AdamSmith

A little artfully managed Sloth can also be strongly contributory to success. I sleep 9 or 10 hours a night nowadays, therefore in the 3-4 hours/day that I do my business work, I get more done, and at better quality, than my competitors who drive themselves day & night. Managing and directing one’s bad habits to one’s benefit, I have found throughout life, is vastly more effective than simply trying to fight them. Which seldom works out anyway.

The planet is now reported as hotter than at any time life has existed. Bye.

Fortunately for me, I intend never to do so. Not without a good fight, at minimum.

All my friends at Jale and then in Cambridge MA in the 1980s were in punk & post-punk bands & we went to all the They Might Be Giants etc etc performances there at TT The Bear's Place etc. It was a great time!

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/politics/democrats-mueller-preparation/index.html

Fucking 11-dimensional. Brilliant. Thank you.

Lust & Pride! A tiny bit of Greed can also be occasionally useful in a practical sense.

Answers to questions such as those don’t vary with time. Whether worked out by Lavoisier, or Dalton, or oneself, they come out the same way each time. Just as, very thankfully, the lift equation does.

But this cycle is so very strange... If by some queer chance Mayor Pete gets it, he would be very much all right too. An abundance of riches in candidate choice this early, I think contra some of the pundits, is not altogether a bad thing.

At https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/chuck-berry-carson-tonight-show-1987-715467/

Harris is God. She may heart up so many of the electorate. My personal preference is Warren. Who (repeating myself) if she is elected will legislatively know how to get shit done. Which Bernie from a million in de Senate don’t know at all.

We’ll see if the millennials voting first time will be our hope & cure come 2020. I suspect so. But then I have been spectacularly wrong before, again & again.

Fascinating whole-show Johnny Carson episode with Chuck... https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/chuck-berry-carson-tonight-show-1987-715467/

How Chuck Berry defined a generation of rock & roll https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/chuck-berry-defined-generation-rock-n-roll

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/gilligans-island-mosquitoes-episode-honeybees-833421/

No idea except ‘life-liftoff’ parables possible.

John Paul Stevens, long-serving Supreme Court justice, dies at 99 ‘A son of the Midwest heartland and a veteran of World War II, Justice Stevens devoted his long life to public service,’ Chief Justice John Roberts said... https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/16/john-paul-stevens-died-justice-obituary-121194