I’m watching “The Prince of Tides.” Nick Nolte is trying to help his twin sister after her suicide attempt by seeing her psychiatrist, played by Barbra Streisand. Streisand is also dealing with her failed marriage. Then the predictable happens. Given the movie poster scene, showing Nolte and Streisand in bed together, I’m not giving anything away.

I didn’t read the book, which was well-received and a bestseller, but yeesh. I like Nolte and even Streisand some. However, half the scenes go clunk on my meter as trite and overwritten. The ending was hardly a surprise either.

The film was likewise well-received and made it into the Criterion Collection, which perhaps I regard too highly. Streisand has her goodly share of Hollywood pull. One wonders.

I cannot consider not defending, even if it appears futile. I get the Little Mrs on her way to safety, and join the resistance. I’m old; Basic Training was in 1967. But reasonably equipped I can put up as good a fight as anyone. These leftists are beginning to get under my skin.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/stephen-kotkin-putin-russia-ukraine-stalin

File under blind squirrel effect (New Yorker finds the acorn).

Vlad stepped in it.

Issues, causes, pretexts.

Not originated – just a note that a standard military technique was being used (and very effectively) in an odd place to find it.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/ukraine-invasion-first-social-media-war-volodymyr-zelensky/
“The Ukraine invasion is the first social media war, And Volodymyr Zelensky is its star”

The long-running high-intensity discussion about Ukraine, Russia, NATO, etc. among Neo and her commenters made me think of this Dilbert strip.
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-02-26-at-7.56.33-PM.png?w=1160&ssl=1

DIVERSITY PROBLEM: 2022 Midterms: 20-1, North Carolina university employees are donating to Democrats over Republicans.

Seriously, we’re always told that universities should represent the entire community. Yet it’s quite clear that they’re political monocultures whose members often actively favor a single political party. Why should taxpayers support them? We were told that we needed affirmative action because citizens wouldn’t want to support institutions made up of people who didn’t look like them. Well?

Impoverishing America’s middle class to extinction would inevitably result in the extermination of the democrat party. Hopefully through voting them out of power. If electoral fraud prevents that corrective, quite possibly a modern version of the guillotine will result. Though mobs might well resort to S. Africa’s “necklacing” of the more prominent members on the left.

Government economic enslavement is not going to work.

Down in the comment threads was a link to a news story from yesterday alleging that Israel’s PM had advised Zelenskyy to surrender.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-701041

Today, a rebuttal is up, also at the Jerusalem Post.
Misinformation, disinformation, who can you believe?

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-701064

I haven’t been following the military aspects of the invasion, so I was reacting to the possibility/uncertainty that AesopFan might be laboring under the impression that Joseph Smith originated that tactic. Or even the ancient Nephites in America.

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