CAMILLO

Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind to Bohemia.
They were trained together in their childhoods; and
there rooted betwixt them then such an affection,
which cannot choose but branch now. Since their
more mature dignities and royal necessities made
separation of their society, their encounters,
though not personal, have been royally attorneyed
with interchange of gifts, letters, loving
embassies; that they have seemed to be together,
though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and
embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed
winds. The heavens continue their loves!

ARCHIDAMUS

I think there is not in the world either malice or
matter to alter it. You have an unspeakable
comfort of your young prince Mamillius: it is a
gentleman of the greatest promise that ever came
into my note.
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/winters_tale/winters_tale.1.1.html

“Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.” Miguel de Cervantes

The heavens can’t be wrong. Syria is hell and hell is no luxury.

“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” – Sophia Loren
One random Thursday night, I returned to our corporate headquarters afterhours with a bottle of wine and a box of acrylic paints. My assistant and I used stencils to paint about three dozen such quotes onto a large white wall in our break room. As first time stencilers, this project itself seemed destined to end up a byline on the (slightly gloppy) failure wall until we gratefully accepted some much-needed painting assistance from my wife.
https://hbr.org/2011/12/why-i-hire-people-who-fail

You don’t need immigration. Just hire more heavy drinkers. Have more office parties and less political parties. Pay bonus money for mistakes. Bust out wine and paint to save cash on decorating.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
– Pudd’nhead Wilson

The press has nine lies and nine lives. It’s like a cat and a lie all in one package.

Brooker discusses how Islam4UK orchestrated their publicity stunt of a march through Wooton Bassett and how filler reports are structured and padded out. How news airtime is filled with hand bags, social disruption (the truth about ASBOs), health reports, animals and analysing the brains response to various scenes from Britain. With guest stars such as Tim Key and Heather Brooke who discussed how Britain’s journalism is based on anonymous sources. Doug Stanhope examines how America’s newscasts portray the news in a different light as the day progresses.

Brooker explores the often tedious nature of live coverage. Doug Stanhope wonders why the media aggressively solicits the frequently idiotic opinions of the public. “The Week in Bullshit” looks at coverage of the newfound popularity of leeches, ITV’s acceptance of responsibility in the I’m a Celebrity rat-eating incident, and an ITN report about the decline of the practice of eatings dogs in China. Tim Key presents a poem about disgraced MPs. Other segments examine the media’s hysterical coverage of the John Terry affair scandal, the response to the news that four MPs will face criminal charges in the MPs’ Expenses scandal, and a BBC News series following journalist Nick Robinson’s efforts to solicit voters’ opinions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newswipe

It is an election year in bullshit.

The USA is the new France, France is the new England. England is the new Russia and Germany is the new Syria. The new Iraq was supposed to be better after the war.

The new American Dream.
“Virtual reality retains the harness, but replaces the remote robot with a computer simulation of a body and its surroundings. When connected to a virtual reality, the location you seem to inhabit does not exist in the usual physical sense, rather you are in a kind of computer-generated dream.”

Sell dream estate instead of real estate!

“Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
https://hbr.org/2011/12/why-i-hire-people-who-fail

Hire heavy drinkers because they’ll fail more than average.

Brexit raises more questions than it answers.

“I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man’s “time” limits him, it does not truly liberate him. Our age – it is one of science, of mechanism, of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mechanism of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of a graphic homage.” Clyfford Still

Time is money and money limits you.

The Grand Strategy. 1+1=4

When we take two triangles and add one to the other to make the tetrahedron, we find that one plus one equals four. This is not just a geometrical trick; it is really the same principle that chemistry is using inasmuch as the tetrahedra represent the way that atoms cohere. Thus we discover synergy to be operative in a very important way in chemistry and in all the composition of the Universe. Universe as a whole is behaving in a way that is completely unpredicted by the behavior of any of its parts. Synergy reveals a grand strategy of dealing with the whole instead of the tactics of our conventional educational system, which starts with parts and elements, adding them together locally without really understanding the whole.

Another way of not understanding the strategy is to have no strategy. There’s no strategy like Grand Strategy. 1+1 resulting in 4 means more surplus.

““We’re asking them to go into a ‘Star Wars’ bar on a regular basis,” he said, pointing to the language challenges soldiers face abroad. “We don’t know whether they’re saying something that will get them shot or hugged.”

Improved interfaces for mobile devices are, however, just the tip of the iceberg for improvements to the connection of soldiers to vehicles and weapons systems. Radical advances in storage, processing power and robotics are also offering new opportunities to help wounded warriors.”
http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/12/darpa-big-data-military-open-source-agile.html

The bureaucrats couldn’t find a hooker in a whorehouse.

“At the outset of his remarks, General Cartwright shared an anecdote involving former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, where they asked a sergeant at a base in Savannah, Ga., what he thought of mobile.

The sergeant said that he loved it. He would rather leave his rifle behind than a military-enabled smartphone. “I can call any help I need with it, it always works, and I don’t have to go to school for it,” Cartwright recounted the sergeant’s response.”
http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/12/darpa-big-data-military-open-source-agile.html

There’s no strategy and no rifles. The obsolete is growing.

All the systems are getting smaller, faster, smarter and more automated. They are also getting less expensive, making things like rifles and pistols obsolete.

Everyones garage can be a sweat house for the military.

We are here and it is now: further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)