The good news is that I have in fact been continuing with the Shakespeare stuff, the "remedial accumulation of cultural capital"). I just, for various reasons, haven't been putting up posts. So, over the next few days, you will get Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like... Continue Reading →
Incumbent tactics: copyright as news suppression, BBC editorial choices…
Sometimes a Bluesky feed (and yes, I am as at risk of falling into the scrolletariat as anyone else) offers up a bleak perspective on the way we live now, and what we are invited to see, and NOT to see. I had never thought of the way the police might play music not just... Continue Reading →
Limerick about everything “falling apart” (for Pete Hegseth)
Pete Hegseth, the DUI hire, this one's for you. This endless complaint on "declining" Is often no more than mere whining About white men displaced From previously-placed Positions of lazy reclining
Lightbulb jokes, narcissism and our species-be-doomed
I really like lightbulb jokes (I like cheese jokes too, but here I will focus on lightbulb jokes and you will thank me later). I like the one "how many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb?" Answer - only one but the lightbulb has to really want to change. I like the one... Continue Reading →
Heat cubed – with Airfarce One as a counterpoint. On leaders and leadership
Watched Air Farce One last night. What a brilliantly-made (directed, acted, edited) terrible movie. It had nothing to say about anything, because it was a movie rather than a film (1). That's not to say "said" nothing - see the Unclear and Present Danger podcast folks for a take on how it helped Dubya become... Continue Reading →
Of Bion & Brearely, Google & the Gulf of … America, biodiversity as an unword. And the HUMILIATION aspect. #2cotAED
This year I am going to write something short, mostly daily, about what is going on – “2 cents on the Arrived Ecological Debacle” (2cotAED). I have to write it; you don’t have to read it. If you DO read it, feel free to tell me how wrong I am (and hopefully why). Re: the debacle aspect:... Continue Reading →
“The beatings will continue until morale improves” – Starmer’s gang and their limited cognitive toolkit. Also Trump.
This year I am going to write something short, mostly daily, about what is going on – “2 cents on the Arrived Ecological Debacle” (2cotAED). I have to write it; you don’t have to read it. If you DO read it, feel free to tell me how wrong I am (and hopefully why). Re: the debacle aspect:... Continue Reading →
Most climate academia seems to be ahistoric stamp-collecting
I am speaking of the social "sciences" stuff here. People captured and captivated by the hopium on display, and unwilling (or incapable) of thinking where it might all go. Because to point to the obvious likely dangers ahead would be - I don't know, "normative"? Or would harsh everyone's mellow or something. Or is just... Continue Reading →
Unhelpful Hippy Bollocks (words like “holistic” or “systems” or whatever
We need a new TLA (Three Letter Acronym) to describe mush and gibberish that sounds profound (at least to the speaker) but is either circular or banal or both. I propose... UHB. It doesn't seem to be "taken" (see here), and the one that does is undersea and hyperbaric medicine, so I could probably play... Continue Reading →
Clothes unmaketh the man: Of Starmer, acceptable criticism and hopelessness
Warning: inane banal statements about British politics ahead. Reader discretion (and evasion) recommended. Keir Starmer is facing the first attack on his world-famous integrity and consistency as Prime Minister. It turns out he has been accepting freebies for him and his wife. Because the money isn't enough, or because he's been doing it for ages... Continue Reading →
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