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Huge Christmas Tree in the post and beam Lutheran Church near my house.
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Biden Waffles on Possible Senate Subpoena [Click] Excuse me, but this is another example of Joe opening his mouth before engaging his mind— an unforced error. I recognize the behavior— I do the same sort of thing. If one spends decades doing the same thing (e.g. campaigning or testifying in court), in time one normally runs on autopilot in such circumstances, and normally it is successful. But the times they are a-changing. If we are going to have a President often running on autopilot, I think the programming of Bernie’s autopilot is better suited to our current needs; too many of Joe’s wires are crossed.
ReplyDeleteRebecca Solnit: How a decade of disillusion gave way to people power [Click] A hopeful look back and projection into the future. (The lead photo is incredible—it is SO obvious who is afraid of whom.)
Moscow resorts to fake snow in warmest December since 1886 [when regular temperature recordings started] [Click]
Water-guzzling demands of Trump's border wall threaten fish species [Click] Also churches and burial sites— here is one example. [Click]
More antisemitic terrorism in New York State. [Click] Suspect quickly apprehended. Of course our Dear Leader has nothing to do with it. Ha.
Alan, that lead photo is one of my all time favorite photos. It immediately calls to mind the photo of the student putting a flower into the policeman's gun in 1967. Yet this photo seems even more poignant, with the woman bearing great dignity and confidence.
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That is one of the best photos of all time because it shows how ridiculously frightened the cops are. They look like they think that totally unthreaening young woman is going to beat the tar out of them. Right through all their armor. In fact, it brings to mind the scene near the end of A Fish Named Wanda where the mousy little guy is bearing down on his tormentor, stuck in wet cement, with a huge, clanking steam roller. (Hey, every analogy is imperfect...)
DeleteInside the Biggest 2020 Advertising War Against Trump [Click] Bloomberg’s, that is. Sounds like it may well be helpful—but that doesn’t mean I will consider voting for him.
ReplyDeleteCrisis Looms in Antibiotics as Drug Makers Go Bankrupt [Click] “First Big Pharma fled the field, and now start-ups are going belly up, threatening to stifle the development of new drugs.” On the other hand, there has been a return to prospecting for natural antibiotics and “obsolete” approaches such as phage therapy.
EU accused of seeking to cut funds for poor in post-Brexit cost savings [Click] “Plan to drop dedicated fund while defence spending rises dismissed as false economy.” I hope they put the merchants of death on a diet instead. It simply doesn’t make sense to use Brexit as an excuse, since there are significant and increasing Britons dependent on food banks.
This morning's Meet the Press is a special edition about disinformation and truth. Definitely worth listening to!
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Welcome Back!: The Far Side
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Well, I haven’t found Opus ordering the truckload of salad shooters in that link you gave me, listener, but I did find THIS [Click] The reference is obscure to me…
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DeleteJohn Lewis Has Pancreatic Cancer [Click]
ReplyDeleteJosh Marshall on John Lewis [Click]
DeleteI am so sad about John Lewis. This is NOT an easy cancer to have. He will feel more and more rough as the weeks pass. 5 year survival rate is just 9%. And Georgia has a Republican governor.
DeleteHe may have as much as two years left, though, given the treatments. Let's hope he can make it long enough to see a new President and see the Senate flip. Then he can go in peace.
DeleteThings are changing rapidly, listener. Remember that Jimmy Carter had melanoma that had metastasized to his brain, and was cured; not long ago the best that could have been offered for that was palliative care. The nasty thing about pancreatic cancer is that it often goes long unremarked. Remember that Ruth Bader Ginsburg beat it too, although in her case it was allegedly caught early. Did you read Mr. Lewis' statement?
DeleteImmunotherapies for pancreatic cancer are in clinical trials, at least.
DeleteMichael Bloomberg revs up Texas campaign with big plans [Click] Well, it would be gratifying to see him get trounced. I tell you, if he wants to buy my vote he's going to have to spend a lot more than five dollars and forty-seven cents.
ReplyDeleteBBC Worklife: Why ‘worthless’ humanities degrees may set you up for life [Click] I am a firm believer in the value of a classical liberal education. I majored in Chemistry because I enjoyed it, and I noticed something in the liberal arts classes I took to satisfy the general education requirement; talking with other Chemistry majors, they had observed the same thing. There we were, even in upper division humanities courses— History, Philosophy, whatever— in direct competition with majors in those fields, and we were kicking back, just enjoying ourselves but pulling down A’s while many of the majors in those courses struggled. I don’t know if it is true, but the only explanation we could come up with was that the study habits we had to develop to avoid outright failure in our major were significantly better than what they had developed to earn their passing grades. Incidentally, it had never occurred to me that mathematics is a Humanities major until I read it in this column; but upon reflection, I can see that. It was a universal tool for us, but I have seen people who obviously and truly understand its underpinnings—something that remains a deep mystery to me today.
ReplyDeleteMet a math major once, in Greece. I asked him what it was like? He said: music, only more.
ReplyDeleteI can grok that. I have seen people who truly understand mathematics at work, and it is amazing. It is like they are playing a tune on the piano and something about it isn't quite right. They find what is upsetting the tempo, harmony or whatever, fix it, and the whole thing works. To the outside observer it seems like they intuit the solution.
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