Don't Let The Dogs of War Come Knockin’ at Your Door
The Perfecting Equilibrium Digest, June 17-23, 2025
Don't let the dogs of war
Come knockin’ at your door
As we're crawlin' ’cross the floor
They'll make your skin crawl
They'll make the stars fall
Do they matter after all?
Comment of the Week
Steve Ross on Shipping Containers-21st Century Aircraft Carriers; The Dogs of War Roam the Highways Or has Iran, perhaps with other countries' help (Korea comes to mind), already conserved some weapons-grade uranium or bred some plutonium, and put a bomb in a container on the way to a busy port like Los Angeles?
Truth. I've haven't been that worried about a USSR-era War Games style Global Thermonuclear War since...well, since the Soviet Union fell. I've been very worried about a suitcase-dirty-bomb, and I still am.
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My brain is a peculiar place; it likes to play word association, and then play back songs with those words. Here are the songs playing in my mind as I wrote these articles.
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Sunday June 29 — On Being A Photographer; I’ve always been lucky. I’ve always been a writer. I’ve always been a photographer.
Those three are the same thing.
There are two parts to being a photographer: the mechanics of working a camera, which anyone be taught; and the ability to see the important details in the world. Which can be nurtured, but people either see these details, or don't.
Seeing the decisive moment; that's actually the hard part.