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Weil, so schliesst er messerscharf,
nicht sein kann, was nicht sein darf.
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fake books! or, geht mit Kasino pleite.
what was he *for*? what is his function?
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Suggesting that the incumbent use practices of parenting surrogates like television translated very badly into the age of streaming media - at the same time that the laissez-faires cheapened model of media delivery let the filth floodgates open.
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What principle transvalued the deviance of shiftless undisciplined young men?
The exhaustion of parenting them?
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I gave my older son a Damon Runyon short-story collection on Thursday; horse-racing touts and Liebling’s Cigar Store Indians - fun to read about, awful to live among without respite.
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Society lets them game because otherwise it would have to deal with them all the time.
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Eighty years ago, these men played craps.
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Gaming? The formless solitary unaccountable hours spent with a console, earphones, junk food.
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I’ve been otherwise engaged- is Krugman saying the first month of Cleveland2 brought the reduced freight car loadings of July 1929? Starting to see not for profits firing people en masse.
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The soy thing, and before that Atkins craze?
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I remember when Nabisco took the lard out of Oreos. Once, treyf as hell, we ate Hydrox (R.I.P.). Then, my housemate bought them, and we two kosher-keeping young men took that particular Host.
Tallow in the fryer, like bacon craze, is about transvaluations of values and fencing out the other.
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Oh, that dreckmann.
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The next year Tom Lyson assigned Street Corner by William Foote Whyte, Carol Stack’s All My Kin, Jacob Holdt’s American Pictures. Le plus ça change, le plus ça même chose./4
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Read David Neiwert and William Sheridan Allen at the same time. And Oklahoma City happened.
As I said, interesting. /3
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Coupled with staff reports from the Accelerated Public Works Program under Clark-Blatnik and V.I.S.T.A.
It was an interesting spring semester ./2
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“Gee, Officer Krupke”
In my politics of poverty class with Ed Kelley 30 years ago, we had an intense month of reading some Charles Murray thing from Reagan 1, Frances Fox Piven’s regulating the poor, something from Cornel West that I can’t recall, and a Tom Sowell thing during welfare reform./1
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The other ninety percent of their colleagues didn't have solidarity with their colleagues (assuming 30 year work history, ten percent swingeing cuts, returns of the chosen few). These aren't French government unions - the Fed workforce is triarchic, just like the country.
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I served dead people in federal court.
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The broad historical comparanda applicable (either Air Traffic Controllers in 1981 or the German sailors on the north Sea fleet in November 1918) don’t sit well. why should these workers put themselves on the reed-thin lever of attenuated public opprobrium?
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That’s glib and callous.  if they refuse to go back to work, they risk being deemed resigned. It’s not a tv show with the critic “history” they didn’t sign up to be advocates. That’s the job of the public here in the states.
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The point is, they weren’t essential until the optics got bad, and they already were harmed - why should they be foot soldiers in the resistance? They are regular people with mortgages.
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She was extremely ill on the Delta flight back to New York and was in the hospital for two weeks. January 1991. The index case for the East Coast measles epidemic in the MMWR I think April 1991. Mom’s 1963 Edmonton-B vaccination had failed. The MMR is better now, but this outbreak? policy choice.
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34 years ago, my mother,
then 41 , contracted measles airborne in a hospital ward while she was assisting her mother during discharge home. Four days later at my uncle’s 51st birthday, she came down with wracking pain and fevers, which the doctors in San Juan thought was dengue fever./1
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Walt couldn't hack it on Gretchen's organic farm.
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Makes me think of midnight DV crossings “chicken in a package”, and Jeff van Cleve’s skywatching parties during the Geminids.
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Getting better by the minute
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Politician occupying the same space as the leader of a congregation, and gaining flock from charisma and word of mouth-and nobody shows up to a boring service because of the lack of entertainment value
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Now multiply that by 120,000 alumni. Nothing is free. If you want to keep things, keep it for yourself and pay.
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I just went through a cycle of deleting 10 GB worth of email from my old university account which used to be unlimited and then became limited to 15 and now is limited to five. I costed out the storage. It would’ve cost Cornell 10 bucks a year to keep things as they were for me alone/2
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All those hard drives in server farms where artifacts of the low interest rate era unlimited storage is BS because the promise always would’ve been abrogated as soon as it actually cost anything to keep. /1
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Is it related to the draw of the preacher?
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Judicious temperament. strakes and bills, up and down the line.
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I liked him. He ran a great political organizing training in New Rochelle in 2017, but I skipped the after party with Nate Silver (what a fraud). We zoomed during the pandemic.
This was after the cancer diagnosis, btw. He was very melancholic.
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In the year since he’s descended into viciousness - and he is so personally mediocre. I think he has a college education because his father is a college professor – he would never have been able to go to school otherwise.
Anyway, he married a chemistry PhD convert to Judaism./3
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In summer 2017, I proposed a series of letter exchanges, looking for commonalities between center left and center right?
He agreed I sent the first letter, and his response was so bizarre, denying any commonalities – I just abandoned it. /2
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Oh, I call that guy my Dipshit Doppelgänger. What I would have become if I had never been laid in college. I originally followed because it seemed like he turned up whatever new thing was coming on the right, and I wanted the notice of whatever depravity was cooking./1
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I knew him personally. He had a very hard end.
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Some of us are backing out of the gasoline bath; others are overcome with fumes. Still more are in the yard waiting for the slum to burn down. A few have fire extinguishers. But there’s a lot of arsonists to buy off in there.
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By the *prevailing* standards of journalism which accords authority proportionate to political and social power.
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Times headline writers are meatheads from Massapecqua. Betcha an org chart will bear that out. The first headline was on the long weekend when a lower status schmoe was on duty, and it got “fixed” to PBA satisfaction when the meatheads came
back from the long weekend.
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I’ve been personally dismayed by the number of people who were given the same enlightened education as you, who have backslid to join the snakes under the tarp.
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If the liberal town you’re talking about is the one I think you’re talking about the Delaware County sheriffs department went around arresting white people for signing NAACP petitions in November 1970. Pop pop said the Gestapo was nicer in 1938.
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The engine churns out comforting canned green beans, and no individual person must contend with whether the soft beans have nutrients, because they look like green beans. Never mind the garbage concrete in the Zeppelin Field.
From where comes the deadly incuriosity?/2
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Technical-mechanical machines for mass production of bullshit. The entire process automated. The autocomplete mystically provides the desired gestalt, “validated” by the formal technical process of derivation. We would laugh if the words came as cast lots, but these steam engines chug away./1
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I think about the community kitchens in early Soviet housing and the walls between families, but this is the inverse social problem - a bloc of people so deskilled and anomic and lonely tantruming at the ending of cheap tasty meals at home
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“sent to bed without a hot dinner”
the wet tears of deprivation, the loneliness, distraught hunger, but refracted through adulthood.
My god, I hadn’t thought of it that way. One of the bundle of sticks of a safe home, made scarcer by cost.