...although he has been returning classics from the dead for quite a while. (This is the man you've seen me refer to as "Genius Jeff," and there is not much hyperbole in that.)
May 24, 2013
Grand Opening...
...although he has been returning classics from the dead for quite a while. (This is the man you've seen me refer to as "Genius Jeff," and there is not much hyperbole in that.)
May 23, 2013
Non sequiter of the day
An I-5 bridge collapsed in Washington state. Reuters was on the story. Its final paragraph:
The cause of the collapse was not immediately known. It was not raining in the area, Francis said.
The cause of the collapse was not immediately known. It was not raining in the area, Francis said.
MegaThoughts
Oh my! So much going on in the world. It's more than a fellow can examine in detail, so he is impelled to take the easier path of pronouncing cosmic truths:
1. Stockholm and London are under attack by revolutionary forces. The lesson is that an advanced society does not benefit from providing free candy to lure in tribes not all that far from the Stone Age. Excluding the Irish, of course.
2 Of course we've all wondered, "Why does the Inner Party kill its citizens by remote control and use the tax authority of the state to browbeat and destroy those whose speech appears to be Crimethink?" Why, because it can, and because it makes governing ever so much more convenient if every bipedal drone in the country knows it. And fears it.
1. Stockholm and London are under attack by revolutionary forces. The lesson is that an advanced society does not benefit from providing free candy to lure in tribes not all that far from the Stone Age. Excluding the Irish, of course.
2 Of course we've all wondered, "Why does the Inner Party kill its citizens by remote control and use the tax authority of the state to browbeat and destroy those whose speech appears to be Crimethink?" Why, because it can, and because it makes governing ever so much more convenient if every bipedal drone in the country knows it. And fears it.
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