 Here’s a list of all the things the 2010s killed, according a youthful person at Vice. The Y entry is You.
I don’t know a single person who has made it through the decade without losing something vital (their chill, their general faith in humanity, their dignity to a skater who runs a meme account and ghosts you after giving you chlamydia etc), so shout out you for enduring one of the most stressful decades in history.
One of the most stressful decades in history.
One of the most stressful decades in history.
One of the most stressful decades in history.
Was there a bad economic downturn? A fresh war? A plague? Collapse of a civilization sending millions into poverty? Or maybe you're referring to the pressures willingly assumed by participation in social media and stuffing your brain with the poisonous cotton-candy of Internet Snark? A thought. I don't know. I think the decade will be well-remembered. You're chasened by what we didn't do, and also relieved by what we didn't do. If you are long-term optimistic you saw signs of what we did do and can do better.
If you're inclined to pessimism, it's because you're old and everything is rotten compared to what you knew, or you're young and entranced by your utterly novel and completely dispassionate evaluations of humanity.
Everything just sucks and all I can do is take a picture of me (having a ridiculous coffee-confection in a cool neighborhood that was in ruins 20 years ago) with my small thin computational slab and beam it to my friend on the other side of the planet - oh I got a notification, new picture from our robot on Mars. Boh-ring
The Tens ended hard for me in all sorts of ways, but even so: I think it was the best decade I've experienced.
Did I mention this is a slack week? It is. Right now it’s late, and I just got done delivering daughter to a reunion with high school friends on the Other Side of the Fargin’ Earth - well, the U. It felt like a long trip because it snowed eight inches and the roads are choked. Hands and knees the entire trip, and then when we arrived the people who occurred the apartment hadn’t show up. So we drove around Dinkytown chatting, which was just a fine way to spend an evening anyway.
The other night she came downstairs while I was typing at the island and said “what was that nightmare cartoon I watched when I was young, on the disk that had the animals in the zoo? I was just thinking about how that freaked me out and I can’t remember the name but it had a purse that pulled out a gun and I was traumatized."
Okay, animals at the zoo, that would be the Creature Comforts DVD, which meant it was the Aardman compilation, so let’s see if we can find it online . . . ah.
I do seem remember that was rather disturbing.
That led to a YouTube search for other things that unnerved us as kids, and mine being the old staples - the Ghost and Mr. Chicken bleeding painting, and the Spider Robot from Jonny Quest.
It's so good to have her back around.
Today I worked from home, and it was a normal day, like a snow day; the dog happy we were both around, the occasional conversation down the hall. As ordinary a day as it gets and wonderful for the fact of its ordinariness.
Instead of a Product entry, let's take a look at the year in review - 1936, that is.
It's a handy history test. Do you get the references? The first is a bit obscure; FDR visited the "Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace."
The AAA was the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
The Government bought livestock for slaughter and paid farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land. The money for these subsidies was generated through an exclusive tax on companies which processed farm products.
As for the SCOTUS ruing:
Regulation of agriculture was deemed a state power. As such, the federal government could not force states to adopt the Agricultural Adjustment Act due to lack of jurisdiction. However, the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 remedied these technical issues and the farm program continued.
Life will find a way, as the man said.
Hey, the economy's picking up!
The news at the end of the year was full of optimism for a recovery in 1937. Alas.
We all get this, right?
The QM took a while to finish. The keel was laid in '31, but economic conditions halted production. The Cunard line got a loan from the government under the condition that it merged with White Star - and as the wikipedia article I am paraphrasing says, White Star had been forced to cancel construction of the Oceanic, and was in perilous straits financiallly.
The Oceanic? Yes: it was intended to be the largest ship in the world, larger than the Titanic-sized ships. She would have been beautiful.
At the bottom of the cartoon, five pictures; we can figure these out easily.
If you know AF of L, then you know what the split was - but hey wait no, they didn't, did they? They did, but they got back together later. The fellow on the CIO side is John Lewis.
What, extreme weather? Again? As if '34 hadn't been bad enough?
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Finally, Old Man Depression is out! Mr. and Mrs. America are having fun again.
How disheartening it must have been when the economy re-crashed. |
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That'll do - but there's more in the Briggs link, since I made the decision not to save up the extra stuff for a day that never comes. Everything must go! The Feller Needs a Friend section concludes, then takes you back to the new main index page, which has links to Briggs' enormous and nationally famous Sunday feature, Mr. & Mrs.
Happy new year!
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