What rough beast, indeed? That phrase sounded familiar but I couldn't quite place it, so a little advanced searching was required. Well. Uncle Ken, with his reference to an early 20th century Irish poet has certainly elevated the discourse of the Institute, don't you think? His credentials as a pointy-headed (I joke, I joke) intellectual have already been established but this has taken it to a new level. Bravo!
There are other good lines in that poem (The Second Coming) and the ones I especially like are Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; and The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Good stuff.
But how do you pronounce that guy's name? It looks like it should be pronounced "Yeets" but I think it's supposed to be "Yates." And then there's that other guy, Keats, whose name is pronounced "Keets" and not "Kates" like Yeats. What a screwy language! Maybe I'm wrong and they're both pronounced the same but which is it? Uncle Ken, please advise.
And didn't anyone pick up on the reference to The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension that I made in a previous post? Hell of a low budget movie (and a favorite guilty pleasure of mine) with the best scenery chewing by John Lithgow you will ever see.
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I don't want to get bogged down in speculation about this week's White House antics but I've been watching some documentaries about Russia, WWII, Stalin, and Putin and I've come to the conclusion that it is really all about the money, money laundering in particular. Putin has, allegedly, been funneling a lot of dough out of Russia, some of it to the US via real estate transactions. The sanctions are screwing things up and there is a possibility that his assets can be seized by the Feds and the Trumpster can't do a thing about it. Vlad is finding out that Trump isn't quite the useful idiot that he planned on and the game may be over if certain tax records are revealed. We'll have to wait and see.
Uncle Ken noted that Fox News is backing off a little from their undying support of Trump, but so are Breitbart and Drudge. This does not bode well for Trump and his cronies. Again, we'll see.
A final word about the investigation...Mr. Beagles said it well, although inadvertently: You can't just go where you want to go, you have to go where the chase takes you, but that can be fun too because the chase often takes you to interesting places that you might not have found on your own.
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Pish Tosh, Mr. Beagles. I will see your "naked guy in Petoskey" story and raise with "Naked man cuts off penis and goes on rampage in Chicago." Another drug related incident, with lurid details available via a quick search. But what the hell kinds of drugs are these people taking? Something is very wrong. Don't folks normally take drugs to feel better? I don't get it, that's not the kind of buzz I'd be looking for.
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At least there is good news on the sex robot front. For less that $5K you can have one of your own, and some are quite alluring. In one Austrian brothel the robot is more popular than the real thing. Welcome to the 21st Century, guys, but I wonder how those beauties will be hacked, and to what effect. Ouch!
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