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Pretty neat trick
Most people were getting tired of permanent war. Repooflicans were more tired than Dems. Time to dial 9/11! Now all the “independents”, even those who never write about foreign policy, are singing the old familiar song. Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran! Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran! The Trump cult went along instantly because evangelicals are citizens of…
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Historical first
For the first time in history, a famous star agrees with me about an important issue!
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Definite and speculative
Noted on this morning’s walk… A walnut tree dropped a dozen nuts in a dozen seconds from one branch, then stopped. Caught my attention because most of them were falling on a roof, making a loud noise. The same branch on the same tree dropped nuts on the same roof during my walk a few…
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It’s just gangland 2
Today is Columbus Day, Native American Day, Indigenouses Peopleseses Dayses, and Leif Erikson Day. Everybody’s gettin into da act! Thinking in gangland terms clarifies the succession here as well as our foreign wars. Columbus Day was made official in 1934. Before 1934 schools recognized Leif Erikson as the first Euro colonizer. Who owned the gangs…
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Just curious
I noted in reports about Sammy’s trial that Programmer Wang used the Py randomizer to generate the official daily trading volume. As an old Pythoner I was curious to see what was happening. Here’s the trick as shown and analyzed by BitMEX. The code is dense and “one-liner” to make it harder to read, unlike…
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Klaatu landed.
In the ’50s a constant theme of scifi was the benevolent alien who tried to persuade Earthlings to stop fighting. Of course the scifi writers were orthodox Deepstaters, so Klaatu was always talking to the “aggressive” “Communists”, never talking to the “gentle” and “peaceful” US bombers and intel agencies. Now we have an interesting invasion…
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Aphid day 2023
Oct 7, 2023, temp only 59, and already a giant swarm, almost as dense as a snowstorm. In the last few years the aphids have pulled a headfake before the serious swarm, but this one looks like the real thing. Birds are flitting and diving, catching bugs in midair. Seems like a lot of work…
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Writers aren’t auto workers
The Ankler writes about the aftermath of the writers strike: = = = = = START QUOTE: Downstream financial harm to adjacent businesses generates social and political pressures that further enhance that negotiating leverage — as long as striking workers can capture the hearts and minds of those affected third parties, and of the public…
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Where did it come from?
Thinking lately about printing presses and typewriters and political cults. The thoughts converged into the old phrase Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party. I vaguely recalled using this for practice in high-school typing class. I didn’t like it. Unlike the quick brown fox, it doesn’t…
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Return to Trinity House
MindMatters is pointing to the latest Carbon Craziness from a major “science” journal. Not new. This is the permanent norm in academia. Science is Dillinger. Science goes where the money is. The major magazines have been screeching about Carbon for 15 years, interrupted only by their louder and more genocidal screeching about “virus”. Pointing won’t…
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It’s just gangland
I’ve been screwing around with this concept for several years and just now simplified it. After defeating Germany and Japan in WW2 we became the Axis. Until now I was thinking of the change as a mutation in the Allies. We brought over a bunch of Krauts and gradually let their craziness take over the…
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Blood is thicker
Michael Lewis’s defense of Sammy is so obviously bizarre that even Saagar and Krystal could see it! One of the commenters hits an important point: If SBF was a Nigerian scammer, I’m certain Michael Lewis would have a drastically different take. He’s not the only one who still defended SBF. These people saw him like…
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Auctions
Activists are constantly complaining about censorship and canceling. I’ve never been excited about those topics because I recognize that censorship is the default. Censorship is another name for editing. Publishers always choose what to publish. I realized much earlier that canceling is rarely what it appears. An executive who is fired for “political” reasons is…
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