andremayer.bsky.social
Old white liberal, Cambridge Massachusetts
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John Adams’s Massachusetts constitution (1780) is notably more weighted towards separation of powers than the newer federal constitution.
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The ground rules were already too complicated
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He’s proposing it because he lives in his teen years, when the population of Gaza was (largely) displaced refugees and where they should end up was a reasonable question.
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I had a professor in grad school who had written a book about White racism; he often had to explain that it wasn’t “Black history.”
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Today’s Spelling Bee has its best words ever, and even accepts some of them
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The change was apparently made during the first Trump administration?
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But party membership is way down, no? So increasingly unrepresentative of the general public.
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David Packard?
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Though apparently not as bad as advertised
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A lot of French Canadians went straight to where the mills were — Lowell MA, Woonsocket RI, etc.
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Also, Clinton is younger than Bush, who’s younger than Trump.
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Belongs with Pierre and The Confidence Man more than the maritime/South Seas books
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I’m afraid it may be the aftereffects (for individuals and colleges) of the FAFSA screwup.
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I know about them from Joan Didion
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Not quite right, though — the UK for a time had a surcharge that pushed the top rate above 100%.
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Well, yes. But the pre-2002 situation, when Boston and Chicago had won in 80 years, Philly once, and SF, Houston, Dallas and the Angels never, was great either.
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If you really think there are as many baseball fans in KC or Pittsburgh as in NY, LA, or Boston, I guess you’re entitled to your opinion.
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Viewers drive dollars, ultimately; granted that college football on cable used to be an exception.
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Yes, but it’s not what most people are seeing/reading
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But is there a problem? Why should teams with few fans have an equal chance? Look at it this way: the NFL is the Senate, MLB is the House.
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They don’t expect to “win” votes — they hope to avoid being attacked on this issue.
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Second terms tend to be a lot less successful than the first ones. Just saying.
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Silas Marner was the worst; later found she’d written better books.
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“Organized Labor” is the Dems’ Elon Musk — provides resources, can threaten in primaries, but is not a general election voting bloc.
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Angus Burgin’s book isn’t the standard account, but I found it illuminating.
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It’ll be interesting to see what happens to Harvard College.
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TV showed the advent of the Millennium in cities around the world; when it hit midnight in Moscow and the lights stayed on, I figured we were okay.
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Nonsense. Biden continues to be exactly what he’s been for decades, carefully positioning himself at the center of the Democratic Party as it existed in 1970.
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Depends on whom you follow
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Still lower than the average for *recruited athletes* at Harvard last year. At the high end, college admissions is so granular that it’s very hard to analyze.
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Didn’t he meet his second wife at church?
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This is Harry Von Tilzer, not his brother Albert. Harry wrote more songs you know, but Albert wrote Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
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The strangest part is that they’re all named for Italian painters.
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This argument works best if you deny that the working class has agency … under communism.
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Tsarnaev is the proof that it’s all theater — if they’d really wanted him dead they’d have put him in the yard at a state pen (correctional center, I mean).
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Counterpoint: children are people
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This is basically the AI used to monitor, e.g., turbines
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No, it’s Robert G. Ingersoll, “the Great Agnostic.”
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Often it’s more effective to attack a fad after it’s over
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It seems to me that part of Biden’s problem is that, as an old-line Democrat, he expected and sought gratitude from old-line labor — and these guys haven’t responded like that since the ‘60s.
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Oh come on. The first headline I read was about Stalin’s death.
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I think he actually he had an idea: Let’s hit it with two drugs at once, like AIDS! But that didn’t work, so there wasn’t even an anecdote.
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I’m no expert, but I read that paper and it made no sense — appeared to be a case where the researcher tried something that didn’t work, but went ahead and published.
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Ike’s WW2 memoir (1948) was called Crusade in Europe.
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“Identity politics” is “the alienated voter” of our time — the trouble is that it turns out to favor conservatives.
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I’m guessing this whole movement is sparked by techies thinking, “wouldn’t it be great if you could just press a button to get through the general education requirements?”.
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Seems like decivilization to me
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Yep. See whooping cough. I’ve had it twice, 60 years apart.
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They were smart enough to return home by another way
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But basically the same population, including class — very hard to find before relatively recent times.