Tag: Parkinson
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Fairness Doctrine applied
Wolf Richter always provides Parkinsonian realism. One of the VERY FEW online commentators who applies the Fairness Doctrine, though it’s no longer required. In today’s wonderful article on the “debt ceiling” comedy routine: = = = = = START QUOTE: The debt-ceiling farce being performed currently in Congress could turn from a mildly entertaining political…
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Borodin, Parkinson, Mendel
Now that the fight seems to be finished, but without any visible or audible All Clear or VE Day, the anti-Deepstate fighters have divided into two camps. One camp is running wild, taking the vax fight into ever more distant extremes, finding new enemies that may or may not exist, and following RFK directly into…
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Mysterious closing
UncommonDescent has suddenly closed down. The URL leads to an archive, with one farewell message from its original founder Dembski. He doesn’t say why it halted. At this point I won’t miss it. About a year ago Denyse pulled out, briefly replaced by Eric Hedin, then he was gone. Since then it’s been solely occupied…
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Follow his example
When you start with the worst possible assumption, you’re rarely disappointed or shocked. When you start with Machiavelli and Parkinson, you’re rarely** shocked by government and corporate actions. The real question is: What do you do INSTEAD of shocked outrage and offense? Have fun. I started with the assumption that “free speech” is a trick…
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More establishment flip
Lately I’m impressed by some ordinary establishment types who seem to be grasping the truth of our predicament, while the alleged independents have either converged to Gaia or veered off into denser and denser underbrush. This ordinary economist, Steve Hanke, SEES the war situation and the public “health” situation with stark clarity. “This war against…
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Metes and bees
Brownstone is another frustrating visionary. Do they really have a goal, or are they just another Parkinson organization trying to keep running without a goal? From their latest mission statement: = = = = = START QUOTE: The [“virus”] response was as much an institutional failure as it was a failure of rationality and courage.…
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We know where the goddamn philosophers are.
I’ve often asked WHERE ARE THE GODDAMN PHILOSOPHERS? Well, it’s a dumb question. Philosophers are spokesmen for psychopaths. That’s where they are. Unsurprising: Sammy was always a criminal. Professional criminals are born, not made. More salient: When Sammy set up his criminal empire in 2018, he brought along Philosopher MacAskill to provide Gangster Ethics. MacAskill…
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Parkinson corollary
Corollary of Parkinson, not quite stated in the book but easily inferred: When a leader or organization wants you to help accomplish a PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE goal, you can be sure the real purpose is hidden. Physically impossible goals are guaranteed to increase the budget and workforce forever. At every stage in the process, the leader…
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Convoluted hyperinverted “justice”
According to DailyMail, Trump is going to be arrested for a completely irrelevant non-crime, which is the only way actual criminals EVER get arrested. This crime is peculiarly backwards as well as irrelevant. Trump is a master blackmailer, learning the craft from Roy Cohn, the historical champion. (Second only to Lady Edgar, who had the…
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Parkinsonstack
When a war or tornado or storm ends clearly with a VE Day or an All-Clear Siren, people can cleanly shift out of Emergency Mode and return to normal life. When the real action asymptotes down to an approximate end as observed and measured, but the official event doesn’t end, people are confused. Parkinson tells…
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Taibbi is learning
I’ve noted that Taibbi started with a highly naive attitude about the history of media and censorship, firmly believing that newspapers formerly “exposed the truth” and “afflicted the comfortable.” He also believed that censorship is aimed at WHAT, not WHO. He believed that censors were turning lies into truth and truth into lies. I haven’t…
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More flip time
Random and dubious branch from the more definite Flip Time… For the first time in 30 years we have a real opposition party. The real opposition party is some parts of the Federal bureaucracy. Above all the central bank has flipped. QE and ZIRP enabled ALL of the monstrous shit done by governments and corporations…
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Ray of hope?
Denyse is back at UncommonDescent. I’m glad. She was gone for a few months, and the ‘news’ section was edited by a physics type who was solely interested in dark matter and black holes. The galaxy-brained bullies took over the site entirely. Denyse is an experienced journalist (no quotes) who knows how to select and…
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More techtonic motion
When ArsTechnica argues against Deepstate, the techtonic plates have definitely shifted. Normally ArsTechnica and Wired and TechCrunch are eager to defend ABSOLUTELY EVERY CRIME committed by CIA/NSA/Pentagon. Now Ars is showing healthy skepticism about the recent pro-UFO tack by Deepstate. I was generally impressed by the 1950’s disks and acorns. Those were NOT obvious artifacts,…
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Bikeshedding!
Parkinson would love this tweet from Spokane’s insane city “government”. Straight out of his book! = = = = = 3 key elements of the update are: 🚲differentiating between the short-term & long-term storage of bicycles; 🚲removing the relationship between vehicle parking requirements & bicycle parking requirements; 🚲providing best practice guidance for bicycle rack design…
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