Halting Problem, P and NP to start with.. chyrons &c 33
If it’s true, it’s as real and immediate a threat to free speech in the US as one can possinbbly imagine, if a foreign government that doesn’t like dissidents speaking out of turn so much that it murders themessentially attempts to blackmail and destroythe paper which covers is.
LM:
And not just the First Amendment, but we have to remember that Amazon right now is bidding on a ten billion dollar Pentagon cloud storage contract, here as well ..om there are tremendous national security implications
Ah, and golf:


There’s even a book about it —

— a book-length sports metaphor***** for the current presidency?
Author Rick Reilly describes the President as a “prolific cheater” ..


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Andrea:

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Okay.
Two major pieces on forms of the extreme associated with the right:

How Sovereign Citizens Helped Swindle $1 Billion From the Government They Disavow
And from that article, an aptly named car:
Mr. Morton’s sentencing was set for that June. But when the 11 a.m. hearing started, he didn’t show. Agents spotted him that afternoon outside a Domino’s in Hermosa Beach, a gray hood and sunglasses shrouding much of his face. He hopped in his white Ford Escape and headed south.
and an aptly named cruise:

Worth reading, and really worth knowing about the loosely-defined, quasi-religious Sovereign Citizens movement.
Also:

There are two forms of interest here — the vicious circle, a quintessential ouroboric concept, and the implied symmetry in “jihadists and the far-right not only reflect each other, but feed off each other”..
But the CSM piece I really want to direct your attention to is one written by blog-friend Ann Scott Tyson and quoting blog-friend JM Berger– — who was also quoted in the NYT SovCit piece above:

Christchurch brings global white supremacist threat into sharp relief
“This is a much bigger global challenge than it is a challenge just in New Zealand or just in the U.K., with Britain First, or just in the U.S. with the [Ku Klux] Klan and a range of other neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups,” says Seth Jones, director of the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “There’s a broader collective concern here.”
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This just in before I go.. another symmetry observed:

The cruel irony of Hussle’s murder is that he was the victim of the type of urban violence he had long tried to remedy: The day after his death, he was scheduled to participate in an LAPD anti-street-violence meeting.
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Grurray:
April 3rd, 2019 at 4:18 pm
Uhoh, I wonder if “3 Mexican countries” is a leak of one of Trump’s tells that Tom was referring to. I always believed that if a real border wall actually went up across the Rio Grande with strict controls and security, it would result in the Mexican part of the border becoming a de facto American territory.
Sally Benzon:
April 8th, 2019 at 12:20 am
Powerful poem, Charles.
Charles Cameron:
April 11th, 2019 at 5:58 pm
Uhoh, as Gruray says — sorry it has taken me so long to respond, Sally! My computer locked me out.
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I’m afraid I’m not much of a Seuss fan — more attuned to Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and Strewwelpeter.. And since each of those in turn can be meaner than the last, for niceness I go to Thomas the Tank Engine and Mister Rogers. Not that they rhyme all that often if at all..
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Ahem, I do like:
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I believe my father taught me that one..
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