{"id":6699,"date":"2026-11-10T22:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T22:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=6699"},"modified":"2026-11-10T22:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T22:03:54","slug":"10-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/10-4\/","title":{"rendered":"10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before I get into today&#8217;s entry, I should say that I fired of a pretty annoyed email to Reason about this week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zWmLrBLQmkY?si=C25mK9387g53XmHH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Editors&#8217; Roundtable<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I said most of my piece in the email, but..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The actions against Iran aren&#8217;t a &#8220;War Of Choice.&#8221;  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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thomas Massie can&#8217;t go into obscurity quickly enough.  The &#8220;War Powers Resolution&#8221; was, and probably always had been unconstitutional.  It&#8217;s probably also not applicable for Naval and Air blockades;  there&#8217;s no boots-on-the-ground.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just frustrating.  I do have some money sets aside I plan to give them in a few weeks, but I&#8217;m so incredibly frustrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I admit I lit up a few TheFP writers, too, for things they&#8217;d thrown out about the Iran operation being the reason for inflation, and the &#8220;blue wave&#8221; Tuesday.  It might have been a bit of a triggering-event, but Cato has been on my wavelength with it.  I mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Harsanyi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Harsanyi<\/a>&#8216;s take recently, but both really take a bicycle chain to the idea that it&#8217;s all about the Iran operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, I&#8217;d planned to finish this up when I was on the airplane.  That didn&#8217;t happen;  I am home.  The wrap-up will be for Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other stuff&#8230;.<br>Flashing back to 2002 for a moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Advertisers Have Lost It - 11\/10\/2002<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br><br>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).<br><br>At the station where I work, the salespeople are focused on selling these hour-long infomercials instead of thirty second spots.<br><br>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.....<br><br>Even PBS runs ads.  One of their \"made possible by...\" ads the other day was some bank schilling their new checking account.....<br><br>Eventually it has to end.<br><br><br><br>Notes: --------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br>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<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess this was while I was working pretty much only at night.  This would have been the November after I&#8217;d graduated, and was trying to figure out what the hell to do with my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How relevant are telemarketers these days?  If I don&#8217;t recognize a number, I don&#8217;t take it.  If I accidentally answer something that&#8217;s pure marketing, I block and report spam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s still things that sneak through, but not nearly as many as back then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the things <a href=\"http:\/\/adam.curry.com\/linkblog.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Curry<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether or not that really is going to really lock people into the various platforms is unclear.  While I don&#8217;t particularly like ads, I wouldn&#8217;t normally skip over spots if they were quick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does that mean I fully-support free-loading?  No.  But if there&#8217;s an additional five-minute block at the end, I&#8217;m probably just going to go to the next episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m tired.  Veteran&#8217;s Day tomorrow, then trip wrap-up Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I get into today&#8217;s entry, I should say that I fired of a pretty annoyed email to Reason about this week&#8217;s Editors&#8217; Roundtable. I think I said most of my piece in the email, but.. Just frustrating. I do have some money sets aside I plan to give them in a few weeks, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month","category-old-od"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6699"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7379,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions\/7379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}