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<\/p>\nYesterday, I visited Virgil. Most of the time I was the ony visitor, but another one came after I got there (and left before I did.) Virgil returns all greetings as usual – this time he went so far as to say he was “thrilled” (his word) by them. On the way down, before getting on the Interstate, I came to a traffic light which turned green while I was approaching, but no one moved. When I got close enough to see why, it was because we were all waiting for a gaggle of Canada geese to finish crossing the road on foot. We do get a lot of them come through, and not just in the winter. Sometimes one only hears them (from a couple of blocks away – they can be quite loud.) Golf course managers detest them but are not allowed to harm them, thankfully. I do sympathize. Goose droppings are not something one wants on a golf course. But they can be so charming (the geese, not the managers)!<\/p>\n
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Aeon – Hail the maintainers<\/a> Crooks & Liars – Transcripts: Jared Blocked Biden Transition From Covid Planning<\/a> Food For Thought Yesterday, I visited Virgil. Most of the time I was the ony visitor, but another one came after I got there (and left before I did.) Virgil returns all greetings as usual – this time he went so far as to say he was “thrilled” (his word) by them. On the way down, before getting […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,3913],"class_list":["post-50359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-covid-19","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – As the pursuit of innovation has inspired technologists and capitalists, it has also provoked critics who suspect that the peddlers of innovation radically overvalue innovation. What happens after innovation, they argue, is more important. Maintenance and repair, the building of infrastructures, the mundane labour that goes into sustaining functioning and efficient infrastructures, simply has more impact on people\u2019s daily lives than the vast majority of technological innovations.
\nClick through for complete essay<\/a>. Aeon has Creative Commons, but only for “idea”s, and this is an “essay.” Otherwise I think I moght have used it for a Furies column. It expresses, far better than I could, what was trying to say in last week’s Furies about not everyone in Congress needs to write legislation to be a successful legislator. Also, there are comments (though you need to bring them up), of which one references the Hindu trinity (the Trimurti) very effectively.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – A former Trump administration official, Alyssa Farah Griffin, told the committee that Dr Deborah Birx, who headed the White House\u2019s coronavirus task force under Mr Trump, had in the days after election day, asked if the Biden team should be looped in to plans to combat the pandemic. \u201cAbsolutely not,\u201d Ms Griffin said Mr Kushner had told the meeting. She added: \u201cAnd then we just moved on\u201d.
\nClick through for story<\/a>. You may already have seen it. Well, color me nor surprised.<\/p>\n
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