All I remember Rush saying is, “I’ll tell you when it’s time to panic”. It was time to panic decades ago.
Sadly, there’s no one who can fill Rush’s shoes.
FTA: “He would have warned against...the technological dominance of one company: Apple.”
Doubtful - Rush was always first to get the latest thing APL and gave away tons of gear in the show. From my perspective, he was a total fan boi when it came to Apple. I never got any sense he was concerned about their tech dominance.
Ping
Late Fall is a dark time in Northern Minnesota. The sun is barely up for 8 hours a day, and it is very dark for the other 16, with the sun so low on the horizon. I grew up there, just below the 48th parallel. Only a tiny percentage of the US population live that far north. When President Kennedy was assassinated, I was in 11th grade, just starting to become aware of political leanings. I remember wandering around in the darkness and light snowfall with other kids let out of school talking about it in that late fall of 1962.
I was still a ‘paperboy’, delivering the Minneapolis Star, and that was almost the entire source of news for me. I did watch the evening news on our snowy B&W TV, coming in at 10:00 CST from the 11:00 East Coast time zone. I did occasionally read a dog-eared copy of ‘Playboy’ at a friend’s house - for the news, of course. What are now called “conspiracy theories” had a hard time penetrating these meager sources of ‘news’.
For a long time, the Kennedy story dominated the news. I remember watching film of the shooting of the assassin, Oswald by Jack Ruby, and then the anticipation of finding the story behind all of the intrigue, when he would finally go on trial for it. When Ruby died of cancer, almost all hope of finding the facts ended.
Some conspiracy theories did, then, penetrate into my sources of the ‘news’ behind his death.
One such theory was that some government agency - likely the CIA - had the ability to inoculate cancer into Ruby and might have done so. Another was that he was actually still alive but hidden out of the news. These stories eventually died away.
So, what does this have to do with this story about Rush? I’m sure he’s not hidden away somewhere, but it’s certainly quite odd that he got such a quick and lethal form of lung cancer. What, indeed, would Rush say?
I was thinking earlier this week about what Rush would say about the Elon Musk purchase of Twitter. Rush referred to Twitter as a sewer and had the bots attack him. Rush even did research on the bots that he shared.
For me, Chris Plante is the closest I can get to Rush.
secession
Seriously, what would be the lines of division?
Our differences are not specifically of a geographic nature.