Sunday, August 13, 2017

@1:20 8/13/17

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1
Opinion

Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism

Yes, there was repression behind the Iron Curtain. But it wasn’t sexual.

"Sex sells."

2

Opinion

I’m a White Man. Hear Me Out.

The legitimacy of my voice shouldn’t depend on the degree of my oppression.

Yes.    People are complicated.

3
Opinion

You’ll Never Be as Radical as This 18th-Century Quaker Dwarf

Give this environmentally conscious abolitionist his rightful place in history.

Let me think about that statement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radicalization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radicalization#Definitions

"There is no universally accepted definition of radicalization in academia of government. Therefore, no one definition can be presented here. One of the difficulties with defining radicalization appears to be the importance of the context to determine what is perceived as radicalization. Therefore, radicalization can mean different things to different people.[7] "

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

"The term political radicalism (or simply, in political science, radicalism) denotes political principles focused on altering social structures through revolutionary or other means and changing value systems in fundamental ways. Derived from the Latin radix (root), the denotation of radical has changed since its eighteenth-century coinage to comprehend the entire political spectrum—yet it retains the "change at the root" connotation fundamental to revolutionary societal change. Historically, radicalism has referred exclusively to the radical left (under the single category of far-left politics) and rarely incorporating far-right politics - though these may have revolutionary elements; the prominent exception is in the United States where some[quantify] consider radicalism to include both political extremes of the radical left and the radical right. In traditional labels of the spectrum of political thought, the opposite of radical on the "right" of the political spectrum is termed reactionary."

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

"A hermit (adjectival form: eremitic or hermitic) is a person who lives in seclusion from society, usually for religious reasons.[1][2][3]"

Marcus Rediker needs to think more.

4
Real Estate

What if Friends Stay Past the Landlord’s Limit?

A tenant wants to stretch the 30-day limit on houseguests.

I am not familiar with the landlord in question.

 A three cornered deal is probably not worth the bother.

5
Style

Silicon Valley Now Has Its Own Populist Pundit

Steve Hilton, a tech entrepreneur who was an adviser to former Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain, is Fox News’s first host in the liberal region.

The last time Murdoch inc. played with tech they got badly burned.  They are taking precautions.
Populism at Fox is built on a big lie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism

Pet chickens are fine with me.
Foxes are closely related to dogs.

6
Books

A Wealthy Family’s Battle With Drugs Laid Bare, but to What End?

Sigrid Rausing’s coming book raises questions of whether the lines between memoir and voyeurism, family catharsis and score-settling, have been blurred.

"Perhaps fittingly, the romance between Hans and Eva began in a drug rehabilitation center, where they met in their mid-20s. Soon after, they married. “They had a house in London, a house in Barbados, many cars and paintings,” and “invitations to this and that and philanthropy,” Ms. Rausing wrote."

These events were not a surprise.

7
Opinion

Google Doesn’t Want What’s Best for Us

America has held a largely romantic view of the tech industry that is at odds with reality.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/death-and-don-delillo/476367/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightened_self-interest

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

Google is not FaceBook.
The FaceBook business model should probably perish.
It tries to imprison persons in bubbles.
Google bills its advertisers on the basis of interest group sizes. It does not need to tell anyone who is interested.
As long as advertisers can insist on cookies the data will be available and easily anonymized.

8
Sports

Jon Rahm, a Rising Star, Stalls at Golf’s Majors

Rahm, a 22-year-old from Spain ranked sixth in the world, mostly kept his frustrations in check in the second round of the P.G.A. Championship.

Mindfulness helps.

9
Science

We Need to Talk Some More About Your Dirty Sponges

A study of the bacteria that proliferate in kitchen sponges alarmed many readers. But do not despair, there are some simple solutions.

OK.  

I make good use of the dishwasher.
If I were more paranoid  I would use the pressure cooker.
Autoclaving works

10
Arts

Treats, Jewelry and AstroTurf: Scenes From an Art Show for Dogs

Scenes from the decadent opening reception of "Dogumenta," an art show for dogs.


An owner who likes them as dogs is the best art for for the pet.


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1
Well

Protecting My Son Meant Wishing for His Death

After a snowboard accident he was saved from dying, but he was not given back a meaningful life to live.

There is no grace in this exit.

2
Real Estate

Seven Ways to Save on Your Kitchen Renovation

To avoid an expensive remodeling job, try the tricks designers use.

Been there, done that.

3
Food

What to Cook This Weekend

Embrace this weekend to cook as if summer won’t ever end, with pulled pork, a paella or some Nashville-style hot chicken.

All good things. 
I need an appreciative audience.

4
Arts

Art and Museums in NYC This Week

Our guide to new art shows, and some that will be closing soon.

I will look at anything in your company.
Sooner is better.    As soon as you can is best.

5
Movies

Review: ‘The Nile Hilton Incident’ Puts the Noir in Cairo

The story follows a corrupt police detective investigating a murder just days before the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5540188/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

I wish I cared.

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N.Y. / Region

How Helen Uffner, Vintage Clothing Expert, Spends Her Sundays

She’s found retro outfits for Meryl Streep and Kate Winslet. On Sundays, the period clothing specialist visits flea markets and estate sales.

I have enough junk.

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Arts

Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week

Our guide to pop and rock shows and the best of live jazz.

I am not current.  Your choice.

8
Sports

Yankees Beefed Up Their Pitching. Now They Need Hitting.

Thursday’s loss was the Yankees’ sixth in their last nine games, a stretch during which they have been held to two runs or fewer seven times.

https://nytimes.stats.com/mlb/standings.asp

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U.S.

President Trump Escalates Criticism of Mitch McConnell as Majority Leader

For days, Mr. Trump has trained his fire on Mr. McConnell, venting on Twitter about the Senate’s inability to pass a health care repeal bill.

12 minutes ago
For some reason my feed is filling up with therapeutic cats. So Holmes here would like everyone to take a break from politics

10
Opinion

How to Accident-Proof the Police

Police officers should not be more dangerous than airplanes.

"Michael Scott, a former police chief who is now a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Arizona State University, is a fan of aviation safety-proofing and told me that “we need a parallel system for the police.” But, he said, law-enforcement agencies have a long way to go because they lack the most basic tools for learning from their mistakes.
“We don’t even know exactly how many officer-involved shootings happen every year,” he said, because “we still do not have a single national reporting system that chronicles and documents every police-involved shooting in this country.”
“Of course, it’s important to have a criminal and an administrative investigation of any death” that involves a police officer, he added. But it’s not enough to determine who is to blame; we also need to ask, “Why did this happen?”
Until we can answer that question, innocent people will continue dying at the hands of the police."

A job for the F.B.I.



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