There used to be a comic strip called "The Wizard of Id." It was one that I tried to read daily. In my favorite of all time the King (a mean, little, man) and Sir Rodney are standing on the corner in the kingdom.
Panel 1: A peasant walks by and says, "Hey king, how's it hangin'?" The King responds, "Pretty good, peasant."
Panel 2: Another peasant walks by the King and Rodney, he says, "Hey King, doin' okay?" The King responds, "I'm just fine, peasant."
Panel 3: Third peasant, a very dirty, poverty stricken woman walks by, and says, "I hope yer behavin', King." The King replies, "I'm being real good, peasant."
Panel 4: Rodney -- who is visibly appalled during the 3 previous exchanges -- says, "Sire, don't you know that familiarity breeds contempt?" The King ponders this, and experiencing an ephiphany, responds: "Maybe that's why I despise them so!"
My familiarity with the MSM is exactly why I despise them so.
Hand wringing over imagined political implications of weight loss reminds me of my second favorite billboard of all time:
Back in the 80s it was prominently placed inside the large turn off Bay Bridge into San Francisco. Can’t remember the name of the gym it was advertising. It was a simple drawing of the prototypical space alien ( large eyes, oval shaped head, etc. )
The caption said -
“They eat the fat ones first”
Even back then there was a self-identified fat activists group that made enough noise ( or public rumble ) to get it taken down.
Again I don't know if this is funny. I don't think that they the NYT would consider it at all bizarre. I just heard Abby Phillips of CNN defending child labor on that marijuana farm as a form of productive help for the industry. Part of it is that the media all of it is just stupid. Bone deep. Obviously never having read a book, no outside interests. So we get this.
Modern journalism feeds off snotty woke culture. Without that context, we couldn't understand today's comedy either. Our own purpose as Americans is to be fitting targets of ruling class ridicule. When that class senses a loss of absolute power, it descends further into violent hate. When that event in Butler failed to meet their gory expectations, all the media could do was play dumb.
Beg to differ, RAM (apologies for being Grumpy today! ). I think the media understood instantly that they had only a few hours to play with generalized, malleable, mini-evidence, before their corrupt Justice dept could find real facts& would HAVE to publicize those. THUS WE GOT THE EARLY, FANTASY, HEADLINES! This was extremely important to kommie-dem media because of their need NOT to allow Trump to become martyrized. The kommie-dem media lost out on this one because it soon became clear that those were real bullets & people were killed. But all of America eventually lost out because of a corrupt justice/ security dept that even now cannot explain who that shooter REALLY was, how he came to his decision, and how security measures failed. And so, we... USA... are a failing state, if for no other reason than our failure to understand and correct/punish the perps in this long, historical list of violent political treason at highest level.
This is why we need the Three Whiskey Happy Hour, which, as of 6:20 p.m. EST Sunday, July 13, has not appeared on my Ricochet feed. Something must be done. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Something went wrong with the root posting at the hosting platform, (which is where it goes up first before Ricochet). I just discovered this today (Sunday afternoon). Looking into it. . . But you can still listen here, and I think download it with a right-click or something.
Thanks for reading the comments, and responding where there are concerns, Stephen.
Now, can you tell me if and/or why not, there are/aren't any editing tools for comments at substack i.e. italics, quotes, links, highlights of any kind... etc. I do know their is an edit for after posting my comment (for which I am thankful), but that is about it.
Steve -- you could write several columns on the comments in the NY Times in response to the "I graciously and magnanimously decided to speak once again to my uneducated, MAGA-loving, misanthrope of a brother-in-law" opinion piece. (Just sort by most popular.)
It really was shocking the level of hate a group of NY Times discussion boarders (still) have towards anyone who questioned the official line about Covid, vaccines, and alternate therapies. I'm not sure why they felt they needed a mask given the impenetrability of the bubble they live in.
The punch line to the "I've stopped snubbing" piece is that the writer doesn't even bother to acknowledge that the vaccine offered NO benefits to his young, extremely fit brother-in-law and didn't reduce transmission. On the other hand, his brother-in-law would have placed his gym and surfing recreational pursuits at risk had he contracted myocarditis. Perhaps he might even bothered to apologize and explain he was misinformed by the NIH, the CDC, the FDA, Faucci and Pfizer.
Your Pahlmeyer vs Plunk wine friend here....I love your stuff, writing, humor, interactions, etc. BUT I CAN'T HEAR YOU! This past weekend on both the Ricochet podcast as well as the 3WHH which I listen to regularly, I found myself constantly at the volume controls to turn the volume up or down based upon who was speaking, not based upon the discourse, but because I COULD NOT HEAR YOU relative to the volume of the other participants. I know that you travel a good bit, sometime while doing these podcasts, but PLEASE ask an audio guy how to fix this stuff Before each podcast. Thank you
"Is It Time To Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family."
Oh Pleeeez, don't stop, pleeeeez!
No need for me to worry since I don't have any true left-wingers in my family. At least not any I know, or who are within a distance for them to need to snub me.
Remember now: The personal is the political is the psychopathological. Ok, sure, let's amend it to The Personal is the Political Pilates is the Psychopathological.
Conquest : “The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.”
Pls folks, some help. Is it that Conquest offered this as strictly a heuristic... a thought experiment? Namely, we can get a good sense of any org'n if we imagine how that organization might act if it were taken over internally by those who want to destroy it. Or!!! Did Conquest say this because he believed that many org'ns by their nature have in fact become subverted. Thus that is the best way to view them. (I.e. political subversion is constantly with us now.)
By this token, dioes Hayward think that NYT et alii in fact have been recently subverted by a cabal that is partnered with them but seeks to destroy them, or does it merely seem (very ironically) like that ?
I think it's a variation on the observation that any organization is staffed by two kinds of people, those dedicated to the organization's mission and those dedicated to the organization's survival. The latter group usually winds up running the organization because their focus is on the organization, not the mission. They are therefore likely to act in ways that are orthogonal to the stated purpose of the organization, thus Conquest's Law.
Very interesting. Thx, CB. I think I got sidetracked by use of word "cabal". I.e., organizations simply go bad in normal course of events dictated by overwhelming focus of their personnel on expansion & perpetuation of their careers and the office per se.
If only there was a group of people whose job it was to gather factual information and present it objectively so we could judge for ourselves.
There used to be a comic strip called "The Wizard of Id." It was one that I tried to read daily. In my favorite of all time the King (a mean, little, man) and Sir Rodney are standing on the corner in the kingdom.
Panel 1: A peasant walks by and says, "Hey king, how's it hangin'?" The King responds, "Pretty good, peasant."
Panel 2: Another peasant walks by the King and Rodney, he says, "Hey King, doin' okay?" The King responds, "I'm just fine, peasant."
Panel 3: Third peasant, a very dirty, poverty stricken woman walks by, and says, "I hope yer behavin', King." The King replies, "I'm being real good, peasant."
Panel 4: Rodney -- who is visibly appalled during the 3 previous exchanges -- says, "Sire, don't you know that familiarity breeds contempt?" The King ponders this, and experiencing an ephiphany, responds: "Maybe that's why I despise them so!"
My familiarity with the MSM is exactly why I despise them so.
That was one of the last great strips. Where did we lose our sense of humor?
Stock disclaimer now standard at all editorial gatherings in print and broadcast offices:
"This office is on stolen land that once belonged to investigative journalists."
Hand wringing over imagined political implications of weight loss reminds me of my second favorite billboard of all time:
Back in the 80s it was prominently placed inside the large turn off Bay Bridge into San Francisco. Can’t remember the name of the gym it was advertising. It was a simple drawing of the prototypical space alien ( large eyes, oval shaped head, etc. )
The caption said -
“They eat the fat ones first”
Even back then there was a self-identified fat activists group that made enough noise ( or public rumble ) to get it taken down.
If she had a real man in her life, he would explain to her to use duct tape to hold the ankle monitor in place.
Again I don't know if this is funny. I don't think that they the NYT would consider it at all bizarre. I just heard Abby Phillips of CNN defending child labor on that marijuana farm as a form of productive help for the industry. Part of it is that the media all of it is just stupid. Bone deep. Obviously never having read a book, no outside interests. So we get this.
She’s a no affect bot. She must seethe inside when Scott Jennings says anything
Modern journalism feeds off snotty woke culture. Without that context, we couldn't understand today's comedy either. Our own purpose as Americans is to be fitting targets of ruling class ridicule. When that class senses a loss of absolute power, it descends further into violent hate. When that event in Butler failed to meet their gory expectations, all the media could do was play dumb.
Beg to differ, RAM (apologies for being Grumpy today! ). I think the media understood instantly that they had only a few hours to play with generalized, malleable, mini-evidence, before their corrupt Justice dept could find real facts& would HAVE to publicize those. THUS WE GOT THE EARLY, FANTASY, HEADLINES! This was extremely important to kommie-dem media because of their need NOT to allow Trump to become martyrized. The kommie-dem media lost out on this one because it soon became clear that those were real bullets & people were killed. But all of America eventually lost out because of a corrupt justice/ security dept that even now cannot explain who that shooter REALLY was, how he came to his decision, and how security measures failed. And so, we... USA... are a failing state, if for no other reason than our failure to understand and correct/punish the perps in this long, historical list of violent political treason at highest level.
I find it an endless source of comedy to spot ludicrous media bias-it has turned into a game for me!
This is why we need the Three Whiskey Happy Hour, which, as of 6:20 p.m. EST Sunday, July 13, has not appeared on my Ricochet feed. Something must be done. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Something went wrong with the root posting at the hosting platform, (which is where it goes up first before Ricochet). I just discovered this today (Sunday afternoon). Looking into it. . . But you can still listen here, and I think download it with a right-click or something.
Thanks for reading the comments, and responding where there are concerns, Stephen.
Now, can you tell me if and/or why not, there are/aren't any editing tools for comments at substack i.e. italics, quotes, links, highlights of any kind... etc. I do know their is an edit for after posting my comment (for which I am thankful), but that is about it.
I figured it must be something like that. Thanks, Steve.
Steve -- you could write several columns on the comments in the NY Times in response to the "I graciously and magnanimously decided to speak once again to my uneducated, MAGA-loving, misanthrope of a brother-in-law" opinion piece. (Just sort by most popular.)
It really was shocking the level of hate a group of NY Times discussion boarders (still) have towards anyone who questioned the official line about Covid, vaccines, and alternate therapies. I'm not sure why they felt they needed a mask given the impenetrability of the bubble they live in.
The punch line to the "I've stopped snubbing" piece is that the writer doesn't even bother to acknowledge that the vaccine offered NO benefits to his young, extremely fit brother-in-law and didn't reduce transmission. On the other hand, his brother-in-law would have placed his gym and surfing recreational pursuits at risk had he contracted myocarditis. Perhaps he might even bothered to apologize and explain he was misinformed by the NIH, the CDC, the FDA, Faucci and Pfizer.
You have to work pretty hard to connect Donald Trump to either exercise or weight-loss dieting. In fact, it is an exercise in inventing fairy tales.
Steven,
Your Pahlmeyer vs Plunk wine friend here....I love your stuff, writing, humor, interactions, etc. BUT I CAN'T HEAR YOU! This past weekend on both the Ricochet podcast as well as the 3WHH which I listen to regularly, I found myself constantly at the volume controls to turn the volume up or down based upon who was speaking, not based upon the discourse, but because I COULD NOT HEAR YOU relative to the volume of the other participants. I know that you travel a good bit, sometime while doing these podcasts, but PLEASE ask an audio guy how to fix this stuff Before each podcast. Thank you
"Is It Time To Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family."
Oh Pleeeez, don't stop, pleeeeez!
No need for me to worry since I don't have any true left-wingers in my family. At least not any I know, or who are within a distance for them to need to snub me.
Remember now: The personal is the political is the psychopathological. Ok, sure, let's amend it to The Personal is the Political Pilates is the Psychopathological.
With apologies to David Foster Wallace. https://www.litcharts.com/lit/infinite-jest/chapter-40
I shun commies
Conquest : “The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.”
Pls folks, some help. Is it that Conquest offered this as strictly a heuristic... a thought experiment? Namely, we can get a good sense of any org'n if we imagine how that organization might act if it were taken over internally by those who want to destroy it. Or!!! Did Conquest say this because he believed that many org'ns by their nature have in fact become subverted. Thus that is the best way to view them. (I.e. political subversion is constantly with us now.)
By this token, dioes Hayward think that NYT et alii in fact have been recently subverted by a cabal that is partnered with them but seeks to destroy them, or does it merely seem (very ironically) like that ?
I think it's a variation on the observation that any organization is staffed by two kinds of people, those dedicated to the organization's mission and those dedicated to the organization's survival. The latter group usually winds up running the organization because their focus is on the organization, not the mission. They are therefore likely to act in ways that are orthogonal to the stated purpose of the organization, thus Conquest's Law.
Very interesting. Thx, CB. I think I got sidetracked by use of word "cabal". I.e., organizations simply go bad in normal course of events dictated by overwhelming focus of their personnel on expansion & perpetuation of their careers and the office per se.