Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Sept 5, 1947: 



Mr. Ohman: I think America wants new leadership.


Vince Potter: What kind of leadership do you suggest?

Mr. Ohman: I suggest a wizard.

Vince Potter: A what?

Mr. Ohman: A wizard, like Merlin, who could kill his enemies by wishing them dead. That's the way we like to beat Communism now, by wishing it dead.

Bombs Away! "It is safe to guess, too, that Invasion U.S.A. has been prepared by people with more experience in B picture than in military tactics... The same airfield is destroyed twice by atom bombs."




The Batmobile "It Started With A Kiss" (1959) starring Debbie Reynolds, Glenn Ford, and the future Batmobile, a 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car.


Glenn Ford plays a penniless Air Force sergeant in his forties who falls for a showgirl who dreams of falling into money. They get married and he is sent to Spain, just after having won a futuristic car in a raffle. Well, it gets even more ridiculous from there, but it must be better than it sounds, because it did well at the box office. And just like the rest of the supporting cast, the car ended up being most famous for its work in 1960s TV.

BATMOBILE in ‘It Started With A Kiss’ (1959)


Sept 5, 1971: That time when the president of the American Psychological Association promoted (and the media echoed) the "psychological disarmament" of politicians and world leaders by drugging them all.





Esquire's March 1982 COG cover. Article by Edward Zuckerman with the amazing Roy Knipe art work. A follow-up letter to the author from J. Ralph Einstein [1925-1999], a scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory since 1965.


Larger size art work

Full magazine if interested: Esquire Magazine - March 1982


Some people have entirely too much $$$ on their hands...


Darth Vader's lightsaber sells at auction for over $3.6 million


The lost 43 minutes of Orson Welles‘ 1942 film "The Magnificent Ambersons" is the holy grail of cinema. Well, an AI company is stepping in to help:


Orson Welles Meets AI in a Restoration of ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ — and Its Lost Ending
My bet if Welles’ were alive today his response to this would be unprintable in the Los Angeles Times.


Vergeltungswaffe Flamingo
Over 80 years since capturing the first specimens of the type, the British have finally reverse-engineered the German Vergeltungswaffe-1 cruise missile — newly dubbed the Flamingo — and are testing its efficacy against Russian targets.




Why would you need F-35 stealth fighter jets for a counternarcotics mission plus 8 destroyers + a Marine Expeditionary Unit? Not enough for an invasion but is a serious power projection. As we would often say out to sea, international waters is the wild, wild West!
WARNING YELLOW


US deploying Ten F-35s to Caribbean for drug fight as tensions with Venezuela rise


Everyone is having a metoo moment with the United States.


It should not be controversial to state, and it might even be approaching common knowledge, that Starmer, Merz, Macron and Ursula von der Leyen enjoy considerably less popular support at home than Putin, Xi and Modi.

The US will either decline ungracefully, sticking to the nostalgic Let's Roll! thrill of blowing up the occasional drug vessel (or whatever it was), or go full-tilt nuclear armageddon and take the world down with it. Nah, but you play with the bull and eventually you're gonna get the horns. Regardless, today Defense gets rebranded "War" so it won't be going gentle into that good night.

Renaming the 'Department of Defense' to the 'Department of War' is playing with old divisions, debates and issues that today's nation has little knowledge and understanding of. Beware, nightmares of a kind unparalleled in modern defence are contained within the past.
A 'Note' about a U.S. Department of War