What you say is so true, so true. We plebs are not to know what really happened, nor all of those who were really involved — because it’s not something we, the plebs, need to know. What we are to know is bone-shaking fear — while we are to believe we are resilient and strong. [...]

Ah yes, the ever-looming specter of the blackblocistas ruining everything for everyone. The very blackblocistas who ruined Occupy… by breaking a window or two in Oakland, setting fire to a police car in Barcelona, throwing a bottle in New York . They, and they alone, are responsible for the collapse and disappearance of Occupy, and the current relatively [...]

can’t we come up with a new paradigm

Of course we can, but not if we rely on the likes of Brownstein and Klein and the rest of them to come up with it and frame it and promote it.

Except in very rare and typically marginal or localized instances, American elections are not about policies, they are about personalities and styles. It’s all well and good to organize for the next election. Many people will do so, but the outcome will rarely have a significant policy impact. Our political and electoral system is designed [...]

“Hoping for the best,” yes. Hoping for someone to turn that beast around. JXXIII got in with the hope that he’d clean out the cobwebs and reform the rotten papal bureaucracy and “open up” the Church and do all the other things that had long needed doing. He did a lot and then he died. [...]

I take it Il Nuovo Papa is a placeholder while the forces of… whatever, call it theo-fascism… consolidate their grip on the Vatican and the Church Universal. This Bergoglio seems like a very… mmmm… nice man, but if the stories of his behavior in Buenos Aires during the Late Unpleasantness are true, then I’d say [...]

Re: Bad Girl! ;^) Thnks for the links, I’ve been delving into the Operation Condor Thing (somewhat unwillingly) of late, and of course the WATER Thing is driving a lot of bad blood in NM and all over the Southwest. Don’t get me started on the Texas water grab on the Rio Grande. Meanwhile, the question [...]

Highly evocative imagery, I’d say. A reminder of times gone by perhaps, but just because they aren’t as open to view as they once were, it doesn’t mean they’ve actually gone away, né? Viz: Il papa — among so, so many others. As long as we’re doing Buffy, I’ll just link to one of my favorites No [...]

Oui, je suis indigné. This is from a French message board , dated 03/03/2013:

J’ai 81 ans, j’ais vécu bien des changements dans notre société. J’ai subit la guerre, les privations, vu mon père arrété come comuniste par la police Française, il était socialiste mais ? Puis à l’age de 15 ans au travail comme la plupart des enfants [...]

But of course.

Been so for a while now…

Wolff is generally better — ie: stronger — when presenting to an academic audience than he is when his audience is more general. Phoenix Woman’s summary of his main points is pretty spot on, but you really wouldn’t know it from his carefully couched statements and positions as he expressed them to Moyers. One of [...]

(to continue…) too much of an “Answer to Everything.” There was a period when cosmic impacts were offered as the explanation for just about everything you could think of, from the origin of the Pacific Ocean to all of the various extinction episodes on Earth, to the Mars Dichotomy and so on. It became silly. [...]

Nice job tying it all together in addition to throwing in the spur of Velikovsky as one of the motivators for shaking up the standard model Uniformitarianism of the era.

Of course, after Catastrophism once again became acceptable to think and speak about, it became too much of an ‘A

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The on scene CBS reporter who recorded the gunfight and has been observing and reporting what he’s seeing and hearing said that he heard a single gunshot from the house just after the teargas was fired and the speculation is that Dorner killed himself. The fire is being allowed to burn the structure to the [...]