I read MR several times a week, especially appreciated your x’cellent coverage of Mexican election. MR: very, very good blog!!!

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— BEGIN THEORY —

We find ourselves exactly where we should expect to be after having sold off our country’s broadcast (one-way communication) apparatus to the highest bidder. When big money interests control all mass information diffusion, literally anything is possible. No crime or abuse can come as a surprise.

The only conceivable cure would be to transfer control over broadcast media (radio, television) to the populace, using some sort of popular voting to control the management.

Of course, such a transfer of control is impossible once huge corporate interests control all of broadcasting. The definition of reality is already in their hands! Beyond that point, no change is possible. Nothing useful can be achieved. Only profound social and economic ruin, which no sane person could wish for, might shake the foundations of such an arrangement.

— END THEORY —

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MEC @ 77. Great story. We were lucky enough to have your father in these parts years ago. He’s an amazing journalist.

I think maybe you think I’m somebody else. My father was never a journalist.

Hey PW….

You’re making me homesick for Chequamegon Bay and those nights staring up at the “billions and billions” of stars…and the occassional satellite.

I wasn’t into canoeing but did a lot of sailing around the Apostle Islands….

sigh…

looking forward to your posts..

hizzhoner

Ah, the Apostles. Next time I might run a pic of the water caves hollowed out under those islands. You know the ones, and how they glow when the sunlight hits them just right?

I’ve always thought it odd that the enormous and magnificent Great Lakes region occupies so little of the national consciousness. It takes up a good portion of our border with Canada, has five huge freshwater lakes, and is connected to the rest of the world via the St. Lawrence River.

Thanks for your first post, and looking forward for the next one!

And from the department of “Follow”—I vaguely remember CHS asking me to pull together a post on the Russian children’s hospital stuff. Ow. That seems to be my conscience speaking.

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You’re making me homesick for Chequamegon Bay and those nights staring up at the “billions and billions” of stars…and the occassional satellite.

I wasn’t into canoeing but did a lot of sailing around the Apostle Islands….

sigh…

looking forward to your posts..

hizzhoner

Your image looks good, Phoenix Woman, and so far as composition goes, the little bit of land at the lower right adds the right amount of balance.

So, not to worry, or especially, apologize!