Tag: jail mode
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Not so weird
This morning’s dream was super-weird. I let the dog out through the kitchen door, then realized he was going out to play with his friend. His friend was a big-eyed lemur with an aluminum-foil patch over one big eye. I noticed the patch was wearing out so I got out the aluminum foil and started…
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Missing part of the point
The new print issue of History Today has a set of articles about the tight connection between America and cults. [The articles aren’t online yet.] They do a good job on recent cults like Scientology and Jonestown, but they miss the essential difference between a cult and a religious movement. The difference is simple. A…
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Useful information
Repooflicans and Democrats have been blaming the police for our problems. They are INTENTIONALLY framing and blaming the wrong group. It’s been clear for a LONG time that the police are trying to do their job while obstructed and fenced by Bloombergian devil politicians and Sorosian devil prosecutors. The devil politicians want to defund the…
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Following the Users Manual
Trump has blocked Canadians from entering the little cross-border library in Vermont/Quebec. It’s been making news as a symbol of long-term friendship and tolerance, so the Trump admin had to do something about it. When people are unhappy and preparing to rebel, smart governments** try to SATISFY THE NEED instead of smashing down harder. Trump…
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They also understand
At least in writing and movies, Brits understand the psychopathic type, while Americans don’t. It’s reassuring to see that Canadians also understand. Kirsten Hillman, Canadian ambassador to DC, grasps the type perfectly and accurately, and best of all she knows the right way to HANDLE a psychopath. Don’t respond to every new insult and switchback.…
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Judge doing his job for once!
JUDGE Alsup of the District Court in Calif has summarily ordered the Elon administration to retract its firing of all federal workers. Alsup is the only JUDGE. He knows the law and applies the law, no matter which side wins. JUDGE Alsup blocked Green loonies when they broke the law, and he blocks Elon when…
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This is what happens
Headline: Columbia funding cuts set dangerous precedent This is what happens when you let politicians sponsor your research. The truly dangerous precedent was set in 1946, not 2025. Dependence on federal money started in 1946, and the danger was already obvious by 1958. My dad saw it, and a much more famous dude named Eisenhower…
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The answer is work
This 1935 Ford promotional film starts with a long florid speech by a pompous grandiose announcer, introducing an important address by Henry Ford himself! Mr Ford will announce the company’s way of countering the Depression. After the long highly “grammatical” intro, we hear a long florid verbose oration by Henry himself: The answer is work.…
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More vexillology
Following on Harper’s observations about Canada vs US in his discussion of flags. US bureaucracies and journalists and academics are responding to Trump’s cuts by protesting and petitioning. Canada is responding to Trump’s cuts by altering its behavior to SOLVE THE PROBLEM. The PROBLEM in both cases is too much dependence on US government and…
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Weird English
When you sign into Twitter it prompts: What is happening? This is WEIRD English. It sounds like a teacher walking into a disorderly classroom: What in the hell is HAPPENING around here???? Other socials use casual phrases like What’s on your mind? Twitter reminds me of the standard prison greeting exchange in Mansfield: What’s happening,…
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Motivation to get better
One commenter on the endless and unfortunately boring parade of drug overdoses hits the BIG point. Ya know I don’t believe anyone wants anyone to die…however most of us are sick of it. We give them no motivation to get better and provide more services then most of us hardworking folks can afford. Motivation to…
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More anniversaries
Jan 20 is one of my anniversary dates. = = = = = PARTIAL REPRINT: When I got out of prison, my first experience with independent life was in this duplex in Stillwater. I restarted college on Jan 20, 1970. My Zenith Trans-Oceanic helped to pull me out of the walls and back into the…
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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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Craig Wright, the final chapter
Edit: Oooops, I published too soon without waiting for the actual sentence! The Judge sentenced Wright to 1 year but suspended the sentence for 2 years to see if Wright will start paying his fines. Unsatisfying conclusion and won’t stop the chaos that Wright creates every minute of his nasty life. PROFESSIONAL CRIMINALS NEED TO…
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Was this his purpose?
After reading Mangione’s whole manifesto, a highly literate account of his mother’s endless pain and his own endless pain, plus the endless failure of United “Health” to honor its own CONTRACT, I had a new thought. He will probably get better medical care in prison than he did outside the walls. Prisons are NOT ALLOWED…
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