N.N. Scott
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"Unfortunately, a chimera bombinating in a vacuum is, nowadays, only too capable of producing secondary causes." -- Rudyard Kipling, 1905
"Unfortunately, a chimera bombinating in a vacuum is, nowadays, only too capable of producing secondary causes." -- Rudyard Kipling, 1905
Or are they predicting the dominant colors?
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Or are they predicting the dominant colors?
But isn't he confidence level on most of that chart like, super low? The purple seems to be off-the-scale low, unless I'm reading it wrong
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
But isn't he confidence level on most of that chart like, super low? The purple seems to be off-the-scale low, unless I'm reading it wrong
Strong suspicion this challenge is actually causing no "nightmares" whatsoever
November 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Strong suspicion this challenge is actually causing no "nightmares" whatsoever
I agree with this line of thought. The Senate is designed to change slowly and it's not a surprise that its most senior Dem members are so habituated to the politics of thirty years ago that they can't face what's happened. That's probably also true of a lot of the GOP senators, who just stay silent
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I agree with this line of thought. The Senate is designed to change slowly and it's not a surprise that its most senior Dem members are so habituated to the politics of thirty years ago that they can't face what's happened. That's probably also true of a lot of the GOP senators, who just stay silent
The ultimate "how do I feed my family" list post
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The ultimate "how do I feed my family" list post
Then you would also know what was going to happen in November, 1963. But it's not fair of me to harp on stuff like that. Your thought experiment is interesting precisely because it illuminates how many realities of life & culture we'd have to set aside in order to fantasize about living in the past.
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Then you would also know what was going to happen in November, 1963. But it's not fair of me to harp on stuff like that. Your thought experiment is interesting precisely because it illuminates how many realities of life & culture we'd have to set aside in order to fantasize about living in the past.
I read somewhere that Wain liked oranges, and would peel them with his cats around: the spray of orange oil off the rinds as he peeled them was greatly annoying to the cats, which may be why so many of them have this kind of expression in his drawings.
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I read somewhere that Wain liked oranges, and would peel them with his cats around: the spray of orange oil off the rinds as he peeled them was greatly annoying to the cats, which may be why so many of them have this kind of expression in his drawings.
I say that, though Pottstown had its own home-grown turmoil in the mines. The Molly Maguires were hanged there...
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I say that, though Pottstown had its own home-grown turmoil in the mines. The Molly Maguires were hanged there...
Every place & time has its downside. If forced I'd pick Pottstown, PA in the decades before the anthracite bust in the 1930s. An up-and-coming, booming middle-tier city surrounded by beautiful countryside (it still is), with great architecture, but isolated from the turmoil of the big port cities.
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Every place & time has its downside. If forced I'd pick Pottstown, PA in the decades before the anthracite bust in the 1930s. An up-and-coming, booming middle-tier city surrounded by beautiful countryside (it still is), with great architecture, but isolated from the turmoil of the big port cities.
1962 was the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The omnipresent background threat of nuclear war with the USSR in that time would have been hard to take, for me. I once asked my dad how he handled it. He said, "We just went on day to day trying not to think about it, like people do now."
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
1962 was the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The omnipresent background threat of nuclear war with the USSR in that time would have been hard to take, for me. I once asked my dad how he handled it. He said, "We just went on day to day trying not to think about it, like people do now."
Truly using the Visa to pay the Mastercard bill
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Truly using the Visa to pay the Mastercard bill
Why did you do that to my brain?
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Why did you do that to my brain?
That gives the impression of one he actually wrote
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
That gives the impression of one he actually wrote
New one just dropped
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
New one just dropped
I think they ended it for a combination of reasons not all of which are known to us, or which we would not understand as the people working in the scrum of politics do. But the fact that the ones who cast the votes are super-safe or else not running again, shows they knew how it would be perceived.
November 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I think they ended it for a combination of reasons not all of which are known to us, or which we would not understand as the people working in the scrum of politics do. But the fact that the ones who cast the votes are super-safe or else not running again, shows they knew how it would be perceived.
"I used to rig card games for a living. I'd watch people sit down and lose everything, again and again. But they didn't lose because they 'played by the rules' and we didn't. They lost because it wasn't a game. It just looked like one."
-- Derek DelGaudio, 2019
-- Derek DelGaudio, 2019
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
"I used to rig card games for a living. I'd watch people sit down and lose everything, again and again. But they didn't lose because they 'played by the rules' and we didn't. They lost because it wasn't a game. It just looked like one."
-- Derek DelGaudio, 2019
-- Derek DelGaudio, 2019
Absolutely tragic that the day is almost done and I haven't yet seen a bunch of guys on here posting, "As big freighters go, I'm bigger than most"
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Absolutely tragic that the day is almost done and I haven't yet seen a bunch of guys on here posting, "As big freighters go, I'm bigger than most"
🎵His feet went into the air
His face turned crimson red
He felt both cold and wet
And he wished that he were dead🎶
His face turned crimson red
He felt both cold and wet
And he wished that he were dead🎶
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
🎵His feet went into the air
His face turned crimson red
He felt both cold and wet
And he wished that he were dead🎶
His face turned crimson red
He felt both cold and wet
And he wished that he were dead🎶
I'm sensing some deep metaphorical significance here, but can't quite put my finger on it
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I'm sensing some deep metaphorical significance here, but can't quite put my finger on it
I agree. The historical reality is complex & badly misrepresented in hazy impressions picked up from TV and conversation, etc. But the many people in the USA who are disappointed and angry with Democrats right now, as evinced by polls, didn't get that way by reading angry Bluesky hard-leftists.
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I agree. The historical reality is complex & badly misrepresented in hazy impressions picked up from TV and conversation, etc. But the many people in the USA who are disappointed and angry with Democrats right now, as evinced by polls, didn't get that way by reading angry Bluesky hard-leftists.
He really is that character in "A Fish Called Wanda" who believed inter alia that the central message of Buddhism is "every man for himself."
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
He really is that character in "A Fish Called Wanda" who believed inter alia that the central message of Buddhism is "every man for himself."