LBJ, dead 50 years ago today, at only 64 years old. Johnson was president for barely more than five years. Incredible, considering the profound changes that swept through America. There was Viet Nam and Civil Rights riots, but what a time it was to be a kid, with comic books and music!
Author: DOuG pRATt
App Hazard
Another First World Retired Guy complaint. Everybody who has more than one Internet device knows that online services have different options, depending on the application playing them. For example, SiriusXM on a Web browser isn’t that same as on Roku, and the Roku app has a “view all segments” option I haven’t noticed before when playing a podcast.
It’s called a segment but also called a chapter, which shows a lack of consistency. Worse, when using the segment feature it’s easy to lock up the app. This is my big complaint about new features. They are often added at the expense of stability and, worse, security. “Let the users be the beta testers” has become standard in the industry.
Oh, well. Back to the Web browser. It’s proven itself to be solid and reliable…
… and it works with Chromecast.
Echo of the Bunnymen
Bunnyman mourns the Pentium II, discontinued by Intel almost 20 years ago. Today, the package is comparable to the size of a phone!
From Coming of Age to Midlife Crisis
Tom Courtney as an angry working class lad in rural England. Burt Lancaster as a depressed upper class New York suburbanite. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and The Swimmer are 1960’s films that were adapted from short stories.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
The Story
The Movie
The Swimmer
The Story
https://loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/Cheever_Swimmer.pdf
The Movie
High Liver
David Crosby got high, and he got a liver. Crosby living as long as he did is even more surprising than it was when fellow diabetic drug user Jerry Garcia died at age 53.
Crosby had a reputation as being the #1 a-hole of Folk-Rock. His musical contributions are nonetheless undeniable.
Methods of Persuasion
The MAGA crazy hats in the House are going to hold the debt limit hostage — and the nation with it — in their mad hatred of FDR and LBJ. That’s what they’re really talking about, isn’t it? Ending Social Security (1935) and Medicare (1965).
The Carrot won’t work with those freakish loonies, so use a Stick. Forget about being a Good Cop, be a Bad Cop. There’s no point in trying the Easy Way, so make it go the Hard Way. And for goodness sake, kick that silly little lying boy scammer Santos, or whatever his name is, out the door.
I wouldn’t be paying attention to this nonsense, except for Social Security and Medicare. I started paying into those programs over fifty years ago, and now I’m collecting my benefits.