I see wonderful things

Apparently at the Moomin Café in Tokyo, if you visit alone they’ll seat a Moomin character with you so you won’t feel lonely. pic.twitter.com/XaMOCPPO51

— Very Finnish Problems (@VFinnishProbs) September 17, 2024

 

Offbeat Humor

Imagine the amount of pot these guys smoked over that period of time and they're probably still both more mentally cognizant than anyone currently running for President... https://t.co/FiBKgqsygr

— Jazz Shaw (@JazzShaw) September 17, 2024

 

Data Talks

Kind of a hobbyhorse that one of the structural changes in the US economy over the last 100+ years is the substantial relative economic decline of areas located along the major inland riverine system. https://t.co/N83aWsxj8C pic.twitter.com/ynChulF8mq

— Karthik Sankaran (@RajaKorman) September 17, 2024

 

Hallett House, Medical Lake by Vanessa Helder (1904-1968)

Hallett House, Medical Lake by Vanessa Helder (1904-1968) 

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History

This Early Bronze Age flint barbed and tanged arrowhead is from the Breach Farm hoard which contained 13 arrowheads of this type, this one of the most impressive. Image NMW. https://t.co/SOc3NWqeo0 pic.twitter.com/dfy6taQjo5

— Siôn Pennant Tomos (@SPTomos) September 17, 2024

 

Hey, what are those things?

From Life is a Joke, 100 Life Lessons by John and Gordon Javna.

—38— Just Do It

“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.”

—Laurence J. Peter

Two boys are walking through the woods one day when they spy some rabbit turds. One of the boys says, “Hey, what are those things?”

“They’re smart pills,” says his friend. “Eat them and they’ll make you smarter.”

So the first boy eats them and says, “Ecch . . . these taste like crap.”

“See?” the other boy replies. “You’re getting smarter already.”

An Insight

From a young age I learned to love America and what it stands for. I have never wanted any bad thing to happen to the country, or any of its leaders.

I am also an economist that has studied, read, and thought about history and economic theory for 40 years. This thinking has…

— Brian Wesbury (@wesbury) September 17, 2024

 

I see wonderful things

A beautiful Black Skimmer skillfully and silently skimming.

[📸 Mark Smith Photography] pic.twitter.com/rS4CUedmam

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 17, 2024

 

Offbeat Humor

Guess who invented pagers?

Al Gross, a Jewish engineer.

Hezbollah, you should have done your research! pic.twitter.com/5ECd4DdQGo

— Olia (@OliaOnX) September 17, 2024

 

Wonderfully proud of themselves, like they just shat a cookie.

From Let's Not by Chris Brey.  

Criticizing American journalists, using Anne Applebaum as an example.

Writing at The Atlantic this week, Anne Applebaum has a stunning piece of brand-new insight, and my goodness is it a brilliantly fresh idea:

See, Trump is JUST LIKE HITLER! Didn’t see that one coming, right? Imagine how excited she was to have that amazing new thought, living inside such a fresh and original mind.

There are writers who try to see something clearly, and then to show it to other people, and there are writers who are…Anne Applebaum. The prevailing model in American “mainstream” media is to go plow the same row again and again and again, because plowing where everybody else has already plowed is, I don’t know, safe? Consensus journalism, the 9,746th journalist ringing your doorbell to announce that Trump is a lot like Adolf Hitler. Looking wonderfully proud of themselves, like they just shat a cookie. All day, every day, all messages are the same message. Idea for a new movie: Groundhog Minute.

And I’m just done with it. David Brooks, Tom Nichols, William Kristol, and Peggy Noonan have all written the most amazingly refutable piles of nonsense in the last few days, being professionals at the task, and I kept asking out loud if David Brooks hears himself, because every paragraph clashes and refutes all the other paragraphs around it. But no. For me, barring some miraculous act of banality that just can’t be ignored, the election is over. 

Indeed, there is a dearth of insight, knowledge, and self-awareness among legacy mainstream media journalists.  All much of a muchness, and not much of that.