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Which Extermination Do We Prefer? credit I occasionally post strange stuff (not strange to me, of course) to a Disqus " conversation " in their Sci-fi category - sort of a sub-Reddit.  Following discussions on the existence of UFOs and the A.I. takeover, I wrote this, which seemed in general step with the stuff I put on this blog. So here: seniorjunior (scooter duff)   @seniorjunior  an hour ago The (eagerly awaited by some) Final Blow to human life might be an invasion of a powerful, pitiless bunch of aliens who think we are just spiffy hors d’ oeuvres. We sci-fi nuts keep dreaming up new apocalyses when a real one is floating around all over. One of the certainties of massive over-population is that a "die back" is cooked into the craziness. "We're all gonna die!" screams the heroine. True, of course, but all at once? Possible. The speed with which viruses mutate is 1.) Scary as heck, and 2.) a powerful argument for the

Oh Sure, You've Heard About the Latest Trump Noise...      ...But so very much important, significant, progressive, hopeful news is buried under the crashing cymbals of our Distractor in Chief.      Like this earth-shaking bit... * " Fifty-six percent of doctors registered either strong support or were somewhat supportive of a single-payer health system, according to the  survey  by Merritt Hawkins, a physician recruitment firm." 56%!  That's way up from just a few years ago. How come? you might ask. Did docs suddenly become libtards? Why would they care when they get paid, how they get paid? And that's it... getting paid through the tangled morass of for-profit insurance companies' rules and legal dances (different for every company) is a pain in the prolapsed rectum. "P hysicians often say they are tired of dealing with billing and paperwork, which takes time away from patients," is putting it more politely. A one-doc office might have

Robots.... Note:  No humans around *                                                                                        AND they broke the Guinness record for dancing robots Ok, maybe I'm a bit alarmist. Then I heard about their "quantum radar" that sees stealth airplanes quite clearly. (More on that later.) Eeeeek! * Axios ** Nerdist

The Locked and Loaded edition  Our President (yes he is, whether we like it or not) says so many outrageous things so often, that we hardly have time to comment on the last one before a new one comes along. Finally, his "locked and loaded" comment in a blast at North Korea just kept coming up in my mind until it boiled over into my commentary basket. This time I did it over at YouTube, another part of the Google-topus. To see a video version of a Scooter rant, check out "Locked and Loaded" here . (If you are not into Spider solitaire, just check the first two and a half minutes. But then, you'll miss the brown dwarf.)   p.s. El Presidente said so many outrageous things last night in Phoenix (22 Aug), it might take me weeks to pick one for comment. I know, 'thank heavens.'

WOW! What a Picture Worth, oh, 63,000 words It was in the NY Times Sunday Review Click  HERE  for...

"Hey, lots of leaders were narcissists"  (Lunacy Notes before Lunatic Blocks the Sun)                                                        Just hope it's not total                                                                   "How about that Alt-Left?"        What to do? How to respond? My reflex action is to rant through the NYTimes, the Washington Post or maybe Breitbart (but they are too crazy today, cheering for Their Guy, to even consider).   Here's what I ranted to The Times' Frank Bruni column " Can’t Eclipse the American Spirit:" NYTIMES 8.16.2017 will duff Tijeras, NM   20 minutes ago "Lunar" is the base word behind "lunatic." Maybe I'm crazy to see the connection? For all of us who have been preoccupied with DJT's mental state, now we can see the actual, on-the-ground results of having a president who is suffering (ha!) from malignant narcisissim. The tragic, bizarre, shout

In the Daily Gush of Olde Scooter's "Comments," the Occasional Bon Mot (more mot than bon) Here's a sample The story was about how Stephen Bannon was thought  to have orchestrated an anti-H.R. McMasters campaign to oust the  general from his National Security Adviser role by calling him a "globalist." Salon 8/14/17                                              Bannon                                            Globalist Scooter spake: The brain-twisters on the Republican (and moreso Trump) payrolls have demonized the word "globalist." They demonized "diversity" and "sustainable" and "progressive" and many more. This propagandist's trick of changing the very meaning of our vocabulary is insidious and deeply dangerous to the free exchange of ideas. Robert Mercer's (and Steve Bannon's) Cambridge Analytica uses Big Data and advanced Artificial Intelligence to direct this mutation of language. What F