Jamesian Philosophy Refreshed

Note that they no longer complain that the news is "fake." Only that it is "old."  Mike Lindell walked into the White House with some papers near the end of the transition period. The papers were in plain sight the way he was holding them, and photos indicate that they concerned martial law.  Bob Costa's question was: where did he get them? Who prepared them?  Lindell's answer, so far as he gave one, was that "a bunch of lawyers" prepared them. Lindell also says he never read them.  So, he was walking into the White House with papers randomly given him by lawyers he doesn't know and whose work he didn't read? He didn't really say that, but that seems to be the story he wants to convey so laconically. I suspect he had some idea what was in there and who it came from.  Anyway, Lindell's melt-down when Costa pressed the point was epic. I love his emphasis on the "oldness" of the news. Its truth doesn't matter if the coup ...

Wojciech Jaruzelski, a man whose passing I cannot regret, RIP. Jaruzelski passed away on May 25th of this year, after suffering a stroke earlier in the month. His place in the history books is ignoble but secure. He was a General by trade, and he became the only military official ever to head a ruling European Communist Party when he became First Secretary in Poland, in October 1981. Two months later he became the General who declared martial law in Poland, acting at the cat's paw of the old Soviet Union. such actions are a sign of a regime's weakness not strength -- the Solidarnosc movement was becoming too much for him. Nowadays, the world still witnesses Russia's efforts to extend its control over its neighbors, largely through complacent local paws. But since the demise of the USSR and the discrediting of the once-marketable ideology of "actually existing communism" has left Moscow's imperial stretch weakened. The flash points now are to the...