Odds and Ends — 22 November 2021


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We watched Double Indemnity last night, a damn fine example of film noir. I’ve really got to watch more noir and neo-noir. If I’m not mistaken, I’ve perhaps never seen another classic, The Big Combo, unless it’s been so long that I don’t even remember any more. And I need to re-watch The Big Sleep, Key Largo, and Sunset Boulevard.

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Another example of the drip, drip, drip of inflation: a few months ago a jar of marinara was 85¢ at my local Aldi, last month 99¢, and $1.09 yesterday.

El Salvador to Create ‘Bitcoin City,’ Use $500M of Planned $1B Bond Offering to Buy More Crypto

Sandbox Metaverse Alpha to launch Nov. 29 after four years in development

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

COVID in the U.S. update: Disney's vaccine mandate, boosters, a startling death toll

Third night of rioting erupts over Dutch COVID-19 rules

Politics:

Two Fox News Contributors Quit In Protest

The special—which ran on Fox’s subscription streaming service earlier this month and was promoted on Fox News—is presented in the style of an exposé, a hard-hitting piece of investigative journalism. In reality, it is a collection of incoherent conspiracy-mongering, riddled with factual inaccuracies, half-truths, deceptive imagery, and damning omissions. And its message is clear: The U.S. government is targeting patriotic Americans in the same manner —and with the same tools—that it used to target al Qaeda.

New York Times: “In some ways, their departures should not be surprising: It’s simply part of the new right’s mopping up operation in the corners of conservative institutions that still house pockets of resistance to Donald J. Trump’s control of the Republican Party.”

Sudan's military has agreed to reinstate the nation's ousted prime minister

Republicans’ vilification of Trump critics is ‘ruining’ the US, says governor

The Republican party’s vilification of members of Congress who have criticized Donald Trump or supported bipartisan legislation is “ruining America”, New Hampshire’s governor, Chris Sununu, said on Sunday, adding another tacit voice to the small but growing internal opposition to the former president.
Sununu, seen as a rising star of the post-Trump right, attacked his colleagues in an interview on CNN, insisting that House Republicans “have their priorities screwed up” for seeking retaliation against 13 members who voted for Joe Biden’s $1.2tn infrastructure bill.
Sununu was scathing when asked about the call for those members to be stripped of their committee assignments…

NAACP president calls Rittenhouse verdict ‘a warning shot that vigilante justice is allowed’

’No ground for cockiness’: Tough love for U.S. at pro-democracy conference

Serendipity:

Why do frozen turkeys explode when deep-fried?

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Fox News has the same underlying philosophy as the progressives.

They simply use division to consolidate power. They are currently developing the term "patriot" for their brand of poison. This is sad. We have seen power mongers pull the same stunt on every word in the English vocabulary.

The term "liberal" used to apply to the intellectual tradition of the US founders. That was destroyed. The progress was destroyed. We have to use the term "classical liberal" but even that is being corrupted.

The term "conservative" was corrupt from the start and has been consistently corrupt.

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I am really looking forward to Last Night In Soho! Love film noir.

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