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Never attribute to malice, states Hanlon’s razor, that which is adequately explained by stupidity. In defiance of that precept, many liberals have
2/. Laurence Tribe in the Guardian on the chilling implications of the new Texas
abortion law.....it's worse than you think...
For years, as the supreme court’s composition kept tilting right, reproductive rights have been squarely
on the chopping block. Now they are on the auction block as well.
3/. Powerful, powerful ad from Don Winslow films.....abortion....1m 45 seconds...
4/. Interesting story about your retirement funds, and how you should be spending them....
I’ve been asking readers to suggest ideas, and I got this one last week from Jerry Moskowitz of Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.: “I teach a class for seniors called Keeping Current in Economics and Finance. An interesting subject may be decumulation — how to successfully spend money in retirement.” https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/27/opinion/how-to-enjoy-retirement-without-going-broke.html?referringSource=articleShare
5/. Bob Lefsetz with a really thought provoking column - the right is winning, but there is going to come a point when something
will happen and the country will wake up, just like we did for George Floyd......
It’s the left you have to worry about.
For years, we’ve been told to fear the right. They’ve got the guns. They’ve got an echo chamber of Fox News and right wing radio. They even believe in QAnon. You don’t want to anger them because they’re gonna show up at your house, they’re gonna camp on the statehouse steps, they’re going to invade the Capitol.
6/ "Fox And The Big Lie" - a 48 minute documentary by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation [the Ozzie equivalent of the BBC or the now pathetic PBS]
about how the right wing media and especially Fox News pushed the big lie that Trump won the election....
If you have Hulu or other streaming services you can watch this on Youtube on your TV....Mary and I watched it, and it's
chilling how deep the corruption is in this country.
7/. Love this story.....enough already with the vaccine refusers, they don't get to dictate terms....
For months, institutions and companies have been drafting plans to aggressively promote vaccination or require it outright, and last week the FDA gave them license to click the “Send” button.
8/. John West - the best salmon......great ad....30 seconds...
9/. Umair looks at why Democrats can't get anything done...interesting perspective, and you will agree with at least some of his comments....
You don’t have to look very hard to see something troubling. Joe Biden’s approval ratings are beginning to plummet. They’ve fallen 16 percent since the beginning of the summer. That’s a tremendous decline. Just 46% of Americans now approve of the job Biden’s doing, while 55% disapprove.
10/. Bill Maher has some suggestion about some new shows for Fox News.....an amusing four minutes....
11/. Long, but if you are into the "why" of how our exit from Afghanistan was so screwed up, this will be
enlightening.......turf wars at the State Department....
On the afternoon of July 9, 2021, William Walters rode an elevator to the seventh floor of the State Department’s Harry S. Truman Building. Passing a praetorian guard of aides, assistants, and diplomatic security agents, he entered the wood-paneled sanctum of his boss, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken. The visit was professional, personal, and pressing.
A physician and a veteran of the Army’s most elite special operations unit, “Doc” Walters headed up Operational Medicine, or OpMed—the State Department’s little-known expeditionary force that has helped organize and carry out daring rescues of U.S. officials, American citizens, and foreign nationals imperiled overseas
12/. There is now a website telling you how your house will fare with climate change....
It is hard enough to buy a home, but the climate crisis is making it even more challenging. Will a prospective house be underwater? Catch on fire? Real estate brokerage firm Redfin is offering a new tool to assess those and other climate risks.
Enter your zip code, and see what it says....
Unfortunately I think they have some challenges with their assumptions.....when they say Ft. Lauderdale is moderate risk except for heat, that's BS - Ft. Lauderdale won't be habitable in 2050....
But it's a start....
13/. Mary and I just got our booster shots....they are theoretically for the immuno-compromised but they don't ask or question.....so "get er dun" folks!
14/. Fall TV - 15 shows coming you might like.....from Rolling Stone....
15/. "Dune" will be out in October, and the Guardian has reviewed the movie and says it's wonderful....
Dune reminds us what a Hollywood blockbuster can be. Implicitly, its message written again and again in the sand, Denis Villeneuve’s fantasy epic tells us that big-budget spectaculars don’t have to be dumb or hyperactive, that it’s possible to allow the odd quiet passage amid the explosions. Adapted from Frank Herbert’s 60s opus, Dune is dense, moody and quite often sublime – the missing link bridging the multiplex and the arthouse. Encountering it here was like stumbling across some fabulous lost tribe, or a breakaway branch of America’s founding fathers who laid out the template for a different and better New World.
Today's lost wife joke
Husband : - I’ve lost my wife, she went shopping yesterday and has still not come home.
Sergeant : - What is her height ?
Husband: - I really never noticed.
Sergeant : - Build?
Husband: - Not slim, not really fat.
Sergeant : - Color of eyes?
Husband : - Never noticed.
Sergeant : - Color of hair?
Husband : - Changes according to season.
Sergeant : - What was she wearing?
Husband: Dress/suit/ I don’t remember exactly.
Sergeant : Did she go in a car?
Husband : - yes.
Sergeant : - What kind of car was it?
Husband : - Black Audi A8 with supercharged 3.0 liter V6 engine generating 333 horsepower with an eight-speed tiptronic automatic transmission with manual mode. And it has full LED headlights, which use light emitting diodes for all light functions and has a very thin scratch on the front left door.…………….
At this point the husband started crying...
Sergeant: - Don't worry sir.......We will find your car.
Today's native American joke...
Sally was driving home from one of her business trips in Northern Arizona when she saw an elderly Navajo woman walking on the side of the road. As the trip was a long and quiet one, she stopped the car and asked the Navajo woman if she would like a ride.
With a silent nod of thanks, the woman got into the car. Resuming the journey, Sally tried in vain to make a bit of small talk with the Navajo woman. The old woman just sat silently, looking intently at everything she saw, studying every little detail, until she noticed a brown bag on the seat next to Sally.
"What's in the bag?" asked the old woman.
Sally looked down at the brown bag and said, "It's a bottle of wine. I got it for my husband."
The Navajo woman was silent for another moment or two. Then speaking with the quiet wisdom of an elder, she said, "Good trade."
Today's shrink joke
A psychiatrist was conducting a group session with four young mothers and their small children. You all have obsessions, he observed.
To the first mother, he said, "Mary, You are obsessed with eating. You've even named your daughter Candy."
He turned to the second mom, "Ann, your obsession is with money. Again it manifests itself in your child's name, Penny."
He turned to the third mom, "Joyce, your obsession is alcohol. This too shows itself in your child's name, Brandy."
At this point, Kathy quietly got up, took her little boy by the hand and whispered, "Come on Dick, this guy has no idea what he's talking about. Let's pick up Peter and Willy from school and go get dinner."
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