"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." -Frederic Bastiat, 1848
A pitcher was hit with a line-drive in the head and really was hurt but apparently is OK now. The next day a pitcher narrowly avoided being impaled by a broken bat. This is going to result in something awful--probably in the stands--before anyone will do anything about it. Certainly the maple bats should be banned. Anyone on the fence should Google Puig's breaking a bat on a checked swing and not hitting the ball.
A pitcher was hit with a line-drive in the head and really was hurt but apparently is OK now. The next day a pitcher narrowly avoided being impaled by a broken bat. This is going to result in something awful--probably in the stands--before anyone will do anything about it. Certainly the maple bats should be banned. Anyone on the fence should Google Puig's breaking a bat on a checked swing and not hitting the ball.
Inflation is measured in all sorts of ways. The single highest growing cost in the world is cemetery plots.
At Electric Literature, Ursula Le Guin is interviewed by Michael Cunningham about genre and science fiction: "Realism is of course a tremendous and wonderfully capacious literary genre, and it has dominated fiction since 1800 or before. But dominance isn't the same thing as superiority," she says. "Fantasy is at least as immense as realism and much older — essentially coeval with literature itself. Yet fantasy was relegated for fifty years or sixty years to the nursery."
Who is...Charles Martell?
Branding is interesting and has an evolutionary--or maybe an imitative--quality. "Flo" has been a home run for Progressive Insurance and now Wendy is using a redhead in ads with huge investments and sets. Recently Toyota has personalized their receptionist in their ads.
At Electric Literature, Ursula Le Guin is interviewed by Michael Cunningham about genre and science fiction: "Realism is of course a tremendous and wonderfully capacious literary genre, and it has dominated fiction since 1800 or before. But dominance isn't the same thing as superiority," she says. "Fantasy is at least as immense as realism and much older — essentially coeval with literature itself. Yet fantasy was relegated for fifty years or sixty years to the nursery."
Who is...Charles Martell?
Branding is interesting and has an evolutionary--or maybe an imitative--quality. "Flo" has been a home run for Progressive Insurance and now Wendy is using a redhead in ads with huge investments and sets. Recently Toyota has personalized their receptionist in their ads.
267 billion dollars in merchandise were returned to sellers last year. That amount of money, if earned by a company, would make it the third largest company in the country.
The Boxer Rebellion occurred in China in 1900. But the name is based on the mistranslation of the Chinese xenophobic society I-He-T'uan, "Righteous Harmony Band," that was rendered by the British as I-He-Ch'uan "Righteous Uniting Fists," and so associated with the pugilistic boxer.
It is amazing translators don't accidentally cause wars.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/06/great-ambitions-of-less-than-great.html
Hillary Clinton has taken her furthest, most public step away yet from President Barack Obama, rejecting the core of his self-described foreign policy doctrine and describing his decision against backing Syrian rebels early on as a “failure.”
She also stood unequivocally with Israel in its current battle with Hamas in a lengthy, detailed interview on foreign policy with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg.
There's a new book out called Your Face in Mine where one of the characters undergoes "racial reassignment surgery." it will be interesting to see how the trans-gender community responds. The gay community cleverly pirated the equality issue from the Black community with surprisingly little objection. I bet this reverse adaptation does not work.
Eric Schlosser on researching his new book Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety: "If you look at the Pentagon's official list of how many nuclear weapons accidents, serious accidents, we have — what they call "broken arrows" — the list contains 32 accidents. But I was able to obtain a document through the Freedom of Information Act that said just between the years 1950 and 1968, there were more than 1,000 accidents involving nuclear weapons. And many of the serious accidents I found don't even appear on the Pentagon's list. So I'm sure there were many more that I was unable to uncover that occurred." One of his stories details the accidental dropping of a nuclear weapon on North Carolina.
The Boxer Rebellion occurred in China in 1900. But the name is based on the mistranslation of the Chinese xenophobic society I-He-T'uan, "Righteous Harmony Band," that was rendered by the British as I-He-Ch'uan "Righteous Uniting Fists," and so associated with the pugilistic boxer.
It is amazing translators don't accidentally cause wars.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/06/great-ambitions-of-less-than-great.html
Hillary Clinton has taken her furthest, most public step away yet from President Barack Obama, rejecting the core of his self-described foreign policy doctrine and describing his decision against backing Syrian rebels early on as a “failure.”
She also stood unequivocally with Israel in its current battle with Hamas in a lengthy, detailed interview on foreign policy with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg.
There's a new book out called Your Face in Mine where one of the characters undergoes "racial reassignment surgery." it will be interesting to see how the trans-gender community responds. The gay community cleverly pirated the equality issue from the Black community with surprisingly little objection. I bet this reverse adaptation does not work.
Eric Schlosser on researching his new book Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety: "If you look at the Pentagon's official list of how many nuclear weapons accidents, serious accidents, we have — what they call "broken arrows" — the list contains 32 accidents. But I was able to obtain a document through the Freedom of Information Act that said just between the years 1950 and 1968, there were more than 1,000 accidents involving nuclear weapons. And many of the serious accidents I found don't even appear on the Pentagon's list. So I'm sure there were many more that I was unable to uncover that occurred." One of his stories details the accidental dropping of a nuclear weapon on North Carolina.
Brusque: a. abrupt in manner; blunt; rough: "A brusque welcome greeted his unexpected return."
Borrowed from French and adapted from the Italian word brusco meaning "tart." It entered English in the early 1600s.
Borrowed from French and adapted from the Italian word brusco meaning "tart." It entered English in the early 1600s.
Cash-for-Clunkers did not result in more cars sold but rather in less powerful cars (where the higher company margins are.)
Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) in an Aug. 7 post on his news site, Voices of Liberty, said he believes the U.S., with all its intelligence-gathering capabilities, should have a clear idea of what happened on July 17 when MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. But much of that information, he says, has likely been withheld from the public. OK. Easy to say. But talk is for coffee houses. When you are in the public eye and a public spokesman, you can't just insinuate, you have to prove it.
Israel's "Iron Dome" defense system, because of the speed required for it to react, has been entirely computerized. That is, with the huge meg-weapons that Israel uses, in the decision of how and when to use them, humans are out of the loop. There has always been the problem in government--and science fiction--of human input in weapons use. This has been a practical and ethical concern: Would a guy in a bunker launch a weapon that would stimulate homicidal response? Would he freeze? The question of a man's willingness to create or participate in such a fateful weapons exchange is important and Israel has answered it in a worrisome way. (Recall the famous Castro "Armageddon Letter" described by Khrushchev where the esteemed leader of the Cuban people hysterically lobbied for a Russian First Strike against America, a strike that could only result in the evaporation of Castro and the people he represented and presumably cared for.)
AAAAAAaaaaaaannnnnnddddd.....a picture of MouMouro Lighthouse, Spain, (built 1860)--maybe not so well copied by moi:
AAAAAAaaaaaaannnnnnddddd.....a picture of MouMouro Lighthouse, Spain, (built 1860)--maybe not so well copied by moi:
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