"In 1980 I was too young to have any inkling of what was going on in even local news, much less national news. I was probably obsessed with the Dukes of Hazzard and Incredible Hulk TV shows at the time."

If you were old enough to be obsessed with weekly 46-minute plots, you were old enough for social consciousness.

In 1970 I was 10 years old in New York City. All it takes is the Daily News or the New York Post, great sports pages with front halves of the paper, to get the news. Or watch what becomes before the weather. 1980.

I wasn't enlightened. But I couldn't ignore it either.

No early Reagan memories? Assassination? John Hinckley? All right past you?

John Lennon getting shot? No?

There don't seem to be enough sentient Republicans (candidates or voters) for that to make a difference.

2. Wow. Cute phrase.

Some as old as 10?

Dayum.

My personal interest was more along artistic lines.

Good to know about the JPost.

Well, he had one when I met him.

1. Meet people.
2. Read.
3. Talk to people you can learn to trust.
4. AI if you're lacking in time or the human element.
5. Caveat emptor, mofos.

I used to work for a motivational speaker named Charlie "Tremendous" Jones. I could do without his theology, but he had a salient point. And an eyepatch.

FTA:

>>The rhetorical and symbolic value of driver liability bills can be seen in the response on social media when they are introduced. Users, including members of law enforcement, circulate jokes, memes, and slogans about hitting protesters with vehicles. A Sheriff's Deputy in Florida posted a meme depicting a semitruck smeared with blood with the caption "DROVE THROUGH ARIZONA/DIDN'T SEE ANY PROTESTERS." Longtime Seattle detective Mike Brown was formally fired in February 2021 after it came to light that he had made multiple social media posts mocking and endorsing violence against racial justice protesters. Among the posts was a meme depicting a vehicle striking a person with the words "ALL LIVES SPLATTER" that Brown posted on the same day that two protesters were hit, one fatally, on Interstate 5 in Seattle.

It's Tennessee. Consider the source.

U.S. Current Trend: Bills Provide Immunity to Drivers Who Hit Protesters
Published: September 2021

19. Depends on what they were brandishing menacingly.

He's building his triplex, gold-plated apartment at 1600B Pennsylvania Avenue.

Until it's bulldozed by some clearer thinkers.

Private contractors going to be building this, or Corps of Engineers?

[question mark misplaced. I'm off duty]

Why didn't Thompson jump up and say, "Fight, fight, fight?"

FTA: Mangione, 28, has pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges stemming from the Dec. 4, 2024, fatal shooting of Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel. If convicted, he could face life in prison.

I might be a Luddite in a lot of respects, but I just have no application for vast swathes of tech.

Privacy isn't the issue. I presume my life is an open book. I presume that between the government and whoever else has cameras (Do you have a doorbell Ring device?) could track me right now through existing facial technology, going back months if they wanted to, and I live in comparatively small-town America.

If I gunned down a healthcare CEO, that is.

Put cameras on everyone's faces? Not on mine. That's a personal choice. Lotsa things I don't need to experience in real time, or at all.

Baywatch. Oh my god.

The Dodgers and the Giants left New York in 1958. People got over it.

"Suddenly the show was at risk of becoming the wrong kind of symbol."

Yeah, when The Hoff showed up.

Lewzer can't even find plausible lie composers.

I've posted it recently, but if you've not yet enjoyed: Nina Simone, "Mississippi Goddam."

2. G7 leader cage fights. Right along with the World Cup.

China is ancient. Communist China is synthetic. It has no reason to exist, and can't without oppressing the Chinese.
And Communist China is a lot younger than USA. When was the Cultural Revolution?
Also, how old is Western Civilization? I'm going with "since the Helenic era", so 4,500 years. That was the start of Greco-Roman civilization, or at least its roots.

#86 | Posted by HeliumRat

Cultures and peoples go on and on, regardless of politics.

We are not the United States of Greco-Roman.

And much of the US doesn't like the culture and people it's becoming.

So who's gonna stick it out for the long haul? I'm not saying whose approach is better. Who is making international friends of any stripe now? Who seems stable now?

Damn. I think Cor had CutiePie nailed a few months ago.

You have time.
You just ran out of facts.

#16 | Posted by snoofy

Just effin priceless. Thanks, Snoofy.

America will trudge along, leaving imploding China in the dust,

A. Agree
B. No. You don't think we're imploding now?

China has all that socialist crap like 5-year plans. We have elections every few months of one kind or another to keep people distracted. Who's gonna tank?

We're celebrating 250 years. When did China do that? 3000 BC?

I'd argue about this:

A willing people and a willing government. I don't think the US will have that for a long time.

#73 | Posted by Dbt2

But then again, quoting yourself is the last bastion of [fill in the blank].

I'm not saying anything. I mentioned the report and the main takeaway people are going to see if they click the link.

Sorry for not arguing.

Being a Yankee, Moynihan likely didn't focus as much on the racist hells of the Northeast like Boston.