Saturday, July 29, 2017

@9:00, 7/29/17

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U.S.

Scaramucci Tweets on Leak That Wasn’t Lays Bare White House Divisions

Anthony Scaramucci, the new communications director, challenged Reince Priebus, the chief of staff, to “explain that he’s not a leaker.”

Scaramucci is being transparent.

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U.S.

Video: Trump on Sessions: Everything but ‘You’re Fired’

President Trump made a career of firing people on TV. Now, he is expressing his disappointment with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, but has not uttered two key words.

Nixon's southern strategy has been vital.

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U.S.

Right and Left React to ‘Skinny Repeal’ Defeat and Scaramucci’s Interview

Read about how the other side thinks about the health care debate and the new White House communications director’s profanity-laced tirade.

Suicide is a recursive firing.
People can and have fired themselves.

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Opinion

John McCain’s Dramatic Vote on the Republican Health Bill

Readers praise the senator as they decry what one calls “perhaps the most disgraceful and dishonest legislative gambit” in the Senate’s history.

August recess.

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Health

In US First, Scientists Edit Genes of Human Embryos

For the first time in the United States, scientists have edited the genes of human embryos, a controversial step toward someday helping babies avoid inherited diseases.

Analytic genetics does not yet exist.
Eugenics was a fantasy that became a horror.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
Genetic research should continue.
There is nothing special about human beings.

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

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69379/an-essay-on-criticism

"A little learning is a dangerous thing
Drink deep or touch not the Pryian spring."

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Opinion

Mr. Anthony Scaramucci Esq.’s Guide to Workplace Etiquette

Some helpful hints on proper office comportment.

Humor . . .

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Opinion

John McCain Gets Best Care, Then Votes to Deprive Others

A reader condemns the senator’s dramatic vote; another praises two G.O.P. senators for voting “no” and suggests that they leave the party.

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

Seniority is important.


U.S.

Trump Attacks Sessions Again, This Time Over the Acting F.B.I. Director

The president’s third straight day of publicly complaining about Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, came during speculation that Mr. Trump could fire Mr. Sessions.

Trump is reluctant to abandon the "Solid South".

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Opinion

Sessions, Kushner and the Russia Investigation

Readers discuss President Trump’s attacks on his attorney general and Jared Kushner’s defense before Senate investigators.

"No comments from the peanut gallery."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_gallery
U.S.

Video: Scaramucci and Trump Bring Trash Talk to West Wing

The blunt lingo of President Trump and his new communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, can sometimes sound like a cross between “Goodfellas” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

The Trump administration displays its taste and erudition.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/erudition

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@9:29

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Opinion

John McCain’s Dramatic Vote on the Republican Health Bill

Crosswords & Games

One Lighting Up the Dance Floor

Erik Agard gives us some fuzzy food.

Sunset Boulevard:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043014/

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Well

How Tattoos Might Affect Your Workout

The amount and saltiness of sweat changed in skin areas that had been dyed.

I have no "skin art".

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U.S.

Scaramucci Tweets on Leak That Wasn’t Lays Bare White House Divisions

Anthony Scaramucci, the new communications director, challenged Reince Priebus, the chief of staff, to “explain that he’s not a leaker.”

Gushing.

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Technology

Relocating an iTunes Library

If your media collection has taken over your computer’s hard drive, you can move your iTunes files to another location.

It reads like it should work.
Follow the instructions in detail.

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Food

What to Cook This Weekend

In the middle of summer, there’s nothing finer than an outdoor meal: grilled corn, ash-roasted potatoes or rib-eye steaks.

I will do waffles with creme fraiche  and blackberry jam.


Books

Literary World Reacts to Michiko Kakutani’s Departure

Did Michiko Kakutani — who stepped down after 38 years as The Times’s chief book critic — influence your literary tastes? We’d like to hear about it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/books/38-years-on-books-the-essential-michiko-kakutani-reader.html

I have ignored her.

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Style

A Doctor Gives Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop a Pelvic Exam

Dr. Jen Gunter was already skeptical of “snake oil” products meant to improve women’s sex lives. Now she is a detractor of the movie star’s website.

Goop might be a hint about content.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goop
Dr. Jen Gunter is not wrong.

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Magazine

Judge John Hodgman on Keeping Locks of Hair

Should we be nailing our friends’ body parts to our walls?

I have learned more.






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