Curt Doolittle

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  • “DIRTY STORY” By John Patrick Shanley, Directed by Valerie Curtis The Intiman Th

    “DIRTY STORY”

    By John Patrick Shanley, Directed by Valerie Curtis

    The Intiman Theater

    An allegorical story with four characters representing the Jews, the Palestinians, the Americans and the English. Starts out well, perhaps even deep, which gives the audience hope that something good might follow. But then rapidly devolves into freshman level writing, and embarrassing attempts at slapstick and farce. Humor is a very hard thing. And some subjects make it even more difficult.

    The best thing I can say is that the actors did an exceptional job with material unbefitting either the author or the subject. The cartoonish representation of each position, provided little humor and even less insight into the plight of each, and served to reinforce stereotypical falsehoods rather than provide solutions. In particular it represents the USA as an ignorant buffoon rather than a distant country desperately trying to drag ancient peoples with mortal feuds into the modern world of cooperative consumerism, entirely for their benefit, but entirely against their wishes, using every possible device available. And of course, the author then throws the usual gratuitous, false and apologetic homage to the most primitive ambitions.

    I am too respectful of actors to walk out on a play except at intermission. But the last half hour was so painfully tedious, common and predictable that I desperately wanted to, and literally counted down the minutes to the end. I estimated the theatre’s take for the evening at $750. A pittance. And the economist in me argues that at least we’re keeping people off the streets. But I’m not sure it’s worth it for this kind of fare. Walking the streets would undoubtably be better for both mind and body.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-08-03 01:14:00 UTC

  • STARBUCKS AND PRESERVATIVES Starbucks Pastries are loaded with oils and preserva

    STARBUCKS AND PRESERVATIVES

    Starbucks Pastries are loaded with oils and preservatives. Loaded.

    So not only do that mocha latte and scone have more calories than Big Mac. But they have even more chemistry in them.

    So for the past few days I’ve been drinking iced tea. It’s pretty safe right? And I noticed that I was getting disoriented. Msg and sulphites make you either calm or confused or both. And so by process of elimination I get to the iced tea. And it turns out that Starbucks doesn’t use sugar but “sweetener”. The sweetener is a bottle of horrid chemistry. The fact the the label is Italian apparently should distract you from the fact that it’s probably made in the bowels of new jersey somewhere.

    The moral is: ask for sugar if you need sweetener.

    Oh and aspartame produces sulphite reactions too. And if the label includes yeast or protein or natural flavor in the ingredients then that’s code for neuron toxic MSG.

    You know all those young guys who get sleepy in the afternoons? MSG at lunch.

    At least Starbucks hasn’t stooped to dosing the coffee like Tim Hortons either does by accident or intent. Tim Hortons is a national dietary requirement. No wonder Canadians are so calm. They’re all on MSG maintenance doses. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2012-08-02 19:52:00 UTC

  • WANG DOODY SEATTLE I just popped in to visit a friend. Great company. Good peopl

    WANG DOODY SEATTLE

    I just popped in to visit a friend. Great company. Good people. Creative work. Awesome offices with a view of the Sound.

    I’m Envious of the work for Jaguar. I’m not sure I could be more envious of any brand. I’m a dedicated jaguar owner.

    But, you know, I have a reputation for being either devious or cunning. So I tried to stay away from people who had moved on or spun off in order to avoid ill feelings.

    But now that I’m not active in the business I’m free to catch up with people. And it’s really inspiring to see what everyone is up to.

    The spin offs are something even more cautious about. I think people in spin offs tend to have the wrong impression of how I feel about them. And while I have to maintain a certain posture, and I have a responsibility to the current business, it’s how I started some of my own businesses. So I tend to look at spin offs as my offspring and inside I root for them at every opportunity.

    I love entrepreneurship everywhere I find it.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-08-02 19:10:00 UTC

  • I must have worn out my welcome in Seattle because I haven’t got anyone to go to

    I must have worn out my welcome in Seattle because I haven’t got anyone to go to dinner and talk nonsense with tonight. 🙂

    So many startup conversations going on that i didn’t expect this lull.

    I haven’t hit up the libertarian circuit. Maybe I’ll give that a shot.

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2012-08-01 19:19:00 UTC

  • The average European and particularly the average working class European always

    The average European and particularly the average working class European always appears on average so much better educated than his American peer. This may be a selection effect since I can only interact with those who are competent English speakers. But the test data seems to confirm it. And while it is heretical to state that the heterogeneity of the American population accounts for those scores, it remains that peers of Europeans in the USA are less literate and less numerate.

    On the other hand, the average American is extraordinarily conscious of the country’s military, political, and financial role in the world – even though the cannot choose whether to be pleased or frustrated by it.

    I am one of those Americans that tends to resent Europeans who treat us with disdain despite our expensive subsidy of their economies.

    American foreign policy is not conducted on emotive or moral grounds, but strategic grounds. Always. Good or bad.

    The world would be a better place if we withdrew from europe and forced them to bear the same burdens we do.

    Perhaps then our values would converge. It is not understood on either side of the pond that two centuries ago Americans thought precisely about Europe what Europeans think about America today.

    And people around the world congratulate themselves on their moral choices despite the fact that geography, demographics, and economic conditions are the source of their opinion, not their deliberate choice.

    The usa will be energy independent soon which will put us in strategic conflict with Europe. We will no longer have material reason nor the means to play policeman to the world.

    Maintaining a stable price of oil as well as food and currency is too much of a burden for the American people.

    So something will change here one way or another.

    And self congratulatory moral convenience will change with it.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-08-01 13:35:00 UTC

  • Every class is unfit to govern. That’s why the english, and our american classic

    Every class is unfit to govern. That’s why the english, and our american classical liberals created a house for each of the upper and middle classes. The mistake they made was in not creating a house for the proletariat, and instead handing the house of the middle class of business owners over to the proles by democratic process. Houses allow classes to cooperate without falling victim to mob rule by the proletariat, necessitating corporatism by the rest.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-08-01 10:40:00 UTC

  • FOR THE NEXT BUBBLE TO BURST? “Facebook will become the poster child for the cur

    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-real-crash-is-dead-ahead-as-2008-is-forgotten-2012-07-31READY FOR THE NEXT BUBBLE TO BURST?

    “Facebook will become the poster child for the current social-media bubble, ..just as Pets.com was for the dot-com bubble.” – Economist Gary Shilling in his latest Forbes column.

    “Wall Street is repeating the 2000 dot-com crash as today’s social-media bubble crashes and burns.”

    – TOLD YA’ SO –

    And when I said in 2007, that the crash would be structural, would last through 2014, and that we’d have a brief respite before the boomer crash hit somewhere around 2017-2020, I got so much crap for it from every corner. But economics is driven by demographics. It’s a function of human capital. Plain and simple. The composition of your population matters. And the metrics of the postwar era are fanciful products of accidental circumstance not to be repeated – not the product of policy.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-08-01 02:23:00 UTC

  • It’s hysterical that Boeing just uses trucks to haul these giant sections of air

    It’s hysterical that Boeing just uses trucks to haul these giant sections of aircraft up I5 through Seattle traffic like its today’s produce headed to market. Incongruous.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-07-31 13:10:00 UTC

  • GROWNUP ANALYSIS OF OBAMA VS ROMNEY FOREIGN POLICY (In plain language. Accurate.

    http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/election-presidency-and-foreign-policyA GROWNUP ANALYSIS OF OBAMA VS ROMNEY FOREIGN POLICY

    (In plain language. Accurate. With a reminder of the intentional weakness of the American presidency.)

    Source date (UTC): 2012-07-31 10:10:00 UTC

  • NATURE OF EUROPEAN EXPORTS

    http://www.law.uchicago.edu/audio/bradford011812THE NATURE OF EUROPEAN EXPORTS

    Source date (UTC): 2012-07-31 01:40:00 UTC