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🎈 election day in my country🎈 (the first Tuesday in November) — for which I re-play this Jim Benton cartoon:

(#1) From my 3/3/25 posting “Warnings”: it’s all the fault of the Cassandras; they should have made us believe them, they shouldn’t have let us not believe them

Meanwhile, from Steven Levine on Facebook yesterday:

The summary of the contents of this cookbook is somewhat surprising.

(#2) On the World of Books used-books site, summary of The Greens Cookbook by Deborah Madison

Almost immediately, Julian Lander chose to understand this not as an error in the listing, but as intentional deception, via a fake slip-on cover; and I now expand on his excellent proposal:

— JL: It’s a stealth book for women who want to emulate the standards of the 1950s, when girls were not supposed to appear to be too intellectual: the cover is that of a cookbook with a heavy legal text inside.

— AZ > JL: Indeed. An example of a fake slip-on cover for books — a cover depicting one title but concealing another title entirely. Usually an earnest or intellectual disguise for racy or frankly pornographic material, but in this case an apparent cookbook (suitable for a tradwife) concealing a legal text.

The women are plotting, and so they should.

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