Message for the Washington Post, NPR, etc.

Please, please, please stop boring me with the blow-by-blow of when Boehner's meeting Obama to discuss the debt ceiling and when Reid is meeting Obama to discuss the debt ceiling and Obama's plan for the debt ceiling and McConnell's plan for the debt ceiling and Reid's pla for the debt ceiling and who has what red line.  Just, y'know, let me know when it's done, or when you know for sure the fed workers ain't getting paid, let me know that.  The obsessive can go through the details after.

Thanks.

Two cents from the field

Just chanced across a little movie I'd never heard of called Game 6.  Charming.  It was sort of more a play than a movie in feel.  But I'd watch it again happily.

FYI.

Things I find off-putting (II)

Romantic comedies, and libertarianism.

Things I find off-putting (I)

Adolescents and older reading Harry Potter works.

I join the haters

I don't wish to join the masses reflexively slagging Palin and Trump, but when they have their summit -- please, God, let him come on to her.

My childhood horror was worse than yours

NPR keeps telling me how there's all these young people celebrating because they've had to deal with Osama bin Laden as their bogeyman all their adult lives.  Geez, what pussies; I grew up during the cold war.

The REALLY Great Stagnation

What's really ridiculous about this debate about how kitchen technology has changed over time, is that anybody could determine via a cursory viewing of The Flintstones that in fact kitchen technology in the 1950's had changed, in terms of tool functionality and ease, almost negligibly since the Stone Age.  As a matter of fact, Stone Age technology had vast advantages in the "green" space, being powered not by fossil fuels (a little humor there!) but in fact by direct biological power from small captive dinosaurs, whose extinction set back kitchen technology considerably.  It's really like technology (not in terms of underlying methodology -- your caveman didn't have a transitor-driven dishwasher -- but in terms of effect: he had a functionally equivalent water-jetting wooly mammoth) went nowhere -- or rather, stuggled to regain lost ground, which really puts your Michelangelos and Newtons into perspective -- from prehistory until the '50's, then there was an itty-bitty bump, and then we come to the present day.