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Has the secret of Donald Trump’s hair finally been revealed? How does the abstract sculpture that sits atop the president of the United States’s head come into being? Tucked away in Michael Wolff’s new book is a precise description Donald Trump’s hair ... looks like a tumble-dried baboon, allegedly. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Name: Trump’s hair. Age: New? Old? Carved from the very fabric of time itself? We may never know. Appearance: A bin lid made of barbershop sweepings. Oh, that’s a good one. Hey, what about this? Appearance: A tumble-dried baboon. Amazing! Any more? Appearance: A sentient, sicked-up hairball. Can we just make the whole thing this, please? Sadly, we cannot. For the secret of Donald Trump’s hair has finally been revealed. You’re kidding me. Nope. Tucked away in Michael Wolff’s new book, Fire and Fury: Inside Trump’s White House, drowned out by all the stuff about how colossally useless he and everyone on his team is, you will find a precise description of how his abstract sculpture of a haircut came to be. This is huge news! The hugest. Apparently, Ivanka Trump often mocks the haircut’s elaborate construction process to others, which is how Wolff got wind of it. And? Don’t leave me hanging here! So, first, Trump is apparently completely bald on top. Well, duh. Also, the book says he had scalp-reduction surgery. What the hell is scalp-reduction surgery? It’s when surgeons snip off some of your bald scalp, then stretch the remaining hair-covered portion of scalp up over your skull. That sounds like a living nightmare. I know. Also it costs thousands of dollars, scabs over like nobody’s business and often doesn’t work. Is that it? Of course that’s not it. According to the book, Trump then brushes his hair by bringing it all up from the front and sides, before locking it into place with a stiffening spray. In addition, his doctor has said that Trump takes the hair-loss drug finasteride, which has been linked with several physical, psychological and ejaculatory side-effects. Dare I ask about the colour? Of his hair? Of course. The book claims that Trump uses Just for Men, a product that darkens the longer it’s left in. But his hair isn’t dark at all. Well spotted. Apparently, Trump doesn’t have the patience to leave it in for the full length of time. In summary, the president of the United States has such a short attention span that he can’t wait long enough to stop his hair being the colour of dehydrated camel urine. Do say: “It’s good to make fun of Donald Trump’s hair again.” Don’t say: “This certainly bodes well for the future of the planet.” https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/shortcuts/2018/jan/05/has-the-secret-of-donald-trumps-hair-finally-been-revealed

There is that problem, to be sure. And then of course third in line is the Speaker...

The instruments and the horizon line, that is to say, boiling it down.

Those idiots were in the electoral MINORITY, remember. As for once he is out of the White House...well, repeating myself for the umpteenth time... ...next, the Big House.

Ze whole point!

If yes, YES. Ain't happened yet, fur as I know. We'll see.

Bannon was a Goldman Sachs fairly genius-level investment analyst before he invented Breitbart. And got filthy filthy rich off it. He ain't stupid, even if he is today nuts.

Ideas[edit] Northrop’s major contribution to philosophy is in the area of epistemology, specifically his theory of concepts. He divides all concepts into two kinds: intuition and postulation. For Northrop, the source of the meaning of the concept is the source of its difference. This can be seen from the definitions of these concepts. A concept by intuition is one which denotes, and the complete meaning of which is given by something that is immediately apprehended. Northrop gives blue in "the sense of the sensed color" as an example of a concept by intuition. (The Logic of Science and Humanities, p. 82.) The other kind is concepts by postulation. A concept by postulation is one the meaning of which in whole or in part is designated by the postulates of the deductivetheory in which it occurs. Blue in the sense of the frequency or wavelength in electromagnetic theory is a concept by postulation. (The Logic of the Sciences and the Humanities, p. 83.) According to Northrop, these two types of concepts exhaust the available concepts (i.e., providing terms with meanings) from which any scientific or philosophical theory can be constructed and therefore provides a means to do comparative philosophy, analyze and solve the problem of world peace, tame nations, provide a philosophical anthropology, explain why economists from Smith to Marx were incapable of providing a dynamics to supplement their statics, and to ground art and religion as well as legal and ethical theory. Northrop substantiates these claims in his The Logic of the Sciences and the Humanities. There remains one crucial notion: what is the relationship between postulation and intuition. For Northrop the relation is epistemic correlation. Northrop provides the following definition: (The Logic of the Sciences and the Humanities, p. 119.) The sensed color blue is related to theoretical color blue by an epistemic correlation. Note what this relation is not. It is not the relation of causality or identity. Concept-by-postulation blue does not cause concept-by-intuition blue. As Northrop reports in Science and First Principles, (pp. 251–252) concept-by-intuition blue is a multivalued relation. One relatum of concept-by-intuition blue is the angstrom number currently associated with concept by postulation blue. To assume that only one of the relata of a relation could cause that relation is as silly as assuming that the female (or the male) member of a marriage causes the marriage. Nor is the proper relation between postulation and intuition "identity", as can easily been seen using "blue". Concept-by-postulation blue is not identical with concept-by-intuition blue, but is just one among many relata that go to form this complex secondary quality. Neither identity nor causality is the proper relation between sensed blue and theoretic blue. Note that the problem is: "what is the epistemic correlate of one's directly inspected visual image?" The problem is not what is really real. Unlike (certain interpretations of) Plato and Plotinus, there is in Northrop no propensity to degrade or downgrade the world-as-it-is-sensed in favor of the world-as-known by concepts-by-postulation. To experience the visual image of blue is as epistemically valuable and irreducible as knowing blue postulationally. The two sources of all our knowledge give information that is both complementary and supplementary. Without concepts-by-intuition we could never know the world in its particularity. Without concepts-by-postulation we could never know the world in its universality and necessity. We now have enough information to give a name to Northrop's epistemology. He calls it "logical realism in epistemic correlation with radical empiricism." In other words, reason (in the form of concepts-by-postulation) epistemically correlated with the senses (in the form of concepts-by-intuition). The consequences of this theory cannot be overestimated. It has ramifications for psychology, epistemology, religion, culture and philosophy. Not only will the world now come to be seen as something that can be known both by theory as well as by sense perception, but the knower can also be known by both methods. Humans are not only what the latest science has postulated them to be, but also what they sense themselves to be. One early claim by Northrop in Ch. 2 of "The Meeting of East and West" was that Eastern Thought in general (really most applicable to Chinese thought) deals with the world as an “undifferentiated aesthetic continuum.” That is, reality is all connected and unified, not separated into distinct objects (undifferentiated continuum) and is in reality qualitative as perceived (aesthetic = perception, but later related to theory of art). Some Chinese have dismissed this as racist and simple-minded. Others have embraced it as a correct characterization.[citation needed] What Northrop contrasts with it in the west is an abstract, mathematical or formal conception of reality along with an atomistic conception of reality as fundamentally separate objects. Concepts are in the west “by postulation,” while in the East “by intuition.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._S._C._Northrop

And to integrate everything.

NO!!! As stated before, I INTEND TO LIVE FOREVER!

But isn't life all one thing?

I now think Bannon, though crazy (not much by the standards of these times of course), is the one wily enough to take down Trump. For Bannon's own crazy means. Good enough for me. Something is happening here, I think (we'll see), faster than we ever thought. Get out the popcorn. And believe in the Constitution meanwhile.

No doubt! (Pictured is magesterial Lovecraft critic & biographer S.T. Joshi. Agreeing with you here. Self-critical by me [yeah, right ] cross-reference to the occasionally less-than-totally-reverent HPL memes I post here. Whom one has of course met & discoursed with at many of those HPL conferences in Providence, & who also shares a relationship with the revered H. Bloom. Joshi's much closer than mine of course, through Joshi's close involvement with Chelsea House (see below). Although I did one time at one of those Providence confabs try to give Joshi a primer in how to mentally sneak HPL -- whom Bloom did appreciate, he liking a great deal of 'second-rate' literature, but did not see how to rate HPL first-rate -- much closer into the core of the writers whom Bloom loved. When Joshi rejected my thoughts, I saw that I knew Bloom's mind better than Joshi, who had worked quite closely with Bloom for more than two years on the Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism publishing project.) I think in this pic he is holding his award for his magnificent biography thereof.

Julia playing Marlon's part no doubt.

Actually... "Looks like Burning Tree is now Smoldering Stump!" [Remember that episode? Something about a feud between two golf courses.]

While Washington is burning

This is the case. My physical erotic interests are about equally divided (between all four genders, cis and trans), but many more romantic relationships with men.

The noose tightens. This is big. Russian Social Media Giant Gave Info on Trump Contacts to Senate Probe The Russian social media giant Vkontakte has given information to Senate investigators about contacts between an executive at the company and the Trump campaign, TPM has learned. The Russian tech firm appears to be cooperating with the Senate Judiciary Committee by providing documents related to communication between Russian nationals and Dan Scavino, a Trump campaign staffer who now works as the White House social media director. Vkontakte, a social network similar to Facebook, ranks as the most popular website in Russia and is owned by the publicly traded Mail.Ru. The nature of the documents obtained by the Committee isn’t clear, but previous reports in the press have detailed emails exchanged in 2016 between Konstantin Sidorkov, VKontakte’s director of partnership marketing, and Scavino. The Washington Post first reported on an email exchange last month, citing “people familiar with the messages.” Sidorkov emailed Scavino and Donald Jr., offering to help make Trump’s campaign “the top news in Russia,” the Post reported. In response, Scavino expressed interest, but it isn’t clear that the conversation progressed beyond that introduction. The Post added that Scavino’s liaison with Vkontakte was Rob Goldstone, the music publicist who also brokered the Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump, Jr, and a Kremlin-linked lawyer. On Wednesday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent letters to Scavino and Brad Parscale, the Trump campaign’s digital director, asking about the campaign’s contacts with Russia. “[T]he Committee has received information that you may have corresponded with Russian nationals regarding Trump campaign social media efforts,” Feinstein wrote to Scavino. Vkontakte is broadly used in Russia, but its English-language users tend to be politically aligned far to the right of the mainstream, the Post reported... Cont.: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/russian-social-media-giant-gave-info-on-trump-contacts-to-senate-probe

Again... 'I don't use too much butter, I use enough butter.'

Look at your own screen name! How many of us are purely 'gay'? Myself am an omnivore.

How could any mere mortal...?