PhD*Son is not running in the Boston Marathon today after all. He sprained his ankle last week and it's just not ready yet. It's too bad because they start the run in order of skill level and this year his number was *520*!
Yeah, it can be. He actually went to Boston hoping he could at least do the marathon slowly, but it was not possible. I wonder how this will affect his standing for next time.
Liberal Democrats Are the Mainstream of the Party [Click] The WaPo has, in my opinion, a somewhat warped view of reality, but if they are beginning to get the message that is good. From my perspective, the New Deal and its congeners are conservative, and the “New Democrats” are way too much like the Old Republicans.
Both siderism is a formula that makes reporting easy. Here in Georgia the press largely ignored the preliminary Senate elections because there were 21 candidates--far too much work to cover. The extent to which the fourth estate has been responsible for promoting contests and conflict is not know because they do not report on themselves. That they have a bias towars commerce because of the revenue stream is not admitted, either.
===================================== Russian spies stole the formula for the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine and used it to help create its own Sputnik vaccine, The Sun reports.
========================== Former President Donal Trump very much wanted his daughter Ivanka to be appointed as World Bank president, and it was Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin who actually blocked her ascent to the leadership role, The Intercept reports. ==================
As for the Russian vaccine theft…why don’t we all just share with the whole world the formulas that worked? This isn’t the space race, it’s a pandemic and we still only have one inhabitable planet.
Washington Is Getting China Wrong [Click] “A crisis at a property company exposes deep, dangerous, and often unrecognized weaknesses in the Chinese economy.” I remain surprised that the stupendous indebtedness of Chinese local governments for construction of entire new cities etc. that remain unoccupied and unused goes unremarked in this article as well as others.
When I joined my mother in Long Beach in 1961, the Pacific Electric's "Big Red Cars" still linked that city to downtown Los Angeles. It was two or three years later that the government bought the line and replaced it with "Freeway Flyer" busses that took 25% longer for the trip. And didn't serve predominantly Black Compton, which I always suspected was a major part of the rationale.
It is my sense that while the demise of public transportation had the ancillary effect of promoting segregation, the main objective was to promote car culture and the revenue stream of the oil and chemical companies. The other side of the coin is that a population meoving around in isolating vehicles is easier to control than the masses in the cities. The urban disruptions of the '60s had the effect of promoting the growth of suburbs. Urban flight was not spontaneous; it was promoted by the deterioration of urban services. The discontinuation of "revenue sharing" helped. Lots of bad economic policies which are not corrected by blaming racial antagonism.
The wind really picked up this morning; the air is full of dust, and where pine trees are planted their needles are lying in drifts in the streets. Cool, though.
Yesterday there were warnings that the electricity might have to be turned off in places (not here) because of high winds. Just now (3PM) we returned from grocery shopping and visibility is maybe just a bit more than a mile and a quarter, probably not a mile and a half, because of the dust.
Second Annual (VT) Indigenous Peoples Day celebrates Abenaki culture
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And Biden signed an Indigenous Peoples Day declaration--a first for a US president.
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DeleteThe impressive thing in Vermont is that our Republican Governor got ours started last year…!
PhD*Son is not running in the Boston Marathon today after all. He sprained his ankle last week and it's just not ready yet. It's too bad because they start the run in order of skill level and this year his number was *520*!
ReplyDeleteNext year!!
That exercise stuff is dangerous!
DeleteYeah, it can be.
DeleteHe actually went to Boston hoping he could at least do the marathon slowly, but it was not possible. I wonder how this will affect his standing for next time.
Liberal Democrats Are the Mainstream of the Party [Click] The WaPo has, in my opinion, a somewhat warped view of reality, but if they are beginning to get the message that is good. From my perspective, the New Deal and its congeners are conservative, and the “New Democrats” are way too much like the Old Republicans.
ReplyDeleteThe Press Keeps Getting It Wrong: The Democrats Are NOT Divided [Click]
DeleteBoth siderism is a formula that makes reporting easy. Here in Georgia the press largely ignored the preliminary Senate elections because there were 21 candidates--far too much work to cover. The extent to which the fourth estate has been responsible for promoting contests and conflict is not know because they do not report on themselves. That they have a bias towars commerce because of the revenue stream is not admitted, either.
DeleteI’m mostly with the Progressives.
DeleteA couple of notes from politicalwire.com:
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Russian spies stole the formula for the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine and used it to help create its own Sputnik vaccine, The Sun reports.
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Former President Donal Trump very much wanted his daughter Ivanka to be appointed as World Bank president, and it was Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin who actually blocked her ascent to the leadership role, The Intercept reports.
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As for the Russian vaccine theft…why don’t we all just share with the whole world the formulas that worked? This isn’t the space race, it’s a pandemic and we still only have one inhabitable planet.
DeleteWashington Is Getting China Wrong [Click] “A crisis at a property company exposes deep, dangerous, and often unrecognized weaknesses in the Chinese economy.” I remain surprised that the stupendous indebtedness of Chinese local governments for construction of entire new cities etc. that remain unoccupied and unused goes unremarked in this article as well as others.
ReplyDeleteMore on the ghost cities at Bloomberg [Click and scroll down for history of interurban rail lines in the US].
DeleteWhen I joined my mother in Long Beach in 1961, the Pacific Electric's "Big Red Cars" still linked that city to downtown Los Angeles. It was two or three years later that the government bought the line and replaced it with "Freeway Flyer" busses that took 25% longer for the trip. And didn't serve predominantly Black Compton, which I always suspected was a major part of the rationale.
DeleteIt is my sense that while the demise of public transportation had the ancillary effect of promoting segregation, the main objective was to promote car culture and the revenue stream of the oil and chemical companies. The other side of the coin is that a population meoving around in isolating vehicles is easier to control than the masses in the cities. The urban disruptions of the '60s had the effect of promoting the growth of suburbs. Urban flight was not spontaneous; it was promoted by the deterioration of urban services. The discontinuation of "revenue sharing" helped. Lots of bad economic policies which are not corrected by blaming racial antagonism.
DeleteThe wind really picked up this morning; the air is full of dust, and where pine trees are planted their needles are lying in drifts in the streets. Cool, though.
ReplyDeleteTrees falling, bridges dangerous as strongest winds of the year hit SF Bay Area [Click]
DeleteYesterday there were warnings that the electricity might have to be turned off in places (not here) because of high winds. Just now (3PM) we returned from grocery shopping and visibility is maybe just a bit more than a mile and a quarter, probably not a mile and a half, because of the dust.
Wow! That’s serious dust!
DeleteIt surprises me because we had bit of rain just a day before--but obviously not enough.
DeleteThe lake in the river bottom below our house is covered with whitecaps.
DeleteHow large is the lake?
DeleteFlorida teachers are quitting their jobs in droves — and who can blame them? [Click] Not I; this sounds beyond bad. Are the wingers finally on the verge of destroying the public schools?
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