By the year 2023 man will be living in colonies on the MOOON!! Or they will be living in underground shelters to escape from the radiation and other humans – or in undersea hotels complete with cocktail bars. That’s how a lot of 1950’/60’s science fiction started when I was a kid back in 1970.
None of that shit came true. Oh well. To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld you go to blog with the future you have, not the future you might want or wish to have at a later time.
In that spirit, I’m back to start out 2023 with this resolution – Quality over Quantity. I’m not sure what I mean but that but it sounds like a worthy goal and one which lets me off the hook in terms of quantity.
Anyway…on to the news.
Read this from El Som. Peter C. Schwartzkopf is a cancer on Delaware. This must be the last gasp of life, right?
The Atlantic has some great stuff in its Jan/Fed 2023 print edition. I picked one up in an airport and it was the best $20 I spent in 2023 (so far). I may have to spring for a subscription this year.
…To explain the interplay between structural and individual causes of homelessness, some who study this issue use the analogy of children playing musical chairs. As the game begins, the first kid to become chairless has a sprained ankle. The next few kids are too anxious to play the game effectively. The next few are smaller than the big kids. At the end, a fast, large, confident child sits grinning in the last available seat.
IT’S HIGH NOON IN AMERICA – In our popular culture and in our politics, we’re returning to the Old West. By Noah Hawley
…as we enter Colorado, Kyle and I discover an inverse correlation between vehicles that display the American flag and vehicles that follow the rules of the road. As if the performance of patriotism frees one from responsibility, not just to the law, but to other people. Cruise control set, we wince as decorative patriots speed past us, tailgating slower vehicles and veering wildly from lane to lane.
More proof that Putin and the American GOP share one diseased mind:
Russian authorities have announced that soldiers and state employees deployed in Ukraine will be exempt from income tax, in the latest effort to encourage support for its military operation there.
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