Gongol.com Archives: November 2017
November 24, 2017
400,000 tweets about Scottish independence came from fake accounts
No surprise: Russia looks to have been behind most of them. The age of memetic warfare is here, and to not recognize that is as stupid as to not recognize tanks rolling across a border.
Secret Service recollections of the Kennedy assassination
An event that has long since entered the realm of myth is one that happened to real people -- some of whom are still alive. Interesting to read the recollections of one of the men closest to the event.
Hundreds killed at a house of worship
At least 235 people were murdered in Egypt as they gathered to pray.
If you're going to need CPR, need it in public (and be a man)
Study finds that people are more likely to get CPR in public than at home, and that men are much more likely to get CPR than women. That's really important information, and certainly gives the public-health sector something to do.
Most obituaries identify a person's place within a family. Your co-workers and your government aren't your survivors. Life ought to be organized accordingly.
"We do not seek to confront anyone."
Margaret Thatcher's words from 1979 bear remarkable timeliness today: "We do not seek to confront anyone. The world is too small and precarious a place for that. We and the Communist world share a common interest in the avoidance of war, and in the development of trade and commerce. We long for the freer movement of people and ideas."
