Eric Glatstein
@emglat.bsky.social
Retired engineer and IT analyst. Proud booster of Chicago and Botswana.
Prof Rodriguez ends the very helpful interview pointing to the mind popping parallel between the U.S. current decapitation of the Venezuela govt with the way Venezuela president Cipriano Castro was sold out by his veep in 1908.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciprian...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciprian...
January 7, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Prof Rodriguez ends the very helpful interview pointing to the mind popping parallel between the U.S. current decapitation of the Venezuela govt with the way Venezuela president Cipriano Castro was sold out by his veep in 1908.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciprian...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciprian...
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"He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president."
This is Hunter S. Thompson, writing in Richard Nixon's obituary.
Who did you think I was referring to?
Yeah ... the shoe does fit, doesn't it?
And really, in comparison, Nixon was Cincinnatus.
This is Hunter S. Thompson, writing in Richard Nixon's obituary.
Who did you think I was referring to?
Yeah ... the shoe does fit, doesn't it?
And really, in comparison, Nixon was Cincinnatus.
December 16, 2025 at 3:15 AM
"He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president."
This is Hunter S. Thompson, writing in Richard Nixon's obituary.
Who did you think I was referring to?
Yeah ... the shoe does fit, doesn't it?
And really, in comparison, Nixon was Cincinnatus.
This is Hunter S. Thompson, writing in Richard Nixon's obituary.
Who did you think I was referring to?
Yeah ... the shoe does fit, doesn't it?
And really, in comparison, Nixon was Cincinnatus.
When an Ohio regulatory board effectively killed the “Icebreaker” off-shore wind farm with an evening shutdown requirement, they explained as protecting bats flying across Lake Erie. A nexus to the FirstEnergy bribery scandal seemed more likely. Glad that will be tested in court.
Ohio’s FirstEnergy bribery scandal could be responsible for more fallout: The collapse of an offshore wind project in Lake Erie.
That’s at least what a new lawsuit alleges.
That’s at least what a new lawsuit alleges.
FirstEnergy bribery scheme sank Lake Erie offshore wind, lawsuit says
The corruption that led to Ohio’s infamous HB 6 also torpedoed what would have been the Great Lakes’ first wind farm, the suit alleges. FirstEnergy is…
www.canarymedia.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
When an Ohio regulatory board effectively killed the “Icebreaker” off-shore wind farm with an evening shutdown requirement, they explained as protecting bats flying across Lake Erie. A nexus to the FirstEnergy bribery scandal seemed more likely. Glad that will be tested in court.
"This used to be a perfectly good bad neighborhood."
- Tony Fitzpatrick
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
- Tony Fitzpatrick
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
Tony Fitzpatrick, a Chicago treasure: 'You notice how lucky you are'
A conversation with the beloved Chicago artist, writer and actor, who died Saturday.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"This used to be a perfectly good bad neighborhood."
- Tony Fitzpatrick
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
- Tony Fitzpatrick
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
Sunday's failed "Kavanaugh Stop" at Wacker and Dearborn.
I just tried doing this (with “Yakety Sax”), but can’t figure out how to upload it so the sound works.
September 29, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Sunday's failed "Kavanaugh Stop" at Wacker and Dearborn.
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Let's say it again:
1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off.
2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off.
It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.
1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off.
2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off.
It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.
(CNN) - President Donald Trump shelved his plans to target Chicago as the next city for his domestic crime push after advisers warned him that sending in troops .. could create legal headaches they want to avoid, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/p...
@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/p...
September 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Let's say it again:
1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off.
2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off.
It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.
1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off.
2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off.
It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.
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You’ll get your ass kicked for taking someone’s parking space in the winter or putting ketchup on a hotdog in Chicago.
Good luck sending your jag-off troops in there, Yam Tits & Co.
Good luck sending your jag-off troops in there, Yam Tits & Co.
August 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
You’ll get your ass kicked for taking someone’s parking space in the winter or putting ketchup on a hotdog in Chicago.
Good luck sending your jag-off troops in there, Yam Tits & Co.
Good luck sending your jag-off troops in there, Yam Tits & Co.
In the wake of his firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, remembering how Trump tried to manipulate unwanted COVID data in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Reports.
Little reason to trust future economic data coming out of the federal government.
www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/u...
Little reason to trust future economic data coming out of the federal government.
www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/u...
Political Appointees Meddled in C.D.C.’s ‘Holiest of the Holy’ Health Reports (Published 2020)
www.nytimes.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:33 AM
In the wake of his firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, remembering how Trump tried to manipulate unwanted COVID data in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Reports.
Little reason to trust future economic data coming out of the federal government.
www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/u...
Little reason to trust future economic data coming out of the federal government.
www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/u...
"Avoid the use of qualifiers. . . . These are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words."
- Completely and totally E. B. White.
- Completely and totally E. B. White.
June 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
"Avoid the use of qualifiers. . . . These are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words."
- Completely and totally E. B. White.
- Completely and totally E. B. White.
A dog in Gaborone, Botswana, barks in the night. A dog across the street replies. And then every dog in the whole city is barking.
Some things have not changed in 35 years.
Some things have not changed in 35 years.
April 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
A dog in Gaborone, Botswana, barks in the night. A dog across the street replies. And then every dog in the whole city is barking.
Some things have not changed in 35 years.
Some things have not changed in 35 years.
I tell you Krypton is simply shifting its orbit.
March 17, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I tell you Krypton is simply shifting its orbit.
Howard Hawks's 1965 stock car movie, "Red Line 7000," is actually a remake of his 1939 American bush pilots in South America movie, "Only Angels Have Wings."
February 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Howard Hawks's 1965 stock car movie, "Red Line 7000," is actually a remake of his 1939 American bush pilots in South America movie, "Only Angels Have Wings."
Looks like I picked the wrong January to stop drinking.
February 2, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Looks like I picked the wrong January to stop drinking.
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Finally! We now know the backstory to this classic "Planet of the Apes" ending.
January 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Finally! We now know the backstory to this classic "Planet of the Apes" ending.
Seeing the United States's RFK2 future in South Africa.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024...
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024...
National rubella surge, W Cape diphtheria cases as SA enters holidays
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases has attributed a surge in seasonal rubella cases across the country to the large number of children entering 2024 without prior rubella exposure or vac...
www.dailymaverick.co.za
December 20, 2024 at 5:00 AM
Seeing the United States's RFK2 future in South Africa.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024...
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024...