Jul 212019
 

WWWendy will be here shortly, and after we destink the TomCat, we’re going to the shiny new CatBox to drop off a custom toilet seat and some grab bars.  This is my only article today, with no links messages on Care2.  It’s going to be be over 90° today.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:33 (average 5:10).  To do it, click here.  Hou did you do?

Short Take:

From The New Yorker: Historians studying archival photographs from four decades ago have come to the conclusion that the U.S. must have believed in science at some point.

According to the historian Davis Logsdon, who has been sifting through mounds of photographic evidence at the University of Minnesota, the nation apparently once held the view that investing in science and even math could yield accomplishments that would be a source of national pride.

Dang, Andy! Those photos are fakes. That moon shit was just entertainment to distract the libruls that believe such fantasies. Don’t you know the earth is flat? RESIST!!

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  12 Responses to “Personal Update – 7/21/2019”

  1. NYer: We used to have a sense of pride a couple years ago. Sad that the formal/natural sciences are not being recognized (like they should be) today, as well as the other areas of academic disciplines.

    Cartoon: UGH !!!

    Hope that you have a great day, and get your shopping done too. It’s hot all over, so stay hydrated ! Thanks, Tom.

    *This just in: “Lindsey Graham claims ‘send her back’ chant isn’t racist because Ilhan Omar is a trump critic.” ~ Gary H. ~
    2. “It’s crazy that a 33 y.o.Nazi (miller), with a BA, and no demonstrative skills other than being good at racism is in a position to use the most powerful man on earth as a hand puppet with which to tear apart the country and embolden other racists.” ~Jon Z. ~

  2. 5:28 The Guelphs and Ghibellines are long gone, but the city remains.

    Have a wonderful journey. Less than two weeks now and you’ll be so much more comfortable.

    TNY – Sometimes humor can be painful.

    Cartoon – Their solution for everything. (Does anyone besides me find it interesting that, of the three billionaires who collectively have more wealth than the least wealthy half of the nation combined, two have stated publicly that they ought to be required to pay more taxes?)

    • Both Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have deep concerns WRT income inequality.  And at least they’re trying to do something to address it.

      They were the founders of “The Giving Pledge” – a foundation for billionaires (you have to be one to join) who pledge to give more than half of their wealth to charitable organizations, either while living or in their Wills.

      As of May, 2019 there were 204 members from 23 countries.

      What I found interesting at the site is that Mackenzie Bezos (former wife of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos) has signed the Pledge – but her former husband (Jeff Bezos) has not.  Jeff Bezos is the third billionaire you reference who with Buffett and Gates have a greater aggregate wealth than the 160 MILLION poorest Americans … combined.  

      • Now that’s interesting.  I knew Bezos was the third, and that he was uninterested, but I didn’t realize his ex-wife has a conscience.  Given that his mistress has a brother who sold both of them out to David Pecker, I would bet his next wife won’t have one.  

  3. When we neglect education, we neglect our country. A well-educated public would have not only rejected the Mango Meat-head, but forced the Democrats to nominate Bernie Sanders. Uneducated people are easier to bamboozle – and herd.

  4. New Yorker:  That’s why Dumpy was so quick to say that “I love the uneducated!” who are to dumb to know what he really meant.  
    Science is an integral part of what made this country great, in the first place, and ignoring it, because St. Reagan stated, in his special sort of wisdom, that “Facts are just annoyances,” will undo us and life on the planet, as we know it.  
    So, here is some scientific, and ethical, wisdom from E.O.Wilson:
    The British ecologist, Norman Meyers, in 1979, “…published the first estimates of the rates of destruction of tropical rain forests,” and “calculated the global loss of cover to be a little less than one percent per year.” This works out “to roughly one-quarter of a percent of species extinguished or doomed to early extinction each year.” E.O. Wilson, “Naturalist.” pg. 356-357. So, little by little, we are inexorably destroying the very basis of that which sustains life on the planet as we know it.

    • It was “the poorly educated.”  And there is a difference – it’s the difference between “have not yet learned” and “will fight learning to their last breath.”

  5. NYT: Agree with Pat.
    Cartoon: Disgusting. I like Joanne, feel they need to be paying way more in taxes.
    Have a wonderful Sunday. Have fun going to visit your new studio.with Wendy. Less than two weeks to go.

  6. 3:31 Whew, I nearly went under in that harbour.

    TNY: History isn’t very scientific itself, so sifting through photographs and then drawing a conclusion can hardly be called proof of a belief in science, can it? I bet Republicans love a paradox like this.

    Having a custom toilet seat installed is the human equivalent of a cat spraying against the front door. 😁😁

    • Oh dear – this disabled person (me) also uses one.  It wasn’t expensive and has lasted many years (and looks like outlasting me), and it certainly does make life less painful in a number of body parts (some which bend, and some which may get pinched.)

      • Mine has handles on each side.  I can use them to hold myself down, so I won’t hit my head on the ceiling when I’m enthroned after chili. 14

  7. Thanks and hot OGIM Hugs to all. 22

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