You may have heard they had a referendum over in Catalonia recently about leaving Spain. The central government was, um, somewhat opposed to allowing anyone to vote. In spite of that, lots of people turned out and almost all of them voted to get out. The cops gave some citizens a wood shampoo. And folks in the US talk about police brutality.
I posted this at the other cafe also.
I grew up in Washington state. There was only one season south of Seattle. It was rain. I have lived in Japan for a while. There seems to be two seasons, Hot and Cold. It gets muggy and unbearable in the Summer. Then there is a few days of moderate temperature then the temperature loses pressure under its wings and tailspins. It goes from close to 90 to around 60. One day you need AC then it seems in a matter of days you need heat. The smug humidity is gone and the bracing chill comes.
I grew up with ice on the windshield in the morning. I rarely get that here but it feels colder. That is for two reasons. One, the older houses have poor insulation … Continue reading
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It’s that time of the week again, when we connect for another town hall meeting in the Village of the Darned.
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Recently I had someone come in from out of town. I thought I would treat them to something special. In the East we treat our guests right. This is the outside of a Dime 5 Star. One notices right off the start the most modern technology is being used. Yes, that is the Waitress 5000 Vending Machine. All you do is push the right buttons and you get your ticket for culinary delights. As you can see from the posters this lunch was not in the 10s but in the 100s. When have you paid 500 or more for a lunch?
Fifty dead and counting in Vegas massacre. It’s not just that the count goes on. People are still dying of their wounds.
Some things are absolute, and some things are relative. Absolute is the fact that this animal deserves Hell, whether one exists or not. More nuanced is the approach the media will take. The wager of the decade is live now in Las Vegas — place your bets! — as democrats wait and see whether they should condemn the shooting and the shooter, or explain away the behavior as the predictable result of some disenfranchisement. Depraved because a deprived. My money’s on red.
I think we all can agree that this is better than a mountain lair in Switzerland. Sure Switzerland has cachet but what is a mountain lair if 007 never shows up. At least my fortress was scaled by Sean Connery himself. Okay, I don’t have sharks with lasers but I do have a moat with ninjas. Ninjas beat trilingual minions cold.
Dear John, if you are going to take over the world it is best not to have Zeke and Timmy as henchmen. But I do envy the Swiss Cowbell Torture though.
How do people change?
I often thinks of Madison Avenue and how they try to change people’s habits. They go for the “bank shot” instead of logic. They sell the sizzle not the steak. They sell the mood not the make. I remember being a young child wanting the sugary cereal because of the commercials. Basically they were selling candy for breakfast. Also it has been an axiom with me that the worse the product the better the commercial. Those products like the lottery sell the win but never the lost.
In politics as in life the facts matter but it is not usually how things are sold. People buy dreams and love “fairy tales”. We never get far away from the child within us. The person with … Continue reading
