I should have done this last month, but here it is already February so I need to post my 2026 Reading Challenge.
The goal I set this year is to read 4 books each month, for a total of 48 books to read in 2026. That’s almost double the goal I set for 2025, which I exceeded by 43 books that year. I’d like to think I’ll exceed the goal this year, but you never know.
So far, as you can see by the graphic below, I am ahead of that monthly goal; having read 6 books thus far is 2026.
Sometimes, you get an absolutely perfect gift. My brother has always been especially adept at giving me gifts that are thoughtful and special.
One year it was a set of books about the works of one of my favorite modern artists, painter Norman Rockwell. Another year it was a chess set where the pieces were made of lava rock from Mexico (where he honeymooned) because I enjoy playing the game.
This year it was a book…about ME! Or, more accurately, about Cindy, Bella and I and what happens when our RV suddenly becomes a spaceship and the adventures we have across the galaxy. The book is titled, “Jeff Escapes Gravity – Interstellar RV Odyssey” with me on the cover in a spacesuit standing in front of a spaceship view screen and control panel against the blue/black star field of outer space.
I know that when I unwrapped it that my eyes MUST have been round with surprise. Then, as I read the first paragraph aloud to Cindy and began laughing uncontrollably, they filled with tears from laughing so hard. That hardly ever happens to me, but I was literally laughing so hard I was crying.
“The stars outside the RV window were moving like startled fish. Jeff sat very still. His coffee cup hovered three inches above the table. Bella barked once and then barked again in slow motion. Cindy slept through a passing comet and snored like a small engine. The steering wheel hummed with a song that sounded suspiciously like a lounge singer. Jeff s hands trembled in a way that made the manual slide open. The manual landed on his lap as if it had bodyguards. The RV smelled faintly of burnt toast and distant rain. A road sign floated by the window, offering directions to Orion. The sight made Jeff laugh in a short, shocked burst. He felt like a tourist who took a wrong exit into space. Bella nosed a drifting kibble and performed an elegant midair pirouette. Cindy shifted, still dreaming, and her hair made an orbit. The ceiling light drifted toward the microwave and then stopped.”
What my brother and saintly sister-in-law had gifted me with was a book that was created (I hesitate to say “written”) by Authortales.com about what happens when our RV becomes a spaceship.
What Is Authortales.com?
Authortales.com is a platform that allows users to create personalized storybooks quickly. It utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to transform user-generated stories into hilarious custom fiction books. The service includes professional covers and engaging content, making it suitable for various audiences. No NSFW passages in here.
Someone, (like my brother and saintly sister-in-law), gives Authortales.com a few key characters (like me, Cindy and Bella), a couple of important settings (like our RV and outer space) and then Authortales.com uses AI to create a personalized story, custom cover art (using a headshot that’s also provided by the givers), and incredible moments with the main characters…all in one amazing hardback book of approximately 200 pages. Then they print the book and ship it to the givers or the giftee.
There’s even a summary and fake review(s) on the back cover, just like any book you would find in a bookstore.
Now, to be sure, the writing is obviously AI and probably primitive AI at that. The writing is (and I’m saying this charitably) BAD, lol! As you could clearly see from that first paragraph above. But none of that matters because the story is about you and possibly your loved ones and you cannot help but read the entire 200 pages, painfully bad writing and all, to see what happens.
My brother and saintly sister-in-law even included a dedication page at the front of the book.
To be honest, I’m not sure how my brother and his wife will ever top this year’s gift in the future. They may well have hit the pinnacle with this one.
Thanks, as always, to the Bestest Brother and his Bestest Wife for such a wonderful and unique gift.
Today, January 18th, is celebrated as National Thesaurus Day in honor of the birthdate in 1779 of Peter Mark Roget who gave us the first thesaurus in 1852. Roget, who was born in London and was a British physician and lexicographer, started his work of research in 1848 and finished it 4 years later with 15,000 words. What we know today as “Roget’s Thesuraus” was first published under the title “Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition.”
THAT’S a mouthful!
But accurate.
When I was a wee little Word Of Jeff and would ask my mom what a word meant, she would point me to the Webster’s Dictionary and tell me to look it up. A few years later, when I was in school and had to write a report, she and my dad bought a set of encyclopedias for me and my younger brother to use for research. And at some point, when I was doing more than just parroting what I read in the encyclopedias and expressing myself more fully in those reports, she introduced me to Roget’s Thesaurus.
Ever since then, until online resources were available, there were always two books on my desk or on a nearby bookshelf; Webster’s Dictionary and Roget’s Thesaurus. Today I keep a physical copy of each book in case the Internet collapses, but mostly make use of online sites like dictionary.com and thesaurus.com to inform my speaking and writing.
But as someone who first wanted to expand my vocabulary as a child and then later as a writer and speaker, Roget’s Thesaurus was like a goldmine to me. No one wants to read, or hear a speaker say, the same word for something over and over, if at all possible. With a thesaurus at our fingertips, we can expand our vocabulary and move beyond writing or saying we are happy repetitively. A look inside a thesuraus lets us say or write that we are glad, delighted, overjoyed, ecstatic, jubilant, elated, gleeful or joyous.
And if we want to find a word that is the opposite of happy, a thesaurus can point us that way to with antonyms that help us say we are unhappy, sorrowful, miserable, troubled, hopeless, or morose.
So today, I want to express to you that I am thrilled, excited, delirious, psyched, pumped and tickled pink to say Happy National Thesaurus Day.
Today, January 2nd, is National Science Fiction Day. National Science Fiction Day is a day that celebrates the science fiction genre-its stories, ideas, and impact on science, technology, and culture.
The date of January 2nd was chosen to observe National Science Fiction Day because it is the birthdate of famed science fiction author (and one of the most influential figures in the field) Isaac Asimov, born January 2, 1920. It has been observed since 2011.
Science Fiction and Me
To the best of my recollection, when I started reading as a child the first genre of interest for me was science fiction.
First, I was reading superhero comic books which are certainly a form of science fiction, such as (obviously) Superman. But even earthbound heroes like Batman and others had their phase of science fiction adventures in the late 50’s and early 60’s.
Second, the first books I found intriguing were the stories of Tom Swift (or more accurately Tom Swift Jr.) because of their grounding and setting in science and science fiction. Those were followed by authors such as H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, and then Robert A. Heinlein, Pohl Anderson, Madeleine L’Engle, Arthur C. Clarke, James Blish, Ray Bradbury and others.
That interest in reading about science fiction also held true in my media viewing choices because…
Third, the first TV series I had real interest in were science fiction based. I grew up watching westerns because that’s what my dad watched and series like Lassie and Rin Tin Tin because what boy doesn’t love stories about dogs, (except maybe the current occupant of the White House) but when shows like The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Lost in Space, Star Trek, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and The Invaders came on the scene they were all I had an interest in watching (somehow I missed ever even being exposed to Doctor Who in my youth, but I made up for that lack later in life).
Fourth, my favorite movies of my childhood were films like The Time Machine, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Planet of the Apes, First Men in the Moon, and Fantastic Voyage (Raquel Welch, notwithstanding, lol).
And I remember being at the doctor’s office when I was 8 or 9 and he asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. My answer; an astronaut. However, my near complete non-aptitude for math scuttled that dream.
But even today, though my reading and viewing interests have grown and expanded, my default subject and genre choice is science fiction.
How Can You Celebrate National Science Fiction Day?
People often celebrate National Science Fiction Day by:
Reading a science fiction story
Watching a science fiction-themed TV show, series or movie
Sharing their favorite science fiction stories or characters on social media (#NationalScienceFictionDay)
Discussing how science fiction inspires REAL science and REAL inventions
Participating in themed events at libraries, book stores, conventions or other gatherings
It is, at its core, a day to appreciate and celebrate the imagination, curiosity, and future-thinking that makes up the basis of what we call Science Fiction.
Well, the year is almost over so it’s time for a post about the Books I Read In 2025.
At the beginning of 2025 I set a goal of reading 25 books this year. I felt like one book every two weeks was an achievable goal that would not make me feel like I had to pressure myself to read a book every week, but would allow me to exceed the goal if I was able.
As you can see from the graphic below (courtesy of GoodReads this year) I WAS able to exceed my goal by reading 63 books in 2025.
Giuffre was a prominent figure in the accusations against the late Jeffrey Epstein that he sexually molested and trafficked underage girls to friends and business associates of his, including Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Windsor was stripped of his royal titles and evicted from his royal residence by his brother, King Charles.
I had just finished reading this sad, deeply troubling, and rage-inducing book a few days ago. If all the things the author shared were and are true, it should fill any normal father, brother, son or man with disgust.
And it is a true shame that Giuffre is not here to realize that her strength and courage have resulted in her story and book selling more than 1 million copies worldwide.
This is not to be confused with the Old Farmer’s Almanac, which is still being published. I know, it can be six-seven (as the kids say); especially for those of us who did not grow up on farms and did not use this yearly guide.
I was trying to remember when I first laid eyes on the Farmer’s Almanac. It seems that it was probably at my aunt and uncle’s rural home in the early 1960’s where they had a large garden (as opposed to a small farm), that we visited each summer when I was growing up. My aunt kept a basket of rotated reading material next to the toilet in the bathroom and I believe the Farmer’s Almanac was in there among the Reader’s Digest, Country Life, and the Sears Catalog magazines.
Anyway, since this was going to be the last Farmer’s Almanac, Cindy and I decided to order one so we would have it…for some reason. Maybe just to have it, maybe to pass it along to which ever kid or grandkid might want it when we die, maybe to even use it as we travel.
So now we have our copy of the last Farmer’s Almanac and we’ll see what happens.
For the first time ever, I think, the winners do not include ANY books I read in this past year of 2025. Not one.
Some of the books I have read this year WERE included in the nominations under categories I read such as “107 Days” under Memoirs; “Never Flinch” under “Horror”; and “The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy―and Why it Failed” under History and Biography, but none of those won in their respective categories.
To be sure, there are some of the winners that I WANT to read and I’ll probably get to some of them at some point. It just wasn’t this year.
And there are some books under categories that I never read such as “Romance” or “Romantasy” because those are just not in my circle of interest.
But 7.5 million readers can’t be wrong can they? I honestly wish even more voting had taken place because we need all the readers out here that we can get. I mean, to steal the title from one of my favorite non-profits, Reading Is Fundamental.
So, congratulations to all the Goodreads Choice Awards Readers’ Favorite Books of 2025 winners.
Did any of the books you read this year make the list? If so, please drop the title or titles in the comments below.
Strangely enough, even though I was 20 at the time, I don’t recall reading or hearing about the sinking when it happened.
In fact, the first time I heard about it was listening to Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 song, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. And even though I loved the song I remember thinking that it was referring to something that happened many years prior, not something that happened less than a year earlier. It wasn’t until many years later that I realized how close in time the sinking and the song about it were in relation to each other.
Then, just a few months ago when we visited the Great Lakes region, my interest in the sinking was spurred by our tour of the Soo Locks. In looking for books on the subject I came across Bacon’s upcoming (at the time) book and reserved it at my library.
A couple of days ago it became available to borrow and I’ve been engrossed in it ever since. And it struck me that I would still be reading it when the 50th anniversary of the sinking happened, which felt strangely like some kind of fate was at work.
Anyway, I have read about 35% of the book so far and it is very engrossing. And the story hasn’t even reached the sinking yet, but the lead up and history is so intriguing and captivating.
If you have any interest in the subject, this is an excellent book to read about it and I highly recommend it.
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As book readers, we all owe a great debt of gratitude to….AUTHORS! Because without authors, we would have no books to read. We would have no bookstores, no physical books lining our shelves in our home library or public library, and no digital books filling up our hard drives.
We would not have fiction writers taking us to different lives, different worlds or even exploring our own lives and own world in ways we’ve never experienced or from perspectives we’ve never considered. We would have no writers of non-fiction, experts on subjects we are not but wish to learn more about, helping us to expand our knowledge and intelligence.
In short, without authors we would miss out on a lot of things.
In 1928, the president of the Illinois Women’s Club, Nellie Verne Burt McPherson, came up with the idea to create a day that recognized American authors. She was an educator and quite an avid reader. The inspiration for the holiday came while she was in the hospital during the First World War. She had just read Irving Bacheller’s “Eben Holden’s Last Day A-Fishing” and sent a letter to him expressing her love for the book.
After receiving the letter, he responded by forwarding a signed copy of another one of his stories to her. McPherson, overwhelmed by his generosity, thought of a way to repay the gesture. She concluded that a National day for authors would do the trick and presented the idea to the Generation Federation of Women’s Clubs. The club approved, and in May 1929, issued an endorsement to celebrate American Authors on National Author’s Day.
The U.S. Department of Commerce acknowledged National Author’s Day in 1949. Although it took 20 years, McPherson’s vision finally became a reality and the holiday has been celebrated across the country every year since.
Ways To Observe and Celebrate National Author’s Day
One of the first ways is, of course, to read a book by one of your favorite authors. It might be a new release or perhaps a book you have read before and want to enjoy again.
Buy a book by an author whose work you have enjoyed.
Write a review of a book by an author you found impactful.
Post something about an author you love on social media.
Follow Ms. McPherson’s example and send an email, social media post, or even a physical letter or card to an author whose book(s) you have enjoyed.
Give or loan someone a book by an author whose work you have enjoyed so as to share that joy.
Use the inspiration you may have received from an author’s work to write and become an author yourself.
Whatever way you choose to observe and celebrate this day, I hope you have a Happy National Author’s Day!!
I have always been a voracious reader. From the time I was a 5-year old child to today, reading has been a pleasure that I have forever appreciated.
As a child my main source of reading material was the school library and then the public library. Wherever I have lived for any length of time, I have always made sure to get a library card and avail myself of their shelves and shelves of books. Bookstores were my next step and they complemented what I might see at a library in that, if I really liked the book, I would buy it for my own library.
Then, with the advent of digital reading material, the world of books positively exploded in breadth and depth. That, coupled with traveling for work and then retirement, meant that most of my reading material was going to be digital. There has just been no way to add physical books to our travel trailer beyond a few paperbacks and even fewer hardbacks. Even those get rotated out and back to storage when we return to our home base.
(As an aside, Cindy and I really miss being able to just step into a room and get one of our books off the shelf. It’s probably the main reason we look forward to settling down again in one place someday. But not today, Satan. Lol!)
So, since I can’t search through the local library and, even if we stop and visit a bookstore we can’t really add physical books to the weight of our travel trailer, I’ve had to find other ways to locate digital books I’d like to read.
Most of the time, I’m finding books to read in four places; magazines, TV shows, websites, and emails. Let’s take a look at them in more detail to see where I find books to read.
Magazines
Of course, I’m talking about digital magazines since, like books, I can’t add the weight of all the weekly, monthly or quarterly magazines I read to the RV…and there a quite a few.
SFX Magazine– Though it is mostly a publication about Science Fiction and Fantasy movies, SFX also has book reviews. Typically one to five pages of them. And, since I’m a huge SF & F reader, a lot of the books reviewed will appeal to me.
The New Yorker – Each week, there are at least four book reviews. Some are bestsellers, some are niche titles.
Booklist– A monthly magazine for librarians and the entire magazine is listings and reviews of upcoming books and reviews of books that are already out. It works great for librarians wondering what to put on their shelves, and just as well for readers seeking the same.
The Week– A weekly (imagine that) magazine that includes The Book List each week with a variety of genres listed with pocket reviews.
Writers Digest – Though most of the features and articles are geared to writers, they also typically provide book reviews of a few new published writers in each issue.
TV Shows
The Daily Show– Usually has at least two book authors on as guests each week. Usually non-fiction. I’ve been surprised at how many new writers/genres/subjects I’ve found interesting and followed up on by reading their books.
Jimmy Kimmel Live – Like Colbert, occasionally has a famous or not-so-famous author on to talk about their new book.
Most likely the other late night shows (Fallon, Meyers, etc.) have authors on as well, but I haven’t seen those to say for sure.
Websites
Goodreads – Seeing books friends have read or, more usually books that are recommend based on what I’ve read, is a good source of finding something new to read. However, I am trying to break free of what big corporations like Bezos’ Amazon are offering. But it’s difficult sometimes, especially since I also find suggestions through…
Amazon Kindle-Most of my ebooks are read on my iPad Kindle App, so I cant help but see suggestions from Kindle and I’m also a member of Kindle Unlimited (for now) so I get quite a few books through that program. But, I keep chipping away little by little to break free of what one of the major TechBros is selling. Someday I will be free at last.
StoryGraph – Part of that breaking away effort has been to look into moving away from Goodreads and after a year of comparison StoryGraph (so far) looks like it will be that replacement. (I tried Hardcover, but it was not well-populated with books, even bestsellers, and the UI was clunky so I gave it up after 6 months). StoryGraph, like Goodreads, offers many suggestions from fellow readers and many based on what I’ve read.
Mastodon – A social media app that has a huge book reading population. Hashtag #Bookstodon 🙂
Bluesky – Another social media app that has a sizeable book reading population. Hashtag #BookSky 🙂
Emails
Probably the least-used source of suggestions on what to read.
Amazon Suggestions – Being a member of Kindle Unlimited it is inevitable that I receive emails from them trying to sell me their new releases. I lightly scan these. And if I see something I like, I typically look for its availability through my library app, Libby.
Libby Newsletter – Once a week, Libby sends out a very nice email showing what’s been borrowed the most during the previous month, new releases and specific genres that rotate in the spotlight.
Reactor – Reactor, formerly Tor.com, is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine published by Tor Books. They put out an email newsletter that contains listings of new books in those genres and reviews of some of them.
Of course I get suggestions in person as well from family and friends, as well as simply perusing bookstore shelves, but the above is pretty much the bulk of where I find books to read.
Where do you find your books to read? Do you have any suggestions to add to what I have listed above? Please leave a comment and share with all of us.
Today kicks off the annual Banned Books Week, observed this year from October 5 – 11, 2025. The Banned Books Week website describes it thusly:
“Banned Books Week is an annual event that highlights the value of free and open access to information. The event is supported by a coalition of organizations dedicated to free expression, including American Booksellers for Free Expression, American Library Association, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Amnesty International USA, Association of University Presses, Authors Guild, Banned Books Week Sweden, Children’s Book Council, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), Freedom to Read Foundation, GLAAD, Index on Censorship, Little Free Library, National Book Foundation, National Coalition Against Censorship, National Council of Teachers of English, PEN America, People For the American Way Foundation, PFLAG, and Project Censored. Banned Books Week also receives generous support from Penguin Random House. Banned Books Week is ® American Library Association.”
“…free and open access to information.” That’s really what it is all about.
Last week, the PEN America organization released the list of Most Banned Books of the 2024-2025 School Year and it will make your head spin, as most lists of this type do to any person who believes in the freedom of people to write and read what they wish. As noted in the prelude to the list; “For the third straight year, Florida was the No. 1 state for book bans, with 2,304 instances of bans, followed by Texas with 1,781 bans and Tennessee with 1,622.”
Wow! I thought DeSantis said he governed the “Free” State of Florida.
Banning books is ridiculous. Especially banning books for young people in school. What should be practiced without hesitation is age-appropriate guidance by parents for their own children. If you think a book may have themes or subject matter that is too mature for your own child, by all means express that to them.
Set guidelines for your own children, not other parents’ children.
Telling a school library or a local city/county library that they cannot keep a book on their shelves for people to borrow because YOU think it shouldn’t be there is the height of ego and hubris. And it sets in motion the very thing the banner does not want; for people to read the book. Forbidden fruit is the most tempting.
Because, as Isaac Asimov said, “Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”
And, as Stephen King explained, “…run, don’t walk, to the nearest nonschool library or to the local bookstore and get whatever it was that they banned. Read whatever they’re trying to keep out of your eyes and your brain, because that’s exactly what you need to know.”
Amen!
It’s a shame we even have to have a Banned Books Week.
For those of you who wonder what you can do, the Banned Books Week website has some suggestions broken down by the amount of time and financial ability you have. In its simplest terms; everybody can do something.
Keep the freedom to write and read free.
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If you’re a reader of e-books, then today is your day. Happy Read an E-book Day!
Read an E-book Day was first observed on September 18, 2014 by OverDrive, a major supplier of e-books to libraries across the country. If you read e-books from your Iibrary, odds are they came from OverDrive and you used their app, Libby, to check those e-books out from your library.
Since we travel full-time in a 35-foot RV, space is at a premium. Were it not for e-books, I could never satisfy my hunger to read because we just would not have the space to travel with physical books. But thanks to e-books, my library, and the Libby App, I can read so much more (41 e-books so far this year) than I could if I were limited to physical books.
Part of the review by NPR (Love you NPR!) describes the book as; “English’s true tale of the federal government smuggling subversive books through the Iron Curtain sounds like a current-times call to action. . . . The book’s allure is intrigue, danger, and suspense in the service of meaning.”
I can agree, the intrigue and spy-craft nature of this program is compelling.
Now, to be clear, I still read physical books. I usually get some at Christmas time and bring the 3, 4, or 5 that I receive with us to read throughout the year until we return to Orlando and I can place them in our storage facility. But, as you can imagine, it would be prohibitive to bring the 50-plus e-books I’ll read this year with us if they were physical books.
So I am thrilled to be able to have e-books to read, especially on this Read an E-book Day.
It’s National Read A Book Day, observed on September 6th each year. As a voracious reader of more than 65 years, it is my distinct pleasure to wish you a Happy National Read A Book Day.
I am currently reading three books; a biography, a memoir, and a history of the pop culture phenomenon of Star Trek.
The history of Star Trek is the first of a two-volume hardcover set that my wife gifted me for my birthday this year. It is described as an oral history; meaning the authors have compiled massive amounts of interviews from various creators, performers, technical experts and fans given over the past 60-plus years to present a chronological history of Star Trek. I am partway through the first volume and have only covered the Original Star Trek TV series era. So far, it has been a fascinating look at a world that first captured my attention when creator Gene Roddenberry brought the world of the Starship Enterprise, her captain and his crew to my attention with the TV series in 1966.
The ebook biography I am reading is that of Thomas Edison and was sparked by our recent visit to Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan where Henry Ford painstakingly recreated Edison’s Menlo Park Facility by moving what could be and recreating what couldn’t of Edison’s labs, factories, offices and residence from Menlo Park, NJ. Walking through those buildings I realized that I really only knew of Edison’s invention of the phonograph and light bulb and decided it was time I expanded my knowledge of the man and his inventions.
And finally, the ebook memoir is that of Robert Reich, economist and former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration. Reich is a man I admire and respect, and his just-published memoir is a look at his childhood, personal life and philosophy. It is particularly important because it delves into the differences of the current administration from that of previous presidencies and how it compares even to Reich’s own life, actions and beliefs.
So I am, perhaps, overdoing it on National Read A Book Day. But if I can be reading three books on this day surely I can implore you to read, or even begin reading, a single book and celebrate National Read A Book Day in the fashion it is meant to be observed.
From all accounts she seemed to be a truly nice person, something this world doesn’t have enough of at present. Wishing much peace and comfort to her family and loved ones.
Like most informed voters, I followed the 2024 election and its results. In the six months since that election it seems like everyone is writing a book about it and its consequences or benefits (depending on your perspective) to the United States of America. This book, “Original Sin” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, is the latest.
Books about elections are good. They allow us to dive deeper into what happened and why. I have already read “Fight” earlier this year (my review here) and found it to be a fairly decent historical look at Kamala Harris’ presidential run, if you trust the sources that are cited.
“Original Sin” is a horse of a different color, for several reasons. I know the name Jake Tapper of CNN, though I haven’t counted on that outlet for my news needs in over a decade. I do not know the name of Alex Thompson. Still, I thought the book might be another interesting look at the 2024 election.
Tapper and Thompson state in their book that the title comes from this; “The original sin of Election 2024 was Biden’s decision to run for reelection—followed by aggressive efforts to hide his cognitive diminishment.”
For those unfamiliar with Christian doctrine, the Encyclopedia Brittanica explains, “”Original sin”, in Christian doctrine, the condition or state of sin into which each human being is born; also, the origin of this state. Traditionally, the origin has been ascribed to the sin of the first man, Adam, who disobeyed God in eating the forbidden fruit (of knowledge of good and evil) and, in consequence, transmitted his sin and guilt by heredity to his descendants.”
That’s a lot of weight to put on Joe Biden.
Look, I get that Biden was old. Hell, I’ll even stipulate that he was having the usual problems of old age. He’s not the first such president to hold office in his old age and obviously, with the subsequent election of Trump, isn’t the last.
But I want to know the answers to a couple of questions that Tapper and Thompson don’t address;
Why did a reporter like Tapper know this and NOT report on it at the time he knew it. Why did he choose to wait, write a book he and Thompson could make money off of, instead of doing his job and reporting the news of it in real time? How can someone like that EVER be trusted to accurately and objectively report the news?
Why aren’t Tapper and Thompson reporting on the obvious dementia of the CURRENT occupant of the White House? Why are they (and others) ignoring their duty to investigate and expose what is on full display to the rest of the country and world?
As Shalise Manza Young of The Contrarian writes; “Because the current President of the United States, you know, the guy who doesn’t read, lies incessantly, and has installed a cadre of vapid cosplaying Fox personalities, puppy killers and toxic creek-swimming nepobabies into some of the most important posts in the country, the president who has never been particularly intelligent…is now an incoherent mess.”
Biden may have been old, but he, his staff, and his cabinet were running the country in a marvelous way that benefitted ALL Americans, not just those who Trump likes or who pay him bribes. We’ve seen the full evidence of that ever since January 20th.
But what Tapper and Thompson have presented in “Original Sin” is short on verifiable sources and long on not much more than conjecture.
Editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich is closer to the truth. Tapper is a heckler lining his pockets, not a political analyst reporting verifiable news in a timely manner.
