In defence of Truss (Now there’s a line that I bet you thought you’d never read on this blog!)
The news is full of how the British public never chose Truss as their Prime Minister.
News Alert - They never do choose the P.M.
That choice is made by the usual suspects in the ‘Tory circus’.
Truss is possible because the people that vote in the (massively safe Tory) constituency of South West Norfolk voted that way.
If she called an election today, when all is said and done she still might still be P.M. and still the only people that will have voted for her are the people that vote in the (massively safe Tory) constituency of South West Norfolk.
“The debate is done: the SPAC fad is over.”
“676 trading SPACs haven’t yet found a mate according to SPAC Research. Of that group, 80% are likely to liquidate, predicts Jay Ritter, a finance professor at University of Florida.
💬 Akash Pasricha - The Information
50 reasons to love Liam Gallagher at 50
Coming in at number 6 …
“He believes that “shit music comes from boring lives” and good music comes from having an “interesting, varied” or “wonky” life.”
Clearly he has had a very boring life.
Is there a difference between something being ‘possible’ and ‘not impossible’?
Just #AskingForAFriend
Beyond Meat COO Doug Ramsey arrested for allegedly biting man’s nose
“Doug Ramsey, chief operating officer of Beyond Meat, was arrested over the weekend for biting a man’s nose in Arkansas.”
… beyond ‘meat’ indeed!
$35 Billion Worth of Real Estate Could Be Underwater by 2050
“Local governments in coastal states will lose billions of dollars in local tax revenue as rising seas claim developed land.”
Aaah yes - we should pay attention because ‘local governments will lose billions’.
Noted.
Some People Are Just Born To Over Achieve ...
Books, Siddhartha Mukherjee says, just tumble out of him, like fluffy towels and clean socks cascade out of a dryer at the end of the cycle. And it’s a good thing, because it’s not as if the man has a lot of idle time to spare.
Mukherjee, an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University, an oncologist and a researcher of cancer treatments, is one of those people who appears to have found a glitch to exploit in the space-time continuum. He sees patients, runs a blood cancers research lab, co-parents two children, writes deeply researched features for The New Yorker, helps run four separate biotechnology and health care companies he co-founded, acts as adviser to a half-dozen more, and throws elaborate dinner parties with his wife, the sculptor Sarah Sze, that are a Manhattan byword.
Oh, and even as he was completing medical school at Harvard University, he trained as an Indian classical music vocalist. Although he reluctantly relinquished dreams of a parallel career as a singer, he continues to perform with a jazz fusion band.
And yet he insists that it is not difficult to make space to write books, exhaustive though they might be: His latest, “The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human,” thuds in at 480 pages. It will be published Oct. 25.
Read more at NYT : Siddhartha Mukherjee Weaves History and Biology to Tell the Story of Us.
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Let's Get Ready To Rumble ...
… or not. Yeah - definitely not.
.. and you all thought SPACs were dead!
Definitely an interesting mix of ‘purveyors’ on the platform, noting that Russell Brand had decided that he needs to not only join the likes of QANON, Alex Jones, Greenwald, Lindell and Truth Social - but be there exclusively!
Side note
“Thiel co-led an investment in the company last year along with VC firm Narya Capital. Narya, based in Cincinnati and named for a ring in the Lord of the Rings books, is also backed by Thiel and led by his one-time business associates Colin Greenspon and Ohio Republican Senate candidate JD Vance.”
I subscribe to lots of 🎙podcasts knowing there is not enough time to listen to them all (even at ‘warp speed’) because I find interesting guests that aren’t doing the usual ‘publicity rounds’.
Just this morning;
Mark Fulbrook
… just a place holder for now, but I fully expect him to make a reappearance.
Don’t be complacent. Don’t assume
Nazis never attained more than 37 percent of the vote at the height of their popularity in 1932, Hitler took absolute power in Germany largely due to divisions and inaction among the majority who opposed Nazism.”
Against all odds …
😂😂😂😂😂
I didn’t know that Apple was a ‘show biz’ stock.
Old and new … though I have to say, those constructions signs have been around for nearly 3 years to my knowledge … be good when it is finished.
It will be finished? One day. Won’t it?
Breakfast!
🎶🎵🎼 Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation - Radio City Music Hall, NY, Sept 16th, 2022.
Like the reviewer, my first exposure to Porcupine Tree was In Abstentia … both album and live.
Great review for a great band .. sadly, I don’t think I will be seeing them on this cycle.
The Price Of A Beer At Every NFL Stadium.
Not that you typically have much of a choice in any given stadium, but it would be interesting to know which brew specifically was on offer. After all, I think we can all agree that ‘beer’ is not homogenous.