Before I get into today’s entry, I should say that I fired of a pretty annoyed email to Reason about this week’s Editors’ Roundtable.
I think I said most of my piece in the email, but..
- The actions against Iran aren’t a “War Of Choice.” How these fuck can you tout being about human rights, when you treat the Islamic Republic of Iran as legitimate? Ask a few AI tools how many protestors the Islamic Republic executed January 8-9 2026.
- The inflation, I think and Cato agrees, is largely due to the increase in the money supply since the pandemic. No politician has any way to fix this while maintaining loose monetary policy.
- Thomas Massie can’t go into obscurity quickly enough. The “War Powers Resolution” was, and probably always had been unconstitutional. It’s probably also not applicable for Naval and Air blockades; there’s no boots-on-the-ground.
Just frustrating. I do have some money sets aside I plan to give them in a few weeks, but I’m so incredibly frustrated.
I admit I lit up a few TheFP writers, too, for things they’d thrown out about the Iran operation being the reason for inflation, and the “blue wave” Tuesday. It might have been a bit of a triggering-event, but Cato has been on my wavelength with it. I mentioned David Harsanyi‘s take recently, but both really take a bicycle chain to the idea that it’s all about the Iran operation.
Anyway, I’d planned to finish this up when I was on the airplane. That didn’t happen; I am home. The wrap-up will be for Thursday.
Other stuff….
Flashing back to 2002 for a moment.
Advertisers Have Lost It - 11/10/2002
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Three. Three times this afternoon was I awakened by telemarketers. From the fscking popup ads on the web (it's gotten worse if you're using Internet Exploder from what I understand, even to the point of having things that animate across your screen, which you have to close manually....but I don't use Windoze much anymore).
At the station where I work, the salespeople are focused on selling these hour-long infomercials instead of thirty second spots.
I suppose it's all interconnected....sell, sell, sell, brag brag brag, (alternatively, if you don't sell...lie, lie, lie), and Wall Street bumps your stock up to ungodly heights.....
Even PBS runs ads. One of their "made possible by..." ads the other day was some bank schilling their new checking account.....
Eventually it has to end.
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I so agree. We live in the DC area, and we keep our phone on an answering service... too many telemarketers calling... and it's a private number to boot. And yeah on the PBS stuff... that is aggravating too *nods* [Witch] 11/10/2002 6:23:35 PM
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I guess this was while I was working pretty much only at night. This would have been the November after I’d graduated, and was trying to figure out what the hell to do with my life.
How relevant are telemarketers these days? If I don’t recognize a number, I don’t take it. If I accidentally answer something that’s pure marketing, I block and report spam.
There’s still things that sneak through, but not nearly as many as back then.
One of the things Adam Curry is working on is a vibe-coded Podcast player that strips out all ads. This is a big problem for the shows that have five-plus minute ad blocks at the start and end of podcast episodes.
Whether or not that really is going to really lock people into the various platforms is unclear. While I don’t particularly like ads, I wouldn’t normally skip over spots if they were quick.
Does that mean I fully-support free-loading? No. But if there’s an additional five-minute block at the end, I’m probably just going to go to the next episode.
I’m tired. Veteran’s Day tomorrow, then trip wrap-up Thursday.