Monthly Archives: August 2015

Flirtation Scrapbook

Posted on 2015/08/28 by pk

/ Chat / I have more than one talent. One I’ve become extra fond of, proud of, as I’ve aged to be coming up on eighty is the inventiveness of my flirting. I love to flirt, and I love to … Continue reading →

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Hyper-Reading

Posted on 2015/08/28 by pk

/ Literature / Hyper-reading 2015 08 28 Yesterday I mentioned Pamela Stephenson in my Movie Scrapbook. The context was Mel Brooks’ casting stunning blonds in his History of the World (1981): Miss Florida found him; he (and studio) found Pamela … Continue reading →

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Per Bak Reading Notes

Posted on 2015/08/26 by pk

/ Reading Notes / Per Bak, How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality 2015 05 19 Crystals and gases and orbiting planets are not complex, but landscapes are. History is unpredictable, but not unexplainable. Self-organized criticality is a new … Continue reading →

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Wolf, Tom

Posted on 2015/08/26 by pk

/ Reading Notes / Tom Wolfe Own Yo Ass 2015 06 25 I love Tom Wolfe. I’ve loved him since reading my first sentence of The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test in 1970. I then read all of his journalism, … Continue reading →

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Jared Diamond’s Kleptocracy

Posted on 2015/08/25 by pk

Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Macroinformation.org & Knatz.com / Teaching / Society / NoHier / Kleptocracy / @ K. 1999 Lawrence of Arabia: How come Britain is so powerful? That’s what Col. Harry Brighton is asking in Prince Feisal’s … Continue reading →

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Daily Refreshment of Crime

Posted on 2015/08/24 by pk

Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Macroinformation.org & Knatz.com / Teaching / Society / NoHier / Kleptocracy / @ K. 2008 06 04 Old Kleptocracy versus New Old Crimes versus Fresh Blood My landlord says that “This country was founded … Continue reading →

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Crime as Fuzz

Posted on 2015/08/23 by pk

Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Macroinformation.org & Knatz.com / Teaching / Society / NoHier / Kleptocracy / @K c. early 2000s I launch this module with time to do only two brief things: First I quote Michael Crichton: … … Continue reading →

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Symmetry of Contempt

Posted on 2015/08/23 by pk

Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Macroinformation.org & Knatz.com / Teaching / Society / NoHier / Kleptocracy / @ K. 1999 Governments are parasites which hold their hosts in contempt. Consider the behavior of cops (depending on the neighborhood), of … Continue reading →

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Conquest of Nature

Posted on 2015/08/19 by pk

Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Macroinformation.org & Knatz.com / Teaching / Society / NoHier / Kleptocracy / @ K. 2000 08 30 Where William Went Wrong Kleptocracy versus Nature The bucks battle till one yields. Happens every year. A … Continue reading →

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Censorship

Posted on 2015/08/17 by pk

Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Macroinformation.org & Knatz.com / Teaching / Society / NoHier / Kleptocracy / Kleptocracy Vain Laws Societies manage information. That’s their essence. Laws regarding censorship are just posturings, Evidence of how little we know ourselves. … Continue reading →

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