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18-Jul-2024
Timothy Snyder on Political Violence and History
Elucidating. Political Violence: We learn that violence that starts on one corner of the far right often ricochets. We find that the important threshold is the enabling of the violence. And we realize is what we do afterwards that counts the most. None of this makes the outcome of a horrid act completely predictable. But...
01-Jul-2024
Quote of the Day
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby...
15-Jun-2024
My Political Compass 2003, 2024
It seems rare that an internet quizzes would stick around for decades. In March 2003 I linked to politicalcompass.org and took their quiz, and the results were included in my post Just More Misc, Nothing Personal Today: My political compass is apparently: Economic Left/Right: -3.25 Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.87 — what’s yours? I took it again today....
25-Apr-2024
Hey, Teacher, Leave Those Kids Alone
The Case for Leaving Protesters Be: We practice forbearance for a greater good. Just like a member of Congress should ask whether they are elected only to pass legislation that will help with their reelection or whether they serve a higher purpose for the good of their country, a university leader must ask whether their...
21-Apr-2024
Slava Ukraini
I don’t talk politics on this blog. There’s beach photos mostly these days. But the news of the US Congress finally sending some dough to Ukraine makes me very happy. Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter of April 20, 2024: Cheering broke out in the gallery and among Democrats on the floor of the House of Representatives...
15-Mar-2024
Cease.
HCR, yesterday’s letter: This morning, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), one of the highest-ranking Jewish officials in the U.S. government, said Israelis need to call new elections to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who, Schumer said, “has lost his way by allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interests of Israel.”...
06-Mar-2024
Reading “I don’t like your examples” in 2024
One of my favorite pieces of writing, technical or not, is called “I don’t like your examples!” by Steven Feuerstein which he first published 2 decades ago on the O’Reilly website [internet archive link]. It has a publish date of 11 October 2000. In the essay, he writes about his book on PL/SQL for Oracle....
12-Feb-2024
QOTD: Tim Synder
Putin makes a mistake about the Ukrainian language, over and over, that is typical of imperial deafness. It is true that Ukrainians today can speak Russian (although many also, for understandable reasons, refuse to do so) as well as Ukrainian. When they encountered Russians, until very recently, Ukrainians would switch to Russian. This courtesy gave...
27-Dec-2023
Quote of the Day
(on Substack allowing Nazi writers to use their platform) I am not an economist, but I am pretty sure that limiting the ability of Nazis to acquire money actually does “make [the Nazi problem] worse.” I am pretty sure that money helps Nazis, actually. It certainly helps everyone else. The question of free speech is...
24-Dec-2023
Merry Christmas & Peace on Earth & Cease Fires Now
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