Tuesday, August 1, 2017

@23:30, 7/30/17

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1
Food

What to Cook This Week

Today, make a show-stopper, like a chicken wrapped in pie crust, and embrace simplicity for the rest of the week.

2
Opinion

Mr. McCain and The Mooch

Let’s hope that Senator McCain’s words, rather than Mr. Scaramucci’s expletives, echo in Americans’ ears in the days to come.

The Mooch is gone.

3
Smarter Living

No, It’s Not Too Late. There’s Only One Real Finish Line in Life.

Welcome to the latest edition of the Smarter Living newsletter.

Yes a partnership will be a new project

Sooner is better    As soon as you can is best.

4
Opinion

Artificial Intelligence Is Stuck. Here’s How to Move It Forward.

Real progress will require an international scientific collaboration, like the one that discovered the Higgs boson.

Artificial intelligence is starting from the wrong concept.
The basic drive of human intelligence is curiosity about the physical world.  Reading comes much later. 

5
U.S.

Republicans Try to Regroup After Health Care Failure, Democrats Exult

After loss, Democratic leaders urge Republicans to negotiate with them to repair the Affordable Care Act.

The basic conflict is the existence of a universal health care system.

Some resolution of that conflict must precede any deal.

A system should exist.

6
Technology

The Riches of Jeff Bezos

The Amazon chief executive was briefly the richest person in the world, by one reckoning, but then the company issued a disappointing earnings report.

The Amazon business model will die or life will become a computer game.

7
World

Iraqi Surgeon Returns Home to Help the Wounded Get Back in the Fight

Dr. Munjed al-Muderis fled Baghdad in 1999 after being ordered to cut off the ears of army deserters. Now the prime minister wants him to help amputees walk again.

Fixing people is a good thing.
Fixing minds is more difficult.
Both need doing.

8
Opinion

The ‘No Guardrails’ Presidency

How did the conservative movement come to embrace vulgarity?

No.

The Trump presidency has almost no legitimacy.
It does not believe in legitimacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_%28political%29

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Crosswords & Games

Bamboo-Eating Bear

David Steinberg heads home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKZcwsM3RH0
U.S.

Republicans Worry That White House Disarray Is Undermining Trump

A recent sequence of disappointments and blunders has rattled the president’s volatile governing coalition and threatens the G.O.P.’s policy agenda.

We will have to see where rump drags us next.

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