Mike 03
Mike 03's JournalRes judicata:
Overview. Generally, res judicata is the principle that a cause of action may not be relitigated once it has been judged on the merits. "Finality" is the term which refers to when a court renders a final judgment on the merits.
Thank you for teaching me a new phrase.
Because it involves Bill Gross
I do find this interesting. I wish my dad were alive, because at one point he really studied Bill Gross and invested quite a bit with him. But Bill Gross' fall has been a spectacular tale of griping, accusations back and forth of betrayal and incompetence, and lawsuits galore, and included a terrible and vicious falling out with his closest and brightest protege, Mohamed A. El-Erian, who basically accused Gross of being senile. And the way Gross subsequently ran his bond funds, I don't entirely doubt it.
Yes, I'm used to calling his efforts "desperate" but this is beneath
even "desperate." This is more like that trickle of blood that oozes out of the mouth of a movie character that's already dead.
The Uphill Climb Faced by Fleetwood Mac biographers (satire)
Stevie Nicks: "All of us were drug addicts, but I was the worst"https://www.loudersound.com/features/stevie-nicks-all-of-us-were-drug-addicts-but-i-was-the-worst
Christine McVie was asked to describe the significant moment in Fleetwood Mac history, the recording of the album Mirage:
McVie: Well, I don’t think any of us remember a huge amount about it! But I don’t remember there being anything bad about it, how about that [laughs]?
And the number of times she doesn't know or can't remember something important:
McVie: I don’t know why that was. Maybe Stevie was going off to do a tour. I can’t remember if Lindsey had a tour. But it was short, and then we did another vanishing act for another couple years before we came back and did Tango in the Night.
Do you recall as much?
And I’d be the first one to admit that none of us were stone-cold sober. There was a fair degree of alcohol and drugs going on. But everyone was doing it, so it was kind of the norm.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/christine-mcvie-on-fleetwood-macs-peculiar-mirage-sessions-new-lp-122885/
Other headlines I'm imagining:
Mick Fleetwood has "no recollection" of recording Tusk, which took an entire year
Fleetwood Mac biographers "frustrated" that Lindsey Buckingham was in a "Blacked-Out State" During Historic Concerts
John McVie "no memory" of Buckingham throwing guitar at Stevie Nicks in New Zealand
Tusk world tour sold out every show, made no money, but none of the band members remember why
Buckingham: I might have kicked Stevie, but I don't remember throwing a guitar at her head
Just kidding around. I love Fleetwood Mac, but they don't remember a whole lot. Hopefully some great biographer can breach the Mac Curtain. (I rearranged one of the McVie quotes for effect).
Indeed. This two-track trend in some Western Democracies towards
nationalism and isolationism (amid fantasies of Autarky and Empire) is deeply worrying. We have problems to solve that can't be solved unless we cooperate and join forces. All that we achieved in the post WW2 era is slowly crumbling.
I think it's reasonable to wait for better long-term data.
Besides, according to the NYT, many of us are almost last in line so I expect if there are issues they will come to light.
USUAL DISCLAIMER: I'm not anti-vax. I've taken all my vaccines and flu shots. This is a new kind of vaccine. We have press releases (and stock surges and insider trading) but not data, and no long-term data, but I'm listening to Dr. Fauci and watching what happens over the next few months. In the NYT, Dr. Paul Offit, who leads to crusade against Anti-Vaxxers, said he had concerns about the rush to produce these vaccines. Friendly reminder: Vioxx, a drug that killed more people than the Vietnam War (60,000, with 140,000 heart attacks), was also FDA approved.
Every fleeting thought is worth posting, I agree!
Which "concern" are you "concerned" about? The fear of these attacks on our
Democracy from neo-fascists or worry that the election will be overturned?
I'm not worried the election will be overturned.
But count me in the "concerned about our Democracy under attack" camp. I'll proudly sit here with Timothy Snyder and Ruth Ben-Ghiat and dozens of other historians and experts on authoritarianism. Don't mind us. Go about your business and keep making fun of it all. It's just a big cosmic joke, you know
Pretty much agree.
I'm more concerned with locating the next Trump, and praying for a Civil War within the Republican party.
Although I do agree he should be indicted.
I think the noise he is making about running again mostly serves two purposes:
1. Saving face
2. Raising money
He will have so many financial concerns in 4 years and clearly he lost money while in the White House. He won't want to lose more money or lose an election. His ego won't permit it.
But I admit, hope is speaking here as well as rational thought. He could be our Berlusconi. That worries me.
+1
World War II is the biggest human-caused catastrophe the planet has ever known. We are still finding grenades, shells and unexploded bombs and pieces of battleships all over the world. It is really important to study it: all aspects of it, both theaters, and the philosophies that made it possible (and really, that takes most people back to WWI). People who have studied the Weimar years in Germany are likely to be the ones who most know what the hell has been going on the US for the last five years.
Forgetting about WWII, putting it behind them, ignoring it... is a fool's errand of gargantuan hubris.
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