I never cheer the death of anyone.
But I do enjoy reading more than a few obituaries.
Cup O’ Schmoe will be insufferable for the next week, so I’m glad I stopped watching his show.
1925-1913? Victim of the Weeping Angels?*
*Present-day Doctor Who reference. (Sorry.)
I was wondering about this “there is no society” thing. I found the quote here. It’s at least as repellent as I’d imagined:
And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first.
Well, I’m not a member of her family.
Good Riddance, may she rot in hell with her partner in crime Ronnie Raygun!
Stephen, in my mind, that quote always had the echo of Ayn Rand’s ideas about the “public” or “common good”. As if we are not people of a nation, but just a bunch of people occupying, and fighting over, the same real estate. It certainly is a dismal world view.
One of my faves, Adam Curtis, did a documentary on the Thatcher years. One of the sales pitches was about “empowering” people to solve problems and meet production or other types of goals in the workplace. Some of it seemed to go awry in a way that is familiar about production SNAFUs in the Soviet Union.
One example was a goal regarding National Health system. People complained that they were waiting in the office too long before anything happened. So the goal was to cut the waiting period to 5 minutes between entering the office and the first interaction. The result was the “Hello Nurse”. The “Hello Nurse” was really nothing more than a greeter, but creating the role met the goal,while the real purpose behind the goal was left by the wayside.
Greg Palast also wrote about how some of the banking “reforms” embraced by Thatcher gradually infected the rest of the world. Oh, well, I have to get back to work.
Rule of Three weirdness: Roger Ebert; Margaret Thatcher; now Annette Funicello.
Just last week I remembered she’d been ill a long time, and wondered if she was still with us.
Annette, I mean.
Now is time to say goodbye to all our company. See ya real soon! It’s like we’re all approaching eternity at mach speed.
Gotta love the irony that the self-described “rugged individualists” and the “no such thing as society” folk being the most tribal bunch of sheep the world has ever known…
Like her best bud on this side of the Atlantic, Maggie more than anything championed the right of the privileged to be selfish and smug. For those who haven’t heard it, I suggest listening to Elvis Costello’s summary, recorded years ago, but fitting now: http://youtu.be/K-BZIWSI5UQ
I never cheer the death of anyone.
But I do enjoy reading more than a few obituaries.
Cup O’ Schmoe will be insufferable for the next week, so I’m glad I stopped watching his show.
1925-1913? Victim of the Weeping Angels?*
*Present-day Doctor Who reference. (Sorry.)
I was wondering about this “there is no society” thing. I found the quote here. It’s at least as repellent as I’d imagined:
Well, I’m not a member of her family.
Good Riddance, may she rot in hell with her partner in crime Ronnie Raygun!
Stephen, in my mind, that quote always had the echo of Ayn Rand’s ideas about the “public” or “common good”. As if we are not people of a nation, but just a bunch of people occupying, and fighting over, the same real estate. It certainly is a dismal world view.
One of my faves, Adam Curtis, did a documentary on the Thatcher years. One of the sales pitches was about “empowering” people to solve problems and meet production or other types of goals in the workplace. Some of it seemed to go awry in a way that is familiar about production SNAFUs in the Soviet Union.
One example was a goal regarding National Health system. People complained that they were waiting in the office too long before anything happened. So the goal was to cut the waiting period to 5 minutes between entering the office and the first interaction. The result was the “Hello Nurse”. The “Hello Nurse” was really nothing more than a greeter, but creating the role met the goal,while the real purpose behind the goal was left by the wayside.
Greg Palast also wrote about how some of the banking “reforms” embraced by Thatcher gradually infected the rest of the world. Oh, well, I have to get back to work.
Rule of Three weirdness: Roger Ebert; Margaret Thatcher; now Annette Funicello.
Just last week I remembered she’d been ill a long time, and wondered if she was still with us.
Annette, I mean.
Now is time to say goodbye to all our company. See ya real soon! It’s like we’re all approaching eternity at mach speed.
And everyone’s favorite Mousketeer just died.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/08/annette-funicello-dead_n_3038406.html
Too bad.
Where’s she’s at now, Maggie Thatcher will never meet her.
And, title or not, Annette Funicello was more of a “lady” than Lady Thatcher could ever be.
Jayzoos!
I’m getting feckin” old…
I always wanted to grow up and be Annette. She was everyone’s favorite Mouseketeer.
The Fletcher Memorial Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLllFMF-OkQ
Gotta love the irony that the self-described “rugged individualists” and the “no such thing as society” folk being the most tribal bunch of sheep the world has ever known…
Like her best bud on this side of the Atlantic, Maggie more than anything championed the right of the privileged to be selfish and smug. For those who haven’t heard it, I suggest listening to Elvis Costello’s summary, recorded years ago, but fitting now: http://youtu.be/K-BZIWSI5UQ
Right on, Dan!