AdamSmith

Clinton-era politics refuses to die. Joe Biden is its zombie that staggers on https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/30/clinton-era-politics-joe-biden

’Hitting bottom.’ Oneself can attest that a still lower bottom can ever be located, in need.

André Rieu gives his audience exactly what they want: entertainment https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/andre-rieu-gives-his-audience-exactly-what-they-want-entertainment-107694

Actually a very good instruction in how to perform literary criticism. pop/mass culture is so great!

This is not a smarty-pants English-major question (actually on reflection it is ), but what exactly does ‘literal interpretation’ mean? The respective sense and meaning of those two words would seem to be in direct conflict with each other.

It was like formulating relativity or quantum dynamics. Nobody else having done it before, I could make up ze rules as I went along.

Yer AS is of curse yer reincarnation of Himself.

Franklin very lightly editing Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of Independence. And keeping Adams in check against his own too-high idealism. Thank god we had such an array of geniuses when we needed them most.

Franklin’s inerrantly correct insight into everything, yet again.

This is my PCP. https://www.wakemed.org/brian-t-klausner-md-primary-care-internal-medicine Georgetown, then U of Chicago Hospitals. When I first called and asked for him, the nurse operator said, ‘Are you sure? He’s only in 2 days a week, because he’s on so many best-practice boards and committees.’ YES!

In caring for my 90-yo mama, she and I almost always have to do our own online research to find today’s best practice documented in the journals, and bring it to the docs to get right Rx + competent expert referrals.

I don’t know. I think honest fighting is OK, and even productive.

I know him personally, and like him. Describe your situation here, sil vous plait.

Please forgive. I was reading further up the thread and skipping. To your intended point: pls do not worry about Lucky’s & my personal relationship. It has bottomless complexities, but is indestructible. As I think both his and my eruptions here have documented.

I don’t agree at all. @kjun12 and I have arguments and even verbal fistfights here all the time. But they are, mutually, honest. As most all converse here is. Productive to new thinking. The point being that someone who thinks completely opposite of you might just have a very good idea you yourself had not thought of.

The Mueller report reads like an impeachment referral https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/18/mueller-report-reads-like-an-impeachment-referral/?utm_term=.aca0085f20e1

Just great!

'It's already begun': Feedback loops will make climate change even worse, scientists say https://www.yahoo.com/news/its-already-begun-feedback-loops-will-make-climate-change-even-worse-scientists-say-090000011.html

Beyond hilarious that the very self-aware chosen intro music for this clip is the ‘Entrance into Egypt of the Queen of Sheba.’ (Handel IIRC)