Which kitty pic?
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Me too. I would have been very perplexed with an admonition or a removed message.
On the other hand, I think I’d have a very different reaction to Rabbis eating the fresh shoots at the bottoms of my blueberry bushes. Something more akin to “Are you OK, should I call for help?”
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That’s fine. We just accept that every good statistic coming out of the administration is a lie. Kind of like the $1.98 a gallon gas.
The stock market, grocery shelves will be the only indexes that can be trusted (not for food safety obvs.).
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To the tune of Dixie?
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Nah, it’s Wall of Voodoo, Mexican Radio.
@eddycollins has a link at post 351.
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I’d be appreciative if someone’d pick up the FDA’s job of reporting on suspect foodstuffs on the market.
Melamine in pet food and what not.
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No kidding. We could always just not patronize stores that don’t have a qualified food safety inspection regime attached. I think that further penalizes small grocers though, these people aren’t evil geniuses.
Because they’re not geniuses.
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Now sing that to the tune of Dixie.
It was a bad joke but it made me chuckle when I read that.
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Unfortunately for me, I’m tone deaf and can’t carry a tune.
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Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
Strongly supporting your tribe – at least your original one and not some tribe-of-choice you met up with later, which I think some people do but it may be a less kneejerk impulse? – absolutely requires hanging back to protect where and what you came from … Your tribal source is an old thing – thus the conservation aspect.
So I guess Horowitz’s Marxist use was his aberration – but I do wonder how he ended up there in the first place, even temporarily, given his future strong conservatism and the way he arrived at that – through what I’d call an unusually strong reaction to the murder of a member of his friend tribe because that reaction led him to see the murder not as one person’s action but really a result of all left-wing thinking and left-wing people. … (Maybe the early Marxist was a position he did arrive at through thinking and reasoning rather than through very strong emotions? So it’s hold on him was weaker?) .
He had a life of ricochets…
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It would be preferable not to enable further monopoly formation.
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G’night everyone.
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And now we the taxpayers get to pay for Trump’s pandering.
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It’s about 30 years too late, if the NYT obit is right about Reichsführer Miller being a protege of Horowitz.
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I have no doubt that his friend’s murder in Dec. 1974 was a catalyst to Horowitz’s “Paul at Damascus” moment (@jbenson ). Rightly or wrongly (probably rightly), he believed the Black Panthers for whom Betty Van Patter worked as a bookkeeper, and alongside whom he also worked, were responsible. But to generalize to the entire left of the early 1970’s from the Black Panthers he personally knew would have required a prior disposition, IMO. In his case, I would hazard, a disposition to extreme positions and to maintaining a stance as an outsider to, and critic of, entrenched power. But not as an outsider who works humbly in the trenches, but as one who leads aggressively (see Josh Marshall’s post about his aggressiveness) and who thereby garners attention. I don’t know if clinical narcissism drove him, and/or a sense of guilt over his friend’s murder (since he had gotten her involved with the Panthers), and/or some other pathology, or a combination. But it really makes no sense to conflate criticism of the left’s excesses in those days (esp. in academia, his main concern – was Carter really so threatening?) with support for Reagan in 1980. And then onto Trump in 2016 and thereafter.
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You’re not done until you get @castor_troy out of stir.
Did you have to schedule those last several, uh, “voter information” sessions in the Barossa Valley…?
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Well, duh… 
For the uninitiated:
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Off to bed
G’nite me peeps
Once again I say
Speak truth to power
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