Wednesday, December 04, 2019

Red & White


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  1. Derecka Purnell: Many Americans are ready for a black woman president. Just not Kamala Harris [Click] “As a black woman, I did not see myself in Harris. Instead, I found myself in solidarity with the people who suffered under her watch.” Same with this old white guy.

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  2. 5 Big Trends That Increased Earth’s Carbon Pollution [Click] “For the third year in a row, carbon emissions from fossil fuels have hit a record high.”

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  3. I left a few inconsequential comments on the last thread.

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    1. Read and noted, Cat. Re being old-fashioned, I from time to time tell people, as if it were a joke, that we have a very traditional marriage: the wife's money is the wife's money, and the husband's money is the couple's money. It's very practical, and if accepted, it obviates a lot of problems.

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    2. LOL A fella after mine own heart.

      Seriously though, that's the way Phil proposed setting up our finances, were we ever to have finances. Old fashioned, indeed, familiar and, as you say, eminently practical. Phil was old fashioned and practical... I miss him.

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  4. I feel like such a slacker! Having been busy with family all weekend and playing catchup ever since, I never caught that the Judiciary hearings are PUBLIC! I could have been watching all day, or at least would have known to tape it. SIGH.

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  5. AHA. Biden is indeed courting Harris' followers. There may already have been a deal.

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/04/politics/joe-biden-kamala-harris-vp-pick/index.html

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    1. Pardon me while I hang out a garlic wreath...

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    2. Better sharpen the stakes too.

      I thought it was odd, his claiming to have mixed emotions, or to be conflicted, or whatever one says nowadays. It seemed fulsome.

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  6. Four your convenience, here is the post I just left on the last thread....

    listener12/04/2019 08:28:00 PM
    Ah, well, perhaps it would reassure the forebears to know that Wil did indeed have a job that supported us. He was accepted into General Electric's Manufacturing Management Apprenticeship Program. Therefore it took 6 years to get a 4 year degree, since there is an apprenticeship as well. At first one works part time and goes to school full time. Then one works full time and goes to school part time. Upon graduation one is required to work for GE for two years. So Wil also had a job upon graduation which paid well. He then moved on to Digital Equipment Corporation. All good.

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    1. Wow--I never heard of such a good deal--you could bank on that, certainly. Wil would have been a fool to pass up such an opportunity. While I was in graduate school, the job market for PhD chemists--both industrial and academic jobs--imploded. (We generally used a less polite expression for it.) There was a short-lived renaissance in academic jobs several years later, but the students in my cohort had moved on by then, often to "inappropriate" [i.e., less prestigious] jobs. Two different step-up jobs I aimed for in succession also disappeared, never to come back, and I battled my whole post-collegiate working life against the attitude that I was "overqualified." Pardon the whine. I'm really glad for you.

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  7. The Wonder of Fire Without Gravity [Click]

    AOC and Sanders tout NHS after video of Brits gasping at US healthcare goes viral [Click] “The New York congresswoman and Vermont senator highlighted how normal the concept of free healthcare is in the UK”

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    1. Well, the NHS isn't what it used to be but, yes, it remains a far way better than what we have on this side of the pond.

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  8. I just finished The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, published in print and audio this year. It is I think what would be called Magical Realism. It also has several intertwining storylines. I loved it!

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  9. Magical realism with intertwining storylines? That sounds like something interestingly different; I shall have to investigate. Thanks for the tip, Cat.

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