Archive for August, 2025

Noise Over Signal (August 25, 2025)

Posted in Politics, Society on August 25, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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K          “We are all being fooled.  Again.  Everything is deliberate noise and distorted signal.  Nothing is real.”

J          “The Three-Card Monte show has metastasized into Twenty-Three-Card Monte shows.  No one is playing 5D chess.  Everyone is playing 5D distortion and deception.”

. . .

K          “We are not 5 by 5.  We are 5 by 0.  We are Loud.  We are Unclear.”

J          “We are under duress and in distress.  We need to raise 2-flags to signal our plight.”

. . .

J          “But no one cares.”

K          “No one is capable of caring.”

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[See the e-commentary on noise and signal at Covid-19 PanICdemic/Plague:  Rioters / Protestors:  Too Much Noise / Too Little Signal (June 8, 2020) and The Donny And Elon Show.  Oh, And Happy Friday The 13th! (June 9, 2025) and on who we have become at On Friendship Today:  Flat, Fried, Frayed, Frazzled, Frozen, Fractured, Fissured, Fatigued, Finished?  Oh, And Happy Thanksgiving! (November 20, 2023), Edward Hopper:  The Mirror For Our Age (January 22, 2024) and “Everything Is A Fight Today.” Please répondez s’il vous plaît. Oh, And Happy Solstice! (June 17, 2024) and many, many, many other pieces.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Soldier on?

Who cares?

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The Thrilla In Alaska (August 18, 2025)

Posted in Russia, World War III on August 18, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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K          “So what happened?”

J          “Not sure.  Not sure that we are intended to know what happened. If anything happened.”

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K          “The last person he sees has the most impact on his latest whim.  That is considered by some to be a bit disconcerting.”

J          “Looks like he meets with the Europeans and Zelensky today.”

K          “Then who does he talk to next before spouting some incoherent drivel?”

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J          “Stay tuned.”

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Hiroshima And Nagasaki At 80 (August 11, 2025)

Posted in Nuclear, Presidency, War on August 11, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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K          “We don’t learn.”

J          “We just don’t.  Something insignificant will be the trigger.”

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[See the e-commentary at Hiroshima And Nagasaki At 75 (August 10, 2020).]

Bumper sticker of the week:

“Restraint?  Why are you so concerned with saving their lives?  The whole idea is to kill the bastards.  At the end of the war if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win.”  General Thomas Power, U.S. Air Force, 1960

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Everything Is Still A Fight Today.  Oh, And Happy Civic Holiday (Canada)! (August 4, 2025)

Posted in Culture, Internet, Society on August 4, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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K          “Everything is still a fight today.”

J          “Everything.”

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J          “Not available.”

K          “Not in stock.”

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J          “Please hold.  For a long time.”

K          “Forever.”

. . .

K          “For your convenience.”

J          “For your inconvenience.”

. . .

K          “The country is broke.”

J          “The populace is broken.”

. . .

K          “The anger is percolating.  The rage is raging.  The undigested anger is festering.”

J           “Something insignificant will be the trigger.”

. . .       

[See the e-commentary at “Everything Is A Fight Today.” Please répondez s’il vous plaît. Oh, And Happy Solstice! (June 17, 2024), Weaponizing Turn Signals (September 19, 2022), Edward Hopper:  The Mirror For Our Age (January 22, 2024), The Other Sabot To Drop (April 18, 2022) and The Residue of Unrelenting Fear: PTSD Afflicts The Populace (August 28, 2006).]

“As I see it, the only pleasure of living is that every joke should be made, every thought expressed, every line of investigation, irrespective of its direction, pursued to the uttermost limits that human ingenuity, courage and understanding can take it.  The moment that limits are set … then the flavor is gone.”  Malcolm Muggeridge

Camping is cheaper than therapy, and you don’t have to talk to anyone.

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