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My July fund-raising campaign to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary since I began Behind the Black is now over. I want to thank all those who so generously donated or subscribed, especially those who have become regular supporters. I can't do this without your help. I also find it increasingly hard to express how much your support means to me. God bless you all!

 

The donations during this year's campaign were sadly less than previous years, but for this I blame myself. I am tired of begging for money, and so I put up the campaign announcement at the start of the month but had no desire to update it weekly to encourage more donations, as I have done in past years. This lack of begging likely contributed to the drop in donations.

 

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On the radio

I will be doing a quickly scheduled appearance with Robert Pratt at 5 pm (Central) today on his Pratt on Texas radio network, airing across the Lone Star State. You can listen live here or from an affiliate station available here.

The interview is scheduled for 30 minutes, but it could go longer. The subject will be the muzzle of oppression that so many Americans are now willing to put on their faces.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

5 comments

  • Robert Pratt

    Thanks Bob, as always it was a pleasure to have you on.

  • Robert Pratt: And as always, it was a pleasure to visit with you. If a podcast of today’s show becomes available, please let me know and I will post a link to it here.

  • mkent

    The subject will be the muzzle of oppression that so many Americans are now willing to put on their faces.

    Wow! On the day that America sets a new single-day death record for Covid-19, you go on the radio to denounce one of the simplest ways for Americans to reduce the spread of this disease. What timing!

    How many bodies have to pile up before you admit you are wrong?

  • janyuary

    Mkent, I marvel at how all around me these people are supposedly dying in record numbers, which necessarily means that three times as many people must be getting very very sick and surviving …. I marvel at how I personally know ZERO who’ve been killed or e even made ill beyond mild flu.

    Mkent, I remember the first real pandemic I ever experienced, when I was 11 years old. I knew lots of people, all ages, who got sick, and that continued over flu seasons of the next 50 years. I have lived in very heavily populated port towns so we were the first to get “new” viruses and the regional industry (fishing) was very very high risk, so the “risk” of getting this season’s flu was laughable in context.

    Now you can write it off as “empirical” evidence that’s worthless and go on believing purely on what doctors and politicians tell you (those are the ones telling you that all these people are dying) as opposed to what your eyes, math skills, and personal experience tell you.

    Easily gulled, inexperienced people are free to believe what they want but they are dangerously wrong in trying to force their beliefs on “non believers” or “deniers” of whatever term bullies choose. Be responsible for your own health, fear, and beliefs and STOP trying to force others to conform to your beliefs.

    Live and let live, mkent.

  • Edward

    mkent,
    If those masks work, then why didn’t they work over the summer? And why aren’t they working now? If masks worked, then Wuhan would have virtually disappeared over the summer, like every flu does. Instead, the empirical evidence is that they are worse than useless and cause more spread.

    We are supposedly wearing all these masks in order to save just one life. What will that life finally be saved so that we can stop all these deadly reactions to this not-as-deadly-as-the-reactions flu?

    How many more bodies have to pile up before you admit you are wrong?

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