I stopped in as guest co-host on Trippi's Two Joes podcast, as I am another Joe. We discuss AI, oil, and a little election. Regarding the last, I didn't mention the biggest problem regarding any rout in November is a lot of people don't like the Democrats, but then, they are the only other and War Trump is hemorrhaging the support of Economic Discontent Trump. The longer the Strait stays closed the more stark that economic discontent will become.
It’s because I chatter that I do nothing. Or perhaps it is that I chatter because I do nothing. – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment So, ran across a piece regarding "virtual energy plants." This is something, I've advocated, well, longer than I or anyone would
"In my opinion, there is no anguish in the Greeks. That's what makes them dear to me. Never does just struggling against anguish produce serenity. The struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. They were on another level: they had grace." Simone Weil, Letter,
So for months, Ames has been sending me things about Graham Platner running for Senate in Maine. I would glance. However, the NYT had a recent interview. I looked closer because he had beat Chuck Schumer's candidate without a vote, not that that's difficult. In the
“Without the institutions of a township a nation can give itself a free government, but it does not have the spirit of freedom. Fleeting passions, the interest of a moment, the chance of circumstances can give it the external forms of independence; but despotism suppressed in the interior of the
