Incompetence of the powerful
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So now we know
Remember that thing about the orange baby getting a lot of electoral help from its friends in Russia a few years back? And how it has said nothing but “hoax” ever since? Well now we know, the orange baby did collude with Russia to win its first presidential election. How do we know? Its national… Continue reading
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They really think we’re that stupid
The orange baby held an impromptu press conference last week when Stephen Moore, supposedly an economist, arrived with a big chart purporting to refute the official Bureau of Labor Statistics report. His big chart was labeled “Medium Income.” Assuming the mooron meant “median income,” the numbers on the chart were fact checked. And those weren’t… Continue reading
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Now we are all expatriates
In The French Dispatch, all of the stories are from Ennui-sur-Blasé, France. One of them is by Roebuck Wright. “The Private Dining Room of the Police Commissioner” relates Wright’s dinner at the Police Station, prepared by the legendary police chef Lt. Nescaffier. The journalists in The French Dispatch are part of their stories, although they… Continue reading
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Zero-based reporting
Here’s an idea. The bulk of “news reporting” in the US these days is telling you what the orange baby just said. Without any historical context to how often it has repeated the same exact thing with different details. Here’s one list, and this one is only focused on “the biggest scandal.” Continue reading
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The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions
“If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” – Abraham Lincoln Lincoln’s words come from the Lyceum Address, more formally titledThe Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions:Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, IllinoisJanuary 27,… Continue reading
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It figures
There is a competition called the International Math Olympiad (IMO). It’s an international competition for high school students. It consists of six questions that competitors have to answer within a time limit. There are only six questions, but these are extremely difficult questions, of course. At least at the level of excellent, but pre-university mathematicians.… Continue reading
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Blaming
Politics in the US seems to be more about nonsensical blaming than it used to be. I think it’s because once they’re elected, the greedheads and powerheads just assume that the rest of us are stupid, and will just accept whatever tripe comes out of their mouths. This may be at least partly due to… Continue reading
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History continues
I had never heard of Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas before, but what’s going on there is yet another case of large scale immorality and incompetence. In this case by the regime of the orange baby, but it’s been going on a lot longer. In the linked article, Haines Eason asks: “Can you name… Continue reading
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Just tariffic
The orange baby just sent a “letter” (evidently on its twitter platform) to South Korea threatening to impose large tariffs on South Korean goods unless they do something about the “Trade Deficits (sic) engendered by your Tariff, and Non Tariff, Policies and Trade Barriers.” South Korea and the US have had a free trade agreement,… Continue reading
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Business as usual
“As with Musk, what is striking about {Sam} Altman is not that he is a rich guy who is concerned with increasing the wealth of rich guys. That is to be expected. What leaps out to me is the extent to which these men who fancy themselves visionaries are actually sunk neck-deep in the dreary… Continue reading
About Me
I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer (among other things) located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate Bossypaws. No surprise, she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.
Check out my other blog, Techlimitics, where I’m grappling with the nature of simplicity. You can also find some of my minor software projects at GitHub. Nothing very impressive. I mostly write tiny utilities in Python.
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