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If you think
If you think Left and Right exist you’re a fool. If you think Democracy and Fascism exist you’re a fool. If you think Laws and Constitutions and Rights exist you’re a fool. If you think Free Speech exists you’re a fool. If you think Privacy exists, and the latest hack ruined Privacy, you’re a fool.…
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Modern equivalent of Features
Media no longer includes Features because some of them were true, and truth is utterly prohibited now. The non-mainstream news sources can follow the old tradition by deadpan reporting of crazy shit. This dude would be an improvement on any of our current mayors, governors and presidents. He’s crazy in a private way. He’s not…
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More Hudson trivia
Bought yet another picture book on Hudson. This one is by Don Butler, who worked as a stylist for Hudson in the 40s, then moved to Nash and Chrysler. He didn’t have as much inside access as Conde, but did some long research to gather up a wider variety of pictures. His book answers a…
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Snacks and turkeys
The website devoted to Hudson material includes quite a few Dealer Bulletins. These gave dealers the company’s talking points on this year’s cars and options. Each bulletin started with a long set of features and fillers, giving salesmen some jokes and bits of knowledge to spice up their talks. I’m an avid consumer of Features,…
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SubSPAC
SPACs are money-laundering devices for new entries in the stock crime index. The sole purpose of a SPAC is to evade the few remaining regulations on initial offerings of crime shares. When a fake company wants to enter the NASDAQ Murder Index but knows it’s too blatantly bankrupt to get past the weak rules, it…
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One headline says it
Here’s the problem with statistics, especially the mean, encapsulated in one headline: People are living longer but it’s not evenly distributed. Well then, you can’t say PEOPLE. You should say rich people are living longer, and everyone else is dying faster. Since 1980 longevity and happiness were transferred upward along with wealth.
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Random language notes
1. Spam email from Grammarly: Apply to Jobs With Confidence. Sorry, I don’t have confidence in a grammar and style app that thinks ‘apply to jobs’ is preferable, and doesn’t capitalize consistently. You ‘apply for jobs’ and you ‘apply to General Motors’. (If you had good afterlife connections you might ‘apply to Jobs’ for a…
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Start with quality.
Last week I wrote up a contest between the first coast-to-coast airmail flight and a group of Essex cars. The cars won. Hudson touted the event in a 1922 pamphlet which omits the airmail comparison entirely. By this account the project was originated by the Post Office in an attempt to widen the range of…
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Making it worse
RFK wants to ban all vaccines. He’s been working on this goal for many years as part of his genocidal Gaian agenda. The antivax personality has traded sides twice. Before 1970 antivaxers were mostly fundamentalist Christian and “right-wing”. Identitarian ideology is based on an OCD need for purity in everything, from thought to race to…
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New crime, old failure of media
This is a new form of fraud! The report by KHQ is overly vague to protect identities, but the subject is clear enough. An older homeowner was at work, and his neighbor called to tell him that somebody was changing the locks on his house. There were also appraisers and others looking over the property.…
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Another reason for Desistance
Well, there are already billions of reasons to stay out of the Machiavelli crap, but here’s one that might be relevant in the online world. Right now ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE in the online world is MANDATED AND REQUIRED to line up in two opposing armies about the BIG STORY, which apparently has something to do with…
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Regrowth
From RealClear, an article with hopeful signs. The article misses the former strength of smaller cities. It mocks the NYC bigotry but basically agrees with NYC that the universe ends at the Hudson River. The term “flyover country” was not just a snobbish put-down but a reality as a handful of core cities – New…
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More Ponca action
Last week I noted that the house across from Grandma’s apartment in Ponca is for sale. I reprinted my account of the Folly that used to be there, and the puzzle about where it was. Now Grandma’s apartment itself is for rent! The address given by Zillow is for the lower left apartment, but the…
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Another answer
Previous item repeated Carver’s answer to Machiavelli. Now repeat Henry Ford’s answer. = = = = = START FORD ANSWER: This 1935 Ford promotional film starts with a long florid speech by a pompous grandiose announcer, introducing an important address by Henry Ford himself! Mr Ford will announce the company’s way of countering the Depression.…
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Machiavelli loves them
Everyone is riled up today, marching in the two assigned Machiavelli ranks, because some dude was killed somewhere. I’ve vaguely heard of the dude, maybe some kind of celebrity in Political Reality TV. These riled-up periods are good for me: they force me to turn away from wasteful scrolling toward creating or resting. I gave…
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