PG woke up this morning with a very sore throat and a nasty cough.
A lot of water vapor pumped into PG’s lair has improved things somewhat, but blogging while coughing is probably not the ideal combination for clear thinking or rapid recovery.
From Facit AI
There was a period in the English subtitling of B&W Japanese samurai flicks where you could trace the presence of a particular translator. When the hero was suffering his latest setback, when his enemies appeared to be triumphant and his cause lost, when his comrades were dropping all around him and all appeared hopeless, someone would appear to him and say something in Japanese, the subtitled rendering of which I now share with you:
“Buck up!”
As everyone else has said, take care and get better soon. Also, Happy new Year.
I can name at least a dozen bloggers (not PG!) and major-news-outlet “opinion columnists” who — on the basis of their typically congested, muddle-headed thinking and prose that makes me cough — don’t care about that first part of an ideal combination.
You are assuming that these people are not perfectly clear headed. Emphasis on “clear.”
<sarcasm> None of them are Clears. They are all Suppressive Persons. </sarcasm>
What they say…
Take care, have a hot toddy (or equivalent) tonight, and don’t worry about the New Year; take a few days off if you need. (I’m selfish – I want another year of the wit and wisdom.)
I do wonder if you were made vulnerable by the extra work put into quelling the bogus DMCA notices.
Second the motion.
You almost certainly have no shortage of reading material but if you want a history tome with a rather unusual angle, there is this:
https://www.amazon.com/Oceans-Grain-American-Wheat-Remade-ebook/dp/B096RSW7GQ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2Z6LVANBIV4FU&keywords=oceans+of+grain&qid=1704060618&sprefix=oceans+of%2Caps%2C251&sr=8-1
Explains a lot.
The US has been “messing up” the global status quo for two centuries and counting.
Oh and…
HAPPY NEW YEAR everybody!
(hic)
The shades of my father & grandfather, in the grain milling industry in KCMO, thank you for the reference.
Rest. Hydrate. Baby yourself.
Repeat.
Have enough stuff to read (if you feel up to it)?