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Papa Doug buys Rhode Island estate
Back in the sixties, I did some consulting for Annenberg at his sand-dune paradise in the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs, ad nauseam). Take a look at it today, https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7774328,-116.4108… zoom out, and see where 3-5 million gallons per acre per year are going. Then send a picture of your own lawn in to the TV station's "ugliest lawn" contest. Compare what los ricos are paying for their playpens and what you are paying because you are conserving water. Ha, ha, he, he, haw, haw, HAW!— July 28, 2015 6:52 p.m.
Dr. Seuss gets posthumous front page
What happened to Geisel's previous wife?— July 28, 2015 6:44 p.m.
Papa Doug buys Rhode Island estate
Just how does a corporation, an individual, occupy such a modest dwelling? Ain't it gonna get crowded when the entire corp moves in?— July 28, 2015 6:42 p.m.
After 130 years, Daily Transcript going dark
Yeah, but they don't have to keep doing it. But yeah, they will. It would be interesting to know what the most ink, pixels, and airtime gets spent on what subjects. Like how inflated a football is, was, or should be. What some blowhard sleazebag says to get the ink/pixel/airtime spent on his blather. To hell with the clowns, send in the lions. For the dentists. It's laughably pathetic. "The God-damned human race," as Twain so deftly put it.— July 28, 2015 6:30 p.m.
Qualcomm traveling Wall Street's road
Se la va sans dire. But how much money does one need to live today? What will $2,400 a month get you? What do you do to compensate? Stick up a liquor store? Grab purses? Work three jobs? Cut the throat of some well-dressed cat that looks loaded, but is just a guy with a better job who would be on the streets without you if he got "laid" off? Just how do we expect the homeless to compensate? Are they getting what they "deserve?" We are not our brothers' and sisters' keepers (by choice), but we run a pretty good chance of being caught in the blowback.— July 28, 2015 6:29 p.m.
Well-known market manipulator Anthony Elgindy is dead
It is always a tragic waste when an intelligent human being catches affluenza and dies from it. Worse, this disease not only kills and maims those who "catch" it, it kills and maims those resistant to it.— July 28, 2015 6:19 p.m.
Animal rights activists arrested for terrorizing fur farms
"CUSTODY" my ass! If you're a fur "farm" animal, you're born in jail, fed crappy food in jail, confined to a claustrophobic space until you're big enough to be killed and skinned for your skin, and the remainder tossed in the trash. Minks are scrappy little animals, and given a taste of freedom they will get along just fine. "We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth." Beston, Henry. “The Outermost House,” 1926.— July 28, 2015 6:14 p.m.
Animal rights activists arrested for terrorizing fur farms
But I still don't have an answer to my question most relevant to the original piece: But the real question is, "Is the animal better off taking its chances in the wild, in freedom, or is it better off being born in jail, reared in jail, and killed in jail as soon as it's pelt is big enough?" The Popoffs have left. See what I mean about lack of continuity and follow-up. When one gets too close to the actual point, the Popoffs are long gone or silent. Chilled?— July 27, 2015 10:34 a.m.
Animal rights activists arrested for terrorizing fur farms
Ralph Nader said Sanders has never returned his calls and letters. Sanders could use his counsel, but it appears he'd rather go it alone. He also should listen to Barney Frank, especially on the military industrial complex and foreign policy. Frankly, Frank is one of the the sharpest knives in our drawer, but we're not using him to slice through the knots of bullshit that we continue to allow to bind us.— July 27, 2015 10:29 a.m.
After 130 years, Daily Transcript going dark
All media is out of touch with change, especially subtle change. Computers and the Internet have not yet been touched with respect to their potential. As if "attention spans" were not short enough, "modern" media continue to suffer from soundbyteism and the ifitbleedsitleads syndrome. News "coverage" continues to be scattered and short-lived, rather than a source for citizenship and organization. Internet media continue to follow the old print traditions of advertizing, putting maximum effort into control of the user rather than having their sites user-driven. Once the novelty of the Internet and related "circuses" wears off, users will assert control, whether or not the power centers like it. But this will take some time. This is where the Internet has it over print media. It has the capacity and the potential for organization to maintain relevant data streams without dropping the ball. In the meantime, print media have the potential for filling the gap, and some try mightily, but their ancient and limited apparatus are simply too limiting. Still, filling those gaps is still possible . . .— July 27, 2015 10:21 a.m.