Monday, October 21, 2024
Some Memes You May Enjoy
Many a truth is said in jest.
- South Park making sense and being funny at the same time.
- I feel seen.
Monday Flotsam and Jetsam
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Had a great day yesterday (outside the Pats losing their game in the morning). NFL football all day, a good poker game, capped off by the Jets losing to the Steelers in the night game. I should be more upset at New England's loss but I recognize that we had it so good here for so long I don't allow myself to be disappointed. Plus the Celtics' season is about to start.
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Sunday, October 20, 2024
Something About Mary's Version of Build Me Up Buttercup
Sunday Flotsam and Jetsam
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This morning the New England Patriots play a 9:30 EST game in London against the Jaguars. Looks like I'll be having some football with my bacon. Go Pats!
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Saturday, October 19, 2024
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- The 30th anniversary of the release of the movie Clerks. Think most guys remember the conversation about the parking lot.
- ABC debate fact-checking of Trump ages poorly as FBI revises crime statistics. How can anyone trust ABC?
- Michael Shermer on Pseudo-Skepticism. Why some smart people fall under the spell of the woke-mind virus.
- Cops love using facial recognition, and withholding that information from defense attorneys. (HT Borepatch)
Great Moment in Boston Sports.
A ton of Boston sports related things happened on this date or yesterday.
- Missed their loss on Thursday night but the players were obviously raised right.
- Saw this game. Also remember that Mike Lowell was a "salary dump" for the Marlins and thrown into the trade that netted Boston Josh Beckett.
Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
If you watch Donald Trump's speech at the Al Smith Dinner two things stand out: first how funny his remarks were (he may have good writers) and also how nice he was to all the people in the room including Chuck Schumer (love your enemies?). Worth a watch if you haven't seen it.
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Friday, October 18, 2024
Linky Links
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- NASA looks to be moving away from Boeing and going with SpaceX
- VDH on Election 2024: Those who lecture vs those tired of being lectured
- Gallup poll shows public trust in media matches record low.
- Countries ranked by GDP by hour worked. This skewers towards European counties because thei work fewer hours. Could also be an argument to work smarter not longer.
Find Something Beautiful Today
Fall just started but already I could use someplace warm. (Photo via) Headline stolen borrowed from Execupundit.
Some Memes You May Enjoy
Many a truth is said in jest.
- I'm an awful person for laughing at this.
- Many a truth is said in jest.
- Heh Heh
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Part of me wishes this election would be over so that I can get back to writing about drinking beer and watching sports on weekend but mostly I just want it to end to hopefully stop all those unsolicited emails from DNC candidates asking for money.
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Thursday, October 17, 2024
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- Charles Cooke not holding back: Kamala Harris is an Idiot.. Even people with TDS are admitting the truth.
- Bill Belichick previews this weeks NFL games.
Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Saw an ad where a woman said she voted for Trump before but this time she's voting for Kamala. Had to wonder if this was a backhanded shot at either Hillary or at Joe Biden. Wonder how their supporters are taking that message. Especially after her latest interview on Fox News.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Sleeper
A man is accidently cryofrozen in 1974 but is re-aminated into today's world.
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Talk about waking up in bizarro world.
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- VDH on the Strange, Mythological Campaign of Kamala Harris
- The Daily Coach: From Box Office Flop to #1
- Eric McErlain on Dropping Out of the Jets Stream
- You can now get Unicorn Questing Licenses in Michigan. I've long said that Maine should issue Bigfoot licenses as a way to raise money. People would buy one just to frame and hang on the wall.
Wednesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Reading Charles Mann's book 1491 and he puts forth that the reason people think of American Indians as nomadic hunters is because European diseases wiped out almost all centers of Indian settlements leaving little or no traces. That argument rings true to me. Of course that's what we were taught. That's all the later settlers saw.
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Tuesday, October 15, 2024
More Linky Links
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- Heh Heh - Ontario College of Psychologists cannot find a "social media expert to publicly re-educate Jordan Peterson.
- Morgan Housel: Message from the Past (Thoughts on Nostalgia)
- Why I brought my 19-moth old daughter to watch SpaceX's flying skyscraper.
- Michael Wade's 12 rules for readers. Good advice.
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- Daniele Bolelli: Sacrificing to the Gods of the Algorithm. "Call me crazy, but I find the prize not worth the price," He's not wrong.
- Things keep getting worse for CBS News. Apparently they learned nothing from the example of Dan Rather.
- The New York Times is lying about Kamala Harris's plagiarism.
Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Learn something new every day: famed film director Stanley Kubrick was a supported of Ronald Reagan and Kubrick's own daughter says she doesn't think he'd mind Donald Trump using scenes from Full Metal Jacket in a political ad. In fact he'd probably support Trump too.
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Monday, October 14, 2024
Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier
Today is the anniversary of Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier in 1947. The sound barrier was the invisible brick wall in the sky that was so feared by many pilots of the day. He did so in the X-1 (X for experimental) over the Mohave Desert in a plane he called the "Glamorous Glennis" after his wife (who he named all his planes after for luck). He also simultaneously became the first person to create a sonic boom.
Great detail on how he was chosen for the program and broke the sound barrier in his autobiography Yeager. Worth a read (or re-read). There will never be another like General Yeager.
A Modest Proposal
Said it before but Columbus Day continuing to be a federal holiday also continues to be a divisive issue. On one side you have people who say Columbus was a genocidal imperialist monster and on the other proud Italian-Americans and traditionalists. I have a modest proposal with a solution which I think would be acceptable to most Americans.
On October 19th in 1781 the British forces under Lord Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown to end the Revolutionary War. America as a free nation really starts with this date. Why not celebrate the date as the new national holiday in replacement of Columbus Day? Yorktown Day could be celebrated on the third Monday in October. The unions would be satisfied since they wouldn't be losing a paid holiday. Italian-Americans couldn't complain since this in no way would be disrespecting Columbus and historically Yorktown is the more important date (beside Columbus really "discovered" the Caribbean not North America). French-Americans would be big supporters of the switch because the French fleet played a huge role in the victory. The only people who might complain are the people who are against glorifying anything that's even remotely militarily related but screw those people.
Have Yorktown Day replace Columbus Day. So let it be written so let it be done.
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Ivermectin may not just be a miracle Covid treatment but also a miracle cancer treatment as well
- Matt Ridley: Is another pandemic really inevitable? (HT Steve Layman)
- How to focus on what's important, not just on what's urgent.
- AI scans RNA "dark matter" and uncovers 70,000 new viruses. What's next the human gut biome? Actual "dark matter?"
Columbus Day Flotsam and Jetsam
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Not mentioning the Italians on Columbus Day is like not mentioning the Irish on Saint Patrick's Day but I have to bring up the fact that President Joe Biden wasn't at the historic launch and catch by robotic arm of SpaceX's Super Heavy rocket. Nor did he issue a release praising Elon Musk for the achievement. Total missed opportunity to trumpet the historic flight and American exceptionalism.
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Sunday, October 13, 2024
More Memes You May Enjoy
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- The fallout at CBS continues.
Sunday Flotsam and Jetsam
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50 so called "Intelligence experts" signed a letter saying that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation while 51 Medal of Honor winners signed a letter supporting Donald Trump for President. I find the Medal of Honor winners much more persuasive.
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Saturday, October 12, 2024
Fearless - Pink Floyd
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- The greatest game I ever saw Pedro pitch. I forgot Dave Roberts was the centerfielder or Cleveland that night.
- California not even pretending anymore that they're not playing politics in delaying SpaceX launches from the state. SpaceX and Space Force should move all launches and related jobs out of California to Florida or Texas where they'd be welcome.
Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Reportedly the Optimus robots will retail for about $20-30,000 each when in production. Can't you foresee any affluent household having one to do the little things around the home like dusting, mowing the yard, etc. They would make great companions for elderly folks who may have trouble with everyday tasks and just want something to listen to them. Also can't you see a new apartment building getting an Optimus to be a doorman? Think of the benefits and how much a status symbol that would be and how much less it would cost than an actual doorman's salary.
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Friday, October 11, 2024
1491
Currently reading Charles C. Mann's book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus:
"Much of the environmental movement is animated, consciously or not, by what geographer William Denevan calls 'the pristine myth' - the belief that the Americas in 1491 were an almost untouched, almost Edenic land, 'untrammeled by man,' in the words of the Wilderness Act of 1964, a US law that is one of the founding documents of the global environmental movement."
"Researchers differ in the details, some scientists have theorized that the Americas may have been hit with with as many as five waves of settlement before Columbus, with the earliest occurring as much as fifty thousand years ago."
"The Olmec, Maya, and other Mesoamerican societies were world pioneers in mathematics and astronomy - but they did not use the wheel. Amazingly, they had invented the wheel but did not employ it for any purpose other than children's toys, Those looking for a tale of cultural superiority can find it in zero; those looking for failure can find it in the wheel."
It's a fascinating subject but the unfamiliar names of individuals and tribes coupled with the author's need to provide copious facts to prove his case can at some times make for difficult, dry reading. Much like Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods. Not sure if I'll make it all the way through this book. I agree with his case already but Jeez...
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- VDH: Try a little honesty about Israel.
- Keep saying the Gruden case against the NFL is worth keeping an eye on.
- Tesla Semi exceeds expectations in 3,000 mile trial with DHL
- Trump unveils new tax proposal. It goes over quite well.
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
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Tesla had their We, Robot event last night and unveiled both the CyberCab and the Cybervan (a bigger robotic taxi). Pretty impressive. The CyberCab is priced around $30,000 and should go into production in 2026. If Uber and Lyft or other competitors don't immediately start placing orders they may be missing the boat.
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Thursday, October 10, 2024
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- The stress reducing power of humming. Think about it - do you know any stressed out people who hum?
- The beginning of a reckoning: the Middle East after Oct 7th. The tale of the tape says Iran is 12 times larger than Israel but I'd put my money on he Israelis.
- Bill Belichick's NFL Week 6 look ahead.
- Glenn Reynolds: Debt doom is coming. Steps I'd immediately take: eliminate all federal DEI programs, and funding for DEI. Any university that doesn't comply loses all federal funding. Cut all foreign aid to Ukraine and countries that don't have a reciprocal free trade agreement with us. Use those funds to help pay for any interest payments.
Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam
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Learn something new every day: Hurricanes have a "lightning wall." Know this knowledge will become nightmare ammunition at some point. High winds, storm surges, and lightning walls are no joke. Hope everyone in Florida stays safe!
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Wednesday, October 09, 2024
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- VDH: We Are in Need of Renaissance People. Agree 100%.
- Are we too impatient to be intelligent?
- Reminder: Joe Biden's first 100 days in the White House.
Wednesday Flotsam and Jetsam
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The routine a little off today as I spent yesterday afternoon golfing in Cape. That's when I learned about the passing of Luis Tiant which was surprising. Made sure me and my cart mate had a cigar for the round in Louie's memory. Didn't have a good score but it was a beautiful day and I had a great cigar.
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Some Memes You May Enjoy
Many a truth is said in jest.
- Think every guy is with the dad on this one
- Trying to maintain a household
- Many a truth is said in jest
- Heh Heh
Tuesday, October 08, 2024
Catch Me Now I'm Falling - The Kinks
Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam
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Yesterday was the first anniversary of the October 7th attacks in Gaza. It was basically Israel's 9/11. As great as the yeoman's work Elon Musk has done providing Starlink units and free service to those affected by Hurricane Helene as a reminder he also stepped up and provided free Tesla charging for all the victims in Israel last year. His companies have been paragons of virtue in times of emergency that every corporation should emulate.
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Monday, October 07, 2024
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Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Elon Musk turns full "Dark MAGA" at Trump Butler rally.
- Parts of the Blue Ridge Parkway are still washed away in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
Some Memes You May Enjoy
Monday Flotsam and Jetsam
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One of these things is not like the other - one of these things just doesn't belong. The Jets, Dolphins, Raiders, Giants and 49ers are all 2-3 but only San Fran fans still have thoughts about winning this year's Super Bowl. The other fan bases are already discussing this year's draft and next year's chances. Just an observation.
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Sunday, October 06, 2024
Some College Football Thoughts
Yesterday was a big day of upsets in college football starting with Vanderbilt defeating number 1 Alabama in Nashville and including number 4 Tennessee falling to the Razorbacks in Arkansas. The day also included number 9 Missouri getting easily handled by Texas A&M, number 10 Michigan losing to Washington, number 11 USC losing to Minnesota, and number 22 Louisville losing to ACC newbie SMU. Some more observations include:
- College football stat of the day
- We also have to include this crazy last play of the UConn-Temple game.
- Nick Saban with some good life advice that just apply to coaching
- Strange day for Notre Dame fans. They easily beat Texas A&M in their season opener and the Aggies handled Missouri but they beat Louisville last week and the Cardinals lost to SMU. Meanwhile the team to beat them - NIU was losing to UMass 13-7 at halftime. Imagine if that held up? What a day of rollercoaster finals.
- As good as the football was those suffering from Hurricane Helene were never far from people's minds.
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Netanyahu blasts Macron. People often say "Never again" but their actions speak louder than their words.
- Tom Selleck upset Bluebloods cancelled after long run on CBS
- Do humans age in distinct rapid bursts instead of gradually over time?
Some Memes You May Enjoy
Sunday Flotsam and Jetsam
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Mac Jones threw as many interceptions for TD at Gillette Stadium as Tom Brady did in his whole career. I guarantee Mac won't add to his own record. Can't guarantee much else about the game though.
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Saturday, October 05, 2024
Pax by Tom Holland
Can't help but read that and think the same thig applies to the US military and the US and world economies today. The importance of a strong military.
"People sleep peaceable in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - George Orwell
Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam
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Unfortunately the news about the devastation from the areas in the path of Hurricane Helene keep getting worse and will continue to do so as reports dribble out. Have a friend in South Carolina who is still without power while the Blue Ridge Parkway has been closed because of storm damage. Unfortunately I fear the death toll from this hurricane is not a number that will be revised down.
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Some Memes You May Enjoy
Many a truth is said in jest.
Quotes for Today
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Friday, October 04, 2024
Linky Links
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- Michael Jordan, anti-monopolists,
- VDH with How to Blow up the Middle East War in Five Steps.
- Bill Belichick reviews last weeks NFL games and looks ahead to week 5.
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Slice of life: Last night was out to hear live music and the band started playing The Who's Squeeze Box and an older couple heard the song and got up and started dancing. I heard the woman exclaim, "They're playing our song!" She did have a nice build if you're curious.
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Thursday, October 03, 2024
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- Israel's Iron Prime Minister
- Michael Shermer: Free Speech and Theater Fires. Even Oliver Wendell Homes Jr. later said his quote was wrong.
- Colorado Springs artist appeals rejection of trademark over AI art.
- Why satellites are finding more Mayan ruins than ever before. (HT Borepatch)
Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam
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You feel good about yourself until you realize that in the past couple of days Elon Musk has brought more broadband to hurricane stricken people in the Carolina's with Starlink than the government has managed in 4 years and SpaceX's Crew Dragon has saved astronauts stuck on the ISS. And what have I accomplished? I don't feel jealous or inadequate though - he's an example that we can do better and do more.
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Wednesday, October 02, 2024
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- The Daily Coach: Refuse to be satisfied. Trust the process not the attainment but it can also be a thin line between that and burnout.
- VDH on our Ukrainian war narrative.
Wednesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
No I didn't watch the VP Debate last night. I'll be reading about it and watching clips of it today but from what I've heard JD Vance won the night and the corporate media once again exposed themselves as shils for the DNC. I watched some surprisingly exciting playoff baseball instead.
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Gaming Time for Young Men
"The amount of time young men spent gaming was not exactly low in 2019. Usually when you see dramatic growth it's from a low starting point, but this is dramatic growth from a high starting point." - Paul Graham
Tuesday, October 01, 2024
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Writing history to avid repeating it. Agree - never forget what they did. (HT Cultural Offering)
- Michael Wade: Cultural Revolutions in the Police Departments. DEI by another name.
- With Biden and Harris MIA after Helene's devastation, Donald Trump steps up.
Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Today is October 1st and the start of Sober October for those who participate. I honestly considered it but thought better became this month is right in prime football season. Nothing goes together like football and beer. Maybe February? I've done that before and it is the shortest month.
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Monday, September 30, 2024
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- Brother of Navy diver murdered in 1985 says "world is a better place with Nasrallah not in it."
- DoJ notified about possible faulty welds on subs, aircraft carriers at Newport News shipbuilding. Not sure if this will lead to a China-type loss of a sub or an example of too many regulations and welders just trying to circumvent them in non-critical areas.
Pax by Tom Holland
"In 64 [AD] Rome had gone up in flames. That same year, Nero had sent out a new official to administer Judaea. Gossips claimed that Gessius Florus had secured his appointment thanks to his wife's friendship with Poppaea: but it was not long before he had begun to demonstrate a qualification that might have recommended him to Nero even more. 'He stripped bare whole cities: he ruined entire communities.' Wherever there were funds to be extorted, Florus would extort them... So it was that Florus continued with his depredations: and so it was, a mere two years after his appointment to the province, that Judaea had exploded." from Tom Holland's Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age.
That was some new history for me. Currently reading this and about halfway through it. Enjoying the book but all the Roman names and pronunciations are sometimes tough to take.
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- High-intensive interval training and cognitive function in older adults.
- Space X has confirmed that the Crew Dragon rescue vehicle has reached the ISS.
Monday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Really enjoyed my NFL Sunday and the day went by very fast. Now I'm just waiting for those "free Davante Adams" bumper stickers to appear. Guessing he'll be traded from the Raiders for a 1st round pick (maybe more) once a contender has a top WR get injured or feels they are just one piece away.
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Sunday, September 29, 2024
Sunday Flotsam and Jetsam
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Colorado has joined Syracuse as a team you should never bet on or against for me. Had that message pounded into my head by the Buffaloes yesterday. Sometimes you just have to learn the hard way - and yesterday was the hard way.
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Saturday, September 28, 2024
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- From the archive: Ernest Hemingway and his boat.
Language
Funny but I think if you used the term “feeble minded” today almost no one would be offended but the word “moron” was coined because “feeble minded” was deemed too offensive at the time. Then “retarded” was coined because “moron” was deemed too offensive. Now the word “retarded” is radioactive. Think I’ll use feeble minded. Time is a flat circle.
Of course "feeble minded" is being used to describe Joe Biden these days and nobody is offended.
Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Happy college football Saturday. Not sure where I'll be at 7:30 tonight but the Alabama-Georgia game better be on.
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