Showing posts with label Defund the Police. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Defund the Police. Show all posts

Friday, July 23, 2021

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

I'm 100% against the idea of "defund the police" but it's getting to the point where "defund the FBI" isn't exactly a completely unattractive idea... What journalists can learn from The Night Stalker. One of my favorite movies as a kid... So the government would basically like to prohibit anyone from being un-vaccinated. This is the same government that tried to prohibit people from drinking alcohol a hundred years ago and from smoking pot the past 60-years. How did that work out?...  It was Joyce's Ulysses and Melville's Moby Dick for me... Learned the New Orleans Saints' stadium will now be called Caesar's Superdome. I was bothered by that because to me it's always been just the Superdome. It bothered me until I remembered that until last week it was technically the Mercedes-Benz Superdome... 

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

"What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience." - Adam Smith... Heh Heh... I'm really hoping that the "woke-police" come for Yale - trying to insist the school change it's name. But in the back of my head I keep thinking this could be the most elaborate MIT prank ever... "When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love." - Marcus Aurelius... Really don't see how The Washington Post thought that this was a good rebuttal to President Trump's claim... Almost Soft would be a good name for a line of discount toilet paper... "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." R. Buckminster Fuller... No doubt in my mind that if were left to an Internet poll then Yale University would be re-named as Discount Harvard. All those rich Crimson alums would make that happen...