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People keep going on about how Rick Perry was nominated to lead a department he was going to eliminate (if only he could remember what it was).
What interests me is that, according to his testimony in the hearing, at the time he proposed eliminating the Department of Energy, and at the time he agreed to lead it, he had no idea what it really did. ( Read more... ) -
A critical area of research
Perhaps foolishly, I spent some time this weekend catching up on reading dissecting the recent election. It occurred to me, as I drove to work this morning, that 1) substantial numbers of people say they voted for our PP because he says what he thinks and 2) many of these same people also say they don't expect that he will actually carry out many ( Read more... ) -
Fun with kombucha
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I just encountered a great new word: pleonexia.
"pleonexia is a philosophical concept meaning greed, covetousness, and avarice - an "insatiable desire to have what rightfully belongs to others" and a "ruthless self-seeking and an arrogant assumption that others and things exist for one's own benefit.""
Keeping it warm for January. -
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I'm sure a million people will have a much better response to this than me, but I really need to get this blog going again. So: this morning I heard this story, about the cast of "Hamilton" making an appeal to Mike Pence, following the show.....and our prospective president's response, in which he characterized the speech as "harassment", ( Read more... ) -
"President-elect Trump"
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On the subject of apologies
If you do something wrong, it doesn't matter how many other people did it too, you are still wrong.
If you insist on dragging in the faults of all those other people, you aren't making an apology, you are making excuses. -
Still sad
Yesterday they started cutting down some trees around me - looks like there will be 4 gone from in front of my place. Two of them are huge old eucalyptus; one of them has been accused of "looming" over my building, not sure why the other one is going. It was very odd this morning - the light was very different in my kitchen, which seems to be ( Read more... ) -
Well, I'm depressed....
I have a pair of tree ferns in front of my place, they are quite distinctive markers. They have rather lost their fronds after this last summer (what with the drought we have had, and the heat, and the fact that the landscaping company has really cut back on watering, which is apparently where they got all their water), but I was hoping the winter ( Read more... ) -
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Last night I watched The Late Show with Stephen Colbert which ended with a performance by the Amazing Acro-Cats - which of course ended as more of a demonstration of how little interest cats have in performing. But I had to give the ladies credit for their optimism....as we cat-owners know, _they_ train _us_. And then it hit me - the act I should ( Read more... )