Tag: Henry Wallace
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Cherokee Terrace (WPA)
EnidBuzz showed a fairly new ‘midcentury modern’ store that wasn’t present in the ’70s when I lived there. The building is now on the national historic register, which seems surprising. I got curious and looked up the other Enid sites. Unsurprisingly the WPA project Cherokee Terrace is on the list. I used to see the…
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All are error signals
Cults, ideologies, swindles and get-rich schemes are all the same. All are ERROR SIGNALS, warning lights, sharp pains. All are human culture’s way of telling the ruler that LIFE IS SHIT. If a ruler wants to rule comfortably, with popular consent and very little trouble from radical movements, he needs to insure that ORDINARY PEOPLE…
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Y no Gates?
Picking up WWV for New Year pulled me back into shortwave, at least for a while. (I have real work to do right now, and I don’t have enough spare gumption to delve into another sideline.) I’m reminded again of the fact that shortwave is a vacant resource. Broadcasters and commercial communication services have moved…
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Constants and Variables, interstate edition
Constantly quoted by the usual quoters: Central planning always fails, THEREFORE we should trust freedom-loving Libertarian anti-centralizers like Larry Fink and Jeff Bezos and Elon. If you think Larry and Elon are the opposite of central, you’re too stupid to breathe. Variable truth: Central planning by government is VITALLY NECESSARY when it helps ordinary people.…
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Not getting the error signal
When Pretty Boy Floyd and Luigi Mangione are universally seen as heroes worthy of emulation, the monsters in charge SHOULD see this as a serious error signal, like steering the ship into a small iceberg. This SHOULD require a serious course correction before the big iceberg sinks the ship. LIFE IS NEGATIVE FEEDBACK. Negative feedback…
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Might be a good source?
I’m always ready to try out “news” sources that claim to be objective, continuing the spirit of the Fairness Doctrine. Until now all have failed quickly. Most were immediately transparent, just another DNC talking point vendor. Today I’m trying Tangle News. So far I haven’t seen any blatant shibboleths or hidden assumptions. They don’t move…
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Equipoise and social media
Still thinking about PAY FOR VALUE or Equipoise. This is how real business (not Wall Street) works. Substack claims to be different because it depends mainly on payment from readers, not advertising. BUT: It fails the basic requirement of Equipoise. The algorithm doesn’t listen to the concerns of paying readers. No matter how often I…
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If you didn’t want to see…
When evil government allows a problem to grow intolerable, people WILL do something about it. Often the reaction is extreme and uncontrolled because the problem is extreme. Revolutions happen when inequality is too monstrous to stand. When government refuses to punish real criminals, people WILL punish and execute real criminals, whether in neighborhoods or giant…
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Why I like Quora
I’ve switched most of my time-wasting from Substack to Quora, because (1) Quora is subject based, not forceful. Quora feeds you more of what you like and less of what you don’t like. Substack refuses to set up subject areas and insists on hammering you with the same damn shit no matter how often you…
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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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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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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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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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Exactly 100 years ago
Adam Kuznia, a Minnesota farmer, has started writing on Substack. He’s carrying on a clever campaign to get a proper Agriculture subject category on Substack, so people who want to know about farming or write about farming can find it easily. Henry Wallace, father and son, fought the same battle on a larger scale to…
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