Archive of entries posted on 22nd November 2024

Friday Night Open Thread: Inner Demons

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Last week we explored Hard Truths ™. This week, we discuss confronting Inner Demons.

If you have Inner Demons, don’t confront them, as this will only irritate them. And they have excellent ways to strike back at you.

Also, don’t tell us about them. We honestly don’t want to know. We prefer to think of you as this fairly compatible person who we can share some space/time with, without running shrieking into the night.

Your Inner Demons may have been revealed in your choice of Halloween costume one year, or in your choice of dates, or the template you chose for your checkbook. The point here is that you never know what will reveal your Inner Demons to the outside world. Happily for the outside world, it is very judgmental and can spot these lapses in an instant.

In sum: suppress them, sublimate them, squash them, and don’t let any waitress or stewardess see them. The world will be a better place. (But I think they prefer to be called Flight Attendants.)

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To protect democratic values, journalism must save itself
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists | September 5, 2024 | Sara Goudarzi

… half of adult Americans get their news from social media (Pew Research center 2023) often curated—that is, selected, organized, interpreted, and presented—by their family and friends.

“The editors are being replaced by just people posting whatever they want,

Heaven forbid!

so it’s loss of a professional standard about what counts,” explains Stephen Ansolabehere,

How is that pronounced?

a government professor at Harvard University.

An expert in government, or paid by the government?

“What is being lost is the idea that people trust an entity, like The [New York] Times, The [Washington] Post, or The Guardian, and instead, the trust relationship in terms of the veracity of the story or the quality of this content is [that] your aunt or your best friend sent it to you.”

But if an atomic scientist sends it to you, ask yourself why.

IMAO Is NOTHING if Not Informative!

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Here’s a map showing where Ebla is. Three dots signify a heap of rubble.

Egypt, apparently, does not merit honorable mention.

I always pictured the U.A.E. more to the north. Oh well. Not like I’m going to go visiting there.

The Caspian Sea has a James-Bond-like crosshair on it.

Heh: “Asia.” “Africa.” Nice labels.

Straight Line of the Day: How Russia’s “Nuclear War By Christmas” Might Affect Christmas: …

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Kamala Harris Vacations in Hawaii As Russia Threatens US with ‘Nuclear War by Christmas’
thegatewaypundit| 11/19/2024 | Cristina Laila

(I’ll bet she’s heard that Clapton song once or twice in her life.)

Kamala Harris on Tuesday traveled to Hawaii for a vacation as World War III looms.

Harris and woman beater Doug Emhoff departed from Los Angeles International Airport en route to Kalaoa, Hawaii Tuesday afternoon.

Earlier Tuesday, Russia threatened the US with ‘nuclear war by Christmas’ after Ukraine carried out its first strike inside Russian territory with US-made long-range missiles.

The first Ukrainian strike targeted the border region of Bryansk in Russia, and it comes just as President Vladimir Putin updated the nuclear doctrine greatly expanding the conditions for using atomic weapons.

Kamala Harris’s taxpayer-funded vacation to Hawaii also comes after she blew through $1 billion on her failed presidential campaign.

Harris’s campaign is reportedly $20 million in debt after overspending on celebrity endorsements and private flights for staffers.

Fox News reported on the Harris camp’s debt and outrageous spending:

Vice President Harris’ debt-ridden presidential campaign spent $2.6 million on private flights in the last few weeks of the election season, documents show.

The release of the findings comes as the debt-saddled campaign, which spent $1 billion on the trail, is being scrutinized for the financial decisions it made before losing the Nov. 5 election to President-elect Trump. The campaign is believed to be $20 million in debt.

The eyebrow-raising expenses were listed in a Federal Election Commission (FEC) filing obtained by Fox News Digital. According to the FEC filing, in the month of October alone, the Harris campaign spent $2,626,110 on private flights.

“I’m sorry, Mr. Powers, DamnCat is no longer available for interviews. Goodbye.”