AdamSmith

Ridiculing your own clients/donors. Brilliant. My old shrink would have added something about self-mirroring.

The Juilliard Quartet's great recorded performances of Ludwig van's late string quartets had several instruments out of tune the whole time. So what? If they didn't care, I don't either. You are being a pedant. Which I never thought I would say to anyone else but myself .

I am 59. He is 3. I am afraid, very afraid.

The very longstanding practice in US government has been for former-admin security officlals to retain their security clearance, to be able to give informed consultation & lessons of experience when requested to the current admin. Trump's revocation of clearance is absolutely unprecedented. And pretty clearly simply childishly petulantly motivated, to boot. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/17/mccarthy-era-tactics-ex-spy-chiefs-round-on-trump-in-brennan-row

I have very rabidly & articulated here the many reasons I hate Trump. Could you do the same for your comment above? It is extremely opaque as to evidence, motivationl context, etc. As I think, from honest intent, my posts am not.

Genius. https://youtube.com/watch?v=JN2SQ4m7M04

Have we not yet had enough of these climate change debates?

Somewhat long-ago repost. She's a genius.

Ah! Thank you. Still seems an oddity, as given how many of us interact with this site mostly via our smartphones? So am m. emb function would add so much value to the site.

This is fucked up, the current site sw. Posted links do not any longer 'embed.' @TotallyOz, your developers are screwing you.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3ahbyf9cbEU

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcZcDHRGyOs

She Was There.

I'm a chronic disease.

Yes. We are all out for $$$. We frequently get it by telling (or selling ) the truth.

Pretty sharp. The key Trump revelations in Omarosa Manigault Newman's new book The ex-White House adviser’s forthcoming memoir says Trump insisted upon being sworn in to the presidency with his own book https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/10/omarosa-manigault-newmans-book-the-key-revelations-about-trump

Allow Time to work its magic. It always does, if the thing is intended to be. That is not at all to say, Be passive about the thing!

Original poem by T.S. Eliot herewith, followed below by the best parody thereof. (Written by whom I can't recall.) Sweeney among the Nightingales BY T. S. ELIOT Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees Letting his arms hang down to laugh, The zebra stripes along his jaw Swelling to maculate giraffe. The circles of the stormy moon Slide westward toward the River Plate, Death and the Raven drift above And Sweeney guards the hornèd gate. Gloomy Orion and the Dog Are veiled, and hushed the shrunken seas; The person in the Spanish cape Tries to sit on Sweeney’s knees Slips and pulls the table cloth Overturns a coffee-cup, Reorganised upon the floor She yawns and draws a stocking up; The silent man in mocha brown Sprawls at the window-sill and gapes; The waiter brings in oranges Bananas figs and hothouse grapes; The silent vertebrate in brown Contracts and concentrates, withdraws; Rachel née Rabinovitch Tears at the grapes with murderous paws. She and the lady in the cape Are suspect, thought to be in league; Therefore the man with heavy eyes Declines the gambit, shows fatigue, Leaves the room and reappears Outside the window, leaning in, Branches of wistaria Circumscribe a golden grin. The host with someone indistinct Converses at the door apart, The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonoured shroud. 1918, 1919 Ze parody (here the only bits that I can remember; can't find it online)... Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees, Hunkers in the public stall (Cocoanut will constipate!), Hoping one hard turd will fall... ...[Can't recall intervening lines...] ...A loose, a catarhhal roar! And then, alas, and nothing more. [Which is to say, the ultimate poetic depiction of constipation.] [I.e., a pretty good summing up of all of TSE's poetry, by The Man Himself. ]

Domino-effect of climate events could move Earth into a ‘hothouse’ state Leading scientists warn that passing such a point would make efforts to reduce emissions increasingly futile https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/06/domino-effect-of-climate-events-could-push-earth-into-a-hothouse-state

Dome sweet dome: the glory of Rome – in pictures St Peter’s Square, Rome, 1961 Photograph: Monica Pidgeon / RIBA Collections https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2018/aug/09/eternal-city-dome-rome-monochrome-photography-in-pictures

So moving. This is what being in love looks like – in pictures Photojournalist and videographer Stefania Rousselle asked strangers to share their most defining and life-changing love stories https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/aug/09/stefania-rousselle-photographer-love