I study writing here and this is something that makes every word count. That is why it is reprinted here without permission. I need to reread it before commenting further. When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that …
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The Great Hack
https://www.wired.com/story/one-mans-obsessive-fight-to-reclaim-his-cambridge-analytica-data/ The link above is for future reading and for now this is about The Great Hack (2019) and ultimately Steve Bannon, who has been in the news. And this. In the video Nix discusses OCEAN. At about the 9:00 minute mark he mentions cookies, social messaging ads, and set-top boxes as media buys.
Ann Rules?
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/obituaries/true-crime-author-ann-rule-dies/ https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/antisocial-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20353928 Finally and most importantly: Someone I knew once used a phrase that I cannot remember. It was specific to the internet but it is also the way some people may think and it is very much a sign of the times. It was something like “self convincing.” You can find anything. Maybe you …
Robert S. Mueller III served as special counsel for the Justice Department from 2017 to 2019. The work of the special counsel’s office — its report, indictments, guilty pleas and convictions — should speak for itself. But I feel compelled to respond both to broad claims that our investigation was illegitimate and our motives were …
Abducted in Plain Sight
I suffered through it and you can too. Following are some links for afterward. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/02/abducted-in-plain-sight-netflix-jan-broberg https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/02/abducted-plain-sight-review-netflix-documentary-robert-berchtold-brobergs/582145/ “Trust, shame, and complicity” are three good descriptions. Asked how Berchtold came up with this extravagant deception plan, Borgman said her only theory is that inspiration struck from the 70s zeitgeist. “This whole idea of science fiction was popular, …
The story of Chad and Lori
I am finally starting to put it together: KTVB, KSL, Fox10 Phoenix, and East Idaho News. EIN is connected to the Idaho Statesman through Nate Sunderland, the managing editor. There are some internet celebrities (Nate Eaton), real reporters (Justin Lum), YouTube phonies (take your pick), and just plain weirdos (Eric Grossarth). For now the things …
Oh, George
I do like listening to all sides. I’ll just say I don’t like listening to people like LeBron James all the time. Who would have known? I certainly did not. Pretty much anyone who has ever had any contact with a police department is standing up. Statistics take a back seat because it does not …
Jeffco Jeff Shrader
https://www.jeffco.us/678/Contact How does a patrolman who went to a tiny, local, religious college become, and survive at, sheriff of a 583,000-person county? ANSWER: By doing the same old thing and blaming everyone else. That is how to survive at it; the rise comes from supporting and condoning corruption and Shrader learned from Ted Mink. Mr. …
Chad Daybell
There are many, but this is one of my favorite videos. I like to look at people’s houses and this is a very good view. I have had time to put my thoughts together. Here they are. ONE. It has a lot to do with Mormons and the LDS church. The Grand Poobah, or whatever …
Dominick Dunne
Before I could express my thoughts on Dominick Dunne I had to look into two other names: Truman Capote and Andy Warhol. Warhol was primarily a commercial artist and he was extremely successful at it. Capote is the more pertinent artist in relation to Dunne. His relationship to Harper Lee is a stunning education and …