Taking A Bit Of An Interest
Jan. 4th, 2026 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo Everyone seems to be catching a cold or having a cold or recovering from a cold- including me. I'm not sure which stage I'm at but I feel better than I did last night and more willing to take an interest in things in general.
Among them the US takeover of Venezuala and the kidnapping of its president: I'm not going to venture an opinion on the rightness or wrongness of this except to remark, mildly, that it's irregular- and likely to end the way all the USA's imperial adventures have done since then end of WWII- that is to say- in humiliation. Also to suggest that it looks very much like an exercise in presdigitation- designed to make us shift our attention from over here (where the Epstein material keeps coming into view) to over there (where our armed forces are covering themselves in glory).
The weather is sunny, the temperature below freezing- and I need to feed the birds......
Among them the US takeover of Venezuala and the kidnapping of its president: I'm not going to venture an opinion on the rightness or wrongness of this except to remark, mildly, that it's irregular- and likely to end the way all the USA's imperial adventures have done since then end of WWII- that is to say- in humiliation. Also to suggest that it looks very much like an exercise in presdigitation- designed to make us shift our attention from over here (where the Epstein material keeps coming into view) to over there (where our armed forces are covering themselves in glory).
The weather is sunny, the temperature below freezing- and I need to feed the birds......
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Date: 2026-01-04 01:18 pm (UTC)I had just recovered from a 2-week cold and enjoyed a few days of good health (apart from coughing, which always takes a long time to fade in my case), when I woke up yesterday with a clogged nose, something that resembled a sore throat and a low-level headache again. The sore throat turned out to be merely a very dry throat and the headache disappeared after a paracetamol, but the clogged nose remains.
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Date: 2026-01-04 04:59 pm (UTC)