AdamSmith

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yKNxeF4KMsY

I don’t know. I think the Senate is still very much up for grabs. Just from talking to neighbors, Lyft drivers, etc here in pretty red-state N.C. Who seem fairly fed up with the Donald & McConnell & the rest. North Carolina retains a lot of ‘blue-collar Democrat’ in its political DNA. Which has tended to vote Republican for some time, while that party had some common sense. But the clear lunacy & outright incompetence of recent have made many say OK, Joe or go. From what I observe.

Think with you & many others that the times they are a-changing.

We have had a fair mount of behind-the-scenes societal progressives acting this anonymous way over history. Thank God.

Your cynicism is disbelieving. What you said factually was true. So? How subhuman are you?

You make a couple dozen very good points here. (Sorry to have become suddenly a fanboy! We all have our weak points, I suppose. )

Odd statement. Evidence factual?

Beethoven, Symphony No. 3.

Very good book... https://books.google.com/books/about/Profiles_in_Audacity.html?id=GUzIOct89xwC&source=kp_book_description

That is exactly what we are all talking about here. And elsewhere on this board. Nein?

https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx

The Most of S.J. Perelman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._J._Perelman

I think in an election, you take your allies & vote-getters wherever you find them.

LOL. Please Ignore all my previous snark. We need more public thought & discourse, not less, today. Your considered reflections are valued very much.

’The very Oedipus of reason crumbles beneath us.’

What defenses of the Electoral College are there? What are its utilities today?

’Mein Furher, I can walk!’

https://goodbyegeese.net/2017/12/15/the-hidden-dangers-of-goose-droppings/

YES YES YES

Light in August & As I Lay Dying may be his best works. Beyond impressed that you learned that Japanese! I several times taught myself to read a tiny bit of Mandarin but it all went up the chimney within 24 hours.

Well, there it is. The top-tier schools still hold to highest standards. What I have seen and read about the rest today is almost too depressing to think about.

Those Year Books were indeed a great highlight to get & pore over each year. I still have a great stack of them on an attic bookcase.

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