On my trip to Munich, I re-read The Wizards of Armageddon by Fred Kaplan. [amazn] It’s a depressing read, but interesting, which I undertook to renew my understanding of what Daniel Ellsberg did for a living before he became a heroic whistle-blower.
Warning: I get a bit ranty.
A surrealist is walking down the street, and sees a banana peel in his path; he says, “Mon Dieu! I am going to fall down again!” and keeps walking.
Hallmark denies or downplays whether it had any involvement in the invention of Valentine’s day, though it is often tagged as a “Hallmark Holiday.”
A couple of sheets of 304 stainless steel, perforated, dropped into my mail box this morning. I’m hoping to eventually experiment with bonding it to high carbon steel, but that’s another story. When I unwrapped them, I noticed something weird – I thought maybe I had slipped something in my water without thinking about it, because what I saw reminded me of things I’ve seen while on painkillers or psychoactives.
The New Zealand Police are trying to convince me that they have a sense of humor, are compassionate, (fairly) sensible, and well-trained.
But, it will be said, is not the dogma of the immortality of the soul consoling for beings who often find themselves very unhappy here below?
Your host, Jean Meslier
It’s safe to say that anyone with a shred of sense is horrified by Trump’s idea of having a military parade “bigger then the French one.”
The US truly is exceptional. It seems we are the one nation that feels free to bomb anyone, any time.
The US has been working on a series of “upgrades” to its existing nuclear arsenal; it’s a process that was started during the Obama administration, but the research must have been going on for years prior to that.
You can buy a cop’s soul for a measly $3,000-$6,000. I hope every one of them realizes how their bosses and unions have just debased them. They probably don’t care – if they were the kind of people who care, they wouldn’t be cops. If you recall, I believe that being a cop is one of the handful of inherently immoral jobs [stderr].