Sunday, February 10, 2019

@7:30, 2/9/19

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1
Opinion

Republicans Got Us Into This Mess, and They Have to Get Us Out of It

The idea sounds crazy — until suddenly it doesn’t.

No president Pence.
Republican help will not be needed when it is available.

2
World

Where Europe Would Be Hurt Most by a No-Deal Brexit

Some countries could lose quite badly. A few could benefit.

Austerity hurts everyone.

3
Opinion

The Moral Indecency of the Away Message

Correspondence in the modern age.

Turn it off.

4
Opinion

Abolish Billionaires

A radical idea is gaining adherents on the left. It’s the perfect way to blunt tech-driven inequality.

Abolish "rent seeking".

5
Climate

Liberal Democrats Formally Call for a ‘Green New Deal,’ Giving Substance to a Rallying Cry

House Democrats introduced a resolution calling for a sweeping environmental and economic mobilization that would make the United States carbon neutral by 2030.

Claiming the issue is appropriate.

6
Opinion

The Bad News About Helicopter Parenting: It Works

New research shows that hyper-involved parenting is the route to kids’ success in today’s unequal world.

There is a balance between creative and rote learning a child needs.

7
Health

What Is Late-Term Abortion? Trump Got It Wrong

In his State of the Union address, he used scary imagery that scientists say is incorrect.

Trump's goal is a ban on all birth control.

8
U.S.

Trump Gives Ground on His Wall as Border Deal Comes Into View

President Trump shows new flexibility on his wall as House and Senate negotiators near a border security deal that would keep the government funded past Feb. 15.

Trump likes other people to be surprised.

9
The Upshot

The Prescription Drugs That Rich People Buy

Though the wealthy tend to be healthier and fill fewer prescriptions over all, they’re likelier to purchase medications for some serious diseases.

Birth control by drugs is a luxury of affluence.

10
Food

How to Complain at a Restaurant? Just Ask Our Critic

Our restaurant critic, Pete Wells, explains why bringing your gripes to the management instead of anonymously torching the place online will make everybody happier.

Almost no restaurants set off to poison the customers.

11

Style

When Celebrities Fly Coach

Timothée Chalamet is the latest in a line of public figures who have drawn outsize attention for sitting with the rest of us.

Like the rest of us, they have reasons.
People like to be people.

12
Business

Gucci and Adidas Apologize and Drop Products Called Racist

Gucci removed a sweater that critics said evoked blackface imagery, while Adidas abandoned a white shoe it was marketing as part of a Black History Month tribute.

"Never show what should not exist."
     an instruction to designers in training

13
Style

Drinking While Pregnant: An Inconvenient Truth

Recommending that pregnant women not drink alcohol has been called old-fashioned and even patriarchal. So, as a feminist, my opinion may come as a surprise.

Fetal alcohol syndrome is real.
Some is known of tetragenic  accidents.
special care seems indicated in the first four months.

14
U.S.

Yearbook Pages at Northam’s Medical School Recorded Both Memories and Prejudices

White former students say some of the offensive images were once acceptable, but their black classmates recall racially divided times when their presence was invisible.

The past is fixed.
Change must be made in a present which may now be in the past.
Punishment for corrected behavior is pointless.

15
Opinion

The Biden Fallacy

Struggle against the powerful, not accommodation of their interests, is how America produced the conditions for its greatest social reforms.

Jamelle Bouie is correct in his premis.
It is time to build a platform for the Democratic party.
Getting a candidate elected will come later.
People should not fear to be radical now.

16
Science

The Hummingbird as Warrior: Evolution of a Fierce and Furious Beak

Winsomely captured in poems and song, the birds are yielding new secrets about their astounding beaks and penchant for violence.

Territorial and evolved for limited resources. 

17
Opinion

The Stacey Abrams Revolution

She represents a repudiation of the idea that Democrats must downplay “identity” to appeal to the country at large.

We will see how that plays in the campaign.

18
U.S.

Second Virginia Democrat Says He Wore Blackface, Throwing Party Into Turmoil

Attorney General Mark Herring, like Gov. Ralph Northam, said he dressed in blackface years ago. And a woman came forward to describe being sexually assaulted by the lieutenant governor.

Everyone has a history.
Some people are more than their childhood history.

19
New York

Queens Subway Shooting: MS-13 Member Is Arrested, Police Say

The slaying, which began as a brawl on a 7 train and left a rival gang member dead, was the first killing on the subway in more than a year, the authorities said.

MS 13 is a big gang.  Guilt by association has not been justice.

20
New York

Wall Street’s Slide Hurts New York; City Loses Nearly $1 Billion in Tax Revenue

Thursday’s report of a sharp decline in income tax revenue for New York City is a nearly $1 billion surprise: Is it an anomaly, or the new normal?

New York city should be more than a company town.

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