Jim Rittenhouse's semidaily journal of news, commentary and reports
I absolutely refuse to watch the train wreck of Jon and Kate Plus Eight – haven’t for a while, and I did catch about 10 minutes of the start-of-season one before I got nauseated. I’m hearing stories about their ratings falling apart, and I’m just as glad. First off, while some find the whole thing [...]
AH thought experiment: Someone sets off a powerful nerve gas container at North Korean Army HQ during a Big Meeting, managing to decapitate the North Korean government. What happens next, if the country collapses without a shot, as per Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union? Think of the big OMG situation when the Germans reunified. [...]
The alternate history opening of 2001: A SPACE ODDYSEY Hans Conreid interviews Rod Serling! Germania (ww2) (from the movie FATHERLAND) History of the White Eagle (alternate Poland in medieval times) Japan as an ally of the Allies in World War 2 (from the excellent 2009 LOST MEMORIES)
Macao is Greenstreet and Lorre territory; the last bit of Chinese soil to come back from colonial powers in 1999 (from Portugal), it’s been a hotbed of vice and gambling for a long time. Then when Deng came marching in, the people running theings were forced to back off and let the Chinese Communist Party [...]