I recall The Madness of King George as being a pretty good movie, back in the day when you had to pay money to rent movies. Today, if you know where to look, you can find just about anything ever made.
Getting back to George, on July 4, 1776, he was 38 years old. Slate just published a piece on the ages of the Founding Fathers and it's astounding how young many of them were on that date. Jefferson was 33, John Paul Jones was 28, James Madison was 25, Hamilton was 21, and both the Marquis de Lafayette and James Monroe were 18. The kids were alright, did a damn fine job.
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A big difference between previous disruptive media (printing press, radio, TV) and the Internet is that the latter is not passive. We watched TV and listened to the radio but we did not create any content or programming. We watched or listened to whatever was "on." Today, not so much. And let's not forget the proliferation of the MEME, with thanks to Richard Dawkins.
I share most of Uncle Ken's views on the twits who text, not the actual acts themselves but it seems to be constant, always peering into the device and pecking away. What's up with that? Living in the city requires a certain situational awareness, and an appreciation of your actual physical space can be quite rewarding. When you sit in a fine public house and start texting while you sup your beverage, where are you, really? Your butt is on a comfy stool but your head is someplace...else. This is not what I would call "living in the moment."
Why not strike up a conversation with a total stranger? Or just sit quietly, listening and seeing what's going on. As the great Yogi once said, "You can see a lot just by looking."
Otherwise, what's the point of going out to a socially oriented location? Somebody is late? Fine, you wait. No need to track everything all the time, is there? It isn't like you can do anything if they're running late, anyhow.
Do folks in Cheboygan county stroll the byways, with their noses buried in their devices as they check out their Facebook status? I suspect they have more sense than that.
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My recollection of the rare visits to the South Side of Chicago is that it seemed almost suburban. Lots of nice, single family homes with good yards. The parts of the North Side where I grew up were mostly 2- and 3-flats.
So, here's my question: When you parked in the garage did you back in or go nose first? Every time I see someone enter a garage nose first I think "Pah! Suburbanites! Probably used to having a driveway." My preference has always been backing in; you can squeeze into a tighter spot.
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
that new invention with all the tubes
I am kind of a news junky. In addition to the New Yorker I get the
Atlantic and Harpers. I get both Chicago newspaper, and I listen to NPR
most of the day. I read a couple websites, Politico and The Hill
daily. I watch CNN sometimes, especially during an election and I drop
in on the Foxies from time to time.
I'm thinking about the internet and I wonder if it is a special thing or just one more milestone on the road from the printing press, the telegram, the telephone, radio, and TV. I think we can all remember when TV was ruining the country, and I believe the same thing was said about radio and the telephone. Of course now the telephone has become the computer or vice versa. I think that there is another milestone past the internet, what I like to call the Sooper Dooper phone. Not only can you consult wiki from your barstool, but in addition to sending and getting emails you can text.
Here's where I lose it, texting. Why, when you could write a leisurely reflective email, or if you were in more of a hurry, you could place a phone call, would you be pecking at that tiny screen and coming out with those awful little misspelled messages?
Oh and then there is facebook and twitter and those other things which are, well I don't even know what the hell they are. I think facebook is maybe like tv in that the people that don't use it hate it, and the people who do use it hate it too. Well facebook is a whole nother subject which we could probably spend a few posts on.
I have had a money making Ten Cat idea for twitter. At the end of the bar, certainly not the west end of the bar where those two charming gents of a certain age welcome folks into the Ten Cat, but maybe that other end by the pool tables, they would have a twitter thing, maybe like an ATM and there would be a sign above it that read 'Tell the World what you think, tell them right now!" and anybody could sit down there and tweet to their heart's content. But there would be a delay thing, where the Tweet would sit on disk before being sent. In the morning the owners of the Ten Cat would call everybody who had left a tweet, and tell them that they would now be sending out that tweet, and maybe the tweeter would want to drop by the bar and drop a fiver and the message would be erased and never sent.
With a money maker like that the good folks at the Ten Cat could save enough money to be able to afford free beers for the two charming gentleman at the west end of the bar.
But I think there is something qualitatively different between the internet, and the printing press. It's always there, and through google you can ask it questions. The only thing I can think of beyond the sooper dooper phone is that mind chip that lot of people are looking forward to, having been a little disappointed in those google glasses and Apple wrist phones. And frankly the only difference
between the mind chip and the sooper phone is like a few seconds.
There was a pretty good movie about a dozen years ago called The Madness of King George, about that very George. Yes indeed those Americans pissed him off. Thank God we Americans don't piss anybody off these days.
Welcome Old Dog to the ivied walls of The Institute.
I'm thinking about the internet and I wonder if it is a special thing or just one more milestone on the road from the printing press, the telegram, the telephone, radio, and TV. I think we can all remember when TV was ruining the country, and I believe the same thing was said about radio and the telephone. Of course now the telephone has become the computer or vice versa. I think that there is another milestone past the internet, what I like to call the Sooper Dooper phone. Not only can you consult wiki from your barstool, but in addition to sending and getting emails you can text.
Here's where I lose it, texting. Why, when you could write a leisurely reflective email, or if you were in more of a hurry, you could place a phone call, would you be pecking at that tiny screen and coming out with those awful little misspelled messages?
Oh and then there is facebook and twitter and those other things which are, well I don't even know what the hell they are. I think facebook is maybe like tv in that the people that don't use it hate it, and the people who do use it hate it too. Well facebook is a whole nother subject which we could probably spend a few posts on.
I have had a money making Ten Cat idea for twitter. At the end of the bar, certainly not the west end of the bar where those two charming gents of a certain age welcome folks into the Ten Cat, but maybe that other end by the pool tables, they would have a twitter thing, maybe like an ATM and there would be a sign above it that read 'Tell the World what you think, tell them right now!" and anybody could sit down there and tweet to their heart's content. But there would be a delay thing, where the Tweet would sit on disk before being sent. In the morning the owners of the Ten Cat would call everybody who had left a tweet, and tell them that they would now be sending out that tweet, and maybe the tweeter would want to drop by the bar and drop a fiver and the message would be erased and never sent.
With a money maker like that the good folks at the Ten Cat could save enough money to be able to afford free beers for the two charming gentleman at the west end of the bar.
But I think there is something qualitatively different between the internet, and the printing press. It's always there, and through google you can ask it questions. The only thing I can think of beyond the sooper dooper phone is that mind chip that lot of people are looking forward to, having been a little disappointed in those google glasses and Apple wrist phones. And frankly the only difference
between the mind chip and the sooper phone is like a few seconds.
There was a pretty good movie about a dozen years ago called The Madness of King George, about that very George. Yes indeed those Americans pissed him off. Thank God we Americans don't piss anybody off these days.
Welcome Old Dog to the ivied walls of The Institute.
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
God Bless Wikipedia
I think that American politics has always been insane. History is full of all kinds of goofy stuff. What's different nowadays is that we hear about everything that happens almost immediately and, if there's nothing new to talk about, the media just shows us the same stuff over and over again, which makes it look like there's more of it than there really is.
The Tea Party Movement was formed as a reaction to the first election of President Obama. I know that because I looked it up on Wikipedia once when Ken and I were arguing about it. We generally accept Wikipedia as a reliable source. It's not perfect, but it's probably as reliable as anything is nowadays, and it's easily accessed. Ken follows the news a lot more closely than I do so, if I miss something that he wants to talk about, I go to Wiki to catch up. Ken tends to be more precise in his arguments than I do. You will often hear me say things like, "I seem to remember..." or "I read somewhere that....". That doesn't mean I expect you to believe it, I'm just trying to make some kind of contribution to the discussion. If I waited until I knew what I was talking about, I wouldn't be talking very much. What fun would that be?
I think you're right that the internet will go down in history as one of the biggest advancements in communication of all time. There's a lot of trash out there to be sure, but there's also a lot of good stuff. It's up to the user to sort it out.
The Tea Party Movement was formed as a reaction to the first election of President Obama. I know that because I looked it up on Wikipedia once when Ken and I were arguing about it. We generally accept Wikipedia as a reliable source. It's not perfect, but it's probably as reliable as anything is nowadays, and it's easily accessed. Ken follows the news a lot more closely than I do so, if I miss something that he wants to talk about, I go to Wiki to catch up. Ken tends to be more precise in his arguments than I do. You will often hear me say things like, "I seem to remember..." or "I read somewhere that....". That doesn't mean I expect you to believe it, I'm just trying to make some kind of contribution to the discussion. If I waited until I knew what I was talking about, I wouldn't be talking very much. What fun would that be?
I think you're right that the internet will go down in history as one of the biggest advancements in communication of all time. There's a lot of trash out there to be sure, but there's also a lot of good stuff. It's up to the user to sort it out.
Rambling Tuesday...
Thanks for that nice little reminder of American History and King George. I wonder what the Founding Fathers would think of the state of the union today.
There's an interesting article online at The Atlantic,"How American Politics Went Insane." It discusses the development of political parties, political hacks, middlemen, and all of the processes which kept the wheels turning, without too much power in the hands of too few. Until, that is, the ascendance of the Tea Party and the subsequent chaos we are witnessing today.
Here's a quick quote: "Trump, Sanders, and Ted Cruz have in common that they are political sociopaths—meaning not that they are crazy, but that they don’t care what other politicians think about their behavior and they don’t need to care."
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I'm curious how the founding cousins of the Beaglesonian Institute acquire their news and analysis. Uncle Ken proudly brings in his latest copy of The New Yorker to the Friday seminars, and he has cable, but there is more to that I'm sure. I think he reads a couple of newspapers a day, too.
Myself, I have an online subscription to The Economist but no cable and I hardly ever listen to the radio. Local TV news (WGN) is fine, except for Sunday mornings when I like to see what the pundits are squawking about (Meet the Press, etc.).
But I spend way too much time online, falling through the rabbit holes which Uncle Ken eschews. I never know where the links from Drudge, Fark, BoingBoing, et al. will take me. An awful lot nonsense is being spewed, but once in awhile a pearl appears. As always, the source must be considered. Hey, I'm just trying to make some sense of it all...
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Speaking of making sense, I mentioned to Uncle Ken that the modern iteration of the "Internet," with all the social media and communication is a factor in a lot of contemporary hoo-haw we are now enjoying. Not unlike the way Gutenburg's printing press spurred the Reformation. I shall posit that the turmoil, terrorism, political discord, etc., are growing pains, and something that we will muddle through. I embrace the delusion that, eventually, cooler heads will prevail and humanity will get their heads out of their collective asses.
There's an interesting article online at The Atlantic,"How American Politics Went Insane." It discusses the development of political parties, political hacks, middlemen, and all of the processes which kept the wheels turning, without too much power in the hands of too few. Until, that is, the ascendance of the Tea Party and the subsequent chaos we are witnessing today.
Here's a quick quote: "Trump, Sanders, and Ted Cruz have in common that they are political sociopaths—meaning not that they are crazy, but that they don’t care what other politicians think about their behavior and they don’t need to care."
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I'm curious how the founding cousins of the Beaglesonian Institute acquire their news and analysis. Uncle Ken proudly brings in his latest copy of The New Yorker to the Friday seminars, and he has cable, but there is more to that I'm sure. I think he reads a couple of newspapers a day, too.
Myself, I have an online subscription to The Economist but no cable and I hardly ever listen to the radio. Local TV news (WGN) is fine, except for Sunday mornings when I like to see what the pundits are squawking about (Meet the Press, etc.).
But I spend way too much time online, falling through the rabbit holes which Uncle Ken eschews. I never know where the links from Drudge, Fark, BoingBoing, et al. will take me. An awful lot nonsense is being spewed, but once in awhile a pearl appears. As always, the source must be considered. Hey, I'm just trying to make some sense of it all...
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Speaking of making sense, I mentioned to Uncle Ken that the modern iteration of the "Internet," with all the social media and communication is a factor in a lot of contemporary hoo-haw we are now enjoying. Not unlike the way Gutenburg's printing press spurred the Reformation. I shall posit that the turmoil, terrorism, political discord, etc., are growing pains, and something that we will muddle through. I embrace the delusion that, eventually, cooler heads will prevail and humanity will get their heads out of their collective asses.
Sunday, July 3, 2016
Testing, testing, 1 2 3...
(taps microphone) Is this thing on?
Thanks for the invitation from Uncle Ken to join the Institution's discussions, but as I told him at Friday night's Tencat seminar, it is a daunting responsibility.
It's one thing to ramble on and run one's mouth in a tavern while enjoying a few fermented malt beverages; I've never considered "bar talk" to be legally binding. Posting to a blog, however, is a matter of public record and I am not used to always carefully choosing my words, lest they come back and bite me.
So...are there particular guidelines to follow, other than maintaining reasonable discussions? Any topics that should be avoided (not that they are not worth discussion but might be more trouble than they are worth, can-of-worms-wise). My guess is that "anything goes" with self-imposed limits based on common sense and mutual respect. As the "new guy" I expect a certain amount of hazing and ridicule.
Okay, first post and I want to keep it short...must go back a few topics and gather my thoughts. But, according the most recent issue of The Economist, Mr. Beagles is right on the button regarding urban sprawl and suburbia.
Thanks for the invitation from Uncle Ken to join the Institution's discussions, but as I told him at Friday night's Tencat seminar, it is a daunting responsibility.
It's one thing to ramble on and run one's mouth in a tavern while enjoying a few fermented malt beverages; I've never considered "bar talk" to be legally binding. Posting to a blog, however, is a matter of public record and I am not used to always carefully choosing my words, lest they come back and bite me.
So...are there particular guidelines to follow, other than maintaining reasonable discussions? Any topics that should be avoided (not that they are not worth discussion but might be more trouble than they are worth, can-of-worms-wise). My guess is that "anything goes" with self-imposed limits based on common sense and mutual respect. As the "new guy" I expect a certain amount of hazing and ridicule.
Okay, first post and I want to keep it short...must go back a few topics and gather my thoughts. But, according the most recent issue of The Economist, Mr. Beagles is right on the button regarding urban sprawl and suburbia.
Friday, July 1, 2016
The Rights of Englishmen
There were lots of issues leading up to the American Revolution, but they mostly revolved around King George III. Britain had a long history of gradually shifting power from the king to Parliament, and George was an old fashioned kind of guy who wanted to reverse that trend. He met some resistance in England, so he thought he might have better luck with the Colonies, which he considered to be vassal states. The Colonies, on the other hand, were accustomed to a certain amount of autonomy and considered themselves to be as good as any English province. When George tried to shorten their chain, the colonists insisted that they were entitled to the rights of Englishmen. After arguing about that for years, the colonists started drifting towards the notion of full independence. There were some cooler heads in Parliament who tried to get George to back off a little, but he didn't listen to them. The more he jerked on the colonists' chain, the more they jerked back, and one thing led to another.
According to Wiki, the EU kind of evolved from the European Economic Community, aka Common Market. Britain joined the EEC in 1973, and they conducted a referendum in 1975 to see if their citizens wanted to remain in it. The referendum passed, but many Brits were not happy about it, and still aren't. By 1993, due to a number of treaties that had been negotiated over the years, the EEC had evolved into a political union as well as an economic one, and its name was changed to European Union in recognition of that. It's pretty complicated but, as near as I can make out, all the member states still have their own governments, but the EU also has its own parliament, its own court system, and a ruling council that is made up of representatives from each member state. The EU courts have ruled that, if there is a conflict between EU law and the law of any member state, the EU law is supreme. While this isn't exactly tyranny, I can see how it might piss some people off. Britain and all the other member states have given up some of their sovereignty, and now some of their citizens want it back. There are exit movements in several other EU countries, Britain is just the first one to have brought it to a vote.
I don't think any area within a hundred miles of Beaglesonia could be considered urban. We have one incorporated city, Cheboygan, in our county, and neighboring Emmet County has one, Petoskey, about the same size, between 5,000 and 6,000 people, small towns by any standard. Then there is Mackinaw City, which straddles the border between the two counties. Despite its name, Mackinaw City is actually incorporated as a village. There are several other incorporated villages in the two counties, and then there are lots of unincorporated communities where the houses are spaced within a stone's throw of each other. These places all have names, and a few of them have their own zip codes, but they are still unincorporated and likely to remain so forever. Whatever local governance is needed is provided by either their townships or homeowner's associations. I don't think that any new municipalities have been incorporated in the last century or so, even though the population of the two counties has greatly increased in that time. Of course Cheboygan County, Michigan is nothing like Cook County, Illinois, which is why I live here.
I know that lots of people like to speculate about that stuff, but I hardly give any thought to apocalyptic scenarios anymore. I think I got that way from the Cuban Missile Crisis of the early '60s. I had grown up living under the shadow of nuclear annihilation, but I don't remember worrying about it, I just accepted it as fact of life. Then, when the Cuban Missile Crisis broke, I heard a guy on the radio say that we would all be dead within 24 hours. I understand that some of my high school classmates got drunk and/or pregnant that night, but all I did was blow off my algebra homework assignment. My algebra class was late in the day but, when the bombs hadn't fallen by noon, I panicked and did my homework during lunch period. It's a good thing I did, because those bombs never did fall, and I narrowly escaped getting in trouble with my algebra teacher. What I learned from this was to be self reliant and not count on anybody else to solve my problems for me.
spinning my wheels
You sound pretty reasonable this morning Beagles, I hate that. I'm
ticking down your post and I'm nodding my head, well I agree with this,
and I agree with that. Have we reached the end of the Beaglesonian
mission where reasonable people have discussed things reasonably and
come to an agreement and now there is nothing to do but smoke fat cigars
and sip brandy and stare vacantly out the window trying to think of
something to speak of.
I haven't been reading closely, but in what I have read I haven't come across exactly what Brussels tyranny the Brits are rebelling against. Come to think of it what did we rebel against the Brits for? They didn't want to make us burn offerings to their king and they didn't want us to join the church of England. I think it was taxes and trade. There were the stamp taxes and the notorious tea tax, and moreover I think our trade had to go through them. IF we wanted to sell maize to the French we had to sell it to the English who would then sell it to the French.
Pretty dry stuff, does not stir men's souls does it? Not the sort of thing you expect to be flowing from the pen of that old hypocrite Tom Jefferson. I mean jeez who doesn't hate paying taxes, and trade, my eyes glaze over. Speaking of Thomas Jefferson, let's have a look at that declaration of independence, a little large to copy and paste into The Institution, so here's a link for those of you who don't have a copy of it framed and hanging over the mantelpiece http://users.wfu.edu/zulick/340/Declaration
It does seem to be mostly about taxes and trade and some other complaints like that awful thing about having to take a redcoat into your home, which are probably the result of trying to squeeze those taxes out of the colonies. But overreaching everything else, in style if not in substance is we don't want nobody telling us what to do, or that self evident truth: everybody would rather be oppressed by their own people than by somebody else.
I have to say though that Declaration of Independence is well-written, it sings to me the way Bill Clinton could at his lying best, so that I would have to bonk myself in the head to get back to the real world. See that's the problem with the power to stir men's souls, our souls are best left unstirred, so that the clear voice of reason can be better heard.
Again absent any real complaint about the jackbooted Sprouts, it seems the main impetus for Brexit is emotional, that yearning to be free, or at any rate to be oppressed by their own people. But what it appears to mean is that the Brits won't be able to sell as much of their wool to the French who won't be able to sell as much of their wine to the Brits. I suppose the French could drink more wine to keep warm, but i don't know that the Brits could get a buzz off of their wool.
I'm spinning my wheels here, i admit, I am just not used to there being so much agreeableness in The Institute.
The Velvet Revolution was the Czech's shucking off communism, not Slovakia. I think the Slovaks were fed up with the Czechs looking down their noses at them and the Czechs didn't much mind losing the Slovaks because they had always been looking down their noses at them.
Yar, hard to tell if the bailouts worked or not. Some say we would have been better off without them and some say we would have been even worse without them. And both sides have fancy dancy economists to back up either view. You know we did pass things like Dodds-Frank to keep that sort of thing from happening again, but the reps are trying to deep six it so that the banks can breathe sovereign and free. Well I don't know where the presumptive candidate stands on that, but even if I knew he would likely say something different tomorrow.
The google machine tells me that a little over a quarter of the people live in cities, a little over a half in suburbs, and maybe a fifth in rural areas. Some core big cities have been losing population but others have been gaining so I think it is a wash. I imagine rural is losing slowly just because it is a general trend. Probably the suburbs are gaining. I hate the suburbs, but let's leave that for another day.
Speaking of another day, the weekend is here and on Monday i will be down in Champaign probably hoisting a beer to that great patriot Thomas Jefferson because after a few beers I will hoist a beer to anybody. So I won't be back till maybe Wednesday. Maybe in the interim Old Dog and Beagles can kick things around a bit. Likely I shall see him on the next bar stool tonight and we can discuss giving him full posting power so that he doesn't have to lurk in the comments like a chant from the Greek chorus.
Hum I see where his google machine has 80 percent living in cities, I suppose that works if you consider that the suburbs are cities themselves.
That infrastructure thing is kind of vague. And I suspect that rural people no longer are self sufficient. Once Beagles loses his power there goes all the deer meat in the freezer. Of course there will also be nobody around to keep him from shooting a deer a day as long as Old Betsy holds out, and there are probably ways to preserve the meat without freezing but Beagles won't be able to go to the internet to find them out. I suppose he could fish until the truck that takes him to the river breaks down. I will admit that we city dwellers will probably go more quickly. Once we empty the grocery stores we will be setting up pigeon traps on our balconies, but with so many traps we will likely soon run out of pigeons.
I'm sure Beagles has given this some thought, so I would like to ask him now what he will do when the big shit comes down.
I haven't been reading closely, but in what I have read I haven't come across exactly what Brussels tyranny the Brits are rebelling against. Come to think of it what did we rebel against the Brits for? They didn't want to make us burn offerings to their king and they didn't want us to join the church of England. I think it was taxes and trade. There were the stamp taxes and the notorious tea tax, and moreover I think our trade had to go through them. IF we wanted to sell maize to the French we had to sell it to the English who would then sell it to the French.
Pretty dry stuff, does not stir men's souls does it? Not the sort of thing you expect to be flowing from the pen of that old hypocrite Tom Jefferson. I mean jeez who doesn't hate paying taxes, and trade, my eyes glaze over. Speaking of Thomas Jefferson, let's have a look at that declaration of independence, a little large to copy and paste into The Institution, so here's a link for those of you who don't have a copy of it framed and hanging over the mantelpiece http://users.wfu.edu/zulick/340/Declaration
It does seem to be mostly about taxes and trade and some other complaints like that awful thing about having to take a redcoat into your home, which are probably the result of trying to squeeze those taxes out of the colonies. But overreaching everything else, in style if not in substance is we don't want nobody telling us what to do, or that self evident truth: everybody would rather be oppressed by their own people than by somebody else.
I have to say though that Declaration of Independence is well-written, it sings to me the way Bill Clinton could at his lying best, so that I would have to bonk myself in the head to get back to the real world. See that's the problem with the power to stir men's souls, our souls are best left unstirred, so that the clear voice of reason can be better heard.
Again absent any real complaint about the jackbooted Sprouts, it seems the main impetus for Brexit is emotional, that yearning to be free, or at any rate to be oppressed by their own people. But what it appears to mean is that the Brits won't be able to sell as much of their wool to the French who won't be able to sell as much of their wine to the Brits. I suppose the French could drink more wine to keep warm, but i don't know that the Brits could get a buzz off of their wool.
I'm spinning my wheels here, i admit, I am just not used to there being so much agreeableness in The Institute.
The Velvet Revolution was the Czech's shucking off communism, not Slovakia. I think the Slovaks were fed up with the Czechs looking down their noses at them and the Czechs didn't much mind losing the Slovaks because they had always been looking down their noses at them.
Yar, hard to tell if the bailouts worked or not. Some say we would have been better off without them and some say we would have been even worse without them. And both sides have fancy dancy economists to back up either view. You know we did pass things like Dodds-Frank to keep that sort of thing from happening again, but the reps are trying to deep six it so that the banks can breathe sovereign and free. Well I don't know where the presumptive candidate stands on that, but even if I knew he would likely say something different tomorrow.
The google machine tells me that a little over a quarter of the people live in cities, a little over a half in suburbs, and maybe a fifth in rural areas. Some core big cities have been losing population but others have been gaining so I think it is a wash. I imagine rural is losing slowly just because it is a general trend. Probably the suburbs are gaining. I hate the suburbs, but let's leave that for another day.
Speaking of another day, the weekend is here and on Monday i will be down in Champaign probably hoisting a beer to that great patriot Thomas Jefferson because after a few beers I will hoist a beer to anybody. So I won't be back till maybe Wednesday. Maybe in the interim Old Dog and Beagles can kick things around a bit. Likely I shall see him on the next bar stool tonight and we can discuss giving him full posting power so that he doesn't have to lurk in the comments like a chant from the Greek chorus.
Hum I see where his google machine has 80 percent living in cities, I suppose that works if you consider that the suburbs are cities themselves.
That infrastructure thing is kind of vague. And I suspect that rural people no longer are self sufficient. Once Beagles loses his power there goes all the deer meat in the freezer. Of course there will also be nobody around to keep him from shooting a deer a day as long as Old Betsy holds out, and there are probably ways to preserve the meat without freezing but Beagles won't be able to go to the internet to find them out. I suppose he could fish until the truck that takes him to the river breaks down. I will admit that we city dwellers will probably go more quickly. Once we empty the grocery stores we will be setting up pigeon traps on our balconies, but with so many traps we will likely soon run out of pigeons.
I'm sure Beagles has given this some thought, so I would like to ask him now what he will do when the big shit comes down.
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