Nobody is driving the bus. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
06.03.2025 21:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@oldnewspaperguy.bsky.social
Old newspaper guy, was publisher at Berkshire Eagle, Brattleboro Reformer, former NiemanLab blogger, now media consultant and grandpa in New London CT. Family genealogist, not a bad cook.
Nobody is driving the bus. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
06.03.2025 21:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Is anyone actually here? βInteractβ please.
07.02.2025 14:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Freedom of speech. Use it or lose it. (By Norman Rockwell)
03.02.2025 15:38 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
31.01.2025 00:45 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. β Lord Acton, 1887.
30.01.2025 18:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Good for Sen Ed Markey, who is pushing both Biden and Trump to extend the TikTok shutdown deadline. Security concerns should be addressed but a major platform for free speech should not be shut down. There is this thing called the First Amendment. Strange the entire Supreme Court misses this point.
17.01.2025 17:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Gretchen Whitmer wakes up www.reuters.com/business/aut...
15.01.2025 22:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Maybe Denmark would take New England in trade for Greenland.
08.01.2025 03:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Anybody have a trick for blocking bimbo followers, other than blocking them one by one?
05.01.2025 19:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sorry, purchased in Q4.
03.01.2025 20:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Cybertruck is the Edsel of our times. One million preorders but only 10,000 actually purchased. Meanwhile Elon is playing assistant president. Get ready for Teslaβs stock price to nosedive.
03.01.2025 20:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Iβm betting thereβs a connection between the Las Vegas and New Orleans events.
02.01.2025 03:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Does anyone else see that βbskyβ abbreviation and think Banksy? That guy is everywhere.
30.12.2024 21:43 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So, who actually blinked first?
21.12.2024 19:04 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is not governance. In high school it would be called subpar or mediocre work at best. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
21.12.2024 00:04 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This shut down will be on Trump and Musk alone β the extension was all set to go but only their interference killed the deal. Nice start for Mr Only I Can Fix It. Unpaid Christmas vacation for many federal workers.
19.12.2024 19:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It could all be mass hysteria (look it up) but I guess Iβll have look at the sky tonight since the drones appear to have spread our way. www.fox61.com/article/news...
14.12.2024 20:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hereβs a thought: Given Muskβs wrecking of X and new role at DOGE, lots of liberals swore never to buy a Tesla. But will Musk now get Trump to favor EVs & encourage MAGA bros to buy them? Could that lead to an overall upswing in EV sales?
14.12.2024 20:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Lots of ancient cars and planes end up in Alaska. Apparently superyachts do, as well.
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Khadaffi, bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, al-Assad β sooner or later the gig is up, the piper must be paid.
08.12.2024 23:07 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Who would not pardon their own son, given the same set of allegations/convictions?
03.12.2024 03:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Enjoyed our visit to the Wadsworth Athenaeum, a terrific art museum in Hartford CT. But the woodpeckers got to a few pieces before us (both works by Valerie Haggerty).
01.12.2024 22:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Not a Globe subscriber but at the western end of the Pike the rest stops are pathetic, no food except McDonalds, rest rooms in sad shape.
28.11.2024 17:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Weβve come a ways. When this kind of geoengineering was first proposed 15-20 years ago, environmentalists were dead set against even researching it. Some form of solar radiation deflection in the atmosphere now seems to me a necessary step, tho not a permanent solution.
28.11.2024 12:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0NYT Great Read about Ken Burnsβs house in Walpole NH, near our former abode in VT. Astounding fact: It would take 232 hours to watch all of his documentaries.
27.11.2024 17:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Retail crime of the week #2 (see previous for #1). Details missing at this point but inquiring minds wanna know.
25.11.2024 15:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Very complicated clever retail crime of the week #1. (Caveat: crime does not pay.)
25.11.2024 15:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I donβt think it was 3D chess, but Iβm guessing the Gaetz nomination was in part a little joke by Trump, and in part a little test to smoke out which Senators would stand by him no matter whom he nominated. Question now is, will Gaetz have the balls to take the seat to which he was reelected?
22.11.2024 22:41 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0