Lately I have been reduced to embedding Twitter posts. But I hate Twitter and want nothing to do with it!
Perhaps this psychiatrist can help me to understand my self-contradictory behavior. He seems to have a good grasp of Trump’s knotted thought process.
https://twitter.com/DMRDynamics/status/1558485280067268608?s=20&t=lcD3YhEw6YBYiygy3zD0pg
Did I ever point out the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) LA120 dot-matrix keyboard printers in Superman: The Movie? No? Well, they’re in there. If it was a sponsored product placement, the target market was quite narrow.
I don’t have Apple TV+, so I’m not watching Severance. On Thursday, Colbert had praise for the series.
Colbert thinks so highly of Severance that he has made this parody video. I may not be familiar with the series, but I recognize the non-Apple hardware in it.
That sure looks like John Turturro is sitting at a Data General (DG) Dasher D2 terminal. It’s same vintage as the DEC LA-120.
The headphones are Sennheiser HD 414’s from 50 years ago. They were very light and had clear sound, but you had to hold them tightly against your ears to hear any bass.
The turntable that Colbert plays in the video is a recent model. The Pro-Ject Classic EVO.
Speaking of DEC and DG, they were given something of a nod in the December, 1983 issue of Playboy. I was classmates with the Playmate of the Month’s big sister Susan, who was exquisitely beautiful.
Also making an appearance in that issue were Massachusetts-made Allison Three and Nine loudspeakers. By the end of ’83 I had owned my Three’s for four years. The Pioneer LD-1100 LaserDisc player was the model up from my LD-660.
Trump says he had declassified the documents retrieved from his Florida residence by the FBI under a valid search warrant. Why in the world would he declassify them, let alone take them home after he left office?
We shouldn’t have to take Trump’s word on this. It’s safe to assume he is declassifying the documents post facto, which he doesn’t have the authority to do. Again it must be asked, why did he take secret documents to his private residence? There is no acceptable answer to that question.
The potential consequences of arresting Trump and, with luck, sending him to prison, are far preferable to the risks of him possibly holding public office again. His crazed followers threatening civil war would only feel all the more empowered by Trump being back in the White House. Lock him up.
His story keeps changing. Of course it does. Does anyone believe that Trump took work home?
https://news.yahoo.com/trumps-latest-defense-mar-lago-105942456.html
Something else today that has me waiting for an update.
The federal judge in Florida had ordered the government to give the filing to Trump immediately and set the deadline for a possible objection to 3 p.m. on Friday.
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/11/1116974512/justice-department-unseal-warrant-mar-a-lago-trump
Trump must be playing his stable genius chess game, staying five moves ahead of everybody else. He had someone act as an informant to falsely claim there were top secret nuclear weapon documents at his Florida residence.
Trump knew that would force Attorney General Garland to seek a search warrant, setting up a new Witch Hunt victim card for him to play when he announces his presidential candidacy. The same sort of brilliant strategy that had him pleading the Fifth Amendment this week.
Waiting for an update on the condition of author Salman Rushdie, who was attacked as he was being introduced at a lecture.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62524922
In February 1989, at the height of the controversy over Salman Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses”, I took a month-long business trip to Saudi Arabia…
Picture dissolves to a flashback scene.
Economics is the study of how people and society choose, with or without the use of money, to employ scarce productive resources which could have alternative uses, to produce various commodities over time and distribute them for consumption now and in the future among various persons and groups of society. — Paul Samuelson
In the tradition of John Maynard Keynes, Samuelson favored run-on sentences, but his is one of the more generally accepted definitions of Economics. In short, it’s about the use and distribution of resources. Supply and demand. The haves and have-nots. Keeping up with the Joneses (whether a neighbor or an international conglomerate).
Via RSS, I’ve followed the Econbrowser blog for years. I don’t read everything there, but since inflation kicked in I’ve been making more of a point to keep up.
It does seem that Biden’s nearly $2 trillion stimulus, coming during the supply chain crisis, was a significant inflation trigger. Money chased goods that were stuck on container ships. Looks like Lawrence Summers was right.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/04/larry-summers-biden-covid-stimulus/
The Fed shouldn’t have waited so long to raise interest rates. This is from July 14, 2021.
