DagwoodIII

But it’s an option for you to find people.

Back in the day, if someone changed their address and phone number, you’d have to work hard to find them.

Change used to be gradual.

You could drop Cleopatra into Queen Victoria’s court and she’d figure out the rules in a week.

Obama was cutting edge in 2008 because he used a Blackberry

Nope.

‘Debbie Does Dallas’ was one of the biggest movies ever. No one knows who the star was. She wanted to vanish and she did.

People don’t recognize famous folk all the time.

Not doing anything is great.

Absolutely unscheduled time when you don’t have anything planned.

Get away from the mindset that tells you that you have to be ‘productive’ or ‘active.’

It would be cheaper for them to buy boys’ pants and have them tailored than it would be to buy a new phone.

What part of ‘so far’ confuses you?

No point.

We basically hit the ceiling with phones ten years ago.

There’s no way to improve them without a massive shift in technology [think the shift from prop planes to jets]

Now they have to come up with new gimmicks to convince people to upgrade.

It’s like 1950’s Detroit putting bigger and bigger fins on cars that were basically the same as the 1930’s technology.

Also, Orphan Black.

I really like that The OA got on the list.

Almost no one I know has even heard of it.

Yes. Bojack Horseman.

Look it up.

The GOP has given money to the Greens and the Libertarians. The GOP leadership knows its people will always vote ‘R’ and that people on the left have no great love for the Dems.

Richard Nixon once said that a politician can give the same speech a thousand times. Every time he gives it he has to remember that there’s one person in the crowd who never heard the speech before.

No one said it was easy.

Basically, it’s up to all of us to educate people whenever we get the chance.

Here are three stories I have been repeating for years.

Back in 1968, old school Communists and anarchists, the folks who’d actually gone to Spain to fight Franco and been blacklisted, were telling people to vote for Humphrey. To a lot of young voters then Humphrey looked as bad as Nixon. To the oldtimers, Nixon was one of the people who’d helped kill Ethel Rosenberg. They knew Nixon was evil, and they were proved right.

Second. A lot of people point to Martin Luther King as a saint. They don’t look past the public persona and see that he was a shrewd political operator who strategically timed his actions. Rosa Parks wasn’t the first woman to refuse to give up her seat on a public bus, but she was the one they chose to rally around. One of King’s top aides was Bayard Ruskin, a gay man. King knew about the raw deal LGBTQ+ people had, but he also knew that America wasn’t ready for that conversation.

Third. Frederick Douglas was an escaped slave. His speeches and books had made him famous. He had a chance to back a candidate who was storng for Abolition. Instead, Douglas backed Lincoln, who was more committed to saving the Union. Douglas gambled that it was better to win and be at the table than it was to lose and have no influence at all.

Now is the perfect time to tell them the BotH sIDes ARe thE sAMe!

If they aren’t likely to vote GOP let’s make sure they don’t vote at all!

And I, for one, thank G-d you did!

Verbal analogies aren’t mathematical formulas.

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https://youtu.be/-mHhr-aaLnI

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

There were plenty of people living in the New England colonies before they started referring to themselves as ‘Americans.’

Just because you made it simple doesn’t mean you made it right.

If there’s a multiple choice test, it doesn’t matter how many wrong answers there are, there is only one right answer.

People had a chance to vote for a DSA candidate and most either stayed home or voted for the other guys.

I’ll cheerfully admit that Mamdani has done a great job and will almost certainly get reelected easily.