After years of Trump, “Donald Desperation” has truly begun to set in. Americans are grasping at any straws that might lead to a way out of the trap we’ve dug for ourselves. [Meanwhile, our British friends are in the unenviable position of having out-done us]
Sometimes, history coalesces down to a vector – a sort of spontaneous push where a bunch of things all come together and civilization seems to be going in the same direction. That’s mostly an effect of my imagination, I fear, because when we look closer at what’s going on (or what has happened in the recent past) it decompiles into a swirl of messy social pushes in all kinds of directions that make no sense at all.
This is the state of the hot shed as of this morning. Ken and his crew have been kicking butt.
Here’s another one of those internet things like the blue/gold dress photo. [stderr] And it appears that neuroscientists have a theory for how it works.
In [stderr] I wrote:
We should all be very disappointed that the Mueller investigation worked out pretty much exactly the way I was afraid it would. [stderr] Making such predictions is pretty easy; just assume the worst.
My telephones (cell and land line) have become effectively useless, thanks to the ridiculous number of robo-calls that I get.
It’s really not Jazzlet’s fault; it was just something that they said, which made me pick up a pretty small piece of twist damascus and try to hammer it into a little knife suitable for wrenching the eyes out of potatoes.
If you look at the laws passed in the United States from the very beginning of the American republic down to the present day, you’ll find that most of the legislation passed is class legislation that favors the elite, that favors the rich.
The obvious answer is: “be Afghani.” That implies being in place, having local support (whether coerced, enthusiastic or not) and being indistinguishable from the local population. That’s an approximate recipe for a successful insurgency.