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by cafard 1y ago
With a modern mower, it's pretty hard to hurt yourself.
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by cafard 1y ago
I think American high school kids often refer to and address one another by surname. It was the case when at my son's high school, as I recall at my own, and I think at my wife's. It might have been the case at my father's, a
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by cafard 1y ago
RFK Jr. is old enough and in theory intelligent and educated enough to know better. The only reason that his frolic in Rock Creek did not lower him in my estimation is that it was pretty low to begin with. I posted my remark because "s
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by cafard 1y ago
With all due disrespect, RFK Jr. is far from the only person to have stepped into Rock Creek recently. There are places along the creek where one does get the whiff of sewage, and much longer stretches where one doesn't.
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by cafard 1y ago
Years ago I read that Shockley was not that impressed by his own offspring, but blamed this on their mother or mothers.
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by cafard 1y ago
I have been reading Twain for something between 55 and 60 years, I suppose. I don't count that as "lately"; but at the time I started reading him, he had been dead for 50 years, which most would count as "safely". A
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by cafard 1y ago
The trust-fund set? Does this mean I should get in touch with the postal inspectors and find out where all those checks have gone for all those years? I think that you owe it to HN to let us know what authors real, red-blooded working Ameri
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by cafard 1y ago
I have one friend's telephone number memorized, but he has had it for 40-plus years. My wife's and my son's? Well, they are stored on my phone.
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by cafard 1y ago
There wasn't anything particularly important there--capturing Alexandria and Georgetown would have been as effective as capturing Havre de Grace or Port Deposit. And I think that what is now Washington, DC, was part of Prince George&#x
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by cafard 1y ago
I saw a bumper sticker showing a shift chart and the words "anti-theft device".
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by cafard 1y ago
An old friend, who came into her own about 50 miles, would say "ultra rules" whenever we reached a hill she didn't feel like running up. That wasn't especially often, since my runs with her were generally under 20 miles.
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by cafard 1y ago
The area that is now Washington, DC, was not a scene of operations during the Revolutionary War. There were a couple of small port towns, Alexandria and Georgetown, and various farms.
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by cafard 1y ago
This seems to have been urban legend. I think that embassy staff might have been entitled to a bit more vacation. Unfortunately, I can't offer any source--it would have been a publication in the Washington area.
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by cafard 1y ago
It worked for Ford, it sort of worked for Reagan--he was gravely wounded, but hit with only one bullet rather than several.
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by cafard 1y ago
"The military wanted a new breed of bomber that would be able to travel beyond enemy lines at great distances and drop bombs with precision. It needed to be able to reach altitudes high enough to fly outside of the range of enemy antia
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by cafard 1y ago
This sounds a bit like Cinema Paradiso .
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by cafard 1y ago
The one comment is either a splendid illustration or a great piece of sarcasm.
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What little I know of classic literature suggests that predominantly rural societies (and cities running to the low tens of thousands) were acquainted with mental disorders.
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by cafard 1y ago
Considering the disappointing sales of the New York Edition, I wonder whether he was ever that popular. I find the earlier work much more readable than the later. John Lukacs quotes somebody's quip about James's manners: James the
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by cafard 1y ago
An archduke shot in Bosnia, or an incident near a bridge in northern China?
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by cafard 1y ago
The Cove has been around for a while, or maybe was here a while back. I'm pretty sure I remember a Cove on K St. NW in Washington, DC, probably about the 1800 block.
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by cafard 1y ago
Yep, every morning. Really, it's scp, which is good, only the bank occasionally changes servers and host keys with them, then one must clean up some.
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by cafard 1y ago
For the Chesterton buffs here, I will mention an essay of GKC's, which you can find at http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/alarms_and_discursions.html#... . It concludes "I do not know whose heads are crimina
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by cafard 1y ago
Thanks to the poster: I remembered that a local bookstore might still have a copy of Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry , and have ordered it.
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I think that the last time I ran across "haecceitas" in a literary context was in an essay by Randall Jarrell. My guess is that he was referring to William Carlos Williams. In that case, Jarrell meant writing that tried to engage
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by cafard 1y ago
Sales taxes have the disadvantage of being regressive: the less prosperous spend a relatively larger proportion of their income on taxable goods. There are states that offer deductions from income tax for sales tax paid on food and perhaps
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by cafard 1y ago
Given the modus operandi of the AI world, it might be more prudent to consider dogfood factories.
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Having done editing and proofing for a few years, I can say that it paid the rent and kept me fed, but didn't do much more than that.
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As I habitually mention when the revolutionary calendar comes up, emacs calendar mode will give you the date with p-f. For what it's worth, today is Quartidi 4 Prairial an 233 de la Révolution, jour de l'Angélique. (Prairial I had
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by cafard 1y ago
Canadians will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that at least Alberta made noises about secession 40 or 50 years ago.

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