AdamSmith

Again...

On reflection, that is exactly the answer. We need IRON-ASSED ASSHOLES to drive much of anything of value through government. LeMay. Groves/Oppenheimer. Nimitz. Ike. Marshall. Lincoln/Grant/et al. List goes on & on & on. Where are any such today? [Hint: China has some. So does Russia. Their ideals & aims are infinitely different from ours. But we have made a yuuge misjudgment in believing that fact matters one whit in who will prevail. For now, at least.]

Worth noting that Elizabeth Regina herself, personally, would rather a porchside picnic, out in the bracing Balmoral chill. With an equally bracing gin & Dubonnet. Bitch knows how to live.& survive! As fitting of any descendant of Edward the Conqueror.

In the destructive element immerse. Blake

A dozen, across the afternoon & evening! We were not wusses. We not having to drive, the bars had no worries about 'dram shop liability' laws. Overserve was ever the word!

Current entirely broken military procurement practice (plus innumerable design engineering pathologies that manufacturers hire me & others to advise them about, & then ignore us ) make it still a VERY LONG SHOT indeed.

Where are they now...? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Lardner Those of our times, I mean.

The Incredible 50-year-old Plane on the Front Lines of the North Korea Standoff https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/20/b-52-bomber-history-north-korea-216486

That barmaid didn't, but the chief barmaid did. Who was also the co-owner, and who would bark at me: '[ADAM], YOU'VE BEEN HERE AN HOUR AND A HALF, AND YOU HAVEN'T BOUGHT ME ONE GODDAMNED DRINK! BUY US A ROUND FOR EVERYONE AT THIS END OF THE BAR, RIGHT NOW!' ...Ah, Manahatto.

There was a flap here in Raleigh and other NC cities a couple years ago when Republican state legislators started to realize what all these proliferating 'Asian Massage' parlors really are. Can we say nuru? They started agitating in the press for local law enforcement to Do Something About This Outrage. The local police departments spoke back in one voice: Look, we have violent crime and armed robbery and domestic violence and gang violence and drug crime, and which of those do you want us to stop pursuing, to deal with these little Asian girls giving people a happy ending? Or give us a truckload of state money, and we MAY be able to fit them into our already-impossible agendas. My mother gets her hair done in a funny sleazy little strip mall right next door to just such an Asian Massage parlor: And around the side of the mall is no less than a Pole Dancing Studio!

2018 elections!!! House at least flips?

Please leave me out of this. You and I know each other in person too well.

thk u. Personal attacks are not the aim of this (Larstrup's very much appreciated) Organ thread.

Again...

We are all whores. And self-conscious, acutely self-aware, self-protecting beings (H. sapiens is 2 million years old). (And still going, notwithstanding Trump.) WTF with all this political mental feces?

(Repeating myself, how Prof. H. Bloom taught me that to know anything, try to learn everything.)

One can hope.

Day after I first met him there, I came back in at my usual derelict mid-afternoon hour, and the barmaid sternly addressed me: '[Adam,] last night you spent an hour hitting on Frank Miller!' To which I replied, 'Only intellectually.' The lovely thing was that, moments after that scolding, Miller himself sauntered in, picked a barstool right beside me, and resumed our convo from the night before.

Actually, his was such a mess that almost anything I might have done could only have improved it.