- LaVoy Finicum’s widow is suing the FBI and Oregon state police. Big time.
- “Your papers, please!” The all-American version.
- You’ve probably heard that Ursula K. LeGuin died this week. Here’s some wisdom from her on that strange subject known as “spare time” and the even stranger subjects of creative work and life.
- And John Wray, who interviewed LeGuin not long ago, says, “Don’t try to fit her into your pigeonhole, posterity.”
- Boohoo, Boeing. The airplane maker not only lost its fight to regulate Canadian competitor Bombardier out of U.S. business. It lost friends and probably customers along the way.
- Dr. Mercola covers even more ways that Google is bad for you, and why you should escape the Evil Googlies. (H/T fred)
- Judicial Watch brings a FOIA suit asking for all those infamous FBI texts (presumably both the known and the conveniently missing).
- Borepatch on Pandora’s iPhone.
- And David Zincavage on the unparalleled snottery and self-blindness of the Guggenheim offering Trump a gold toilet instead of the Van Gogh the White House requested.
- Like old-time movie posters? A giant collection is being put online in high res.
- “One Last Toss.” Get your hankies out for this account by a vet of euthanizing a friend’s dog. (H/T PT)
- The moment a dying horse was saved by its stablemate and friend.
- Twenty-four critters keeping warm. (Some are genuinely trying to stay warm; others are just dressed up like eejits. Still cute, though.)
- Modern journalism. Heck, modern political discourse.
RE: Items #1,#2 & #6
Please tell me again how it’s only a “few bad apples” and not the entire system.
As for the “intelligence” community lying about Iraq to justify that war, of course they did, they didn’t lie to bush, they lied for him,and some of us said so at the time.
Yet most Americans still foolishly believe that as soon as the right person gets (s)elected, they’ll go get “those people” and everything will be fine, the stupidity would be funny if it weren’t so tragic.
Modern “journalism”? If Trump demonstrated that he could walk on water, the NYT headline would read “Trump can’t swim”.
Saddam Hussein had to go because he was going to sell oil for Euros. Khadafy had to go because he was going to start a gold-backed currency and also sell oil for other-than-dollar currencies. Bad dogs! Bad dogs!
To add insult to injury, the Guggenheim Museum even offered a modern reproduction instead of the original. Rather poshlost of them! In an insane world, Putin should take this golden opportunity to loan him Lilacs from the Hermitage.
Meanwhile, perhaps there’s an opportunity for co-branding between Amazon and the Guggenheim?
Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin: “The opposite of spare time is, I guess, occupied time. In my case I still don’t know what spare time is because all my time is occupied. It always has been and it is now. It’s occupied by living.”
Enough said. It’s the way my soul responds when people ask if I’m busy (usually with the idea of asking for a favor). That’s the time to say No.
And from John Wray: “By the time I came to know her, Ms. Le Guin had made peace with the nature of her legacy, and with the reductive effects of the passage of time. But it was, to the end, an anarchist’s peace.”
Is there, really, any other kind?
Le Guin’s book, “No Time To Spare,” sounds like time to visit the library.
I get asked if I’m “keeping busy” sometimes, but usually I’m asked if I’m staying out of trouble… and my usual reply is to say that depends on what you call “trouble.” 🙂 I’m sure they are joking. 🙂
Modern journalism/political discourse, illustrated in real life: https://youtu.be/aMcjxSThD54
If there is any justice left the Finicum family should receive every penny for which they sue and those responsible for his death should rot in a hole for eternity (sooner than later).
LaVoy Finicum’s widow is suing the FBI and Oregon state police. Big time.
Good! He should never have been shot!
But it was, to the end, an anarchist’s peace.
Is there, really, any other kind?
Perhaps you’re asking if there’s another kind worth having, If not, there are many kinds of peace:
1. “Peace in our time.” Neville Chamberlain’s version.
2. The “Dane-geld” Rudyard Kipling advised against.
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_danegeld.htm
3. “If they want your money, give them your money, otherwise someone might get hurt.” That one fell apart on 9-11, when SOP was “If the hijacker wants the airplane, give him the airplane.”
4. The peace of the grave.
My father’s advice was, “If you want a job to get done, ask someone who’s busy.”
Sure wish politicians and other people who want to run the world, or like Boeing run an industry, or the Guggenheim who comment on it, understood economics.
Yes, the U.S. is incredibly wealthy. Our poverty is the rest of the world’s middle class. But it isn’t because we have more resources or better cropland or because we “hoard” wealth, it’s because capitalism allows U.S. entrepreneurs and workers to make better use of the resources. Even despite the governments.
How, in world history, can that not be blindingly obvious?
Instead we get gangs like Occupy Wall Street, folks who know the best way to manage the world economy, but can’t run a decent campsite.
larryarnold posted: But it isn’t because we have more resources or better cropland or because we “hoard” wealth, it’s because capitalism allows U.S. entrepreneurs and workers to make better use of the resources. Even despite the governments.
Yup, despite the demonization from the socialist/leftists, Capitalism has raised more people out of poverty than any other economic system. Socialism inevitably, always fails! Hence the saying, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”, says it all!
“Perhaps you’re asking if there’s another kind worth having,…”
Yep – you got it the first time.
OT: Three’s a crowd. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/11619911/tennis-ball-standoff-between-two-dogs/
Ok. I didn’t want to derail a real conversation with something so juvenile, but I can’t be the only one who got the hilariously wrong idea reading this headline:
“One Last Toss.” Get your hankies out for this…
Hey, I waited until there was a new blog post up for a reason! 😉