No, I am not talking about Donald Trump (this time), I am talking about, “Team Hillary,” some of whose senior members are suggesting that James Comey, “Should ‘Beg Forgiveness,’ Not Hawk Book.”
Seriously?
Well, this explains how they managed to run the worst presidential campaign in modern history.
In the annals of not getting “IT”, this has to be some sort of record.
On the Stellar Parthenon BBS, a bunch of people were ranting about how Bezos and his Evil Minions™ will be producing a Lord of the Rings prequel.
They are convinced that it will be complete pants.
My response, “Forget it Jake, it’s Amazon.”
Heh.
There goes the browsing history… Many thanks to @steamfair. Soon to be on display at @SalisburyMuseum in September https://t.co/Di8tvTO4Hi pic.twitter.com/onGGWLDYL4— Terry Pratchett (@terryandrob) August 25, 2017
Terry Pratchett died in 2015, and he left the most Terry Pratchett of instructions regarding his unfinished works:
A hard drive containing the unfinished books of Terry Pratchett has been destroyed by a steamroller, in fulfilment of the late author’s last wishes.
The works were crushed by a vintage John Fowler & Co steamroller at the Great Dorset Steam Fair, ahead of the opening of a new exhibition about the author’s life and work. It is thought up to 10 incomplete novels were flattened.
Friend Neil Gaiman, with whom Pratchett cowrote Good Omens, had revealed in 2015 that Pratchett had instructed that he wanted “whatever he was working on at the time of his death to be taken out along with his computers, to be put in the middle of a road and for a steamroller to steamroll over them all”.
Pratchett’s former assistant Rob Wilkins tweeted that he was “about to fulfil [his] obligation to Terry”.
The hard drive will go on display as part of a major exhibition about the author’s life and work, Terry Pratchett: HisWorld, which opens at the Salisbury Museum in September.
Pratchett died in March 2015 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease aged 66.
Epic.
The New York Times just published an Op/Ed titled, :‘Make It So’: ‘Star Trek’ and Its Debt to Revolutionary Socialism,” that should never have made past the editors.
It conflates the original series and later incarnations over things like the existence of money, see the mention of prices in credits in The Trouble with Tribbles, and the statement that there is no money in the Federation in TNG & DS9.
Furthermore, the original was if anything a manifestation of John F. Kennedy’s decidedly capitalistic “New Frontier.”
The basic theory espoused in the article, that SF is frequently social commentary with socialist overtones, is so obvious as to be banal, but the execution, cloaked in layers of academic jargon, is incoherent and inaccurate.
Fail.
I am of course referring to the scathing tell all Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign
I’ve read the reviews, Matt Taibbi has my favorite review, and what stands out is how everyone involved with campaign knew that Hillary Clinton had no reason to tun for president beyond her sense of personal entitlement:
“All of the jockeying might have been all right, but for a root problem that confounded everyone on the campaign and outside it,” they wrote. “Hillary had been running for president for almost a decade and still didn’t really have a rationale.”
As Taibbi notes:
Shattered is sourced almost entirely to figures inside the Clinton campaign who were and are deeply loyal to Clinton. Yet those sources tell of a campaign that spent nearly two years paralyzed by simple existential questions: Why are we running? What do we stand for?
………
The real protagonist of this book is a Washington political establishment that has lost the ability to explain itself or its motives to people outside the Beltway.
In fact, it shines through in the book that the voters’ need to understand why this or that person is running for office is viewed in Washington as little more than an annoying problem.
This should make for a fascinating read.
It also appears to prove that old adage, “You can’t beat something with nothing.”
A bunch of sentient lightbulbs and refrigerators uniting to destroy a major infrastructure is cyberpunk as hell. https://t.co/ZjRJM7Rb3T— Søren Ragsdale (@sorenrags) September 27, 2016
This is awesome.