Times reports that Jan 6th committee is being dangerously aggressive and isn't living up to the standard of the House Benghazi probe. nytimes.com/2022/02/05/us/…
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8/ Seems notable that there’s no substantive reference or comparison to the Iran/Contra investigation and no mention at all of the watergate committee. Only Benghazi
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I tend to think all the Facebook market cap schadenfreude is jut wishful thinking and it will go back to being wildly profitable or continue to be. But having been in this space for a long time I'm starting to wonder whether it cld be another version of what happened ...
2/ to Yahoo and AOL. Which is to say hugely profitable behemoths which were dead men walking but continued to throw off huge amounts of cash for many years after the writing was on the wall. Indeed, for many years this was the basic question with both companies.
3/ It was a given that both companies original business models were dying. But they generated so much cash that it seemed that with some astute management they could simply buy a new business model. And no, that's not as silly as it sounds. And yet, as we know ...
I hadn’t spoken to Todd Gitlin in some time. But I think I can say that he was a friend. Todd was a deeply humane, learned and funny guy. He was one of those people who had a deeply moral engagement with the world over a long life, much of it on the public stage.
2/ I remember back in the 90s when I was trying to figure out what I was doing and whether I wanted to leave what I was doing and become a writer I was reading a piece by him in Salon. It was about political media culture. And he had this line that this media …
3/ culture was premised on making citizens “cognoscenti of their own bamboozlement.” By which he meant that this media culture … well you know what he meant. And I read that and thought God I want to write phrases like that. I really want to do this. I want to be like that.
One of my woodworking mentors frequently says that to design and build furniture you need to be able to draw it. This is particularly the case if you find it challenging to conceive of how designs work in three dimensions, especially if they have moving parts.
2/ My wife is a therapist specializing in grief. Since spring of 2020 her sessions have been by zoom. For her birthday last year I made her a small table/bench specially designed for conducting therapy sessions by zoom.
3/ But she now needed one that could be put away between sessions. Since there’s really not enough space to have another piece of furniture. So for her birthday this year I wanted to design one that was collapsible and could be stored. This turned out to be very challenging.
Not a self-awareness guy:"I confess I dont think that strategy is going to work at all. There will not be Nuremberg-like justice being meted out over mask mandates. Ever. Im still of the belief that most pandemic excesses were due to panic, not plotted." nationalreview.com/2022/01/what-i…
2/ He's a reasonable person apparently because he thinks in most cases govts and school boards did mask mandates to control COVID rather than as a plot to end liberty. Thanks, dude. He, a writer-controversialist, is at least reassured by the fact that this battle is ...
3/ "professionals versus workers". And he's one of the workers. He'll probably be forming an NRO union soon given that level of class consciousness. Clearly masking is a highly divisive issue in our society. Plenty of people are done with it. But what I keep coming back ...