donderdag 9 oktober 2025

donderdag 9 oktober 2025 Ineffective Washington DC - the Capitol - has fallen into an alternate universe. It was exactly 12 years ago when we experienced a previous government shutdown. NPR: GOP Shutdown Strategy Gives House A Twilight Zone Feel. In 2013, House Republicans decided on a piecemeal strategy -- funding the FAA and death benefits to the families of service members. Today, in 2025, we get NOTHING!

Oscar Wilde: Irish author, poet, and playwright. Born October 16, 1854 and died November 30, 1900 (aged 46). His epitaph is a verse from The Ballad of Reading Gaol, 

And alien tears will fill for him

Pity's long-broken urn

For his mourners will be outcast men, 

And outcasts always mourn.

Exploring Dublin with Google. I've always been interested in Dublin... Ireland in general. I discover the Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture.

Stand-up comedians will save us from certain doom. The Brits have certainly experienced a vibe shift. In 2017, they implemented the Alan Turing Law. Comedian Jimmy Carr addresses the elephant in the room.

The world is a post-apocalyptic wasteland caused by ecocide and a nuclear war over resources. Watch Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Max fights constantly for his survival. Can he endure all these trials? Max is exiled into the desert. Out in the Wasteland, he discovers a primitive tribe of teenagers and children. Will they accept this stranger?