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Sun Aug 26 19:00 EDT 2018

Tonight's All Things Considered for August 26, 2018 has been a tribute to Senator John McCain - his integrity, his decency, his dedication. There was little mention of Trump, but it's hard not to make comparisons of the two, and think about how different a McCain presidency would be if reality had somehow ended up there ( Read more... )

Mon Jul 23 22:47:09 EDT 2018

How many Presidents/Prime Ministers/Premiers/etc of non-English=speaking contries do or don't speak English?

How much is command of English an indicator of societal/intellectual/financial/? accomplishment?

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Sun Jul 15 18:33:53 EDT 2018

World-Champions French team: 23 players, 16 from immigrant families, 7 Muslims.

It looks like there's some strength in diversity.

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Thu Jun 28 22:27:52 EDT 2018

An interesting premise put forward by a Catholic caller on a radio discussion: Many Catholics vote Republican entirely because of Roe v. Wade. If Roe is overturned, most Catholics will have no reason to continue voting Republican; they align with Democrats on many other issues. So if this one ruling is overturned, the ( Read more... )

Tue Jun 12 12:59:25 EDT 2018

I just heard that we have primary elections today. This kind of thing is not supposed to be a surprise. I'll go upstairs and see whether there was anything in the mail.
(I think primaries last week in other states has contributed to the confusion.)

Tuesday 13:03

I've just visited the county elections website. We have ( Read more... )

Mon Apr 9 23:00:00 EDT 2018[US] Senator Bill Nelson, D-Fla., met with [Mark Zuckerberg] the Facebook CEO for more than an hour on Monday ahead of Zuckerberg's Capitol Hill testimony Tuesday and Wednesday.Nelson: "Because if we don't do something now none of us will have any privacy anymore."

Here's the thing: No one's making us use social media. No ( Read more... )

3/14/2018 8:03 PM

In 4 years, our current high-school students will be old enough to vote. If enough of them are single-issue voters against easy access to firearms - and they actually do vote - a lot of the politicians who follow the lead* of the NRA will lose their seats. We'll have to see whether gun-moderate conservatives emerge, and whether ( Read more... )

Mon Jan 22 17:03 EST 2018

Another government "shutdown" started at midnight Saturday morning. As is not unusual, I was working at midnight. Whether the shutdown affects your employment depends on your contract. My position is considered "essential", and we work straight through shutdowns. (Being "essential" means we don't get snow days off either ( Read more... )