Author: polistra
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Hersh the outsider
Hersh gets somewhat personal in this piece. He talks about his very brief job as Gene McCarthy’s press secretary. I read the article with curiosity since I had been campaigning for Gene at the same time. The article didn’t tell me anything new about McCarthy, but it did provide insight into Hersh himself. Hersh admits…
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Acolytes
Taibbi is ignorant, or more likely memoryholish, about the real history of Deepstate and censorship. Taibbi’s acolytes carry on the same fine tradition. A ‘guest article’ by Andrew Lowenthal complains about the modern “unprecedented” mixing of Deepstate and progressives: Twitter emails show consistent collaboration between military and intelligence officials and elite “progressives” from NGOs and…
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Immediately relevant
Linked in previous. After reading, it’s definitely worth reprinting. = = = = = START 2010 REPRINT: New book by Robert Whitaker. A real eye-opener. Basic theme: Psychiatry has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the drug companies, serving only to sell drugs. This development was not natural or accidental. Whitaker details the history of the…
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Destroying his own point
RFK is playing unscientific games with measurements. He has a strong overall point, but the details are based on “measurements” that constantly change. The argument is too easy to counteract with details. “We have the sickest generation in American history. We have the sickest children on Earth in this country. And by chronic disease, what…
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Old poetry
EnidBuzz asked about things your parents said. Most responses are the usual hardass but NECESSARY parental warnings. Some are squishy Christian stuff. A few are purely unique and poetic. Never heard any of them before. = = = = = I especially like the glad/mad. Good advice for a critter like me who always heads…
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Coke! It’s the…
What was that old slogan again? Admittedly, the use of Big Data in bottling makes sense, and is NOT the same thing as Generative AI. Watching for bad fills or impurities in glass is a proper task for cameras with complex visual software. It’s not a job that humans do well.
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Not weird to the addicts
Continuing from previous item. I remember that regular watchers of the “news” soap opera don’t find Lemon and Carlson weird at all. I was one of those regulars from 2000 to 2010. At the moment in 2011 when I finally tossed the TV after trying to “light beer” it for a year, I had a…
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0 IQ = 0 IQ
This sort of shit is not my department, but it’s just too weird to leave alone. Apparently the last straw for CNN bosses was Don Lemon’s interview with Vivek, who is allegedly running for president. Both of these dudes are observing reality through slogan lenses. Lemon has proved his disconnect many times, especially “women are…
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Back door Fairness Doctrine
CNN supposedly decided to cut down on its partisan lunacy after QT forced media to pay more attention to PROFIT. /// Update: And CNN fired Don Lemon today after leaving him in purgatory for a while. Nice symmetry! Now Fox is moving in the same direction, forced by a lawsuit about the lunatic “election” crap.…
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Trying for an open mind
I’m trying to give RFK a chance, despite my loud-clanging bullshit alarm. His website is mainly vague platitudes. He says the right things clearly and sharply in economic realms, on globalism vs localism and monopolies vs small business. At one point he comes close to the ONE THING THAT MATTERS but pulls away without touching…
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Rembrandt, Picasso, NFT
As usual Sailer manages to ask an off-the-field but provocative question. Why were the women in Old Master paintings usually ugly? The most important fact is that the Great Masters were serving the rich. The rich can afford beauty but they DON’T LIKE BEAUTY. This is an older version of the NFT quandary that I…
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Durable goods
Gaming is already larger than movies and TV shows in the younger generations. Hollywood and gaming are overlapping both ways, with movies based on games and games based on movies. The companies and executives are also overlapping both ways. Gaming still doesn’t show up in mainstream media, which almost solely covers Hollywood and TV stars…
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Buttons
Kirn and Taibbi are joking about Kirn running for president. They suggest the Zero Problems platform, which might actually be a good idea. Harding and Ike were Zero Problems presidents, who neither solved nor created any problems. FDR solved problems. All others made problems. We’ll never have another problem solver. FDR gave us the chance…
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Fairness Doctrine applied
Wolf Richter always provides Parkinsonian realism. One of the VERY FEW online commentators who applies the Fairness Doctrine, though it’s no longer required. In today’s wonderful article on the “debt ceiling” comedy routine: = = = = = START QUOTE: The debt-ceiling farce being performed currently in Congress could turn from a mildly entertaining political…
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Red dirt, black dirt
EnidBuzz has an item on the 1966 tornado, starting with a dramatic picture that illustrates Oklahoma’s red-dirt lands and black-dirt lands in vertical form. A deadly core sample. The readers describe the path, which agrees with my guesses. I wasn’t in Enid at that time. I lived in Manhattan, which was hit on the same…
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