Why Do We Put Up With This? (part 2 of 999: Drug Ads) Let’s start with something we can all agree on, a self-evident truth, a tautology, prima facie, res ipsa loquitur, a priori, and immediately obvious to any casual observer[1]: America is a corporatocracy. Corporations buy the elections, then make the rules. No better […]
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Dumb .Vs. Evil
Professor Jonny Thomson is a writer, philosopher, and former Oxford professor. He has an educational Facebook channel (mini philosophy), where he asks challenging questions and looks into them, step by step, from the ground up, introducing philosophical concepts in plain language. He also has a YouTube channel where he does deep dives:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vghttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD2eYNCY8wWVpR0ps6O22aA Sister Magdalena recently […]
[Thanks to Elder DZ for informing us of this Federal corruption scandal] Cyclospora Outbreak The timeline: [1] Cyclospora season: mark your calendars! The Daily Beast Snopes As Snopes previously reported, The Washington Post published a story July 16, which relied on anonymous sources, reporting that federal investigators had traced the cyclosporiasis outbreak to Taylor Farms. […]
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Wildberries: Where’s My Stuff?
Things are not going well in russia. Multi-kilometer long gas lines. Empty grocery shelves. No diesel to irrigate, harvest or transport the fall harvest. Burning oil refineries. And now – an enormous Wildberries (the russian Amazon) facility has burned to the ground. The facility is listed as 188,000 m2, or about 46.46 acres acres. Wildberries […]
I recall the US Sesquicentennial Celebration. I had to miss the fun because I was working as a cashier at a pinball arcade that night. Four quarters for a dollar, etc. But the day was a big deal, and everyone was excited about the celebration. Now, for the 250th, there is no enthusiasm. The entire […]
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Polostan / Scareface
The WLBOTT Literary Society is currently reading Polostan: Volume One of Bomb Light, by one of our favorite authors, Neal Stephenson. We are currently at 39%. A wild ride, most of the action so far has taken place in the early 1930s. Our main character is Dawn/Aurora, a teenager who is up to a bit […]
Let us take a moment to reflect on Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Three sentences, two hundred and seventy one words, beginning with: On November 19 [1863], Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, where he spoke at a ceremony dedicating Gettysburg National Cemetery, which honored the fallen Union soldiers and redefined the purpose of the Civil War in […]
One of the younger Elders, Elder DZ recently drove from WLBOTT HQ to his bunker and compound north of the Los Angeles metro area. The drive went smoothly (other than apocalyptic traffic in LA), and Elder DZ noted a beautiful desert bloom in New Mexico. Let’s focus on the LA leg of his trip. Turns […]
If there’s one place that’s massively out of touch with American reality, it is the new New Car Dealership. Nero fiddles while Rome burns. The Ford Espinaca The Chevy Empanada Honda Limón The Peligrosa For our MAGAt Visitors The Ford Pendejo And for the Lady MAGAts, the Estupida Free Coffee!
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Monitor Lizards
During our recent refueling stop in Bali, Elder G and I came across the Monitor Lizard. Monitor Lizards: The Nuts and Bolts Will There Be a Buffet? Habits and dietMost monitor lizards are almost entirely carnivorous, consuming prey as varied as insects, crustaceans, arachnids, myriapods, molluscs, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Most species feed […]