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“To be is to be the value of a variable,” Willard Quine

Hm. “Glue” and “Gluten” related.

Good round up of Trump’s corruption. AP.

“The Chians are bad; not just this one or that one – they’re all bad, except for Procles; and Procles is a Chian.” (*)

I’m afraid this might be right: “The Boomers were good. It’s the Gen Xers who went crazy.”

Dunnage (thinking of the third definition): personal effects; baggage.

“Two people dead, just so we can live without working, why?” … Gun Crazy

Family “Music In A Dolls House” 1968 vinyl full album.

Hazel Dickens: American bluegrass singer, characterized not only by her high, lonesome singing style, but also by her provocative pro-union, feminist songs.

Karoo: “The Karoo formed an almost impenetrable barrier to the interior from Cape Town, and the early adventurers, explorers, hunters, and travelers on the way to the Highveld unanimously denounced it as a frightening place of great heat, great frosts, great floods, and great droughts.”

Gedankenexperiment… thought experiment. (Curious that an English language paper would not just say ‘thought experiment.’)

When I reached a former longtime senior FBI official to ask whether he’d ever seen personally branded liquor bottles distributed by a previous FBI director, he burst out laughing… Atlantic.

… In March, Patel and his team brought at least one case of bourbon to the FBI’s training facility in Quantico, Virginia, for a ‘training seminar,’ where Ultimate Fighting Championship athletes provided mixed-martial-arts instruction to aspiring FBI agents and senior staff. At one point at least one bottle went missing, which caused the director to ‘lose his mind,’ […] Patel began threatening to polygraph and prosecute his staff over the missing bottle. ‘It turned into a shitshow.’

The tragedy (or rather, the difficulty, given our housing affordability crisis) is not that this beautiful though diminished old house will be demolished; but that it will be replaced by just another single family home, larger and with less modesty. Preferable would be to have multiple units.

To be in the belly of the whale is to be outside the belly of the whale — is to be in the midst of hiccups.

Noting the motion my hiccups have imparted to the soup in the white bowl.

Whitman was the poet of Lincoln while so many of us are the poets of Trump. “I voted for this!” say some of the poets of Trump. “I hate Trump!” say others of the poets of Trump.

If I have thought it, another has thought it first. If I have thought it, many are thinking it right now. The cataloging of the ordinary has an obvious role in democracy.

It had been one of those WORDls where even after you get four of the letters it could be any number of words. I had been fortunate to get the ‘m’ early on and so knew the word was not ‘faker’ or ‘taker’ but — ‘maker.’

scissorbill: A fool, an incompetent; a yokel, a hick.

The one Maureen Dowd Column I’ve read in the last thirty years. She is too much of a wordsmith for me. But Trump is in fact Iran’s Newest Hostage.

FUN TO IMAGINE with Richard Feynman. Why is ice slippery? Good question.

Herdic, a type of horse-drawn carriage.

“The problem is that the rescue infrastructure is exhausted.” Thoughtful editorial about the craziness of the markets, which assume government rescue, and A.I. (NYT)

Klein: “You’re working so hard. And the idea that that is taxed so much more higher than somebody making money just by letting money sit in an index fund… there is a fairness question here.”

Yglesias: “You can’t really instantiate sound conservative ideas without carving out broad Trump-adjacent exceptions.”