“If I lie down upon my bed I must be here,
But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.”
One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order later to rise again … to the now doubly illuminated surface of things ...
One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order later to rise again … to the now doubly illuminated surface of things ...
~ Freezing River
Human Extinction Isn’t That Unlikely The Atlantic. Costco Down Under starts selling cut-price coffins ...Enough with the happy talk!
This Intel Analyst Chart shows how you will-probably die and its changed a lot in 100 years
Human Extinction Isn’t That Unlikely The Atlantic. Costco Down Under starts selling cut-price coffins ...Enough with the happy talk!
This Intel Analyst Chart shows how you will-probably die and its changed a lot in 100 years
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Culture itself has become the real religion of our time, absorbing traditional religion as a subordinate part of itself. It offers some of the emotional benefits of religion, without exacting the high price faith demands.”
— Louis Dupré, as quoted by the Weekly Standard’s Maureen Mullarkey in “Look at Mark Rothko — Is there less here than meets the eye?”
These 4 Charts Give A Bird’s-Eye View Of How The US Economy Is Falling Apart Mauldin Economics
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Man Robs Wife’s Pet Store, Gives Monkey to Prostitute.
Nathan McClain is currently under arrest at the nearby Lane County Jail, awaiting trial on prostitution charges. Police did not disclose whether the sex worker will be charged for prostitution, or how she planned to care for a bushbaby, which requires an extensive enclosure and frequent social interaction, in her hotel room.
Rigging an enclosure might prove tricky, but the frequent social interactions shouldn’t be a problem
Next Economy: The Coming ‘Age of Stagnation’
“In the early days of the Chernobyl disaster [April 1986], many still had faith in the Communist Party, but by late ’88, delusions about the Soviets were long gone. Fear of reprisals had receded with the deaths of strongmen Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov (known as the Butcher of Budapest after the 1956 Hungarian uprising). So when rumors started swirling about Communist officials evacuating their children while denying the opportunity to parents who wanted to do the same, the mood in Chernivitz grew mutinous. Parents ignored orders to stay put, and within weeks, the town emptied…”
Chernobyl, the novel. How an airborne toxic event came to represent postmodernism. A story of alienation and technological hubris... Cold Antrax in Cold River
Human-size Chess game with actual soldiers in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1924
Time eludes our understanding, defeating both philosophers and physicists in their attempts to pin it down. Does time even exist?
— “The Selling of Obama — The inside story of how a great communicator lost the narrative,” Michael Grunwald, the Politico, today.
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Still, the baseline hostility between campaign and press corps was dictated by the candidate himself, and from the start Trump, often through his alter ego Lewandowski, sought to dominate and demean us. And besides, it quickly became clear that the campaign didn’t need more conventional tools of media management, given that its messaging operation primarily consisted of Trump’s mouth—and he often said outrageous and provocative things that guaranteed negative coverage.
“In the early days of the Chernobyl disaster [April 1986], many still had faith in the Communist Party, but by late ’88, delusions about the Soviets were long gone. Fear of reprisals had receded with the deaths of strongmen Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov (known as the Butcher of Budapest after the 1956 Hungarian uprising). So when rumors started swirling about Communist officials evacuating their children while denying the opportunity to parents who wanted to do the same, the mood in Chernivitz grew mutinous. Parents ignored orders to stay put, and within weeks, the town emptied…”
AUSTIN BAY: Abu Sayyaf’s Criminal Jihad in the Philippines. “Ridsdel’s hideous murder serves as another reminder that violent Islamist terrorists wage global war. Like Nigeria, where Boko Haram thugs enslave schoolgirls, Jolo and the Filipino islands ASG threatens are comparatively obscure locales. Unlike Brussels, Paris, Madrid, Mumbai, New York and Washington, they rarely draw elite media attention. But face this bitter fact: Islamist terrorists commit murder and apocalyptic atrocities in headline somewheres and neglected nowheres.”
More on the Philippines here
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:Sweden’s Greens deny claims party has been infiltrated by Islamists.
One refused to shake hands with a female journalist. Another compared Israel to Nazi Germany. A third was seen doing hand signs associated with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood in the background of a live TV broadcast.The behaviour of some Muslim members of Sweden’s Green Party, which is part of a coalition government since 2014, has sparked concerns that the small environmentalist group may have been infiltrated by Islamists.It also has triggered a wider discussion about whether Sweden has tried so hard to be inclusive and tolerant toward migrants that it’s failed to stand up for its own feminist ideals.
Virtue-signaling is its own reward.