Just another open-thread comment about something I read someplace else.
At “Marginal Revolution,” Tyler Cowen listed a pointer to the news that Bari Weis’s “Free Press” has been valued at $100 million and has just raised $15 million (https://tinyurl.com/nkbe9udt).
That sounds like a lot of money for a Substack site. Since Weis started publishing “Free Press,” I’ve been an irregular reader. I was curious what supposedly moderate Democrats might write, when freed from the shackles of “The New York Times” and other establishment Marxist publications.
Here and there, I’ve found a good article, but most of it has been surprisingly boring. For the Democrats, maybe that’s as good as it gets. Still, that doesn’t explain its popularity. What’s it all mean? Is there an inside story? What might “The New Neo” be worth?
Nasrallah has been killed!? Boy, am I behind the news…
Dixie county Florida is sorta remote, and areas in it are even more remote. Electric still out but internet finally came back. For me, electric is missed most, and then the internet. Phone I can do w/o—and it barely works when internet goes out…works great w/ WiFi-calling which needs internet.
Next year, T-Mobile & Musk have teamed up to bring satellite connections to all remote areas in America, so I should be fine from then on…
Live 7-miles north of Old Town, and Old Town has electric. Convoys headed west to where main damage from hurricane must have been – convoys of different Electric companies, convoys of tree trimming companies, convoys of Fla Wildlife, convoys of some kind of stuff they apparently need (new shit I had no clue what it was on long bed trailers), and convoys after convoys stopping for gas whilst others moved on by. I skipped getting gas.
Gov. DeSantis does a great job in Florida – a *REAL* Leader!!!
Got 20 more gallons of gas for generator early this morning, and went to Walmart in Chiefland to get more Sta-Bil fuel additive. Some convoys still, but not like yesterday. That Troy generator has gotten me thru every hurricane in area since 2010, and even a storm or two.
No news since Thursday & Friday, so have some catching up to do…Nasrallah dead—great!!!
Ah the beauty of times past
Yes l’ chaim to one as evil as haman, of course at whitehall at foggy bottom they will weep in their creme brulee
Glad to see you’re safe
The sheriff in Taylor County, to your northwest, Karmi, told people who stayed to write their names and ID numbers on their arms or legs in permanent marker so they could be identified later. Glad that wasn’t you.
Kate – Jeez. Thanks! Yeah, best I can tell is the hurricane came in 61 miles west of me. Am also about 30 miles from coast, with lots of forests to slow hurricane down.
No sites seem to give all the news that is needed during a hurricane – live news on landing, wind-speeds in and around hurricane path, etc.
I was back and forth—forgetting which site said what. One site didn’t give actual wind-speeds at my location, but showed predictions of 85mph. There were stronger winds here than what I am used to since 1969.
Living on the Coasts is another story…
Does anyone have an opinion on James Jatras. Heard his name tossed around by a friend but info is limited.
At “Marginal Revolution,” Tyler Cowen listed a pointer to the news that Bari Weis’s “Free Press” has been valued at $100 million and has just raised $15 million
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I suspect that’s mistaken.
Nice video. There’s Hitchock’s Vertigo again, but I noticed quite a few scene’s from the Shirley MacLaine movie “What a Way to Go!” I remember seeing it when I was a kid. Here’s a synopsis:
This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster donating a multimillion dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she’s crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist. She then discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
And who was that white faced woman in a black outfit strutting in front of the trombones? Cyd Charisse maybe? I couldn’t tell with the makeup, but her movement seemed like Cyd.
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Just another open-thread comment about something I read someplace else.
At “Marginal Revolution,” Tyler Cowen listed a pointer to the news that Bari Weis’s “Free Press” has been valued at $100 million and has just raised $15 million (https://tinyurl.com/nkbe9udt).
That sounds like a lot of money for a Substack site. Since Weis started publishing “Free Press,” I’ve been an irregular reader. I was curious what supposedly moderate Democrats might write, when freed from the shackles of “The New York Times” and other establishment Marxist publications.
Here and there, I’ve found a good article, but most of it has been surprisingly boring. For the Democrats, maybe that’s as good as it gets. Still, that doesn’t explain its popularity. What’s it all mean? Is there an inside story? What might “The New Neo” be worth?
Nasrallah has been killed!? Boy, am I behind the news…
Dixie county Florida is sorta remote, and areas in it are even more remote. Electric still out but internet finally came back. For me, electric is missed most, and then the internet. Phone I can do w/o—and it barely works when internet goes out…works great w/ WiFi-calling which needs internet.
Next year, T-Mobile & Musk have teamed up to bring satellite connections to all remote areas in America, so I should be fine from then on…
Live 7-miles north of Old Town, and Old Town has electric. Convoys headed west to where main damage from hurricane must have been – convoys of different Electric companies, convoys of tree trimming companies, convoys of Fla Wildlife, convoys of some kind of stuff they apparently need (new shit I had no clue what it was on long bed trailers), and convoys after convoys stopping for gas whilst others moved on by. I skipped getting gas.
Gov. DeSantis does a great job in Florida – a *REAL* Leader!!!
Got 20 more gallons of gas for generator early this morning, and went to Walmart in Chiefland to get more Sta-Bil fuel additive. Some convoys still, but not like yesterday. That Troy generator has gotten me thru every hurricane in area since 2010, and even a storm or two.
No news since Thursday & Friday, so have some catching up to do…Nasrallah dead—great!!!
Ah the beauty of times past
Yes l’ chaim to one as evil as haman, of course at whitehall at foggy bottom they will weep in their creme brulee
Glad to see you’re safe
The sheriff in Taylor County, to your northwest, Karmi, told people who stayed to write their names and ID numbers on their arms or legs in permanent marker so they could be identified later. Glad that wasn’t you.
Kate – Jeez. Thanks! Yeah, best I can tell is the hurricane came in 61 miles west of me. Am also about 30 miles from coast, with lots of forests to slow hurricane down.
No sites seem to give all the news that is needed during a hurricane – live news on landing, wind-speeds in and around hurricane path, etc.
I was back and forth—forgetting which site said what. One site didn’t give actual wind-speeds at my location, but showed predictions of 85mph. There were stronger winds here than what I am used to since 1969.
Living on the Coasts is another story…
Does anyone have an opinion on James Jatras. Heard his name tossed around by a friend but info is limited.
At “Marginal Revolution,” Tyler Cowen listed a pointer to the news that Bari Weis’s “Free Press” has been valued at $100 million and has just raised $15 million
==
I suspect that’s mistaken.
Nice video. There’s Hitchock’s Vertigo again, but I noticed quite a few scene’s from the Shirley MacLaine movie “What a Way to Go!” I remember seeing it when I was a kid. Here’s a synopsis:
This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster donating a multimillion dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she’s crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist. She then discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
And who was that white faced woman in a black outfit strutting in front of the trombones? Cyd Charisse maybe? I couldn’t tell with the makeup, but her movement seemed like Cyd.