I became aware of the John Birch Society almost sixty years ago when, as a child in Norwalk, Connecticut, I saw the conspiracy-obsessed organization participate in a 4th of July parade. There was a Bircher chapter in nearby Bridgeport, as mentioned in this NPR report.
NONE of the crazy assertions made by the John Birch Society came to pass. A rational person would eventually realize they’re on the wrong side of reality, but fanatics aren’t rational.
Brian Sibley’s 1981 adaptation of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings for the BBC garners well-deserved praise on Screen Rant.
https://screenrant.com/lord-of-the-rings-bbc-radio-adaptation-overcomes-trilogy-problem/
With Archive.org recovering from its recent hack attack, you can now listen to Brian’s radio play.
https://archive.org/details/lord-of-the-rings-10_202401/Lord+of+the+Rings+01.mp3
Mozart died at 35. Shubert was gone at 31, possibly from an STD and/or the treatment of it. He wrote a popular sonata for piano and a short-lived instrument called the Arpeggione. Today the piece is commonly performed on a cello, but it’s also played on a viola, as it is here in a lively performance on a Chandos CD I have.
Silver has maintained his prediction that Trump will overtake Harris, 55 percent and 45 percent respectively, to return to the White House.
https://news.yahoo.com/news/nate-silver-cheating-pollsters-putting-163354984.html
There are countless reasons why businesses fail. Some are nobody’s fault. When the pandemic hit, restaurants did everything they could to survive, but many folded. Then there are the management failures. K-Mart wasn’t able to compete against Walmart. For much of the 20th century, Sears was what Amazon is today.
I will always be more than merely disappointed in my former employer of many years. Senior management’s hubris resulted in a total failure to respond in time to competition from Epic Systems. (No relation to Epic Games, other than they’re both software companies.)
The Federal Trade Commission needs to apply a different standard to its definition of a monopoly where Epic is concerned. A reasonable estimate is that Epic manages 75% of America’s non-military medical records. (Oracle Health, formerly Cerner, has the military systems.)
Epic’s power and influence is finally starting to get some attention…
… from conservative sources…
… as well as from the far left.
It’s deer mating season and a horny male attempted to hook up with good, ol’ Denro’s car.
