Is The Rock a James Bond Movie?

 

Actually a pretty convincing argument.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- You have to love the Rock.

- Is confirmation bias guiding COVID vaccine recommendations?  The answer is absolutely YES which is bothersome when you remember that the pharmas have no liability for bad outcomes or side-effects.

- Interesting profile of Navy Seal David Goggins. I still have his book Can't Hurt Me on my wishlist. Has anyone read it?

- Archaeology and genetics keep updating the history of human lineage. As an aside - how great a name for a Substack is "Unsupervised Learning?" Bravo. 

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

It could be argued that anti-Semitism is so rampant in the Democratic Party that if a Democratic Presidential candidate today called New York City "Hymie Town" that candidate would actually go up in the Democratic polls... If you watch the movie To Kill a Mockingbird backwards it is the story of a black man brought back from the dead to break up some furniture... Getting this off my chest - when it was announced Tom Cruise would play fictional character Jack Reacher there was an outcry because in the books Reacher was 6'5" while Cruise is just 5'7". Yet I don't think anyone blinked an eye at 5'10" Robert DeNiro playing real life 6'4" Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran... NSA Employee of the Month... The offseason announcement that all true Red Sox fans are waiting to hear is "Today we placed Wally the Green Monster on irrevocable waivers"... Just saying but if this point if either Oprah or the Rock decided to run for President as a Democrat then the nomination would be all but theirs for the asking - you know that's true... Love this JRR Tolkien story...