Jim Rittenhouse's semidaily journal of news, commentary and reports
I have been listening to enough rants, hate and nonsense in the last year and a half to last me a lifetime or more, and I’ve been more than fed up with it all. But I started realizing that this sort of crud is endemic; uninformed people who choke off their sources of information to [...]
Right here. The really hard stuff, too. And then you can go for these, too.
The rise and fall of Fordlandia, Henry Ford’s rubber plantation in Brazil in the 1920s and 1930s. “Bring Your Gun To Church Day” in Louisville. Check your ammo at the door. Cornish Pasty flavored potato chips, which has to be one of the least expected ones I every could think of. And a domestic quarrel [...]
…and I also find the idea of political murder and terror repugnant. I understand that you find Dick Cheney a sadistic MF, or a Army recruiter someone who is hurting your co-religionists by supporting the war, or you find Dr. Tiller a baby-killer. Fine. Then work constructively to bring people to justice, or to outlaw [...]
Secret Service agent in nearby Naperville notes the terrible, snowy weather and all sorts of reports of terrible commuting situations this morning, and decided to take the commuter train this morning. Never took the train before. Suddenly realized ‘hey, I have a gun on me, I should figure out about train security’, so he says [...]
When Stalin looks good to the Russians and Emperor Bokassa looks good to the Central African Republic, you know things are bad….now, I’m waiting for a musical about Robert Mugabe with singing, dancing terrorists swinging around AK-47s. Madame Mao’s dead, so they’ll need to hustle up a new choreographer for that one.
HBO production and presently running on that network. My take on it is that it’s a once-funny; I have a hard time watching gangster movies because I really don’t get off on people beating and killing each other, especially if the people involved doing the beating are serious scum. This is SOPRANOS GO BAGHDAD; [...]
Panic in various circles over the mistaken notion that ‘Obama’s going to shut down gun shops and confiscate our guns‘. Various people who were proclaiming Obama’s victory in OMG terms now doing a ‘never mind’ response. Dogs are adopting kittens in Jiangmen, Meredith’s home town in China, but you can’t adopt or foster children if [...]