Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

May 10, 1945: Improvise, Adapt, Overcome, Marine badass pilot Bob Klingman used the propeller of his Corsair to chop off the tail of a Japanese plane. Because his guns had frozen in the insanely high altitude, he turned his fighter into a buzzsaw to down the enemy. Note, the Jap also had a tailgunner! With damaged blades, he still managed to fly back to base.


Story of Bob; drummer, pilot, legend


One of the most unique maps I've seen. Printed during WW2, it superimposes the Nazi invasion of the USSR over a map of the US. St. Louis stands in for Stalingrad, Detroit for Moscow.


"Russian War Relief, Inc., 11 E. 35th St., New York City, presents this map to help Americans to visualize the almost inconceivable extent of the need for American aid to the people of the Soviet Union. From the vast invaded area of the USSR, here shown superimposed on a map of the United States, 38,000,000 Russians escaped the Nazis in 1941..."

High resolution Map


I swear everytime I logon to this discombobulated 'X' platform, AJ is talking; doesn't matter if morning, afternoon, evening, or night, he talkin. Apparently, Elon gave him free reign. Anyways, AJ Friday night...



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While he's giving his typical satire monologue, former Sec. of Defense Esper (the one Trump fired) is sitting on stage. So weird. And I wouldn't call it "stunning monologue" unless you've never, ever heard Bill Maher. And of course at the end he has to also throw Trump under the bus.



As thus he sat beneath an oak
An acorn fell abruptly
And smote his nose: whereat he spoke
Of acorns most corruptly.

Fables for the Frivolous (with apologies to La Fontaine), (1899) by Guy Wetmore Carryl.

One of the earliest works by the American parodist Guy Wetmore Carryl, this collection of fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine's Aesop-style originals from more than 200 years earlier. Carryl's light-hearted re-tellings are rendered in verse, each ending without fail with a moral and a (normally dubious) pun. This particular edition benefits also from a series of illustrations by the wonderful Peter Newell. As well as this take off of Fontaine, Carryl also leant his parodying pen to Grimm's Fairy Tales, including “How Little Red Riding Hood Came To Be Eaten” and “How Fair Cinderella Disposed of Her Shoe”.

This is a letter Philip K. Dick wrote in response to Israel’s bombing of the Osirak reactor in Iraq in 1981. It’s worth reading these days because, as with his science fiction, PKD remains prophetic.

The letter is fascinating in many regards; for a start PKD’s approach is well thought out, in his first paragraph he outlines the logical problems inherent in Israel’s attack on Osirak. In the second, he discusses the state of mind that leads to such paranoia, and in the third, he warns Israel, and insinuates that they are possessed by the memory of a madman…

Read it if you wish: Philip K. Dick on Israel




How solar farms took over the California desert: ‘An oasis has become a dead sea’





Maurice Nicoll is #1 in New Age Mysticism - at least in the states.




Banner weirdness synchronicity streamed across my network today.
My local boring evening news informed us that someone's small business burned to the ground because the owners were unable to call 911...all circuits were busy, unable to reach a human. Busy? Busy doing exactly what?? Before signing off the astute newscaster gave an update saying the owners lived in a cell dead zone. Ok, that much is true they do but their house has a landline and the location of their business is in town (not a deadzone by any stretch) from where they tried to make the call. Isn't modern technology great?!




“Your frequency is what you frequently see. Pay attention to synchronicity as there are valuable lessons to be learned in the repetition of your reality.”
― Jennifer Sodini


Beware the Joblijock my son...they can be such a pain in the heart of a dandyfloss day.




Ok, I'm ready to go back to 1983, let's GOoooo!