Occasional Reader 9/5/2022 6:56:49 AM

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Metaphor alert:

https://www.wtrf.com/news/west-virginia-headlines/coal-miners-help-push-tourists-dead-electric-car-in-west-virginia/

Kosh's Shadow 9/5/2022 8:30:44 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 1:

I had commented on PJM a while back (when you did not have to pay to be able to comment) that in bad snowstorms, when a lot of cars get stuck, and people in the cars need heat, electric cars would have to be towed when their batteries ran out, while gas cars could be refueled from gas cans.

Several people said they'd help the electric cars - put a generator on their trucks and charge to recharge.

Kosh's Shadow 9/5/2022 8:40:05 AM

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A detailed and good article on the Mar a Largo raid

The effect of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago is therefore to obscure the real scandal: U.S. spies committed a series of crimes in their effort to unseat a U.S. president, and then ignored the lawful orders of that president in order to keep their crimes hidden from the American public.

But then we already knew that.

JCM 9/5/2022 9:50:33 AM

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lucius septimius 9/5/2022 1:28:53 PM

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Occasional Reader 9/5/2022 2:58:08 PM

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This is the evil we are up against.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctor-poses-for-a-picture-with-the-child-she-just-mutilated-post-from-gender-affirming-surgeon-with-patient-goes-viral

buzzsawmonkey 9/5/2022 3:25:14 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 6:

Yesterday, I re-watched "Island of Lost Souls," the early-'30s version of "The Island of Dr. Moreau" starring Charles Laughton as the doctor.

The film packs a lot of creepiness into a mere 70 minutes, joining other early-'30s horror films like "Frankenstein," "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde," "The Most Dangerous Game," among others.  There's a lot of interest in these early films as to what makes someone human, or not---lest we forget, the Frankenstein monster was an attempt to create life from dead flesh, something which grew out of the horrors of bodysnatching of the Burke & Hare variety.  The story of Dr. Moreau, who is trying to create human beings out of animals, accelerating evolution, came out of the late-19th century movement against vivisection, coupled with unease about Darwinian evolutionary theory.

In a sense, "Island of Lost Souls" turns Wells' story on its head, because the narrator in the original text finds that the beast-men created by Moreau are nicer and gentler than "real" men, and he has a hard time dealing with his fellow humans when he is rescued and returned to society.  This is in some sense an echo of Gulliver's experience among the Houhynhms and Yahoos---he finds himself yearning for the company of Houhynhms once he returns home, and ends up viewing his fellow-humans, who remind him of the Yahoos, as revolting.

All of which is leading up to my thoughts that it would be interesting to re-do "The Island of Dr. Moreau"/"Island of Lost Souls" as a tale about transgenderism.

lucius septimius 9/5/2022 4:36:18 PM

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In #7 buzzsawmonkey said: All of which is leading up to my thoughts that it would be interesting to re-do "The Island of Dr. Moreau"/"Island of Lost Souls" as a tale about transgenderism.

A number of commentators described that particular doctor in such terms.

Increasing numbers of people, I think are starting to wise up.  Sunlight is the best disinfectant. 

lucius septimius 9/5/2022 4:36:38 PM

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In #8 lucius septimius said: Sunlight is the best disinfectant. 

After A-bombs that is.