tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post5447865658124807055..comments2023-11-05T03:56:08.325-08:00Comments on Murrmurrs: The One-Hit WonderMurr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-84246052392360727442021-11-25T12:52:33.555-08:002021-11-25T12:52:33.555-08:00I wouldn't be surprised, though I've no da...I wouldn't be surprised, though I've no data either.giraluahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10633091966509005486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-64858435434954803172021-11-23T10:10:51.690-08:002021-11-23T10:10:51.690-08:00I know this will sound like simplistic thinking bu...I know this will sound like simplistic thinking but I think a lot of this is exasperated so many people playing violent games as entertainment. It carries over into the real world.Lisa at Greenbowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09310556337842514199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-5351545240706533432021-11-22T11:34:02.941-08:002021-11-22T11:34:02.941-08:00Murr, on a related note... Paul is a bartender at ...Murr, on a related note... Paul is a bartender at a fairly upscale tavern in a very upscale part of Delaware. (Note to Jono: Centreville.) This past Sunday, at BRUNCH, no less, two white supremacists walk walk into a bar.... They were belligerent and actually grabbed the hostess by the hips. They were told to leave. Refused. Cops were called. They stayed until the cops hauled them away! mimimanderlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-20483059048271011822021-11-22T09:48:17.919-08:002021-11-22T09:48:17.919-08:00This is so.This is so.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-51984120801367317182021-11-21T20:02:19.159-08:002021-11-21T20:02:19.159-08:00I don't recall any, but if you want to look, y...I don't recall any, but if you want to look, you can find it at https://sociology.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj9501/f/publications/threshold_models_ajs_1978.pdfJeremy Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-87329740799585423722021-11-21T17:47:00.263-08:002021-11-21T17:47:00.263-08:00Jeremy C: Interesting theory, and a good explanati...Jeremy C: Interesting theory, and a good explanation of how it's happening. How do we reverse it, or is it even reversible? Were there any words of encouragement in that paper?jenny_ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15475480579733466963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-63576421847374822812021-11-21T14:22:08.722-08:002021-11-21T14:22:08.722-08:00I loved The Love Lives of Birds. Thank you! I...I loved The Love Lives of Birds. Thank you! I'll add the MacDonald and the Gilmore to my list.Jeremy Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-34908671061204773412021-11-21T13:51:15.057-08:002021-11-21T13:51:15.057-08:00Scary times for sure. I am in despair for my grand...Scary times for sure. I am in despair for my grandchildren. kenjuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342414519714356343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-78218082717947066902021-11-21T13:36:04.173-08:002021-11-21T13:36:04.173-08:00I have to look this up. This kind of stuff fascin...I have to look this up. This kind of stuff fascinates me! <br /><br />On a totally unrelated note, Jeremy... have you read H is For Hawk by Helen MacDonald? I just finished it and found it so wistful. I read a blurb about it on the cover of Featherhood: the Memoir of Two fathers and a Magpie by Charlie Gilmore. (Also a really cool book.)<br /><br />Thank you for mentioning The Hummingbird&#mimimanderlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-44622420172237740692021-11-21T13:25:44.583-08:002021-11-21T13:25:44.583-08:00Oh, Murr... this made me laugh because I remembere...Oh, Murr... this made me laugh because I remembered when I was at community college right after high school. Some of us decided to get up a group to play football in Rodney Square. I knew <i>absolutely nothing</i> about football, but I was a really fast runner. They would just hand me the football and tell me where to go, and I seemed to be pretty good. I remember particularly enjoying beingmimimanderlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-90877150132675921702021-11-21T12:23:08.784-08:002021-11-21T12:23:08.784-08:00Then there's Mark Granovetter's 1978 paper...Then there's Mark Granovetter's 1978 paper "Threshold Models of Collective Behavior" — someone does something, then someone who would never do it unless he saw somebody else do it does it, then someone who would never do it unless he saw two others do it does it, etc. He wrote the paper to present his mathematical model of how a riot develops, but it applies elsewhere too. Jeremy Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-58185034108355557322021-11-21T11:17:09.386-08:002021-11-21T11:17:09.386-08:00The country has always been full of monsters, but ...The country has always been full of monsters, but they used to keep it down to a dull roar because they knew their monstrosity was socially unacceptable. But for decades now, people with lots of money have been spending it to convince the monsters that their time has finally come. It has worked.Jeremy Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-24570241146377199992021-11-21T11:02:57.488-08:002021-11-21T11:02:57.488-08:00I have been saying for some time that I'm sorr...I have been saying for some time that I'm sorry my parents did not live to see their great-grandchildren born but I'm glad they did not live to see the fall of the republic.Jeremy Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-21361754549206508682021-11-21T09:29:00.042-08:002021-11-21T09:29:00.042-08:00My father wasn't a fan of Dr. Seuss and now I ...My father wasn't a fan of Dr. Seuss and now I realize I've never read Yertle the Turtle. I figgered he was just a turtle.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-58904122982121514852021-11-21T09:27:39.802-08:002021-11-21T09:27:39.802-08:00And yet we're hardly a dense population in thi...And yet we're hardly a dense population in this country. There's good reason to want way fewer of us, but I don't think that's driving this.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-42134476467211370352021-11-21T09:26:38.436-08:002021-11-21T09:26:38.436-08:00I miss my dad but I'm sure glad he isn't a...I miss my dad but I'm sure glad he isn't around to see all this.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-1843087686103392622021-11-21T09:25:00.645-08:002021-11-21T09:25:00.645-08:00To be fair, they're also teaching each other o...To be fair, they're also teaching each other on the internet. Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-91957825502988963762021-11-21T09:22:27.561-08:002021-11-21T09:22:27.561-08:00I think I was more playing "at" softball...I think I was more playing "at" softball, but thanks, Mark! I keep remembering Stricky shaking his head watching me run the bases and saying "I don't know...everything's moving, but nothing's going forward."Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-84952363119172422222021-11-21T09:20:40.850-08:002021-11-21T09:20:40.850-08:00I find it helpful to imagine I'm in the next g...I find it helpful to imagine I'm in the next galaxy over.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-28024612743252867812021-11-21T08:28:16.785-08:002021-11-21T08:28:16.785-08:00...It's bad enough picturing Trump. Did you h......It's bad enough picturing Trump. Did you <i>have</i> to make me picture his ass? The horror! The horror! ;)mimimanderlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-73892696396055062672021-11-21T08:23:02.477-08:002021-11-21T08:23:02.477-08:00Exactly! The Malthusian Theory! Resources grow a...Exactly! The Malthusian Theory! Resources grow arithmetically, but population grows exponentially. Malthus predicted long ago that we would overpopulate the planet. I remember hearing/reading about overpopulation A LOT back in my formative years. But now? Not a peep. Because we are no longer citizens; we are <i>consumers</i>. (You know what <i>else</i> consumes things? Cancer. That is mimimanderlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-18571384872910202242021-11-21T06:36:14.852-08:002021-11-21T06:36:14.852-08:00Which is why we're doomed. Like too many rats ...Which is why we're doomed. Like too many rats in too little space in a biology class, who keep breeding until disease (!) and starvation kills them off.GretchenHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06578733926441761777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-25418003151652479662021-11-21T05:30:13.590-08:002021-11-21T05:30:13.590-08:00The celebration of violence in this nation is sick...The celebration of violence in this nation is sickening. Parents storming school boards and making themselves utter disgraces is a sad, heartbreaking development. Kids grow up believing what they're taught. <br /><br />Trump and his enablers have proved that being a belligerent abuser of others gets him up there with Yertle the Turtle, ruler of all that he sees, and to hell with all those whoSusanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03853238256715757283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-37599413234369247912021-11-21T05:12:14.044-08:002021-11-21T05:12:14.044-08:00Sometimes I am glad to be old as I despair of the ...Sometimes I am glad to be old as I despair of the current social climate. I cannot think of a remedy. I remember the old psych studies on rat communities where they overloaded the population and it fell apart. Bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06806035182197696752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-26901443818149548372021-11-21T04:40:30.198-08:002021-11-21T04:40:30.198-08:00In Sociology 101, at the dawning of The Age of The...In Sociology 101, at the dawning of The Age of The Pill, we learned that human overpopulation would strain the social fabric to unraveling, largely due to “excessive demand on resources.” Air, water, cobalt, vaccines, civility, hope. I hate this comment.Nancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15166865250789996825noreply@blogger.com