It is not good to be too free.
It is not good to have all one needs.

Pascal

tweet: One notion US economic suicide should put to rest: The country is not secretly run by Wall Street or corporations or the military-industrial complex. It’s run by the median safe-district high-propensity primary voter. There’s no one else waiting to grab the wheel.

desiderate — desire, long for.

skelm — a scoundrel, a rogue.

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No, I don’t think he means that. Or yes, maybe he does. Or — no, he does not precisely mean that, or yes maybe he does. Or yes indeed he does — so let us read this again. Or rather, let us read, at least, the preceding section or proposition. Rehearsing this again, basic: procedes, precedes, preseeds, pressed, proceedes, processes, rehearsing this, as in “the proceeds of this function will go to the charity.” Get back to Peter, to Simon, those clear examples. Let us return to that paragraph. I see: yes of course I don’t see, but, looking at the rest of the paragraph, I do think I must revert to my former opinion, which was what again?… what, again, was my former opinion…? Now supposing I were eventually to recall my former opinion, what was I just now saying was it’s significance again…. that I should revert to it? Yes, so what was that one?

… Where was I? Oh, Peter. One’s image, one’s idea of Peter, is always with you, always present. Good. But what about the case in which one was happy to see Peter in the past but would be sorry to see him in the future? Or what about the case in which one was happy to see Peter in the morning (because he was so cheerful and happy in the morning, affording a needed boost to your own flagging spirits) but was sorry to see him at night (when he was so tired and glum, furthering worsening your mood after all the setbacks you’d experienced.) Also, what had become of Simon? There is almost nothing said of Simon. In cases, like those, I believe, one would need to drill down into all the associations the mind may have made with the idea it has of Peter, accidental or efficient causes of our pleasure or our dismay, all of them, all of them more complicated than the situation which, to this point, we’ve been looking into.

In my running clothes, I walked.

Thought much of characters on social media: “they were the characters of whom I was the play.”
I read a long poem.

Avoided my neighbors as they worked on their yard but not as they stepped from their car. But again I avoided them when I chanced on them stepping out of their house.

I thought of business, cats, weather, others. I didn’t think of anything I’d consider deep or advanced. I’d had no inspirations this day or this week, except as regarded various sociological changes.

“A person doesn’t care,” I saw this and that person attesting, “a person doesn’t care,” of which the obverse I knew was, “a person minds his own business.”

Tweet: Spend some time on social media, you’ll find a nearly perfect correlation between antisemitism and anti-vaxx.

Tweet: putin knows the US won’t move against him, so he massively escalated his attacks on Ukraine’s civilians since the failed summit in Riyadh & Trump call.

Yglesias: “We have to pass the bill so people can find out what’s in it” was truly one of the most vindicated political takes of my lifetime.

Tweet: the “inverse lyceum” of Elon Musk.

Snopes on the claim that Hitler pardoned 8000 political supporters when he became Chancellor: not a one-to-one match but broadly analogous to Trump’s pardoning of J6ers.

The Cairo: “the city’s first “residential skyscraper“, the 164-foot-tall brick building spurred local regulations and federal legislation limiting building height in the city that continue to shape Washington’s skyline.”

My basic guesses about the strange behavior of Musk — (a) foreigner who doesn’t have a native understanding of the U.S. or U.S system of governance; (b) engineer-type personality who doesn’t quite get real-life people concerns; (c) successful person who thinks because he knows one thing well, he knows also unrelated things well.

Yglesias: The much-feared gentrification of the Democratic Party due to the entry of more affluent voters has manifested not in a retreat from taxes and the safety net but in waning commitment to growth and material prosperity as values.

Saul Bellow reflecting on writing Augie March et al. (New Yorker, 2005): “The restraint of the first two books had driven me mad—I hadn’t become a writer to tread the straight and narrow. I had been storing up stuff for years and this was my dream opportunity for getting it all out. I was also up to my eyes in mental debt. By this I mean that in becoming a writer I hoped to bring out somehow my singular reactions to existence. Why else write? I had prepared and overprepared myself by reading, study, and fact-storage or idea-storage and I was now trying to discharge all this freight. Paris (Europe) may have set me off.” 

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POST: Michael J. Gerhardt, a professor of constitutional law at the University of North Carolina School of Law, said the administration’s response to Boasberg’s order could be oneof the first real assertions of judicial defiance by the president.

“We might just be there,” Gerhardt said, calling the administration’s rationale for allowing the deportation flights to complete their mission “really hard to believe.”

Can’t be gainsaid, an incredible sound – You Came, You Saw, You Conquered.

“I’m just asking how you think my equitable powers do not attach to a plane that has departed the U.S., even if it’s in international airspace,”…

Heavens, straight up propaganda from the Post, it looks like. Rarely take note of a byline, but this is David Lynch.