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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift

Agree entirely. Wonder, yet again, whire you cannot summate more concretely?

I thought I said that.

To repeat the news article: On Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders revealed a sweeping, 6,000-word reform plan aiming at totally overhauling the criminal justice system. The plan featured many progressive touchstones, from abolishing the death penalty to ending cash bail to legalizing marijuana and expunging sentences for drug possession. However, there was one criminal-justice issue it did not touch on: sex work, specifically sex-work decriminalization. A few days later, Sen. Elizabeth Warren also released her own expansive criminal justice reform plan, which similarly did not mention the issue. This omission from Sanders and Warren — two of the most progressive 2020 Democratic candidates — was glaring, in part because both candidates had previously made statements indicating they were open to the idea of decriminalizing sex work. Earlier this year, Sanders said that decriminalization “should be considered”; as recently as Saturday, he had fielded the question in a live-streamed Q&Ahosted by the Working Families Party, saying that he considered sex work decriminalization “an issue that is worthy of serious study,” to audience applause. Similarly, last June, Warren indicated she was open to decriminalization, telling the Washington Post, “Sex workers, like all workers, deserve autonomy but they are particularly vulnerable to physical and financial abuse and hardship. We need to make sure that we don’t undermine legal protections for the most vulnerable.” Bernie and Warren know the real score full well. I know, at second hand but from a trusted source (from 30 years of my residence in MA), that Warren is livid over current legal persecution of sex workers. They are just playing the trumpet themes they know they have to play during the campaign to win over hoi poloi on the left, to get elected.

TFascinating! How the Apollo 13 movie came about.

The older I get, the more sense that man makes.

Pretty good. The Declaration of Independence Was More Radical Than Any of the Men Who Signed It https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/declaration-of-independence-more-radical-than-its-signers/

Agree wholly. This is like voluntarily picking up a lump of plutonium & swallowing it. WTF?!

He had deathly physicial conditions. Fear for the worst.

Meant to say libel.

How we sneered at him then. How very far we have fallen since.

The existing laws of slander are all we need. Period. Ever. Plus this rigorous code of ethical self-policing: https://www.spj.org/ethics.asp

He IS a Socialist. Absolute nuts.

25 Photos of the Royal Family at Balmoral Castle, Queen Elizabeth's Favorite Home https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/25-photos-royal-family-balmoral-130000088.html

Bernie’s Daft Plan to Save Journalism By JACK SHAFER August 28, 2019 Jack Shafer is Politico’s senior media writer. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/28/bernies-daft-plan-to-save-journalism-227916

You know, in the Renaissance there was in several artistic genres (my decaying mind cannot right now find any concrete examples to link) an emblem for ‘perfection’: Two mirrors facing each other.

Very cool.

My former cynicism is abandoned. I more and more think this guy is a genius, in many many ways.

Nor me: blank screen no matter what I try.