Sunday, November 01, 2015

Welcome November on the Feast of All Saints


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  1. It's Howard Dean's birthday month!

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  2. Did you turn all your clocks back so that you could sleep longer?

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    1. Didn't actually turn clocks back, but very glad of the extra hour. After I got up and had a leisurely breakfast while doing email and reading the (online) newspaper, my watch said noon -- time for the game to start. But it was really 11, so I had time to get showered and dressed before things started.

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  3. We planned to sleep until sunup or so anyway, but we reset most of our clocks last night. Oops--there's one that needs it! [Fixes clock near computer.]

    It's not particularly well-written, but there is an interesting headline story in the local newspaper today about the seeming disappearance of presidential candidate interest in $2700 donors. [Click] Of course it might simply be due to the huge and lackluster bunch of GOP candidates, but it might also be a sign of a sea change in political fundraising. If the folks who were particularly valued contributors in the past come to view themselves as scorned and irrelevant in the age of unlimited zillionaire-funded PACs and large-scale small donor fundraising, what will be the effect? It's interesting to contemplate. I remain rather surprised that HRC's campaign only sent me one letter asking for money; either they are remarkably non-persistent, uninterested, or very easily discouraged, it seems. Or maybe someone actually read the reply I sent.

    --Alan

    P.S.: I find that posting as "Anonymous" is much easier using the Chrome browser than any other; maybe Google automatically verifies me as OK?

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    1. I'm not sure I got even one email from Hilary's campaign. Back in the day I got 2 o4 3 from "Ready for Hilary." And of course I get regular emails from Emily's List, who are naturally pushing Hillary.

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  4. A couple of technology business opinion pieces I found interesting:

    An interesting article about Amazon and the Internet as a General Purpose Technology [Click]


    Are we at peak Apple? [Click]


    --Alan

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  5. It's been a long time since we had a big cartoon post, so I have decided to rectify that. (I shall get to work after lunch.)--Alan

    Robert Ariail [Click]

    Darrin Bell [Click]

    Clay Bennett [Click]

    Steve Benson [Click]


    Matt Davies [Click]

    Tim Eagan [Click]

    Mike Luckovich [Click]

    Jim Morin [Click]

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    1. Yeah! It had been too long!!

      I appreciate that last one especially. My best frurnd's son, who is a very sweet guy, is a school police officer in North Carolina. 4th of 5 kids, I doubt he would ever overreact and harm someone. He lives his job because he has always wanted to help teens. He went to school to become a secondary school
      math teacher, but the kids were so out of hand, he worried about them. He felt he needed to reach them at a different level. Now he is the police presence at a large high school, and works hard to get to know the kids and let them get to know him. He wants a working relationship with them. Under the duress of current times, I hope he does okay. I believe he'll do this well.

      I wa sorry to see so many Hillary cartoons. Free advertising.

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    2. My best frurnd's son = My best friend's son

      He lives his job = He loves his job

      I wa sorry to see = I was sorry to see

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    3. Certainly there are many very good police, with good sense. I get the impression that there is a real risk modern police training may induce paranoid psychosis, or exacerbate it in people with such tendencies; confusion of police with the military is also a clear risk. And lack of accountability is distressingly common. Given the background of your friend's son, he sounds very promising in his specialty; he has a lot more relevant education, training, experience and presumably maturity than the typical young police officer. Speaking of large high schools, there was one here in Fresno (in a poor part of town) that had, as memory serves me, about 3,500 students in a campus designed for 1,600. Of course things were going wrong all the time. A new high school was built to take about half the students at the old school, and things seem to have calmed down a lot. Both schools started successful magnet programs--the new one medical, the old one performing arts (it has a very fine auditorium originally built by the WPA).

      --Alan

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    4. I miss Pat Oliphant and Ben Sargent; outstanding political cartoonists. I think Ben Sargent is drawing the occasional cartoon for another newspaper since his retirement from the Austin Statesman.

      --Alan

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  6. A couple more lazy-Sunday-morning oddments before lunch and starting to do something useful (and our kitty seems to be better today, although still obviously debilitated).
    --Alan

    Interesting political developments in France… [Click]

    Sociological interpretations of the popularity of "The Hunger Games" [Click]

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    1. So glad your kitty is showing signs of improvement!

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    2. As am I! Go kitty!! =^. .^=

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