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Scenes From Today’s Anti-Viral
Blanca and I. Waddel Creek and Delphi Roads.
Excellent social distancing here. Notice the alpaca at 12 o’clock.
This beaut looked me straight in the eye earning me 20 points and an early lead. I was sad to miss a followup when she was joined by two of her friends and all three stared me down. Then, upon returning home, I learned I didn’t need documentation, scoring is based on an honor system, so a 60 point extravaganza. Maybe my wife and daught don’t know me as well as they think.
This was the only disconcerting thing, the white horses being ostracized. Reverse racism?
Animal Games
What Does Everyone Think Of Me?
Imagine that question dominating all of your attention, all of the time. Must be incredibly exhausting.
Leaders Manage the Unknown
The New York Times is hopelessly old fashioned, still practicing fact-based investigative reporting and all.
Today’s lead article, He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus, was the work of six people.
Unfortunately, we live in an age when only the liberal “choir” will read it, which is too bad, because it’s incredibly restrained.
For example, this is not politicizing the pandemic.
“There were key turning points along the way, opportunities for Mr. Trump to get ahead of the virus rather than just chase it. There were internal debates that presented him with stark choices, and moments when he could have chosen to ask deeper questions and learn more. How he handled them may shape his re-election campaign. They will certainly shape his legacy.”
“Ask deeper questions,” when has Trump done that?
I listened to Scott Galloway interview Tim Armstrong on his podcast this week. Galloway asked him about leadership during crises. Armstrong talked about interviewing many top executives during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. He summarized their insights this way, “Managers manage the known and leaders manage the unknown.”
The President has not managed the known well and has shown no aptitude for the unknown. Governors, mayors, business leaders, epidemiologists, selfless healthcare workers, and other “essential” people have filled the void brilliantly, managing the known extremely well against all odds.
Armstrong was talking about commercial enterprises, but what about noncommercial ones? What about the common good? Who will manage 21st century unknowns related to public health, environmental degradation, and global poverty?
Fauci and Birx in Conference With Trump
credit: LG via BN.
Just the Two of Us
I’m a big Pomplamoose fan. The spareness of this rendition really gets to Withers’ essence.
Sweden Chills Amidst The Coronavirus
My Newer, Younger Girlfriend
I’ve been married a long time. It’s weird to think my parents and many of their peers made one of the most consequential decisions of their lives when they were still teenagers. And that many in my generation did the same in our early 20’s. Young adults today have the good sense to wait a little longer.
In hindsight, I made a good decision, but I’m not so sure the Good Wife would say the same because I have so many faults. The most obvious being the girlfriends on the side.
Don’t judge, a lot of men do it in different corners of the world. Monogamy is hard.
Recently, I ditched a girlfriend of seven years for a new, younger vixen named Blanca.
Blanca has an endless number of endearing attributes, most importantly, electronic shifting and amazing gearing range (48/35, 10-28). Also, she’s incredibly balanced and willing to go wherever, whenever.
If the first few months are any indication, it’s going to be a long, beautiful relationship.
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