- Twenty-nine strategic lessons from people who’ve been there. Business-oriented. But some good lifehacking material, too. (Tip o’ hat to Shel.)
- Alan Gura examines the court after Scalia — and explains why the next “conservative” justice may not help save the Second Amendment.
- John Hinckley is now free to walk among us — as long as we live in the gated community where his mommy resides. I’m no shrink, but Hinckley always came across to me more as a spoiled rich boy throwing a tantrum than an authentic crazy person.
- In case you’ve been waiting for your cultural, national, or ethnic group to get its reparations, you’ll have to get in line behind Michael Z. Williamson.
- Okay, Mr. Williamson, you’re hilarious. But sheesh, you didn’t even mention my ethnic group, whose history of genocides, attempted genocides, suppression, slavery, and more slavery, and general abuse (not the mention the “coffin ships” we traveled in even when we “voluntarily” escaped our British overlords) could give you serious nightmares. I get my damned reparations first!
- “Apocalypse Meow”: doomsday cult doubles as cat rescue. Oddly enough, that’s not the first time something like this has happened. The famous Best Friends sanctuary in Utah, probably the largest and best-reputed animal sanctuary in the country, is run by family members of the religious cult that founded it. (More on Best Friends.)
- Bonus dog news. What does your dog see when he watches TV?
- Bonus bonus dog news. Poor, rescued pup loses 35 pounds — in hair alone! (H/T JB)
And bonus bonus bonus dog stuff. Boy, Mishka really does sing better than a lot of humans. (H/T Shel)
Michael Z. Williamson – forgot the war of northern aggression and re(er)deconstruction.
The US was the worlds biggest mass murderer in the 1800’s but we slipped to 5 or maybe 6th last century, but take heart, we’re number one again so far this century. Since Americans are from all over, who pays for that?
Mishka – What is pretty cool to me is a software that plays notes in the key of the ‘singer’. None the less I applaud the K 9’s moment of fame and her owner’s entrepreneurial venture. Bravo!
Ah, ethnic groups and ancestors. One branch of my family worked in Oglethorpe’s Colony, later the state of Georgia. Indentured servitude, during the time of serving, was probably little different from slavery.
The Wesleyan reverend John Witherspoon left Scotland for Ireland in the middle 1700s. The situation there probably contributed to his move to New Jersey, to be the Big Boss of its College (to later become known as Princeton). He then signed “…we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” You can still find Witherspoons in the Texas Panhandle. A Witherspoon married a Fertsch, so I’ve wound up with a genetic propensity for stubbonness. š
I note that in Modurn Amurika, only whites can be racist, and only men can be sexist. That sort of anti-thought occasionally leads to the need for a barf-break in an effort to resist extreme cynicism.
Wow. So that’s MZW is writing these days. I check his blog sometimes, and he doesn’t update there much these days. Well cool, I’ll have to start looking there. And I’m always impressed at people with such a grasp of history.
The ideal television for dogs, therefore, should contain lots of snippets rather than long storytelling scenarios. Like, Twitter?
I was slightly amazed at the size of the dog under all that. Yikes!
@Fred: Not sure if that tablet is emulating a vocoder, or auto-tune – maybe combining both. Used to be big boxes of circuits to make a vocoder. Now, it’s all digital. Yeah, pretty sweet!
No wait … if it’s for dogs, it’d be woofer.
Speaking of cats, okay, I don’t know what to say about this one.
The article on Irish slavery is a shock to me. I knew there was some, but I don’t recall hearing the extent or the severity of it in America. Servants, yes, and the poor being cast aside, but not slavery as was mentioned in these articles.
Even Albion’s Seed https://www.amazon.com/Albions-Seed-British-Folkways-cultural/dp/0195069056/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473575518&sr=8-1&keywords=Albion%27s+Seed, which chronicles British immigration into America, talks more of “British” slavery/indentured servants (no doubt equating the Irish as British subjects) in Virginia during the 1600s. Also more males than females were mentioned as being sent over as slaves.
I’m going to have to read up on this.
That’s a very scary article about the court. I wish I could find something wrong with it.
A clinical psychologist friend of mine did her internship at St. Elizabeth’s hospital in D.C. She said she once was simply walking by a patient’s room and felt an overwhelming sense of rage coming out of it. She asked who was in there. The answer was “Hinckley.”
Jim Goad, in his (I think) excellent book The Redneck Manifesto compared indentured servitude with slavery. He explained that indentured servitude was for seven years – when lifespans were a lot shorter then than now – and afterwards the people were turned out with no skills and no means of support, often having to compete with slave labor. Plus, since their servitude was for a limited time, it didn’t matter to the master how long they lived afterwards, so they were often treated worse than slaves in whom the master had a vested financial interest for life. If the indentured servant, for example, died after 6 1/2 years, the master lost only 6 months of production; whereas if a slave died, the master lost the rest of that person’s expected life span. He described, as I remember, how a caught rat below deck on an indentured servant transport ship was a very prized possession. An overall theme of the book is that society needs scapegoats, who used to be blacks but now are rednecks.
When I was working for our now bankrupt uncle in D.C. a woman friend who also worked there remarked matter of factly to me about blacks, saying “They don’t want equality, they want revenge.”
Strategy #14. “Be Generous in Success”
My mother preached that all the time I was growing up: “Be a good looser, and a better winner.”
I simply don’t understand how someone can “celebrate” a wedding by forcing someone to bake them a cake. Nobody wins that battle.
Some good ones Claire!
So what I want to know is whether Nano would rather attend Church at Apocalypse Meow or if she’d prefer the Meow Castle? Decisions, decisions…
But it seems this sort of thing seems better suited for the Haight-Ashbury than Tennessee, so I’d vote for the Meow Castle…
Silly Cultists just need to get their act together…;-)
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
WOW Claire; Apocalypse Meow was a good one for sure since I was born in Columbia, my Aunt was once the Mule Day Queen and then there are the ties back to Washington state, what a small world we live in.