Tag: LBO
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Huge exception to an old rule
This is a completely trivial criticism of an old obscure TV show, but it seems to be what I need to write today. Maybe there’s a reason, maybe not. The show was ‘Man of the World’, one of many British James Bond imitators. Other shows in this genre gave us remarkably accurate dramatizations of facts…
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Google’s ancestor
Returning to Say the black and do the red. Media and “science” were formerly indicative, now imperative. Media and “science” were formerly passive description, now absolute gunpoint commands. Here’s a previous example of media as absolute command, from Wireless World, July 1939. Broadcasting occupies a special position in Germany. It is the official mouthpiece of…
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Reprint from March 2018.
I linked this item earlier. It’s worth a complete reprint. Note especially the five-letter word beginning with V. = = = = = START REPRINT: Via CNN demon: When John Dowd quit this week as lead counsel on Trump’s legal team and the President made an effort to recruit “deep state” conspiracy theorist and conservative…
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