- When you worry about big corps taking over the world (and I admit I often do, when those corps are Silicon Valley outfits that try to control how people think), remember that only 12 percent of The Fortune 500 companies from 1955 still exist in 2017.
- Catalonia is not alone. Two prosperous northern regions are seeking more autonomy from Italy. (But then, Italy’s never quite been a country in the way we tend to think of country.)
- Holy cats. I had no idea that product reviewing was either that lucrative or that dirty a business. (Via Adam in comments)
- A millennial’s view of thrift-store shopping. While I’d skip the $100 “bargain” shoes, he’s got the right idea.
- A Jewish millennial’s view of Shabbat dinner.
- What would Hayek say if he saw the rolling disaster that is Obamacare? Probably, “I told you so.”
- The liberal Guardian excoriates the liberal Harvey Weinstein and all those other liberals now weeping crocodile tears.
- The latest patent scam: turn your patents over to a sovereign Indian tribe.
- Your awww story for today. No cute dogs involved. Instead, teenage boys and a homeless man; not the usual recipe for sweetness.
Sometimes mattress ads can be pretty good, though. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4BvwpjaGZCQ
IMHO some of the Indian tribes in this country have become some of the biggest organized criminal organizations operating in this country today.
Hayek’s response would be interesting, but Hašek’s would be hilarious.
About that Shabbat dinner, I don’t know whether to be amused or appalled (and I’m not Jewish). But I do know that I don’t understand millennials.
Millennials aren’t old enough to understand themselves.
12 percent of The Fortune 500
Of course, in 1955 the government didn’t think Fortune 500 companies were too big to let them fail.
a chic thrift store
Now there’s a concept.
Other than costume shoes, like to wear to Renaissance Faire, I have two pair of Ropers, one black, one brown. I buy them new, but nowhere near $200, and wear them through a couple of re-soles.
Most people on the left think of themselves as resisters of authority,
And then propose more laws and rules and regulations and taxes and fees and fines and subsidies and supports and…
Cognitive disconnect.
Weinstein is only the latest.
OT: some poignant remains. https://mynewsla.com/crime/2017/10/16/young-hikers-hugged-in-death-bodies-found-embracing-remains-recovered-from-joshua-tree/
Desperate lost couple’s murder-suicide in Joshua Tree National Park.
https://mynewsla.com/crime/2017/10/21/grieving-dads-worst-fears-come-true-desperate-lost-couples-murder-suicide-in-joshua-tree/
Why I teach Hunter Education.
Oh, that is so sad, yet so touching. A pair of kids who didn’t know what they were doing.
Just the simplest of things, I guess, such as learning how to make a signal fire, might have saved those kids. Not considering the religious issue, I suppose their choice may have been quite rational, especially since it took as long as it did to find them.
Claire, where did you get that picture of the dog and iguana? I’ve tried to find it, with no success.
Here you go, Shel: http://cheezburger.com/3736837/just-25-random-animal-photos-that-will-make-you-scratch-your-head
I agree on those kids. No doubt there were dozens of little things that could have made all the difference between survival and death for them.