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Rang several bells
This little item reprinted on substack caught my attention. It’s a filler, the sort of thing I used to enjoy in newspapers. Frankfort also rang a bell. It’s straight north of Manhattan, not far from the north end of Tuttle Creek Lake. I don’t think I’ve ever been there, but I used to see the…
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Name change they didn’t fight for
Totally random thought. The feminists of the 60s and 70s agitated for all sorts of name modifications. The only change that stuck was a less automatic adoption of the husband’s surname after marriage. The other tricks like Friedperson or Watchild never caught on. Feminists never fought for the “right” to be Junior or III or…
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Maybe interesting?
The Spokane newspaper is turning itself into a nonprofit, operated by a foundation that is basically its editor. For more than a century the Cowles family owned the newspaper, downtown, and the “city” “government”. The nonprofit is supposedly divorced from Cowles. If this article can be believed, the nonprofit is a business, not a charity.…
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Elbows up in Europe
The Ankler reporting on Euro show biz: = = = = = START ANKLER: Now that we’ve had close to a month to digest Donald Trump’s America-first trade policies, I’m beginning to hear more about the projected impact on the industry, and producers’ “sharp elbows” strategy. “Buy fewer Teslas and U.S. shows, and more Peugeots…
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The correct history
This article fills in the CORRECT history of the 1700s, when the NYC robber barons rebelled against British rule and asserted the theoretical “right” of robber barons to take everything. Canada remained with the crown and parliament, and retained the old experimentally determined EQUIPOISE between government and citizens. Our textbooks and media never told us…
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Headline is enough
Intel to cut jobs and spending after getting 7.9 billion in federal grants The world is divided binarily into exactly two categories. God and not God. God is the CEO. All money MUST go to God. No money may ever leak out to meat objects who are not God. And they wonder why we don’t…
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102.38 acres, do you solemnly swear?
I won’t be able to fully break out of anxiety from the jury shit until I receive a formal notice that I’m done. When the freed people got out of the box, the officials told all of us that we are DONE, so I’m intellectually sure, but not emotionally. After 2020 I no longer believe…
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Long’s leakiness theory
Interesting piece by Rob Long at the Ankler. Long is a writer for TV and movies who has been around long enough to compare the old and new ways of running the entertainment business. He makes a point I’d never considered before. Show biz used to be LEAKY. Everyone along the chain got a share…
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Beautiful bitcoin schadenfreude!
Via Protos: Cathie Wood, the “futurist” who pulled in billions from idiots and used it to bet on obvious nonsense, has destroyed more than 14 billion dollars of the money “invested” by fools. All of them fully deserve the punishment. = = = = = START PROTOS: ARKK, the largest ETF Wood manages, has lost…
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Free at last!
Did the jury thing this morning. Without breaking confidentiality**, the case was on a subject that I have EXTREMELY strong emotions about. I made it clear that I wouldn’t be able to be objective, and got freed, honestly. The ‘one day or one trial’ system means that I’m ALL FREE NOW, after one morning in…
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Rules of ambiguity
Last week I commented on nicknames for cities. Pondering this deep subject further, I conclude that we naturally apply the linguistic rule of ambiguity to city nicknames. If the second word is City: You CAN leave off the City when the first word is unique. Ponca, Dodge, Cawker. When the first word is ambiguous, such…
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Hudson was first after all
A while back I was surprised to find electric wipers on a Hudson in 1928. I ran through some owners manuals online and concluded that historian Conde must be wrong. No, he was probably right. I wasn’t looking closely enough. This proves that Hudson had optional electric wipers in ’34, so ’28 isn’t unlikely. I…
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Best Easter comment
Under one of today’s routine two dozen near-death overdoses, a sharp and evocative comment. He is risen by Narcan. Leads to a broader thought. Rising from the dead used to be a special trick. Now it’s literally cheaper by the dozen. Costco resurrections. A messiah would have to pick a more salient magic trick now.…
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Industrially repeated
This argument has been industrially repeated for decades. It makes superficial sense but there are flaws in the assumptions and facts. = = = = = START QUOTE: Industrialization explicitly rewarded compliance, conformity, and disciplined repetition. Schools were designed to produce workers who fit neatly into that mold, treating variation as a flaw instead of…
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Blaming and framing as always
The former anti-Trump independents, now all fervent Trump cult members, are crowing about the admin’s “revelations” on the role of Fauci. The “revelation” focuses on the fake lab-leak issue, which was obviously staged as a fake arguing point. Deepstate never reveals, never admits fault. Deepstate, like all psychopaths and professional criminals, diverts the blame to…
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