Most dreadful Trump We thee implore To go away and sin no more. And if the latter Be too great Then go away at any rate.
Tag: politics
On reading the internets
“The pandemic has prompted some affluent Americans to wonder whether cities are broken for them, too. It has suspended the charms of urban life while accentuating the risks, reviving an hoary American tradition of regarding cities with fear and loathing — as cesspools of disease, an image that all too easily aligns with prejudices about [...]
And the Internets go on and on and on and on
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. Vincent Van Gogh “At the time, my friend Brian argued that if it came down to it, he wanted to be able to defend himself. That if he didn’t have a gun, he was really just [...]
Oh Internet Oh Internet
“A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” Eleanor Roosevelt “In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century’s end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would have achieved a 15-hour [...]
Sure and begorrah the internets
“My Poet loves words in a way that I feel is quite unhealthy and unnatural. She owns a dictionary decades old and so large she uses a small buffet cart to wheel it around our apartment like some invalid relative. For true fiction writers, words are just a kind of filling for the plot. A [...]
Sometimes annoyed by The Economist magazine
“But if the argument for abolition is primarily moral, it must be made more carefully than it often is.” In defence of America’s prison-industrial complex, The Economist, October 17, 2019 Well, here’s my moral argument against private prisons: if the great and glorious State is going to turn a citizen into a non-being for a [...]
Advantage Amazon
“Over the past decade Amazon Web Services (AWS) lured untold numbers of consumers and corporations onto its billowing cloud. The division earned its giant e-commerce parent $7.3bn in operating profits last year. It could soon be earning more. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s boss, is going after a potentially more lucrative customer: the government. Amazon has outspent [...]
2024 maybe?
“Absent from the 20 candidates who were selected for the Democrats’ first televised debates was Steve Bullock, the governor of Monatana and the only Democratic governor of a state won by Mr Trump in the race, because he was lower in the polls and had fewer individual campaign donors than other candidates. Meanwhile Marianne Williamson, [...]
Gracie Allen to the rescue
“The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.” Gracie Allen Well cheer up everybody. Or try to.
I reads the internets
"Another consideration is the current information system, if one can even use the phrase. For much of the base, the sources of information are Fox News, talk radio and other practitioners of alternative facts. Exposures of Trump's misdeeds and absurdities that arouse liberal opinion are easily interpreted as attacks by the corrupt elite on the [...]