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I'll pile on too. Per the 9-day local postcard delivery @Crash mentioned in the OP: similar occurrences began here after our city's sorting machines were taken out of service and supposedly trashed (so no future official can bring them back?).
So …
Snippets of a memoriam post for Pres. Carter by Caitlin Rivers, Johns Hopkins public health professor. (I subscribe to an email public health report she authors.)
President Carter dedicated decades of his post-presidency to advancing global health …
Panama might want to sell the canal to the U.S. to hand somebody else the problem. The zone is drying out and the system has lost enough water that the number of transits is down by something like 35% (from an average of 38 a day to 24).
And Canad…
@Crash, especially in the case of public parks, Republicans have been cutting park budgets for thirty years, forcing the park managers to enact entrance fees and raise them time after time. That's the price we're all paying (elections have consequen…
Right, @Old_Joe, and that's what I hope happens too, @Mark. Jennifer Rubin had a post praising ProPublica recently (my 'scrip ran out a week ago and I didn't renew). Made me think she might have a CV or two out there already.
The NYT story on it is that the Senate passed a previous bill that had already passed the House "in the spring" with the cancer research and other provisions. I looked for an article on what happened because if the Senate added any provisions to the…
“Inauguration Day is still a month away, yet the chaos monkeys have already taken over.”
— Paul Krugman, the former New York Times columnist, in his Substack newsletter (Dec. 19).
All right, it's PK unchained. The post after chaos monkeys is The G…
So ya know the one person who brought the travesty of what Orban & his crew were doing to Hungary was Paul Krugman, who knew a colleague who was tracking it in real time. PK put up several guest NYT posts by the colleague, can't recall what year…
JD: "Mar-A-Lardo". We really do need humor as we face the coming fiasco. It will not go well for most of the population.
Yes! I highly recommend The Daily Show (Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Desi Lydak) for newsy humor. When sharp sarcasm is needed…
I'd really be surprised if a significant percentage of the people who voted for Trump have the slightest idea who Viktor Orban is or what he stands for.
Maybe it's the same with those who voted for Harris... I have no idea.
I'd say very, very few …
It's the V. Orban playbook for a total takeover. The R's loved 'em their trip to Hungary a couple of years ago (as CPAC) to see it firsthand, and the man himself was at Mar-A-Lardo earlier in the year.
Recall in the debate that when asked what Eur…
+1. What crime is LC even remotely suspected of? Most of the articles I've seen about going after the Jan 6 cmte say they destroyed evidence and testimony, but of course no proof is even hinted at, or needed for the screeching to begin.
Edit: some…
Right, and it probably wouldn't get so much political traction if we had that missing pronoun. (Besides the fact that it's plain insane for the critics to try to make it into an existential issue.)
Languages need a singular third person pronoun that refers to either male or female when, say, what you're going on about refers to either, or you just don't know. I mean, how many times can you say or write "he or she" and "him or her" before you w…
This is going to be Grace Commission 2. Very few of Musk's and Ramaswamy's recommendations will get implemented.
Good memory, Mona. The Rayguns era also featured the likes of J. Watt trying to give away/sell off all the public lands* and turn Interi…
Does LONZ appeal to any of you or are we talking about two different universes here?
It's pretty junky if that's a concern, but another good ultrashort duration option of Pimco's.
My Treasury ladder is getting shorter and shorter, I'm in the redeployment camp too, and somewhere in the range of dt and Fred in degree of risk aversion. Maturing T proceeds are going into funds very much like Fred mentioned, and into ultrashort et…
Too bad for Chris Wray; nominated by Dump, and turned out to be a good one. Now another nut case takes over -- if the R Senate will confirm, or get out of the way for a recess appointment. This one's a good test for the Senate; Patel is utterly the …
Hope everyone's having a good T'giving weekend.
Don't forget Giving Tuesday coming up; a gift (of any size) to a nonprofit you identify with would be welcome.
I'd settle for Bobby Jr. just getting started on trying to reduce corn subsidies, on the chance that over a few administrations, something might happen. Yeah, I know it's a long shot that anything will ever change, no argument there. But there are f…
Lightly battered and fried was the method of choice of family in the South when I was growing up, well before I was introduced to gumbo. Not a great fan of vegetables back then, I did look forward to fried okra when we visited the primary okra house…
My two youngest daughters (33 and 26) drive me batty with their total reliance on their smart phones for navigation.
Toward the end of my time in Alaska, there came a cautionary tale on phone navigation from the port town of Whittier. A visitor dro…
I once had a flight instructor or the feminine species who sure as hell knew how to read a map.
Same experience here. The best person at instant relating of topo map to terrain/routefinding I've known over about forty years of backcountry adventure…
@Hank: "cut and run." That's not the case exactly. It's look at the data and decide where I think $ is best deployed, and in this case, it was "sell and redeploy."
@Hank, I held it for the last year but sold it recently. The HY spread plunged to near record lows back in early August, and JAAA responded poorly, briefly. (The spread quickly trended back down again afterwards.) I took JAAA's response to the spike…
