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Thursday, July 30, 2020

Highly Recommend Watching Stateless On Netflix

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Stateless is an Australian TV series about an immigration detention camp, "based on true events".  The key event is an Australian...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Living In A Pandemic Is A Little Like Living Abroad

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When you live in a different country you have to adjust to different ways of doing things.  I don't mean a two week vacation and staying...
Monday, July 27, 2020

"You cannot imagine the guilt I feel, knowing that I hosted the gathering that led to so much suffering. " Updated

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This Dallas Voice article raises a number of issues.  Here are two excerpts, but the whole article is harrowing: "Full disclosure: I...
Saturday, July 25, 2020

Getting Out Safely - Trip To Portage

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We've been mostly homebound since we got back to Anchorage early March.  There was a masked trip to the doctor that week for a COVID-19 ...
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Thursday, July 23, 2020

"the onliest thing I can do is let 'em see they ain't broke me." AOC Pulls An Ollie Grimes On The Floor Of Congress

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I just read the section in Leonard Pitt's novel The Last Thing You Surrender , where Oliver is beaten up by five white men led by Earl R...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

What We Didn't Learn In History About Plagues

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Andrew Sullivan has an essay in New York Magazine: "A Plague Is an Apocalypse. But It Can Bring a New World. The meaning of this one is...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

Responding To ADN Commentaries On Systemic Racism And White Privilege

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I want to respond to two recent Anchorage Daily News commentaries on race.  The first titled:  "Is our problem with racism systemic?&...
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Thursday, July 16, 2020

Robots, Internet, Long Distance Babysitting

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Part of my electronic babysitting duties includes helping my grandson construct robots.  The book has dozens of robots with all the parts r...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Mask Murderers? And Another Misleading Headline On Race Relations

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1.  Virus Notes Yes, it's a paradox - the more you shut things down, the more it hurts the economy, but then the less you shut things ...
Saturday, July 11, 2020

Why Being Right Is So Satisfying, Even When You Would Prefer To Be Wrong

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As those of you who follow this blog somewhat regularly know, I've been monitoring the daily changes in Alaska's COVID-19 count. (Se...