those old people would sit around and talk about President Truman and Eisenhower? That's the feeling young people have when oldsters talk about Reagan and Clinton.

When Reagan was President the great threats to civilization included (if memory serves) a depleted ozone layer, electricity generated by nuclear power, Alar in applesauce, deforestation, cattle on public lands, a nuclear holocaust instigated by a mad cowboy in the White house and red dye number two.

Those might be out of order and I may have missed one or two things. Those were scary times. And on top of that we were dealing with an economy that made the 'Great Recession' look like a cake walk because of a guy named Jimmy Carter.

Is a denier. The damage done is now the people don't trust the scientists. The scientists sold their virtue for grant money and power.

As there should be a separation of church and state so should there be a separation of federal grant money and science - the system is now hopelessly corrupt.

Good point, I believe the climate deniers are grasping at straws but a lot of very powerful people bet their reputations and fortunes on this scam so don't expect them to go down without a fight.

Yup. It's crazy, someday they'll feel bad but right now they're just embarrassed.

Liberty isn't for everyone, just the well armed.