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"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit." -- H. G. Wells
By driftglass — August 17, 2026

On this day in 1960, in New York City, legendary director George Pal launched The Time Machine, the first big budget adaptation of the H.G. Wells' novel. Scientist "George" Wells builds a time machine, and despite the warning from his friend David against "tempting the laws of providence," decides to visit the future. Jumping ahead 14 years, he observes changes in women's fashion. Jumping ahead 40, he meets David's son amid a terrible war. Finally, he travels hundreds of thousands of years ahead to discover a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by humanoid Eloi and the monstrous Morlocks that feed on them.

Today's video is one of my favorites from that flick that's as relevant today as it was back in 1960.

Open Letters by Mersault: I Asked My Readers About the Trump Supporters in Their Lives.

Show Me Progress: Taigan Plummer (D): listening to voters.

Red-State-Blues: Week of Trump Grumping.

Attention space nerds! The ‘Blaze Star’ May Be Days Away From Erupting Into View.

Round Up by driftglass of the Professional Left Podcast and Science Fiction University

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