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901.
by cafard 3y ago
I'm an American, and have never understood why others cheer or clap in movies. There are neighborhoods where loud comments on the movie in progress are not unexpected for discouraged. On the other hand, it was in an upscale movie where
902.
by cafard 3y ago
Market rates for whom? Programmers? It was never my impression that private-school teachers were paid as well as public school benefits or had comparable benefits. The reason you pay for private schools is the same reason that you buy a hou
903.
by cafard 3y ago
Public schools were not within the lifetime of my parents (high school classes of 1943 and 1945), I don't think. The old one-room schoolhouses of course weren't divided even by age.
904.
by cafard 3y ago
Ample pay to hang out with your friends, and skilled editors?
905.
by cafard 3y ago
Doesn't everyone who goes through a military academy study to be a manager of people? (Or for that matter OCS or NCO school, if for a shorter time.)
906.
by cafard 3y ago
With all due disrespect to GWB, what was he going to do with those few minutes?
907.
by cafard 3y ago
Didn't he write The Russian Interpreter and Noises Off ?
908.
by cafard 3y ago
Why should JFK have enemies in the establishment? He was the establishment.
909.
by cafard 3y ago
One of Tufte's books, I suppose Envisioning Information includes a Washington Post graphic about this from forty years ago--a number of soldiers who were rafting had drowned in the hydraulic below the Little Falls pumping station dam
910.
by cafard 3y ago
I have been reading The Washington Post regularly for 45 years, and very little that I encounter in it surprises me. It has never seemed particularly well edited.
911.
by cafard 3y ago
The Welsh suggests the Ancient Greek "hudor".
912.
by cafard 3y ago
Home delivery of The New York Times and The Washington Post. I at least skim both.
913.
by cafard 3y ago
Don't most aspiring writers already do so, for some value of terrible? S.J. Perelman wrote a series of pieces, "Cloudland Revisited" about the books and movies that thrilled him when he was young but didn't stand up to l
914.
by cafard 3y ago
At the state of the onion address, where else?
915.
by cafard 3y ago
Wrong newspaper: https://twitter.com/mroth78/status/1556653036566618113
916.
by cafard 3y ago
I can look tonight.
917.
by cafard 3y ago
How many millennia? Mary Beard in SPQR writes that the Romans had the right time of the month as wrong as they could.
918.
by cafard 3y ago
An NY Times article about Claremont quoted one of Jaffa's sons as saying that the institute wanted to put a robe on Ayn Rand and call her Aristotle or a top hat on Jefferson Davis and call him Lincoln.
919.
by cafard 3y ago
My family had at least one station wagon--Jeep Wagoneer, Ford Falcon, Ford Ranch Wagon--for most of the 1960s and 1970s. I don't remember ever hearing a concern about carbon monoxide. When did this start being talked about?
920.
by cafard 3y ago
He also chose the right parents.
921.
by cafard 3y ago
Back in the 1980s, a desk clerk at the Dubuque airport weighed my luggage and then asked me my weight before she assigned my seat on a flight to Chicago. When I saw the size of the airplane (20 seats or so), I was not surprised. But that wa
922.
by cafard 3y ago
An explanation of all this would be useful for those who haven't followed this.
923.
by cafard 3y ago
He left at the top of his game. I remember reading about one of the great English middle-distance runners of the 80s, Coe or Ovett, that one day he had finished a workout, and understood that he wasn't going to get any faster, that he
924.
by cafard 3y ago
In general, Roman Catholic parishes tend to draw on neighborhoods. That can make for parishes pretty well uniform in income level, and other factors. It can also make for quite diverse parishes. (Though there may be multiple language commun
925.
by cafard 3y ago
AMEN!
926.
by cafard 3y ago
Frederick Cook was quite a guy. He also claimed to have made the first ascent of Mt. McKinley (or if you prefer, Denali).
927.
by cafard 3y ago
This is not wholly a UK phenomenon. People describing themselves as populists in the US media tend to come from a handful of schools, all quite distinguished.
928.
by cafard 3y ago
No doubt I should have specified "in the United States", but I thought that the mention of Washington covered that.
929.
by cafard 3y ago
Before West Nile Virus hit, there were an awful lot of crows in the Washington, DC, area. I saw a statement in the newspaper that a stand of trees at Rockville Pike and Randolph/Montrose Road was home to half a million crows. That seem
930.
by cafard 3y ago
Church bells are still a thing, but churches are not nearly as thick on the ground. Someplace like Venice, which was never fought through or bombed, seems to have parishes about five American blocks square. I know in Washington where to go

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