Tag: Henry Wallace
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Just for the record
Just for the record, though “votes” are irrelevant, I “voted” today. Picked Harris for president, without much hesitation or doubt. Wrote in Semi Bird for governor. Skipped the offices that I don’t know or care about. “Voted” for some referenda against the Carbon Cult, which have no chance of winning. I described the reasons for…
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Better name
Dams are failing in Tennessee. This is a straightforward result of spending all our money on war and destruction and NONE AT ALL on repairing or building. Year after year congress passes trillion-dollar appropriations for “infrastructure” but NONE of that money actually goes toward building or repairing. Most of it ends up in the pockets…
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We’re supposed to waste our emotions
As usual we have dozens of overdoses every day, some fatal. There are two responses. Dark humor and caring. Dark humor is winning, as more and more people realize that caring is a fraud. Media and rulers want us to CARE about everything so they can feed our caring with solutions that make things worse.…
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Real capitalism works.
While “journalism” and academia and politics continue to destroy their own credibility, big corporations are returning to grounded sanity FAST. Here’s a lengthy list of corporations that have abandoned the Gaian religion. It includes most sectors, from high tech to petroleum to clothing. Microsoft and Google, formerly leaders of the religion, have decided that profit…
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Fessenden the farmer
Well, not really. Fessenden had a wide-ranging vision and tried his hand in many different areas. Around 1914 he got into agriculture. In one patent he wrote a treatise on improving agriculture, showing the tech optimism of the time. Mass production will solve all problems. He developed a sort of super-greenhouse system where everything could…
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Frightening?????
Jesus, what’s wrong with these people? They discuss a drop in the totally fictional “value” of the stock market like it’s the end of the world. They call it “frightening”. They say this REQUIRES Powell to give up his disastrous catastrophic REAL ECONOMY and return to the wonderful heavenly Bush/Trump plutonomy where Larry Fink gets…
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Back to 2008
From a Duane Jones viewpoint politics is back to 2008. Before Biden was kicked out, both sides were running defective products. They had to rely on cult behavior to get any buyers at all. The first rule of honest business and honest politics is to start with a product that people feel they can use.…
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From an extremely different era 22
In a 1934 Billboard magazine: Cooper and Clifton, Four Robeys and Dare and Yates will be the first vaude troupe going into Soviet Russia. The first two acts sail next month and will be joined in Europe by Dare and Yates. Alexander Basy, head of the Amsov Agency here, says he is negotiating with several…
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When spells break
Thinking about broken spells and busted myths today. When spells break, weird shit happens. We’ve had a lot of broken spells in the last 30 Bush years. 9/11 broke the spell of “terrorism” and Wilsonian “democracy” imperialism. 2008 broke the spell of honest banking. 2020 broke the spell of “public health” as a healing profession…
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Unanswered question
Lately I’ve been using the car dealer castes as clarifiers. Dealers had three categories. Conservative Prospects were interested in simplicity and reliability, uninterested in status. Step-up Prospects were interested in flashy impressive status. Luxury Prospects wanted lasting quality and didn’t care much about flash. The Prospects correlate perfectly with the ancient castes and Orwell’s party…
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One solvable problem
Right now the biggest SOLVABLE problem is housing prices. The total takeover of all government by lunatic devils is NOT SOLVABLE. Many people have incomes that should be enough to raise a family, when judged against overall cost of living OTHER THAN HOUSING. The New Deal enacted price controls on rent, which remained until 1952**.…
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The Sonnabend solution
Thinking about Hudson led to a random thought about governments. Studebaker and Packard made plenty of identifiable constant mistakes, obvious to outsiders at the time, not just in hindsight. Above all Studie overpaid shareholders and underpaid factories and research. Packard kept trying to compete in luxury cars after Cadillac unquestionably owned the niche, and outsourced…
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Answering a different question
One phrase in Henry Wallace’s speech on the Red Menace wants more explanation. He called Herbert Hoover the Engineer of the Great Depression, and observed that Hoover was part of the cabal who were engineering the permanent Red Menace in 1948. Conventional history says that Hoover was a ‘fall guy’ for Wall Street, accidentally allowing…
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First ads
Someone on substack was defending the need for advertising when done for honest purposes. I commented: Yes! Advertising is part of nature. “Buy my pollen, get a free honey drink!” This seems like something I must have written here already, but oddly I didn’t. Despite all my musings on the Duane Jones book, and my…
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Powerful analogy
Compact Mag details the rise of greenlash in this week’s EU parliament election. Germany has taken the craziest green path in the last 10 years, shutting down its clean nuclear plants and also banning Russian gas, resulting in more coal power. Coal is genuinely dirty, but coal automatically becomes pure as angel hair when Gaia…
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