The Void

We’re going through one of the those fallow periods. There’s lots of news but not a great deal of commentary. Either everybody has said everything they have to say or they’ve said everything they dare say.

Or their nice, comfortable narratives don’t conform to the actual events on the ground.

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    Major political meltdowns going on in both Europe and the USA. Lots and lots to write about.

  • You’d think so, wouldn’t you? You can only say “Trump sucks” so many ways.

    Maybe I’ll take a dive into the French and German language media to say if there’s any more action there.

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    Here’s a bit about a class action suit against Disney for H-1B abuses. I’m thinking a good remedy for this would be to throw everyone from Disney that stated they needed the workers because they couldn’t find Americans to do the work in jail. And all their bosses that authorized their lying, too, up to and including the C-level officers and the board of directors. They can all stay in prison (a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison) until every worker from Disney has found suitable employment.

    That’s the law I’d like to see put in place, not this mealy-mouthed crap from Sessions and Cruz, which is no doubt filled with one loop-hole after another.

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    There are reasons that the political systems are melting down, after all.

    🙂

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    You’d think so, wouldn’t you? You can only say “Trump sucks” so many ways.

    I expect to hear it many more times over the next few months. The more I hear it, though, the more inclined I am to actually vote for the loud-mouthed jerk. At the very least it is pissing off all the right people.

  • PD Shaw Link

    I watched the British MPs debating whether to ban Trump on C-Span. The earnest condescension and naivety more resembled a high school speech class than what I’ve come to expect from question time. (I think it was just a committee, mainly backbenchers.)

    Some of the key insights: If we ban him, it might make him stronger. If we ban him for wanting to ban people with different views, have we too become Trump? We must engage or teach Trump or all is lost. (Loose translation; some of the Scotts needed to learn how to speak English, as well as some of the English.)

  • PD Shaw Link

    We got a new range today, and my wife carefully read the owner’s manual and found this:

    “Never attempt to dry a pet in the oven.”

    Laugh in the face of the void.

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    Some of the key insights: If we ban him, it might make him stronger. If we ban him for wanting to ban people with different views, have we too become Trump? We must engage or teach Trump or all is lost.

    So, no talk about whether it would be right or wrong to ban someone solely for an opinion?

    I hope they ban him and then I hope he wins the Presidency. It would be a fine way to cut our ties to Europe.

  • Guarneri Link

    “Never attempt to dry a pet in the oven.” ”

    Way back when…..I was at the bank a creditor asked why our loan agreement was “so damned long.” I had to explain that every time the bank got screwed the lawyers had to craft yet another provision. I can’t help but believe a lawsuit brought by the owner of an, um, overheated, though perhaps dry, pet is responsible for that owners manual statement.

  • michael reynolds Link

    I imagine baked dog would need some fairly strong herbal accompaniment. Sage, maybe, or tarragon. Carrots, onions or leeks, maybe parsnips. I see dog as a winter-time dish, a comfort food. Dog cassoulet. I’m thinking a pretty full-bodied red.

    And somehow I expect Schuler, despite his love for dogs, to have some anecdote involving a dog shish kebab in the far east.

  • No dog shish kebab but the South Koreans reportedly like dog. Most U. S. breeders have a sort of gentleman’s agreement about not shipping puppies to South Korea.

    What’s suitable to eat does vary from place to place, doesn’t it? I don’t know what things are like now but it used to be the case that the French ate horse. In Paris there were chevalines where you could buy horse meat. I’ve eaten french fries bought from a street vendor in Paris that were cooked in horse fat. They were delicious.

  • CStanley Link

    Reminds me of the M*A*S*H episode when Col. Potter ranted about the locals eating horse meat. To paraphrase, “The horse is a majestic animal, not like a pig. We do a pig a favor when we slaughter and eat him…it saves him the agony of looking at his reflection in the trough every day.”

  • steve Link

    In the 60s and 70s you were cautioned to not take the family dog to the Phillipines if you got stationed there since the locals supposedly ate dogs.

    Steve

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