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STOP THIS SHIT.
Media is abuzz with the “mystery” of UFOs over New Jersey. Even the fake “independent” commentators, like Saagar, are getting into the act. Our Martian hasn’t been around for a while. He dropped in to give one message: STOP IT! You’re ruining your own reputation for independence! A drone is not a UFO by fucking…
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Repeating Dewey’s mistake
Duane Jones was frustrated when his ad agency was hired by the Dewey campaign in 1948. He was assigned to run national radio advertising for RNC. Jones understood the Electoral College and wanted to concentrate his firepower on the six swing states. The RNC insisted on spending money equally across all states. They also understood…
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Brilliant!
Stoller is on a roll. People who make a lot of money from killing people with spreadsheets like to pretend to be very offended when anyone points out health care is a matter of life and death. Brilliant line. Direct echo of a perfect song for our times. Some will rob you with a six-gun,…
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Three parallels
Since 2008 I’ve been trying to highlight and illustrate better ways of solving the problems created by Wall Street. The New Deal was the most effective solution. It was preceded by Mutual Benefit Societies in the 1880s, then Social Economics around 1910. All three movements continued in various ways until Wall Street finally killed everything…
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Real purpose
Headline says it all: Return-to-office mandates are associated with an exodus of high performers, research finds This reveals the real purpose of RTO. Profit is NEVER the goal of rich fuckheads. Wall Street HATES BUSINESS AND PROFIT. RTO was designed to kill jobs and destroy business, just like everything else Wall Street does. LBO all…
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So that’s it!
Occasionally a Substack note is truly informative. This morning one of the nature photographers showed a mass of leaves and sticks and described it as a squirrel drey. First, I love learning an old-fashioned word with a highly specific meaning. This one isn’t contrived like the alleged terms for groups of animals. (eg a murder…
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Good work!
Via Stoller, Lina Khan has notched up one BIG victory before NYC Trump returns and breaks everything again. Khan won a court injunction to halt the merger of Kroger and Albertson. If allowed, the combo would be larger than Walmart, and would be able to raise grocery prices without limit. It would also close down…
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One exception, as before
NiemanLab has done its annual year-end collection of thoughts about the current state of “journalism” and what’s needed for the future. In 2016, only one of the pieces was relevant. It said simply that “journalism” is refusing to do the right thing and shows no sign of starting to learn from its richly deserved bankruptcy.…
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Where the elite meet…
I got tired of Brownstone a long time ago. They publish some hardass articles but their main goal is providing high-level Salons and Retreats for elite types. By participating in these Retreats, the elites can feel like they’re rebelling without actually rebelling. Just like Goths and Antifa and Bitcoin and Tea Party and Occupy and…
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What’s the opposite?
I was reading the list of today’s official Days. One of them is Dewey Decimal Day. In my sleepless haze I thought of decimal as the metric opposite of English or Imperial. Well, what’s the English version? LC. It’s based on a set of 21 letters, and then an irregular group of lettered subsets under…
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Obama COULD have fixed this.
Violence does sometimes work. When the entire political and court system is totally fucked, doing nothing but pure damage EVERYWHERE, ruining people here and bombing foreign countries, there’s no other option. Other insurers are starting to change their ways to avoid the same fate. Obama knows how to run a movement, but the one time…
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Obama gets it right
Religion News Service cites a recent article by Obama. = = = = = START QUOTE: What does build trust, because it builds relationships, is people banding together to get stuff done. Whether it’s a mosque and a synagogue joining forces to help victims of a natural disaster, or a Black community linking up with…
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ALL is all.
Time for my occasional salute to good old Kedit. I’ve been using it since 1984, and I’ve tried all the alleged substitutes and replacements. Nothing comes close. My life and work is centered around Kedit, specifically the ALL keyword, which has no equivalent in any other program. I use standard phrases in my daily life…
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Flipping their duties
Trump will appoint an AI and Bitcoin Czar to steer the government toward funding and encouraging those activities. In plain language, the government will now be funding and encouraging massive copyright theft, job destruction, and perpetual motion swindles. For 200 years the copyright and patent offices, the post office, and other regulators, have been trying…
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The fact is there but unseen
Here’s an article in a “journalism” trade publication that actually cites a fact for once, but dismisses the fact. The author asks whether loss of trust in media causes people to tune out, or tuning out causes loss of trust. Given the author’s profession, she naturally concludes that people lost trust AFTER they stopped watching…
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