Nobody likes the debt deal. That must mean it's good thing and necessary. Such is democracy and compromise in action. John Adams said there has never been a democracy that did not eventually destroy itself. The US Is an ongoing example in action.

 As a classic old-fashioned humanities person i have a particular relationship with technology. I love technology, but at the same time, I keep my distance. Recently I had a conversation with an electrical engineer. My first conversation with an engineer in many years. Most interesting. I realized how different technology focused people can be from us humanities types. Different ways of thinking. I can only go so far relating to them, it seems they can only go so far relating to me.

 No deal yet

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Debt ceiling meeting between Biden, McCarthy ends with no deal

The two still seemed stuck over the same political differences that have been present for months and now leave the U.S. government perh

 Two trends in higher education nationwide are colliding at the University of Maryland: booming enrollment in computer science and plummeting student demand for the humanities.

Premvanti Patel experienced both firsthand. The 23-year-old senior from Sierra Vista, Ariz., triple-majored in computer science, linguistics and Persian studies. Some classes in her first major bulged with hundreds of students, while those in other fields were much smaller. In computer science, Patel said, she often felt “more like an ID number than a student.”

Across the country, spring graduation season highlights the swiftly tilting academic landscape. Cap-and-gown roll-calls for computer science and other technology-centered disciplines are becoming ever lengthier, and for the humanities, ever shorter.

 This book needs to be read, though, for its uses of contradiction. Oakes places Lincoln squarely in the vanguard of what he calls the “antislavery project” of the Republican Party, and not as a reluctant late arrival. While Eric Foner analyzed Lincoln’s evolution toward the pivotal decisions for abolition in the midst of the Civil War, Oakes sees the sixteenth president as a full believer progressing pragmatically toward ever more radical views. These are really two complementary variations on the story of Lincoln’s growth on race and slavery.

Wokeness  is a wonderful thing.  I heartilyrecommend it.

 I miss the intellectual mind games I could sometimes play with the learned professors especially the ones who took themslvsew too seriously like philosophers and physicists. We had this intro to philosophy textbook in 1978 back when philosophers would need at requiring student s to read anything but original sources.At UA this hotshot young philosopher had just finished laughing me out of his office when I said, "But remember Professor Tanner, Whitehead said that philosophy is nothing but a series of footnotes to Plato. You guys haven't mr much progress in 2,000 yrs, have you"

"Touches, Mr. Hudson!" So we partied friends.

 I am emerging from a terrible week of gout in my tender right foot. You masochists would love gout The pain would exhilarate you. But not for me! I have better things to do than writhe in pain.

 

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Is it just me (which occurs frequently for me) is nostalgia old hat now? Are we so caught caught up in the fractious present to care about remembering the past which is always better in retrospect?

Are old times now forgotten? Does anybody old enough to remember still wonder where Joe DiMaggio has gone to? Since nobody reads anymore does anymore remember Hemingway's old man at the sea remembering the Great Dimaggio?

Does anybody pay attention anymore to the pseudo-artsy stuff in the lobby of Cracker Barre;/

Nostalgia for baseball back when it was not considered boring with today's 3-second attention spans? Skilled boxing with today's caged brawling?