By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Hen Music of the Day
Tropical Mockingbird (Mayan), Casa en Cuxtitali, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. “A few of the fowl species that I feel this particular person might need been mimicking on this minimize are: Nice-tailed Grackle (00:25), parakeet sp. (02:51).” Numerous nice ambient sounds too!
In Case You Would possibly Miss…
- Friday’s charts: RCP averages (good week for Trump); Covid (XEC has entered the chat).
- What, once more, was Kamala considering?
- boeing“>Boeing recordsdata unfair labor observe cost with NLRB in opposition to machinists (wowsers).
Search for the Helpers
My e-mail handle is down by the plant; please ship examples of there (“Helpers” within the topic line). In our more and more determined and fragile neoliberal society, on a regular basis regular incidents and tales of “the communism of on a regular basis life” are what I’m in search of (and never, say, the Crimson Cross in Hawaii, and even the UNWRA in Gaza).
Politics
“So most of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in actual fact a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
2024
Lower than thirty days to go!
Friday’s RCP Ballot Averages:
For those who ignore your entire idea of margin of error and go along with the narrative, one other good week for Trump, particularly in MI and PA, tbough not, oddly, within the two hurricane swing states, GA and NC. In fact, we on the surface may as nicely be inspecting the entrails of birds once we attempt to predict what’s going to occur to a subset of voters (undecided; irregular) in a subset of states (swing), and the irregulars particularly may as nicely be quantum foam, however presumably the marketing campaign professionals have higher knowledge, and have the state of affairs as below management as it may be MR SUBLIMINAL Fooled ya. Kidding!.
* * * Kamala (D): “Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer feeds Doritos to left-wing influencer in deeply weird ‘communion’ video” [New York Post]. “Within the quick clip, posted on podcaster Liz Plank’s Instagram account, the lefty influencer was seen on her knees opening her mouth for Whitmer to position Doritos on her tongue.” • Right here it’s:
NEW: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer feeds a chip to a begging liberal podcaster on her knees in an effort to get extra votes for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
Whitmer joined Canadian feminist Liz Plank for an abortion podcast episode.
The pair launched the next video as a… pic.twitter.com/yiSH5hypud
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 10, 2024
Leaving the query of why a Canadian podcaster apartMR SUBLIMINAL Sacre tabarnak!, what on earth was Kamala’s marketing campaign considering? IM Doc posted on this in feedback this morning, studying the video as a Communion parody. A lot for the Latino vote! Being an Episcopalian — the priest would place the wafer in my hand — that wasn’t my first studying; I noticed the video as some form of weird domination/submission ritual* (and a lot for these younger males, together with each suburban family and not using a dungeon within the basement). Apparently the subMR SUBLIMINAL snickertextual content of the video was — please sit down — industrial coverage, particularly the CHIPS act as a result of — comply with me carefully right here — Doritos are chips (and go lengthy Doritos, I suppose). If I have been Julie Chávez Rodriguez (marketing campaign supervisor), Jen O’Malley Dillon (marketing campaign chairwoman), Jeffrey Katzenberg (marketing campaign co-chair), Mitch Landrieu (marketing campaign co-chair), or Cedric Richmond (marketing campaign co-chair), I might be getting Whitmer — additionally a marketing campaign co-chair (!) — on the telephone, to have a full and frank alternate of views. In fact it’s too late, however one may as nicely vent. NOTE * Pr0nographic in character, with Huge Gretch wanting into the digital camera.
Kamala (D): “Whitmer, Shapiro, Evers to launch battleground bus tour selling Harris” [The Hill]. • Nice thought. Will Whitman slot in one seat together with the flaming wreckage of her profession? Or will they want two?
Kamala (D): Can’t anybody right here play this sport?
I instructed y’all the place this was headed. Obama popping out to chastise Black males is a disgusting show of racist paternalism, and it’s unacceptable. None of us ought to tolerate it. Democrats wish to blame everybody however themselves and individuals who voted FOR Trump. https://t.co/KF6cv7FHI7 https://t.co/N6Cxv4dNPs pic.twitter.com/u7Dpi20bdG
— AshleyStevens (@The_Acumen) October 11, 2024
Kamala (D): “‘60 Minutes’ below fireplace for enhancing Kamala Harris solutions: ‘Large faux information rip-off,’ Trump says” [Associated Press]. “Whitaker interviewed Harris on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 5, in Washington for the particular broadcast that aired Monday, two days later. However ’60 Minutes’ supplied a portion of that interview to colleagues at ‘Face the Nation,’ each to offer the Sunday morning present some contemporary information and to ‘tease’ the longer interview. At one level, Whitaker noticed that it appeared Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, didn’t seem like listening to the administration’s options. ‘Properly, Invoice, the work that we’ve carried out has resulted in a variety of actions in that area by Israel that have been very a lot prompted by or a results of many issues, together with our advocacy for what must occur within the area,’ the vice chairman mentioned in response, on the ‘Face the Nation’ clip. On ’60 Minutes,’ after Whitaker mentioned the identical factor, Harris answered: ‘We’re not going to cease pursuing what is important for the US to be clear about the place we stand on the necessity for this conflict to finish.’… So what did Harris really say to Whitaker? Properly, each issues, in response to CBS. Her full reply to the query was the 2 sentences put collectively — the primary sentence used on ‘Face the Nation’ and the second sentence on ’60 Minutes.’ CBS mentioned the necessity to make the ’60 Minutes’ interview section concise prompted the enhancing. The complete interview with Harris took 45 minutes, and it was match right into a 20-minute slot on the published. But the enhancing made it seem that the reply proven on ’60 Minutes’ was the very first thing Harris mentioned in response to the query. Having ‘Face the Nation’ present Whitaker asking the query — as a substitute of getting somebody paraphrase it — added to the confusion and made CBS weak to criticism.” • I’ve quoted totally different bits from the identical supply loads of occasions, so I perceive the logic from a manufacturing standpoint. OTOH, I’m not a nationwide tv community presenting a candidate interview to tens of millions of voters. I might assume that “no inconsistency” can be the watchword there, editorially. Moreover, the Face the Nation quote was phrase salad, so the chopping and splicing did in actual fact profit Harris, so CBS did go away its motives open to query. Lastly, CBS additionally broken Whitaker’s work, and Whitaker, it appears to me, did a great job.
Kamala (D): “Vice President Kamala Harris on Her Race to the End” [Vogue]. Price studying in full for the ambiance. I bear in mind, from the film Shakespeare in Love, a monitoring shot that adopted Queen Elizabeth: as she processed alongside, she was all the time surrounded by a swirl of courtiers doffing their hats and bowing; that should have been all she noticed; this text describes an analogous milieu. This caught my eye: “I ask what her first name can be on reaching the Oval Workplace. ‘One in every of my first calls—exterior of household—will probably be to the crew that’s working with me on our plan to decrease prices for the American individuals,’ she says. ‘It’s not nearly publishing one thing in a revered journal. It’s not a couple of speech. It’s actually about, How does this hit the streets? How do individuals really really feel the work [what work?] in a method that advantages them?’ She says she plans to fulfill with ‘those that may help us put again in place the freedoms which were taken away with the Dobbs choice’—the ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade—to get Congress to cross a legislation. ‘That’s going to take some work,’ she says.” • This doesn’t imply something. There’s nothing right here. It involves items in your hand. Anyhow, Vogue? Reaching out to these working class readers, then?
Kamala (D): “Contained in the Harris marketing campaign’s floor sport” [WaPo]. “Six questions for … Dan Kanninen: We talked with Vice President Kamala Harris’s battleground states director concerning the marketing campaign’s floor sport as early in-person voting begins within the states anticipated to determine the election.” Kanninen: “We constructed groups in these battleground states for the reason that starting of the 12 months, [starting with] critical operatives who’ve gained robust races statewide in these states as leaders, after which layering in dozens of senior workers after which lots of of organizers — now into the 1000’s. Throughout the battleground states we at present have 2,500 workers, greater than 350 places of work. They’ve been partaking lots of of 1000’s of volunteers, tens of 1000’s in every of these battleground states. Final week [they] knocked on one million doorways within the battleground states and [we] have continued to ramp [up] our voter contact efforts.” • Pushing a string?
* * * Trump (R): “Trump’s small-dollar donor fundraising is beset by confusion and fatigue” [Associated Press]. “Republicans additionally engaged in a hyperaggressive — typically combative — fashion of digital fundraising that’s alienating voters, the operatives mentioned. Campaigns and committees typically share or hire lists of donors to one another, resulting in voters being flooded with comparable solicitations that may be complicated. ‘Republican distributors have so mistreated our donors that many grassroots donors don’t wish to give to us anymore,’ mentioned John Corridor, a Republican fundraising guide and associate at Apex Methods. ‘For those who make a donation to nearly any Republican candidate as we speak, inside three weeks you will begin getting 30-50 textual content messages from different candidates you’ve got by no means heard of earlier than.’ Corridor’s agency despatched surveys to Republican donors earlier this 12 months and located {that a} majority of those that responded mentioned they continued to obtain textual content message solicitations after they’d requested to be faraway from a listing. ‘Donors really feel like they’re by no means thanked, they really feel abused, they usually don’t know learn how to get off lists,’ Corridor mentioned. ‘This has a chilling impact on everybody’s fundraising.’ Small-dollar donors echoed Corridor’s considerations. They instructed the AP they stopped giving to Trump’s marketing campaign as a result of they have been bored with being barraged with solicitations for donations from different Republicans, who presumably bought the donor data from the Trump marketing campaign. Others mentioned they have been being extra cautious about their political giving as a consequence of monetary struggles. ‘I’m sick of them asking for cash,’ mentioned Susan Brito, 51, of Florida, who gave dozens of small donations totaling $69 in 2022 and 2023 however hasn’t contributed this 12 months. ‘I’m disabled, you might be sending me textual content, after textual content, after textual content.’” • Seems like Republicans have ten or 100 Mothership Methods. Sloppy!
Trump (R): “Reality test: Univision debunks false right-wing declare that Harris used a teleprompter at city corridor” [CNN]. “Univision has debunked a viral false declare that Vice President Kamala Harris used a teleprompter throughout her city corridor with the Spanish-language community on Thursday. The false declare generated tens of millions of views on X, the social media platform previously often known as Twitter. It was made by a number of right-wing commentators with important followings, together with Benny Johnson, Charlie Kirk, Greg Worth and Fox Information host Sean Hannity. Each the moderator of the city corridor, Enrique Acevedo, and the president of Univision Information, Daniel Coronell, refuted the declare in their very own X posts – noting that the teleprompter that was seen on the published had textual content in Spanish, not English, and that it was materials for Acevedo, not Harris. Acevedo, responding to Johnson’s declare that ‘Univision unintentionally broadcast proof that Kamala used a teleprompter at her city corridor,’ wrote: ‘The prompter displayed my introduction (in Spanish) after which it switched to a timer. Any declare on the contrary is just unfaithful.’ Coronell, responding to Worth’s declare that ‘Kamala is utilizing a teleprompter throughout her ‘city corridor’ with Univision,’ wrote: ‘That’s not true. The teleprompter that shows a textual content written in Spanish was a help aspect for the city corridor moderator. I can let you know this with first-hand data as a result of I used to be answerable for the tv program.’” • I nearly ran Benny Johnson’s clip earlier than I checked the textual content on the Teleprompter display and couldn’t learn it. And presumably Johnson et al. would have enlarged the textual content had it supported his speaking level. So there you might be. In fact, the Democrat’s propagated the false story about Vance having congress with a sofa, however when the supply (each editions of Vance’s e book) was checked, the story was debunked. Distributing an actual clip with a false implication appears extra insidious to me.
Democrats en Déshabillé
“I’m Operating Out of Methods to Clarify How Dangerous This Is” [The Atlantic]. Lead sentence: “The reality is, it’s getting tougher to explain the extent to which a significant proportion of People have dissociated from actuality.” And: “The world feels darkish; for many individuals, it’s tempting to fulfill that with a retreat into the delusion that they’ve bought every thing discovered, that the powers that be have conspired in opposition to them straight. However in turning away, they exacerbate a disaster that has characterised the Trump period, one that may reverberate to Election Day and past. People are divided not simply by political opinions however by whether or not they imagine in a shared actuality—or need one in any respect.” • That is particularly wealthy, for the reason that editor the The Atlantic is one David Frum, of the Bush Administration that propagated the WMDs narrative on the way in which to the Iraq Battle debacle, the misinformation marketing campaign that I got here to political consciousness with. The Atlantic — the home of ill-fame during which the unholy marriage of liberal Democrats and Bush Republicans was consummated — was additionally assiduous in propagating RussiaGate. And but these individuals prate about “shared actuality”!
Syndemics
“I’m in earnest — I cannot equivocate — I cannot excuse — I cannot retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
Covid Sources, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; contains many counties; Wastewater Scan, contains drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide knowledge). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Basic Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
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Sources, United States (Native): AK (dashboard); AL (dashboard); AR (dashboard); AZ (dashboard); CA (dashboard; Marin, dashboard; Stanford, wastewater; Oakland, wastewater); CO (dashboard; wastewater); CT (dashboard); DE (dashboard); FL (wastewater); GA (wastewater); HI (dashboard); IA (wastewater reviews); ID (dashboard, Boise; dashboard, wastewater, Central Idaho; wastewater, Coeur d’Alene; dashboard, Spokane County); IL (wastewater); IN (dashboard); KS (dashboard; wastewater, Lawrence); KY (dashboard, Louisville); LA (dashboard); MA (wastewater); MD (dashboard); ME (dashboard); MI (wastewater; wastewater); MN (dashboard); MO (wastewater); MS (dashboard); MT (dashboard); NC (dashboard); ND (dashboard; wastewater); NE (dashboard); NH (wastewater); NJ (dashboard); NM (dashboard); NV (dashboard; wastewater, Southern NV); NY (dashboard); OH (dashboard); OK (dashboard); OR (dashboard); PA (dashboard); RI (dashboard); SC (dashboard); SD (dashboard); TN (dashboard); TX (dashboard); UT (wastewater); VA (wastewater); VT (dashboard); WA (dashboard; dashboard); WI (wastewater); WV (wastewater); WY (wastewater).
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You do you:
Six individuals in California now both confirmed or suspected to have fowl flu.
So the california division of public well being are telling you to *shield your self*.
However they do not let you know how.
¯_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/GPwD7AjBJf— tern (@1goodtern) October 11, 2024
Vaccines: Covid
An infection: H5N1
Hen flu additionally rolling alongside fairly properly:
6 weeks in the past yesterday California reported its first 3 #H5N1 #birdflu contaminated dairy herds. Immediately @USDA confirmed CA’s a centesimal contaminated herd.
1 out of each 11 dairy herds in CA is contaminated with H5 now. Staggering pace of unfold.
How did this occur?https://t.co/2BioBG0wUw pic.twitter.com/VXzs4i2sjy— Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 (@HelenBranswell) October 11, 2024
Sequelae: Covid
“Vascular Pathogenesis in Acute and Lengthy COVID: Present Insights and Therapeutic Outlook” [Thieme]. From the Summary: “Lengthy coronavirus illness 2019 (COVID-19)… manifests with a broad spectrum of relapsing and remitting or persistent signs in addition to different ranges of organ harm, which can be asymptomatic or current as acute occasions akin to coronary heart assaults or strokes and recurrent infections, hinting at advanced underlying pathogenic mechanisms. Central to those signs is vascular dysfunction rooted in thrombotic endothelialitis. We overview the scientific proof that widespread endothelial dysfunction (ED) results in continual symptomatology. We briefly study the molecular pathways contributing to endothelial pathology and supply an in depth evaluation of how these mobile processes underpin the scientific image…. Total, we emphasize the essential position of mobile well being in managing Lengthy COVID and spotlight the necessity for early intervention to stop long-term vascular and mobile dysfunction.” • Since I didn’t know the supply, I double-checked it with KLG, and he gave it the thumbs-up: “Determine 1 is a murals.” So right here it’s:
Social Norming
As ordinary with Tern, 10 = 50:
1
“I am carried out with Covid now”
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“I’ve a brief consideration span / compassion span”I reply:
“Covid is not carried out with you.
It may maintain infecting you repeatedly till you die.”— tern (@1goodtern) October 10, 2024
#49 – #50:
50
“We’ll put a wall of safety across the weak”
=
“I will chuck billions of kilos of straightforward cash to my pals and different random wealthy individuals”I reply:
“You belong in jail.”— tern (@1goodtern) October 10, 2024
Lambert right here: XEC transferring alongside well within the nationwide variant chart, however doesn’t seem in any respect within the traveler’s variant chart. Odd!
TABLE 1: Every day Covid Charts
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LEGEND
1) ★ for charts new as we speak; all others should not up to date.
2) For a full-size/full-resolution picture, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Home windows) on the chart thumbnail and “open picture in new tab.”
NOTES
[1] (CDC) Nonetheless some sizzling spots, however I can’t draw circles round total areas this week. Excellent news!
[2] (CDC) Final week’s wastewater map.
[3] (CDC Variants) KP.* extremely popular. XEC has entered the chat.
[4] (ED) Down, however price noting that Emergency Division use is now on a par with the primary wave, in 2020.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Undoubtedly down.
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). I see the “every thing in greenish pastels” crowd has gotten to this chart.
[7] (Walgreens) Huge drop continues!
[8] (Cleveland) Dropping.
[9] (Vacationers: Positivity) Up, although lagged.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants).
[11] Deaths low, positivity down.
[12] Deaths low, ED down.
Stats Watch
Inflation: “United States Producer Costs” [Trading Economics]. “Producer Costs in the US elevated to 145.17 factors in September from 145.10 factors in August of 2024. Producer Costs in the US averaged 117.54 factors from 2009 till 2024, reaching an all time excessive of 145.17 factors in September of 2024.”
Manufacturing: “Tensions are rising within the Boeing strike after the planemaker filed a criticism in opposition to the union” [Business Insider]. “Reinstating the pension plan stays a key subject for a lot of on the picket line — however Boeing’s chief negotiator, Mike Fitzsimmons, instructed The Seattle Instances there may be ‘no state of affairs’ the place this may occur. In an announcement shared with BI, Boeing mentioned it stays dedicated to reaching a compromise. ‘The union’s public narrative is deceptive and making it troublesome to discover a resolution for our staff,’ it added.”• So what’s fallacious with the union’s “public narrative”? They weren’t Fitzsimmons’ stenographers? And their not “your” staff, buddy. Sheesh.
Manufacturing: “FAA’s ‘failing system’ of monitoring Boeing blasted by federal watchdog” [Seattle Times]. “The FAA hasn’t moved to proactively establish danger or demonstrated the way it will resolve allegations of undue stress inside Boeing manufacturing, the [the Transportation Department’s inspector general] discovered. Among the many different findings: The FAA doesn’t have an efficient system overseeing particular person Boeing factories, hasn’t ensured the corporate has successfully resolved its provider points, and hasn’t assessed the effectiveness of Boeing’s security administration system, which focuses on product and office security. ‘By bettering its oversight mannequin to raised handle danger, FAA may help to enhance a failing system and restore public belief within the security of Boeing plane,’ the report mentioned. In response, the FAA agreed with the suggestions and pointed to its addition of extra security inspectors in Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems services. The company mentioned it plans to completely implement the inspector basic’s suggestions between 2025 and 2028.” • Do I actually have to offer credit score to Buttigeig?
Manufacturing: “Boeing and Airbus have a serious headache in frequent” [Quartz]. “Christian Scherer, head of the business airliner division at Airbus, instructed a gathering of French aerospace journalists that Spirit’s fee of manufacture is ‘not precisely the place we wish.’ Airbus is going through stress to massively enhance its airplane deliveries so as to hit its year-end steerage, which it has already needed to minimize as soon as this 12 months amid provide chain difficulties. When the door plug fell off a Boeing 737 Max 9 in January and triggered a Federal Aviation Administration-imposed throttling of manufacturing to deal with high quality management points, Airbus instructed traders that it didn’t count on to hit any of its personal plane-building roadblocks. Nevertheless it has — to its prospects’ frustration. (Apart from the Spirit pace subject, Scherer instructed the French gaggle that it was additionally operating into delays with engine provider CFM Worldwide… It’s particularly ironic for Airbus as a result of the window of alternative that Boeing’s misfortunes opened was as a consequence of a fuselage constructed by Spirit, which Boeing spun out in 2005. As a way to minimize down on so-called ‘traveled work,’ a producing course of the place aircraft components are assembled out-of-order so as to pace completion, Boeing reabsorbed the non-Airbus components of Spirit in July for $8.3 billion.”
Immediately’s Worry & Greed Index: 74 Greed (earlier shut: 70 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 73 (Greed). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Oct 11 at 1:44:36 PM ET.
Zeitgeist Watch
“Calvin’s Dad Explains the Pre-Coloration World” [Daring Fireball]. • Please click on by means of, however what a pleasure. Calvin’s Dad was the most effective bullshit artist ever.
Social Media Watch
“Contained in the funhouse mirror manufacturing facility: How social media distorts perceptions of norms” [Current Opinion in Psychology]. “These on-line dynamics are amplified by the design options and advice algorithms on varied platforms. As an example, a latest evaluation of the algorithm on Twitter/X discovered that it prioritizes evocative content material. This incentivizes customers to create this kind of content material which may help them construct a big following whereas warping public perceptions of norms. Certainly, people who find themselves centered on gaining social standing are probably the most hostile on-line. These strivers could additional distort norms as they rise in standing That is compounded as a consequence of the truth that there may be typically little motivation for somebody to submit a nuanced or average opinion on social media. Furthermore, nuanced or average posts typically danger hostility from extra excessive ingroup and outgroup members, particularly since such hostility has little value for the aggressor because of the social distance the net setting affords. Certainly, people who find themselves politically average have been extra more likely to report being harassed on-line, despite the fact that they have been additionally much less more likely to submit. Individuals who maintain much less excessive beliefs have much less funding into arguing, and when attacked by individuals who have extra strongly held beliefs, understand it as extra hostile. The truth that individuals who ‘troll’ different individuals sometimes have increased darkish triad traits additionally doesn’t encourage nuanced debate.” • Hmm.
“Intercourse bomb: The collateral harm of OnlyFans’ explosive success” [Reuters]. “OnlyFans and its supporters painting the platform as a protected and empowering outlet for profitable, socially acceptable intercourse work. Nurses, academics, cops and Olympic athletes have posted racy content material in pursuit of additional money. As OnlyFans takes porn into the mainstream, nevertheless, the platform additionally has generated ripple results which have upended lives in surprising and typically traumatizing methods. Reuters reported a number of the most direct harms in investigations that uncovered youngster sexual abuse materials and nonconsensual or “revenge porn” posted on the positioning. These findings have been drawn from police complaints obtained from greater than 250 of the biggest U.S. legislation enforcement companies. However the recordsdata additionally reveal collateral harms: households torn aside, reputations threatened, funds ruined.” • And that’s earlier than, as is the way in which with all platforms, enshittification kicks in.
Class Warfare
“Right here’s everybody caught within the internet of the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs allegations up to now” [NPR]. • Disappointing. The closest to an A-lister is Jimmy Iovine.
Information of the Wired
“A language of lovely impurity” [Wrong Side of History]. “What [English] would seem like if Harold II had not died on the well-known (breme) battle (gouth) of Hastings – and English had not undergone Frenchification following the Norman Conquest: On this world, lamentation is sorrowword, unanimous turns into sameheart and acceptable is changed with thankworthy. The US Declaration of Independence can be the ‘Forthspell of Selfdom’ whereas Alcoholics Nameless renamed as The Unnamed Overdrinkers.• I quite like “The Unnamed Overdrinkers” (even when nameless means I don’t select to offer me identify, not that I don’t have one). Probably examples could possibly be multiplied.
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