DagwoodIII
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8·17 hours agoThe movies “Her” and “Network” went from being cutting edge satires to quaint docudramas in real time.
And yet, they are all happy to order a pizza pie!!
18·17 hours agoOf course there are plenty of ‘moderate bipartisan’ GOPs who give lip service to centrist positions. Then they vote right down the Party line.
An immigrant and a Harvard professor?
This is probably being gleefully followed by Trump personally.
New Yorker here.
It’s going to be an interesting race.
His best chance to win is if the Right goes all out in making it a fight between him and MAGA. Trump lost his home town by 80% plus of the vote
13·18 hours agoThey didn’t make me a manager until I had been on the job for over a decade.
One day I look at an old favorite, “The Dirty Dozen.”
Early on, the Major is ordered to meet with the General, who tells him he has to train twelve condemned prisoners for a suicide mission behind the German lines. The Major obeys the orders, but opines that whoever came up with the plan must be insane. The General tells him to shut up and go; then the General tells his staff that the idea is insane.
Then the Major has to meet the troops and convince each man that it’s in his best interests to join the mission.
Being given stupid orders and then having to lead a bunch of psychos and idiots to achieve the goal is the essence of being a middle manager.
otoh, the actual Trojans fought for years before Odysseus thought up that trick.
Sounds like you’d have given up Helen before second breakfast.
Do yourself a favor. Spend Christmas through New Year’s in the town you’re planning on moving to first.
4·2 days agoI can’t wait for his biopic.
His father was up there with Robert Altman as an independent director.
He was in “Weird Science” as a bully when he was 19. Kept getting movie roles even when he was being arrested on a weekly basis. Turned his life around and got sober.
Be interesting to see if they can find an actor to play him.
Putney Swope, directed by Robert Downey Sr.
https://youtu.be/OPgId7RgQ2E full movie
https://youtu.be/vO5aZjfOIPs trailer
1·2 days ago[off topic]
“Zero” by Seife. Fascinating history of the mathematical concept of ‘zero.’
1·2 days agoSorcerer. Remake of “Wages Of Fear.” Four desperate men have to drive two trucks full of unstable dynamite across the jungle.
If you want to binge a great documentary, Ken Burns’ The Civil War is phenomenal.
There’s a story that says that a Northern quartermaster didn’t want repeating rifles because he didn’t want his troops wasting bullets.
More likely the repeating rifles were more expensive and heavier.
You didn’t challenge anyone to improve themselves. You tried to impose your ideas on other people. There’s a difference.
Cheers.
it could not have happened and would not have happened, for essentially economic reasons.
The interesting alternative histories are ones that turn on a single fortuitous event.
You said it couldn’t happen, then said that there are ways it could have happened.
Also, if you don’t want to be part of the discussion, you are free to stay out. other people are participating and enjoying themselves.
You are contradicting yourself.
Hitler left orders not to be awakened so he slept in on D-Day. Rommel had left his post. Think that wouldn’t have changed things?
Stalin had dozens of warnings that Hitler planned to invade. What if he’d taken even one seriously?
What if Hitler had let the Army get the glory at Dunkirk and steamrolled the troops on the beach?
I can think of dozens of times the course of the War changed by the actions of one person.
https://richardpoe.substack.com/p/how-the-british-caused-the-american
I’ve seen this idea from several sources. The British figured that American ‘Manifest Destiny’ would mean annexing Canada eventually. It didn’t cost the Brits a lot to stir up Southern resentments against the North. So they South got played.
Why did it mean a lot to you? If you don’t mind sharing.