Category: Miscellaneous
What Joel (and Leslie Fish) wrote was sadly moving, and we can know that willfully naive souls will repeat the same fatal mistakes, world without end, amen. But thank G-d, some in the American Jewish community are awakening and taking up arms in defense of themselves and their faith. Sigh. Dutch police decrypt hundreds of thousands of messages from IronChat, a supposedly rock-solid, end-to-end encrypted messaging app praised by Edward Snowden. Six questions about the sloppy and insecure CIA communications that got 70 U.S. spies killed. Meanwhile, as Sharyl Attkisson notes, the Central Lack-of-Intelligence Agency deepens its spying on everybody…
As Joel might say, “I got nothin’ today.” Life is happily dull. The Internet is all-politics-all-the-time, but won’t cough up a single bit of actual news until tonight. So while the universal writer’s block works its way out of both my system and the ‘Net’s, here’s a bit of good cheer from Russia: Source
An excerpt. The rest is here. T’was the night before voting when all through the land, Collectivists were clamoring to take command. Their platforms were posted on Facebook with care, In hopes that Control! soon would be theirs. Bernistas were nestled all snug in their beds, While dreams of “free” college danced in their heads. And the socialists of the left, and the protectionists of the right, Had a common enemy: free trade, to fight. When down in the market there arose such a clatter, They suspended debating to see what was the matter! Away to their telescreens they flew…