Will's Good Idea for the Week of 5/9/21

Well, it's Mother's Day. We lost ours a few years ago and Mrs. Stroock is still away dealing with family issues. 

We are drowning in a sea of pastels, Hollister sweats, unicorn headbands, and One Direction songs. Three hour roundtrip to our sister's and back yesterday. That's a lot of One Direction. On the bright side Youngest Daughter has discovered Phineas and Pherb, sparking a revival of same in Casa d Stroock.

The Ruski's have a long Victory Day or some such holiday, so there's no collusion from us this week. Take note NSA and whoever's reading our comms. Not kidding, BTW.

[You're paranoid-Ed]

No, there's just people out to get me. 

We don't really have a good idea for this week. But we will be diving back into the '76's Korean War chapter. We're going to try to rework things and squeeze Al Haig in there and shore up his resume. Remember, he defeated Soviet forces in Europe. We'd like to find a way to work in the task force from Operation Frequent Wind, most of which has been at anchor in Subic Bay since the war. Might take some doin'. Maybe we just need to add a chapter introing the task force, showing Haig in Europe, a few other military outposts, etc etc.

Speaking of, over at Mark Steyn's, Rick McGinnis reviews Miracle Mile, and writes a deep meditation on Gen-X, nuclear war and movies: 'But it was a cluster of theatrical and TV movies like Testament, The Day After, WarGames, Red Dawn, Countdown to Looking Glass, Special Bulletin and Threads in 1983 and 1984 that set the tone for the decade. This was when De Jarnatt was writing and re-writing his script, and it shows – the Cold War was at its hottest since the Cuban Missile Crisis then, with Soviet misinterpretation of the Able Archer NATO training exercise in 1983 very nearly setting off a missile exchange. The bomb was all over art films like Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice (1987) as well as the animated feature When The Wind Blows (1986) and even anime such as Barefoot Gen (1983) and Grave of the Fireflies (1988).' Watch at your own risk, Zoomers, Millennials. 

Another night of riots in Jerusalem. Tomorrow is Jerusalem Day, celebrating the reunification of the city in 1967. This blog doesn't give a good goddamn about the Palestinians, but this is stupid and wrong: 'The driver of this current unrest is a deeply contentious court case regarding the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, where a number of Arab families stand to be forcibly evicted from homes they’ve lived in for decades. Right-wing Israeli nationalists argued successfully that the properties were owned by Jews before Jordan conquered the area and resettled the current occupants there, and invoked a 1970 law that allows, for all intents and purposes, only Jewish Israelis to reclaim property that was lost to them during the 1948 Independence War.'

Crossing the George Washington Bridge into the Bronx, NYC. You read that toll right:

Just another reason to stay out. Drop the river crossings, Governor Murphy.