Deconstructing & Construing/Rambling -- Inside the Works

Dog and pony show time.

Also, this.  Nice.  Castro knew of JFK assassination plan, book says

Since Oswald was known to the Cuban exile community as a pro-Castro agitator (a suspected anti-Castro plant at that), he was already on Cuban intel scope by Summer '63.  I doubt Castro would have wanted to get blamed for the assassination.

O's Mexico City visits to Cuban and Sov embassies can be nicely explained away by Latell's version.

One problem. Kennedy was starting to thaw the US/Cuban and US/USSR relationships at the time of his murder.

Best theory identifies extremist right-wing US elements.  Would have required participation of some USG assets to have orchestrated the cover-up (Warren Commission irregularities, autopsy skullduggery, media campaign, etc.)


De-construction: Rumblings from Meatball Works

-"Perhaps I shouldn't have dismissed the kinetic IO angle.
That would mean not "retaliation", but a loud and clear warning to villagers over there against cooperating with enemy in the future

Maybe not."

-"Col. Kurtz. XXXXXXXXX who discussed the kinetic IO/PSYOP angle mentioned the little arms in a pile incident from Apocalypse Now when making his case to me.
No kidding.

COIN maybe, PSYOP definitely. (If indeed that's what happened.)"

Seal that Year w/ POMOnanigans & Hubris

Late to the party here.  I knew that you had been calling BS on McFizzle and saying that there is serious AQ over there (from your connections), but I just discovered that you (we) nailed the specific plot.

See M1 tweet of 2:07 AM Dec 13th.

It was out there for anybody to see, yet nobody but us called it.

There is nothing better than the SMC-op.  Others may compete, but nobody does what we do.  Really.

They love us.  (Ho, ho, ho).

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving.

Here is a pretty interesting speculative piece `bout a historical medical mystery (I saw it referenced in the NYT).

Roosevelt's Last Days: Did cancer kill FDR?

Is it conceivable that Franklin D. Roosevelt's doctors knew he had widespread cancer in 1944 and still let him run for his fourth term as president? New research makes this astounding argument—and claims that the physician who supposedly told the truth about Roosevelt's death in 1970 was in fact continuing the deception he had helped create.

Meatball Meaning

Some Meatballs For Once

An awe inspiring graphic accompanying an article bristling with deeply embedded pearls of great price - the New York Times article was obviously begging to be violently excerpted and quotationized to serve the murky agendas of SMC. So here you go, for once some meatballs.

If you’ve ever suspected that meatballs were a dead end, you no longer have reason to fear.

Certain chefs lavish as much care and attention on meatballs as they do on foie gras. Some even combine the two.

Whether the interpretations are classical or modernist, one thing is certain: there’s never been a better time to order meatballs.

Perhaps a meatball renaissance was inevitable.

The dawn of the meatball enlightenment may have occurred five years ago.


By about 2004, the public was primed to gobble meatballs up.

They’re delicate and super-light with a subtle cheesiness.

While no smart chef these days would admit to fancy-pants aspirations, some do appear eager to indulge the kid-with-a-chemistry-set impulse that itself seems part of the appeal of making meatballs.

We wanted to make sure that if we were going to do meatballs, we were going to do them differently.

I did some research into an Eastern European meatball recipe, but it evolved into a more Greek recipe, with Moorish and North African influences.

On the vital issue of meatball texture, all the chefs we interviewed had good tips and pointers, most of which spoke to the same issue: water.


Most people are afraid when meatballs are sticky. They shouldn’t be.


Naturally, there are some voices of dissent about meatball mania.

And our favorite quote has to be:

Where meatballs are concerned, results are more important than authenticity.