Thanksgiving Is Ruined |
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November 18, 2008
excavation, examination To sort through some of the [news stories browsed /data preserved /links saved] during the past several years can feel like an ant-sized, personal contribution to the forensic examination of a continent-wide site of a horrific jet airliner crash. (Although many of these stories now can feel like artifacts from a suddenly remote and incomprehensible historical era of collective hallucination and lunacy.) One can find oneself asking: what on earth happened? an exhausting, daunting and depressing task ---------------------------------------------- The morning after the recent US presidential election, a gentleman published an item, voiced as if it had been penned the night before, that said in part: To them I say, seconds will call upon you (commentary here) The above excerpt suggests that the "complicated, awful business" was to begin on 6th Nov. at the latest. "particles" -- the word's appearance here echoes its use by the same guy (and the much earlier use of its relative by a diffferent guy) 33 years earlier: But most of all she loved the particles ---------------------------------------------- some particles from only the past few years: 2/23/05: "More Than 1000 Whistleblower Cases Dumped" (PEER) TiR excavated these from its notes on or around 11/6/08, but found them too depressing to formulate into a post at the time. Which category or class would these particles fall into? Maybe one with a label broadly drawn, something like, "Cleaning the Augean Stables (regulatory/administrative division)." An alternative label might read "Unleash the GAO!" Happily, the latter (& not them alone) are already on top of the story. There are, can or should be numerous other categories. Again: ant-like. |