This is socialism now: From each faction according to its vulnerability, to each faction according to its ability to confiscate.--Will
Mineo's, a bar full of total strangers, was organized by Chris to sing "Happy
Birthday" to me last night.
Carol came home from her dinner meeting looking completely spent.
Ned had a talk with Advish, an old Kiski guy who is in the Air Force space program and he is really worried about China.
At Harvard, many students recently denounced the Crimson, its student newspaper, for seeking comment from Immigration and Custom Enforcement on a story that disputed its practices.
“We need to build a firewall in our brains,” China's state media has said. What exactly does that mean? Surveillance cameras are focused on all individual students in Hangzhou classrooms, analyzing faces and moods. The data is sent to a terminal for each student’s attitude to be assessed.
The commitment to “social justice” has, in fact, become the chief outlet for moral emotion, the distinguishing attribute of the good man, and the recognized sign of the possession of a moral conscience….. But the near-universal acceptance of a belief does not prove that it is valid or even meaningful any more than the general belief in witches or ghosts proved the validity of those concepts. What we have to deal with in the case of “social justice” is simply a quasi-religious superstition of the kind which we should respectfully leave in peace so long as it merely makes those happy who hold it, but which we must fight when it becomes the pretext of coercing other men. And the prevailing belief in “social justice” is at its present probably the gravest threat to most other values of a free civilization.--Hayek
Bezos is reportedly interested in acquiring the Seattle Seahawks, whose stadium sits just 1.5 miles away from Amazon’s headquarters.
Shortly after the stunning US presidential election in 2016, French journalist François Busnel, with a lifelong love for American literature, seized the political moment to give American authors a platform to express themselves in what would become a 200-page magazine called America—in French.
On November 18, 1978, Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones led hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation of Guyana. Many of Jones’ followers willingly ingested a poison-laced punch while others were forced to do so at gunpoint. The final death toll at Jonestown that day was 909; a third of those who died were children.
Different Times, Same Guys
The recent behavior of Garrett in the Browns-Steelers game made me think of another episode where a player attacked another with a weapon, the Steeler's John Henry Johnson.
John Henry Johnson remains fifth on Pittsburgh’s all-time rushing list with 4,383 yards. He was a hard runner and a vicious blocker. Myron Cope, the legendary Steelers broadcaster, in a 1963 Saturday Evening Post piece described John Henry breaking a teammate’s jaw in two places during an intrasquad scrimmage in Calgary of the CFL. “Jeez, John,” screamed the team’s general manager, “was that thing really necessary?” “Well,” John Henry responded, “What do you want me to do? Kiss the guy or tackle him?”
Mineo's, a bar full of total strangers, was organized by Chris to sing "Happy
Birthday" to me last night.
Carol came home from her dinner meeting looking completely spent.
Ned had a talk with Advish, an old Kiski guy who is in the Air Force space program and he is really worried about China.
At Harvard, many students recently denounced the Crimson, its student newspaper, for seeking comment from Immigration and Custom Enforcement on a story that disputed its practices.
“We need to build a firewall in our brains,” China's state media has said. What exactly does that mean? Surveillance cameras are focused on all individual students in Hangzhou classrooms, analyzing faces and moods. The data is sent to a terminal for each student’s attitude to be assessed.
Lotto winner Michael Carroll reveals he has a new job working as a £10-an-hour coalman after blowing his £9.7million jackpot. He described the ten years of blowing his multi-million fortune on drink, drugs and brothels as 'the best ten years of my life'.
The commitment to “social justice” has, in fact, become the chief outlet for moral emotion, the distinguishing attribute of the good man, and the recognized sign of the possession of a moral conscience….. But the near-universal acceptance of a belief does not prove that it is valid or even meaningful any more than the general belief in witches or ghosts proved the validity of those concepts. What we have to deal with in the case of “social justice” is simply a quasi-religious superstition of the kind which we should respectfully leave in peace so long as it merely makes those happy who hold it, but which we must fight when it becomes the pretext of coercing other men. And the prevailing belief in “social justice” is at its present probably the gravest threat to most other values of a free civilization.--Hayek
Bezos is reportedly interested in acquiring the Seattle Seahawks, whose stadium sits just 1.5 miles away from Amazon’s headquarters.
Shortly after the stunning US presidential election in 2016, French journalist François Busnel, with a lifelong love for American literature, seized the political moment to give American authors a platform to express themselves in what would become a 200-page magazine called America—in French.
On November 18, 1978, Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones led hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation of Guyana. Many of Jones’ followers willingly ingested a poison-laced punch while others were forced to do so at gunpoint. The final death toll at Jonestown that day was 909; a third of those who died were children.
Different Times, Same Guys
The recent behavior of Garrett in the Browns-Steelers game made me think of another episode where a player attacked another with a weapon, the Steeler's John Henry Johnson.
John Henry Johnson remains fifth on Pittsburgh’s all-time rushing list with 4,383 yards. He was a hard runner and a vicious blocker. Myron Cope, the legendary Steelers broadcaster, in a 1963 Saturday Evening Post piece described John Henry breaking a teammate’s jaw in two places during an intrasquad scrimmage in Calgary of the CFL. “Jeez, John,” screamed the team’s general manager, “was that thing really necessary?” “Well,” John Henry responded, “What do you want me to do? Kiss the guy or tackle him?”
In 1961, Pittsburgh, down 24-17, was trying to salvage a tie when the Rams’ Eddie Meador picked off a Bobby Layne pass and started heading for the end zone. Pat Livingston of the Pittsburgh Press described what happened next: The brawling started when [running back] John Henry Johnson knocked Meador out of bounds on the Steeler[s] 7. Johnson was hit from behind and knocked down by linebacker Bill Jobko and got up swinging the goal-line marker. The marker hit Jobko on the head but, luckily, the Ram was protected by the helmet he wore. It was enough to empty both benches, though. Johnson emerged from the scrap with “a deep cut” on his nose, Jack Sell of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. Naturally, he was none too pleased about it. “They were roughing me up all day,” he said. “They were dirty as hell. I don’t have to take it, and I won’t.” (Years later, a story in the Post-Gazette revealed: “The Rams punished Johnson with a series of late hits in retaliation for Johnson having broken the jaw of Ram[s] linebacker Les Richter on a block earlier in the game.”)
John Henry was not discriminating with his ill will, spreading it around the league. Breaking the Giants’ Eddie Hughes
cheekbone with a block, John Henry remembers, “He was real
nice about it. He told me ‘good block’ when I visited him in
the hospital.” As recounted in Cope’s Broken Cigars, Johnson
fractured the skull of the Chicago Cardinals’ Charlie Trippi, on
a downfield block. The Chicago mob reportedly offered to put a
contract on him, but was dissuaded by Trippi, who said, “I didn’t
think it would be in the best interests of professional football.”
Injuring his knee after only three carries in the 1965
opener, Johnson never again played for the Steelers. He
was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1987. (a couple of sources)
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