- What if we bought our food the way we buy our healthcare?
- But at least all U.S. hospitals will soon be posting their prices online.
- How data gathered via warrantless surveillance ends up everywhere.
- A scheduled women’s march in a very Caucasian part of northern California decided to cancel itself because it’s too white. Oh, the shame of having the wrong skin color! We can at least thank heaven the undesirable marchers weren’t The Dreaded White Males. (H/T Shel)
- Take two planned emergency exercises on a military base. Add one runner who twists her ankle and calls for help. Add miscomunication and misunderstanding. Get total chaos. This Air Force Times article goes into useful detail about how a botch like this can happen. (Also H/T Shel)
- John Kerry wants to keep the peasants off his beach even if he and his neighbors have to break the law to do so. (The article makes it a pro-Trump wall issue, which it isn’t. But what is it with the powerful always wanting their own privacy while thinking the hoi palloi deserve none? How do they live with themselves?)
- Whatever else it was, 2018 has been a year of tremendous medical breakthroughs.
- Brendan Brown of the Mises Institute looks toward the Depression of 2019-21.
- Jews on the Prairie. What happened when, in the 19th century, America’s sophisticated urban Jews tried to help their “backward” Russian shetl brethren homestead in Kansas.
- Art historian, contemplative nun, and beloved TV personality Sister Wendy Beckett has died.
- Oopsie. The UK announces a “Best of British” postage stamp series. Their D-Day design features American soldiers landing in New Guinea.
- Long weekend read: The science of dreaming.
- Dave Barry recaps the old year as only Dave Barry can.
- This Shiba Inu paints better than most dogs. (And I mean that sincerely; he has a nice touch.)
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“But what is it with the powerful always wanting their own privacy while thinking the hoi palloi deserve none? How do they live with themselves?”
It really is very simple. They do not see us as people. From the founding of the very first states the elites have viewed all the populations under their control be they grains, livestock or human, as property for them to use and dispose of as they see fit.
We and the other things they own are supposed to serve them. Not cause inconvenience.
“We’re too white to be outraged over anything “ is perhaps the most hilarious thing I’ll read today, as well as possibly the most self-aware thing these pampered idiots have ever done. So kudos to them, I guess.
In regard to Kerry’s imperiled estates in France, do you suppose it’s possible that they can genuinely convince themselves that they’re so special, superior and important to the welfare of the world that separate rules should apply? Or is it as cynical as it appears? “Terrorism concerns,” forsooth. Even here in the American desert it’s been clear for years that the French hoi polloi have plenty of legitimate terrorism concerns, but the powers that be think it best to leave them helpless. Why is Kerry’s cousin so much more important?
Joel, I think you answered your own question, in your previous comment. He’s a people; we’re not. QED.
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The Science of Dreaming was fascinating. Always enjoy your links, thanks!
Related, hope you like Cormac McCarthy’s first non-fiction piece, “The Kekulé Problem.”
http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/the-kekul-problem
“Of the known characteristics of the unconscious its persistence is among the most notable. Everyone is familiar with repetitive dreams. Here the unconscious may well be imagined to have more than one voice: He’s not getting it, is he? No. He’s pretty thick. What do you want to do? I dont know. Do you want to try using his mother? His mother is dead. What difference does that make?
What is at work here? And how does the unconscious know we’re not getting it? What doesnt it know? It’s hard to escape the conclusion that the unconscious is laboring under a moral compulsion to educate us. (Moral compulsion? Is he serious?)”
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(We have literally been waiting for years for his Sci-Fi novel The Passenger to be done – https://www.assistnews.net/more-on-cormac-mccarthy-s-the-passenger/ .)
Happy New Year to all!
MacGhil — “the unconscious is a machine for operating an animal.”
I love it! That’s an article to read at leisure.
Happy New Year to you, too!
……What made this year so awful? We could list many factors, including natural disasters, man-made atrocities, the utter depravity of our national political discourse and the loss of Aretha Franklin. Instead we’ll cite one event that, while minor, epitomizes 2018: the debut of “Dr. Pimple Popper.”
This is a cable-TV reality show featuring high-definition slo-mo closeup videos of a California dermatologist performing seriously disgusting procedures on individuals with zits the size of mature cantaloupes. You might ask, “Who on Earth would voluntarily watch that?” The answer, in 2018, was: MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. That is the state of our culture. We can only imagine what new reality shows lie ahead. We would not rule out “Dr. Butt Wiper,” or “People Blow Their Noses Directly Onto The Camera Lens.”
Is there anything good we can say about 2018? Only this: It got us out of 2017…..
IMHO 2019 may make 2018 look pretty good, Happy New Years everyone!
We would not rule out “Dr. Butt Wiper,” or “People Blow Their Noses Directly Onto The Camera Lens.”
And let’s not forget the eventual grand premier of “Ow, My Balls!”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/