Scarmoge

… Nice! … and there is also its logical companion Show Don’t Tell … You can twist perceptions
Reality won’t budge …

“Don’t tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts” – Hank Reardon

How many times do you hear it?
It goes on all day long
Everyone knows everything
And no one’s ever wrong
Until later…[Read more]

… and along with The Road to De-Mask-Us we mustn’t forget The Road to E-Mas-Cu-Lat-Us, both little known Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and (Hubba Hubba) Dorothy Lamour movies. Interesting that one of the “Road to .., ” films was titled The Road to Utopia.

,,, mayhem … yet another game two or more can play.

… at some point one must Roll the Bones … or as the Gita tells us, whether we like it or not, and whether we are aware of it or not, sometimes the Cosmos Rolls the Bones for us and we have to flow with the roll …
“Why are we here?
Because we’re here
Roll the bones
Roll the bones
Why does it happen?
Because it happens
Roll the bones…[Read more]

… and backward the acronym is BoT. If the acronym fits …

… Enjoy! … well, some will, some won’t.
“See them bow their heads to die,
As we would bow as they rode by”

https://youtu.be/azc_FNZXaRw

… surely one can come up with something better than “piano wire”. The “piano wire” treatment is much to humane for these folks.

… in reply to Robert above … I’m not quite sure who won, but at this point I am sure who didn’t.

… all frogs are boiled slowly, at first, then all at once.

… on a somewhat related “Data” note … given the heat and drought in Utah I wonder what conservation (and green) measures the Massive Data Repository have been implementing given that estimates at the time of its construction were that the completed facility was expected to require 65 megawatts of electricity (at a cost of about $40…[Read more]

… yep, the questions are just the guides for further inquiry.
… see the Transcript Of President Clinton’s White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry’s Briefing of Jan. 21, 1998 http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/01/21/transcripts/mccurry/

… notice that he says several times that he will neither parse nor interpret statements.

… see the book by Michael Lewis titled Boomerang on Mr. Kyle Bass, also see
Carney, John (29 March 2016). “Kyle Bass, The Man Who Shorted The World”, The Wall Street Journal.

… to paraphrase a great line from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, “Bet you never been in a real Vatican before.”

… She’s not a girl who misses much
Do do do do do do, oh yeah
She’s well-acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand
Like a lizard on a window pane
The man in the crowd with the multicolored mirrors
On his hobnail boots
Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy
Working overtime
A soap impression of his wife which he ate
And donated to…[Read more]

It’s, Dave, man. Open up, I think the spooks monitored me logging into this website.

… Nice! … better Woo Woo Cheese (this is a complement [of sorts] in that I attempt to separate Woo into Good Cheese and Bad Cheese) than most … and it provides another great line to add to my collection of “Conclusions Drawn” … and that line is, “Who would guess that during the height of the Cold War the very freedom of the world…[Read more]

… novels that, in order to read them, require the moving of one’s lips.

… if you are a fan of Cheers … there is an episode where Sam wishes to show Diane that he is serious about improving himself so he promises her that he will read War and Peace cover to cover. After much great effort he finishes the book.
As Norm is walking out of Cheers at the end of the episode he nonchalantly asks Sam, “Why didn’t you…[Read more]