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571.
by cafard 2y ago
I am in my upper 60s--if a bit junior for Congress, let alone the White House--but like to think of myself as a bit more skeptical than that.
572.
by cafard 2y ago
Barbara Tuchman credited Thomas Reed with "That man never opens his mouth without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge."
573.
by cafard 2y ago
Tolstoy writes pretty straightforward narrative doesn't he?
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by cafard 2y ago
I don't know. I can name a number of booksellers in Washington that have gone under in the last 30 or 35 years: Olsson's, Trover, Newman, Calliope. Reiter's Technical Books is a shadow of what it once was. At the moment, I wo
575.
by cafard 2y ago
I spent most of the pandemic working from my dining room table. Now when I work from home it is from table in the basement. Neither is particularly in anybody's way.
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by cafard 2y ago
Is it? I don't have a wide acquaintanceship among non-Americans (or maybe just among non-dork people in general). Given that my nearest non-American neighbor is a professor, and that the second-nearest has family in Tel Aviv, I suspect
577.
by cafard 2y ago
A fair question. I see men my age (pushing 70) looking at their phones as they walk their dogs, and adults who are at least approaching middle age doing the same as they walk their dogs, push strollers and so on.
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by cafard 2y ago
Many many years ago, my mother-in-law was confronted by a truant officer. She had supposed that floods lower in her town had meant that the schools were closed and that her son and his buddies had a reason to be goofing off, traveling the s
579.
by cafard 2y ago
Pedantry: David Lloyd George, Prime Minister during the later part of WW I and for a time after.
580.
by cafard 2y ago
Ignoring? The US attempts to provide aid seem pretty futile, but I don't see the US as ignoring the situation.
581.
by cafard 2y ago
Punish anger? A lot of people make a career out of anger, even if it sometimes appears to be simulated.
582.
by cafard 2y ago
We lived fifty yards from a railroad embankment, just where it bridged a street. It was very loud.
583.
by cafard 2y ago
A ticket to John Waters's movie Hairspray came with a scratch-and-sniff card. I left early.
584.
by cafard 2y ago
It has been a long time since I looked at it, but I remember the Government Printing Office Style Manual preferring to exclude apostrophes. Not "Veterans' Administration" but "Veterans Administration", and so on. On
585.
by cafard 2y ago
"98% of web sites are encoded in UTF8" And quite a few web sites claim to be encoded in UTF8 and serve latin-1. It is best to check, or at least to specify error handling on your decoder.
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by cafard 2y ago
I can't speak to "most cities". What is effectiveness in this context? Shutting down a road, or making it clear that many people are troubled with whatever they are protesting?
587.
by cafard 2y ago
Inspirational words, but I'm not giving up my power drill. Long ago my family had a brace and bit, but it's long gone, and would be awkward to use where I use the drill.
588.
by cafard 2y ago
If your yard is that small, why not use devices powered by a cord? Our yard is middling, but the trimmer, with an extension cord, reaches everything that needs trimming. I confess I know nothing about leaf blowers. My wife talks about getti
589.
by cafard 2y ago
You can thank the Reagan Administration for that one. The Department of Transportation had ideological scruples about mandating airbags, and came up with numbers to indicate that raising the drinking age would decrease automotive fatalities
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by cafard 2y ago
> Is walking something you can do in the US except in some rare exceptions? Depends. Between kindergarten and eighth grade, I caught the school bus for part of sixth grade, otherwise walked or biked. Ninth grade on, I was where the schoo
591.
by cafard 2y ago
Ideal for whom, though?
592.
by cafard 2y ago
I remember from a junior high textbook (probably eighth grade) the expanded version I before E except after C And when sounded as A, as in "neighbor" and "weigh" That leave some weird exceptions...
593.
by cafard 2y ago
I check the dates on orange juice containers, but only if there are two or more unopened in the fridge, in which case I want to open the oldest. Otherwise I don't check.
594.
by cafard 2y ago
We have Braun alarm clocks. I liked the previous generation better, but one of those did not survive a fall to the floor, and I don't know what happened to the other.
595.
by cafard 2y ago
Money is not peace of mind, but lack of money--measured against real and perceived needs--is a great detriment to peace of mind.
596.
by cafard 2y ago
"Uncontested dominance of the US market"? How then did we get Moderna in early 2021?
597.
by cafard 2y ago
A local exterminator does smoke tests for the integrity of the plumbing stack: pump smoke in the outside drain, and see whether it all goes out through the roof vents, or some escapes within a house. That's how they found where rats we
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by cafard 2y ago
https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/
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by cafard 2y ago
Maybe 30 years ago, the National Academy of Sciences produced a book, funded by the DOD on exercise-induced anorexia and accompanying lean mass loss among military personnel in very demanding training--ranger school etc. I glanced at the fi
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by cafard 2y ago
What is the common thread of ideology between North Korea, China, and Russia? The first two are nominally communist, but their interpretations of communism seem incompatible with each other and with most of what communism was from 1918 thou

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