Tag: Asked and unanswered
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Why so innocent?
Younger activists are more innocent and shockable than we were in the ’60s. Even though we had MUCH less information available, we talked and rumored and gossiped among ourselves and figured out who was a nark or a spy. We understood Agents Provocateurs, we knew who was an Agent, and we tried to warn each…
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Another example of novation?
Seen at DailyMail: = = = = = START QUOTE: Scientologists Elena and Grant Cardone established a GoFundMe page to help pay Donald Trump’s latest legal bill. The ardent MAGA supporters set up the page hours after the former president was ordered to pay $355 million fine for lying about his wealth for years. ‘I…
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Pinned down the weird
After getting more of the weird lovey-dovey spam from the Trump campaign, I’ve pinned down the exact form of the weirdness. This is how an about to be ex-wife talks to a husband who has already moved on to a nicer lover. Why would The Second Cuming of Our Lord And Personal Saviour Jesus Christ…
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Had to jump in
The Hasidic tunnel in NYC is weird in an infinite number of ways. First, a Hasidic Riot is the weirdest possible image. Second, if they wanted a mikvah, it would be easier and safer to build one in their own building, instead of paying Mexicans to dig a tunnel to reach the existing mikvah. Hasidim…
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Two-sided company
Last week I pasted my long record of bureaucratic chatbot tangles with CenturyLink. Two months of frustration and fakery. Endless fake appointments with great detail, nothing ever happened. Just after writing the record, I finally got a real live visit from a tech, who explained that they had switched to fiberoptic and weren’t maintaining the…
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More Rushfield sanity
Another nice bit of clarity from Rushfield at the Ankler. Main point: Everyone is watching a screen all the time. Hollywood’s business is screens. Yet none of Hollywood’s products are appearing on everyone’s screens. = = = = = START QUOTE: Today, I want to turn to — as Hollywood hopefully, sooner or later, steps…
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GOOD question
In a Bloomberg podcast today, the host asked a GOOD question. The guest got distracted and didn’t answer the question; I don’t think she was consciously avoiding it. Question: For many years financial media have told us dozens of times each day that The Market Baked In a war or inflation, or The Market Priced…
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Yes, but who?
Interesting to watch Deepstate’s sudden rejection of Biden. Before this week he was the youngest and healthiest man in the world. Now he’s too old, and Kamala is also unwanted. Lots of people are noticing the flip, but I don’t see anyone speculating on the replacement. Rulers are never removed in order to allow a…
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Bad design
Why are we designed to make life so damn easy for the dividers and conquerors? It takes hard mental work and long experience to avoid both teams. Ockham and Machiavelli warned us in specific ways. Jesus and his disciples warned their flock. Out of curiosity I checked the book of Proverbs, which I hadn’t read…
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I shouldn’t even try
Discussions of Sammy’s rise and fall repeatedly hit a point that I can’t grasp. Supposedly Sammy was a hypnotic figure. Supposedly he had a magnetic appeal to everyone he met. I don’t get it. I can sort of see the appeal of Elizabeth Holmes. She’s pretty and lively and radiates a sense of mission and…
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Why do we ignore life?
Life is negative feedback. Negative feedback is life. Our bodies are running an infinite number of feedback loops inside each cell and inside each organ and between the organs and between people and between communities all the time. Nearly all of these loops are unconscious, but we certainly comprehend feedback in conscious and verbal ways.…
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Timeline
I’ve written most of these points before, but never tried to pull them together into a single timeline. How long has China been engineering our destruction? 1946: We wasted money on Chiang which helped Mao win. 1950s: We wasted money and lives in Korea which helped Kim win. 1960s: We wasted money and lives in…
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“Elections” starting to matter?
Is the political class finally realizing that their free ride is ending? Is Manweller’s Rule starting to break down? Or do we just have a more sophisticated level of fakery? In Chicago the zombie entity called Lori Lightfoot lost massively against two “hard on crime” opponents. Media are calling the zombie “soft on crime”, but…
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Naive or clever?
Listening to discussion of last year’s NYTimes brouhaha over publishing an op-ed by HORRIBLE REPOOFLICAN Tom Cotton. First thought: I wonder what Oliver Holmes would think? He wrote the “legal” test for boundaries on freedom of the press. Inciting a riot is outside the bounds. This little dispute was about the Holmes test. The Repooflican…
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