I’m sleeping in this bed because the Home 2 was too pricey.

I’ve never seen that before and I doubt I’ll ever see it again. When the next total solar eclipse comes, and I don’t know where it will be total, I’ll be about 90. I’m glad I saw it once.

Some poorer minority students who hadn’t submitted test scores and were rejected would have been admitted had they submitted their scores.

But what happens if the Palestinians get a state? The Arab debt to the Palestinians is paid, at least as far as the Arabs are concerned, and in this case that’s what matters.

We’re warming up and playing. I glance up from my music and I involuntarily jerk, because the President of the United States is standing about ten feet in front of us looking at us and smiling.

A photo was taken. I am lucky enough to be beside her.

It’s 2 sentences. Just read it.

For Jews, that’s where we are. This is either completely unacceptable or it’s not.

Ronald Reagan presided over the real beginnings of American wealth polarization, which has resulted in the vast majority of Americans not seeing gains in America’s economy.

What happens to White students when race is taken out of the equation at premium institutions?

Right now it’s ten degrees. I never thought I’d look at ten degrees as a relief from the cold but it absolutely is.

Don’t blame us for reacting to attacks. We have to.

This is one of the biggest smoking guns in American history

The thing about Trump, the huge thing about Trump, is that he gets it. He’s the Only Sane Politician. Everything that’s obvious to you but not obvious to the politicians and the media

I didn’t hear anything in the morning when it happened. I was downstairs getting breakfast. I don’t think any shots were fired at the FBI building.

Go outside and look up

This particular path comes from wondering about Palestinian self-determination. I’ve noticed that the Palestinians seem far more concerned with getting the Jews out of Israel

Sometimes age startles me. I’m looking at buildings in the US that were around for at least a quarter of a century before Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi were born.

Like everyone else, presumably, I spent a lot of time on YouTube during COVID. I ran across a few musicians whom I thought were worth learning about.

"Did you notice who we just passed?" I asked my wife. She hadn't. "Madeline Albright." "You're right."

Vladimir Putin recently brought up the idea of using nuclear weapons. When he talked about invading Ukraine he wasn’t bluffing. About using nuclear weapons

Quora is a site where people pose questions and whoever feels like it answers them, with or without listing credentials. I sometimes find questions I’m interested in answering

The bowl hasn’t worn at all in a half century of use.

Just read the damned piece

”Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?”

it’s a one sentence post, just read it

there are a lot of politicians and judges…not really trying to reduce the number of abortions in America by the most logical means, which would be reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies, putting the lie to what this issue is …

Getting older, actually turning 67 yesterday, I was recently reflecting on the music I heard in college. I’ve spent a lot of time on campuses because my wife is a professor. We spent ten years with her teaching at Purdue. …

Image taken 9/26/21, Stowe, VT

It’s a one sentence post

Forget the porcupine. This really is about lightning bugs.

This post is really about mowing the lawn. This isn’t code for anything andI’m not making a larger point.

The problem with looking at wealth is that we don’t have a sense of scale.

That’s over 4,000 attempts to kill civilians. If this was being done on the ground we’d call it terrorism, which is of course what it is.

In case you’re wondering what liberal Zionism looks like outside of me

If Israel wants East Jerusalem to be considered other than occupied territory, it is incumbent on the Israeli government to treat the Arab population there like they are treated within Israel’s borders and not like they are treated in occupied …

It’s 2020, President Hillary Clinton runs for reelection and loses. She does not, however, accept her loss.

One sentence post, you don’t need an exerpt

Art thou more afeared of side effects than of death?

see attached clip from Ben-Hur

It’s a one sentence post. There’s no sense in reading an excerpt, particularly given that this excerpt contains one more sentence than the post does.

These tricks will work on an acoustic piano. If you hold down a key gently enough for the note not to sound and hit the right other key sharply, a third predictable note will ring.

My wife, when having trouble sleeping, would sometimes ask me to tell her about the overtone series.

When you look at your posts, which ones would you want to save and why? I guess this is sort of an open call.

“Because it puts us at a disadvantage relative to Democrats.”

You’d think that with all that weather-related power grid crap that the Texas government wouldn’t do anything else stupid. You’d think.

On August 29, 2011, I published a post on Open Salon called “Governor Perry’s Flirtation With Secession.” I’m reprinting it here, with an epilogue.

Seeing it was jarring. I’ve never had a negative reaction to it before. It means something different now.

Snat Crackle Tot

She buys up teeth for a pittance, then sells them on the lucrative International Tooth Market.

Fake News is what cowards say when they’re afraid of facing something.

There are people here who were very supportive and I want to thank you. Oddly, that’s most of the people here. Not everyone here knew me at the time.

And now I’ll say something I never expected to say in my lifetime: How the police have treated Black protesters would have been more appropriate yesterday than how they treated those White protestors. They are terrorists and traitors.

I like the mood.

However, it lacks a certain.........perspective.

...MLB commissioner Robert Manfred announced that the Negro Leagues are now recognized as Major Leagues by Major League Baseball. What that means is that Negro League stats now count, which of course affect the player and team rankings.

I post from an IPad. This is how you do it.

It’s life and death time. We have to stop this however we can and we have to survive this however we can.

No excerpt necessary for a one sentence post.

The assumption being made here, and it’s a surprisingly common one, is that in the workplace the choice is between Merit hiring and Affirmative Action hiring.

What? You didn’t think that all college admissions policies favored women and minorities, did you? 

What’s so American about that is precisely that it’s ordinary.

A while ago I thought of a way to illustrate the difference between injecting money into an economy at the bottom and at the top.

Not necessary for this short a post

So what he was actually saying was: You cannot be elected to public office in South Carolina if you’re a liberal young African-American or immigrant.

Under review. Context of this post may be wrong. ks Answer: “If you are a young African-American, an immigrant, you can go anywhere in this state. You just need to be conservative, not liberal. Sen. Lindsey Graham, 10/9/20

I don’t understand the Republican calculation here. The math doesn’t work. 

I understood that he wouldn’t care if people he didn’t know got sick with COVID-19. I didn’t know that not caring would extend to people he interacts with all the time personally. 

The [photograph] above came into my mother’s possession (electronically) a few days ago. She’d never seen it. I think she was told it was taken in 1910 in Jamaica Bay, Queens. I think it may be a bit more recent, …

A poll was just conducted by the Yale School of Management. They polled attendees at Yale's Chief Executive Leadership Institute CEO Caucus. These guys like Trump because of his tax and regulatory policies, right? Wrong.

The NY Times has reported that Donald Trump paid $750 in taxes in 2017.  Well, that’s how most people are reading it but, strictly speaking, that’s not what the Times reported. They reported that he paid $318,672 in taxes in …

Saturn is quite a bit dimmer than Jupiter is, even though Saturn isn’t all that much smaller. It is, however, roughly twice as far from Earth as Jupiter is. That’s the main reason it’s dimmer. So I look at them …

The winner is promised $1 million and headlining a show in Las Vegas. The show turns out to be two performances of a variety show, and the million is paid out over forty years. 

the shofar didn’t originally exist for the High Holy Days. It existed as a sort of ancient siren, a call to action, often with military applications

Packing the Court is a violation of tradition, but so is refusing to vet the Supreme Court nominee of a sitting President. Both are technically legal. The fuss will be asymmetrical. That will be the height of hypocrisy and we …

What happens after an alcoholic or addict reaches bottom is they start to develop new habits and priorities that will help them remain clean and get prosperous. That’s exactly what I expect to happen to the United States.

Can you imagine the Kenosha police waving past a seventeen year old Black kid with that kind of weapon?

You might wonder why most schools don’t just bite the bullet and operate almost entirely on line. The reason is that a tremendous amount of their revenue comes from housing. They need this revenue to operate.

I have been saying for a while that it makes no sense for those claiming that COVID-19 is a hoax to be relying on their politicians for information about infectious diseases rather than talking to their doctor, the person in …

From an international standpoint, [the Chinese] are basically shooting themselves in both feet. It isn’t prudent, it isn’t playing the long game, it isn’t anything that we normally expect from China. 

If you needed an unassailable assessment of national leadership, you’re looking at it.

We are not in the middle of a long, awful slippery slope. We are at the apex of a very violent swing of the pendulum.

Most racism in the United States is perpetrated by people who don’t admit their racism. Because they don’t admit their racism, the reasons for their views are not discussed; if they do discuss their reasons they are dismissed as immoral. …

How would we feel if modern day Nazis or Nazi sympathizers presented evidence that she wasn’t as nice as we thought? Documented evidence that she was nasty to her sister or her parents? Would that mean every bookstore would pull …

The strangest irony in all this is that NFL players will now be free to take a knee, not because Kaepernick did but because Chauvin did. And, in dying, George Floyd became one of the most potent political activists in …

Doing something really stupid qualifies as fucking your fellow officers because we’re all going to have to deal with the fallout.

The COVID 19 epidemic is obviously a net negative. However, that doesn’t mean it won’t have any positive consequences.

This is what it looks like at my house. Maybe I should go somewhere warm.

It doesn’t matter that the majority of Americans want testimony or even if the majority of Americans want Trump removed. What matters is where those Americans live

The couple is ordered out of the car. The young man is cuffed and kicked in the back of the legs. The young woman is ordered repeatedly to exit the vehicle but she’s on a side in the back seat …

For those of you who aren’t familiar with this particular Yiddish word, it means unmitigated gall but more extreme than that. My father used to give the classic example of the guy who kills his parents, then throws himself on …

......the move has a single silver lining. It has badly undermined Netanyahu’s position in Israeli politics.

I usually stay away from terms like Paradigm Shift but this was one.

One of the biggest ideas I got out of it is that we shouldn't expect our lives to resemble those of our parents when we get to their age because what our lives look like at any given age is …

This is fundamentally a fixable problem, and it could be accomplished by either side damned near unilaterally. Frankly, it could be accomplished by the US damned near unilaterally

Today the Israeli government, after being advised by President Trump to ban Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from visiting Israel, banned them from entering Israel. This is both ridiculous and insane.

There are apparently White people out there who are afraid of this day. This day will eventually come, and you know what will happen when it does? Absolutely nothing

My question is whether it would have been an issue had McCain run as a Democrat. Would Fox News have been talking about Panamanian gunboats on the Potomac?

The study compared counties that hosted rallies vs. counties that didn’t. In comparison, the counties that had rallies had a 226% rise in hate crimes.

Go Back....

It’s not just the virulent racism, masquerading as usual as something else, in this case some sort of concern for authenticity. Of an animated character. The arguments here go from ridiculous to clinically insane.

When Trump pulled out of the Paris Accords, I assumed he did it to take limits off of American corporations. I guess that’s a logical assumption.

I had a clock radio at the time. I couldn’t figure out how to rig up my stereo system to wake me up, so I had an idea: take an earphone, the kind we used to use with transistor radios, …

What did you find when/if you saved your old posts? Did anything surprise you? koshersalaami

Someone comes to a Chamber meeting and announces that you all have a choice: Either one person is going to move to town who makes a billion dollars a year or ten thousand people are going to move to town …

Playing the Race Card is one of those expressions like Class Warfare that is all about a dominant population telling a dominanted population to shut up and accept oppression. Koshersalaami

A lot of economists and business people will tell you that regulation is the enemy of business, that a free market left alone functions optimally and that government invariably screws it up - the more regulation, the worse. According to …

“The remaining borough, Staten Island, would show up as #42 on the actual city list if it were broken out....greater than: Minneapolis, New Orleans, Tampa, Cleveland, Honolulu, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Orlando.” koshersalaami

By: koshersalaami I’ve been doing some local playing and a guy I’ve done some playing with told me about a local recording studio where he does a lot of work. He’s mainly a guitar player/bass player but he’s been playing …