Tag: Thanks Post Office!
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Data web returns to data web
The “rights” fans are getting all excited over the non-revealing “revelation” that FBI controls media. Time for a reprint from April of this year. = = = = = START REPRINT: Secrecy and censorship are the defaults. We don’t have the choice of escaping censorship. Given this CONSTANT, there are two interesting VARIABLES, a political…
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Picture worth a thousand turtles
Yesterday was the anniversary of the Run. The Cherokee Strip historical society published a poster from an event held by their ancestor in 1933. It caught my attention initially because it was printed by Cromwells, where I worked in the ’70s. The poster is advertising a TERRAPIN DERBY to be held on the square. The…
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Perfect contrast
Let’s compare the modern military situation with 1941. Now, after 40 years of unbroken mass destruction of America by its own government and corporations, its young men have no physical skills and no emotional reason to help or serve the country. Reprinting a 2019 piece that came from an unusual angle… = = = =…
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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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Is this a new trend?
In my WPA series I mentioned that the Post Office formerly provided banking services, which were heavily used by poor people because the PO was more convenient and less snobbish than actual banks. Via Vice mag, Congress has just passed a law that will IMPROVE the post office, allowing it to offer a range of…
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WPA 1/5, background
Time for another review/renew series. Five parts from top to bottom. Part 1, Background (this item). Part 2, Oklahoma. Part 3, Teacherages. Part 4, Post offices. Part 5, Summary. = = = = = The New Deal set up dozens of overlapping agencies at first, then gradually simplified the arrangement. In other words, FDR didn’t…
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WPA 4/5, post offices
My subscription to Academia.edu brings in interesting articles from obscure sources. This article lays out the concept of devotional conservation. When I model these Lost Places and Patient Things, I’m trying to counteract the modern chaos generators by giving new life to artifacts and viewpoints from saner times. In an era of millisecond-scale Github updates…
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