Saturday, May 13, 2017

@13:05, 5/13/17

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1
Food

Crab, Meet Sugar Snap Peas

Sugar snap peas and crab get introduced in this fast and vernal weeknight dinner.

I should do this.

A different problem.  I disagree with Welsh on tactics.
http://www.ianwelsh.net/nature-does-not-grade-on-a-curve/

2
N.Y. / Region

Brearley, Manhattan Girls’ School, Pursuing Allegations of Past Abuse

Officials at the Upper East Side school told families of current students that a law firm had been hired to investigate sexual misconduct accusations from the “distant past.”

Humanity does not do sex well.
I do not know how to do sex well.

Most of human culture is about sex and food and sleep.

Sex is the only part that can be denied.

3
Food

A Green That Does More Than Garnish

Watercress has a bright, peppery bite, and many excellent uses.

cornichons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickled_cucumber#Gherkin

Mother grew the upland variety of cress.
I have not foraged any variety.

4
Opinion

Trump Is Terrible at Firing!

Watch out, Your Holiness, here comes Donald.

Trump is not funny.

He is insane.

5
Opinion

The Health Care Bill’s Insults to Women

The American Health Care Act reflects a deep disregard for women’s health.

Misogyny is an assault.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misogyny

6
N.Y. / Region

A Tactic That Gave Stipends to Renegade Democrats Has Also Rewarded Republicans

The state senators are being given stipends meant for committee chairmen, even though they do not hold those positions.

Pay the state legislators a professional wage.

7
N.Y. / Region

Departing City Jails Chief: ‘They Just Want to Hammer Somebody Forever’

Joseph Ponte acknowledged making mistakes during his three-year tenure in New York, but cited achievements like reducing the use of solitary confinement.

Bureaucrats fight.  
People get hurt.
The jails are better for his tenure.
Joseph Ponte should have been a better chief.


Opinion

How to Get the Wealthy to Donate

It’s easy. Just cater to their sense of being the heroes of their own lives.

"By suggesting that charities might cater to wealthier people’s conception of themselves, our research may seem to miss the moral point of charity. But as the behavioral scientist Christopher Bryan has said, “We’re often so focused on getting people to do the right thing for what we think is the right reason, we forget we just need to get them to do the right thing.”"

Please define: The right thing.

Many right things conflict.

9
U.S.

Comey Replacement May Be Named Soon, Trump Says

“We can make a fast decision,” the president told reporters. He declined to say who was on his short list to lead the F.B.I.

Trump appears to feel the national police should be loyal to the president.

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Opinion

Trump’s Changing Story on James Comey’s Firing

Readers discuss the latest revelations, including the president’s request for a loyalty vow and calling the F.B.I. director a “showboater.”

The facts will be known.
As yet they are not known by me.


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