Sunday Serendipity

91F here yesterday, 92F today, 90F tomorrow …………… Yep Spring is up and runnin’.
Copland can’t be beat.

A profile in Jell-O

Former Fox News anchor Chris Wallace shed light on his reason for leaving the network late last year, saying it had grown increasingly difficult to reconcile some of the opinions being expressed by its top hosts.
“I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox,” Wallace told The New York Times in his first interview since his departure. “I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion … But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.”

 
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/599918-chris-wallace-working-at-fox-had-become-unsustainable

The number that puts Vladimir Putin at risk

Opinion by Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst, CNN National Security Analyst

Updated 5:04 PM EDT, Sun March 27, 2022

The official Soviet death toll during the Afghan War, which lasted more than nine years, was around 15,000 soldiers. It is therefore quite telling that the Russians may have already lost as many 15,000 soldiers in just one month in Ukraine, according to estimates given to CNN by senior NATO officials.
 
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/opinions/russian-troops-ukraine-war-putin-at-risk/index.html
 
He’s all in , he’s got no more troops to send , and given the wounded to dead ratio  that war brings.  He’s nearing losing a third of his army in one month. 
I have to believe  his generals are nearing the point where they will not follow him into the furnace .
 
As the Bergan op-ed points out , when the Soviets  rolled out of Afghanistan , the Wall came down. 
 
Some times your the windshield , sometimes your the bug .
 
Which reminds me that New Chrome virus’s name would make a rock band  name ………… One Bad Bug . Or a song, or an album title.  It sticks in the ear. 

The new NBC poll  forecasts a dark November.  
And Biden looks more and more feckless, just because he said what we all know.  A great speech ignored  by one line. 
I have to agree with Musk on this one, gerontocracy is a problem. 
Our elected government is the only place where being old won’t get you laid-off. 

I used to buy coal  in Salida  to heat the sheep shack that first winter.  There were 2 grades  pure coal , and “clinker”. 
“Clinker”  had bands of shale embedded in the coal .
The more “clinker” in the seams the dirtier the smoke. 
Ole Coal Joe’s mine produces  “gop” .  The lowest grade of the fuel .  I had never heard this term until tonight. 
But I know what it means .  His Power Plant burns some of the poorest fuel in America. 
They don’t just burn shale , but they burn mud along with the coal. 
If one thinks about combustion , shale and very very old mud  are not your first choice in your fuel supply. 

The War of the Worlds 
Funny how  that has changed , we got a helicopter flying around on Mars , by the way it just made it’s 27th flight .
But here on our home planet we battle over our past , and our future.  That is ” The War of the Worlds ” . 
And at speed we are moving , the past we are hanging on to is about 15 minutes . 
Only if we can pry the cold dead hand off the rudder of our future. 
 

Here’s something we need to get ready for  “Food”.
 
Again this will expose  how close we were 3 years ago. 
That this we cannot go on , that is containers of sneakers  floating in he Pacific. 
The entire idea of world trade  is under assault. 
And we are a greedy lazy people.  This will not be easy. 
That world is dead as Stalin.