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Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin. I've wanted to read it for a while; for some reason, last week I pulled the trigger on reserving it at the library.

Thud wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 7:39 pmAs if treason and conspiracy should go unnoticed and left un-researched and un-investigated, let alone un-abetted.

Un-abetted?

powerlifter54 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 8:27 pmBut we will see. Great fun ahead as Page Civil lawsuit goes to Discovery.

Andrew or Lisa?
(It's hard to keep up.)

Grandpa's Spells wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 2:09 amMark Penn does not have insider knawledge. 0% chance Hillary would be nominated again.

I voted for her in two primaries and one general, and I want someone else.

The piece is an opinion piece, right? Not reportage?

Gene wrote: ↑Sat Nov 10, 2018 5:10 pm What is she gonna be like when the Old Boys Network treats her like a child? They'll do it just to log roll her, she won't take it well.

Unlike most chicks, who love it.

she's 85 in 2018 ... it's not a dig to say that the broad doesn't have long. She will probably make it back from this fall, but there's only so much bounce left in the old broad. Slate has coverage: RBG Is About to Die https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/justice-ginsburg-fall-medical-prognosis.html

Fat Cat wrote: ↑Fri Nov 09, 2018 5:30 pmYou voted for Hillary? LOL.

Twice! (2008 primary)

Fat Cat wrote: ↑Fri Nov 09, 2018 5:30 pmDo you carry a purse? Better go check your makeup.

Ok, first of all it's called a "murse". And second of all I know my makeup is fine.

Thud wrote: ↑Fri Nov 09, 2018 5:59 amSure, that. But she probably wanted the first woman prez (Hillary) to be the one to replace her.

Sure, that too. I know I did.

Also she may just love it, and want to keep doing it til she drops dead. Like Brett Favre playing well, well past his peak.

powerlifter54 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 09, 2018 2:16 amLots of Dems and Deep Staters scared out of their mind knowing their leaking classified materiel, lying to the FBI, and lying to the FISA Courts is about to get pursued.

As I have said for a long time, way more Dems going to jail than anybody in the Trump administration.

Tee hee. Ok.

it's not a dig to say that the broad doesn't have long. ...there's only so much bounce left in the old broad. Sure. But – there was plenty of time for her to retire at the end of the 2015-6 term, if she was "strategizing". Then Scalia died unexpectedly in February: and everything went to ...

Fat Cat wrote: ↑Thu Nov 08, 2018 5:57 pm...but it does show what a strategic mistake it was for her not to retire during the Obama presidency.

Because the process went so smoothly when Obama last nominated a justice, with over a year left in his term?

Turdacious wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 8:17 pmDidn't Biden come in last during the 2008 primary?

Don't remember. But he thinks the Obama-ness rubbed off on him over the 8 years; and after he graciously said "Ladies first" to Hilliary in 2016, it's his turn now.

I mean, that's my guess.

Turdacious wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 8:11 pmAnd Ginsburg is 85 and Breyer is 80 (both Clinton appointees)-- good likelihood that Trump will get to nominate a successor for at least one of them in the next two years.

Hold on Ruth! Hold on!

That said, in parsing this election, the Dems fell pretty flat. They gave up seats in the Senate, 27 of 50 governorships are in the hands of the GOP – this was no Blue wave. This was always a terrible Senate map for the Dems. Losing a couple seats there was always the most likely result. And you me...

Florida voters decide to give the Cesar Sayoc's of the world the right to vote. ... Thoughts? My wife said the Fla felon thing may turn out to be A Big Deal, like as soon as the next election. Fla is traditionally such an important state electorally; and it's always so closely contested. She also s...

Fat Cat wrote: ↑Mon Nov 05, 2018 6:11 pmSo...Jewish is not an ethnicity?

Fuck if I know.

I learned about a minute ago that the question is, uh, multifaceted:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_a_Jew%3F

Kim by Rudyard Kipling Kim is wonderful. One of my favorite science fiction novels is Lord of Light (1967) by Roger Zelazny. It's one of the big books of the "New Wave" of sf in the 1960s. Zelazny writes it in a flowery style that's supposed to evoke the Indian culture of this colonized p...

Fat Cat wrote: ↑Fri Nov 02, 2018 5:46 pmI see. So, if a Jew converts to Christianity, do they stop being Jewish?

Yes. "Jewish" is a religion, right?

To the same extent that "Christian" is, anyway.

vern wrote: ↑Fri Nov 02, 2018 3:02 amhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4CizzE-zZo

Just finished The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon. Loved that book. I also really enjoyed some of his books of essays, and The Yiddish Policeman's Union. That one won the Nebula & Hugo awards for best science fiction novel of the year; which is confusing because ther...

There's a traveling show which is highlighting the polychromy of statuary in classical antiquity that's pretty cool. It was started by Frankfurt's Goethe University, and coalesced in the first "Gods in Color" exhibition at Munich's Glyptothek museum in 2003; it has since been elaborated b...

Would you say that this whole episode represents positive exposure for Miss Warren? Oh no, not at all. But I don't get the outrage. It doesn't seem like she's been "running on" this heritage thing. It's not like her campaign logo going back to her first senate run was Native American feat...

She's got the fucking BULLSHIT story on her damn website FFS... Is it bullshit? The Globe thing is focused entirely on her hirings into the 90s. Seems well-researched. (I haven't personally verified a single thing in it, and won't ever try.) She's claimed it dozens and dozens of times...remember Hi...

... advances their career on the backs of actual sacrifice by peoples who have the most legit beef with the American narrative as Anyone... That hasn't been demonstrated. If I have my Wikipedia facts straight (questionable), then by the time she was listed in that directory of law teachers, she had...

This psychopathic cunt claimed a status utterly not entitled to by direct lineage or by culture. How anyone right or left can abide this nonsense is beyond me. When? Wikipedia has this: In April 2012, The Boston Globe sparked a campaign controversy by reporting that from 1986 to 1995 Warren had lis...

What I can't understand is why the Democrats don't lead with a centrist, non-Looney Tunes personality of the Harry Truman variety? A plain talking personality who focused on inclusiveness as opposed to atomizing the electorate via identity-politicking and improving the lives of all Americans would ...