1984-2023 more specifically.
Who Is Delivering The Republican’s Official Response To Biden’s State Of The Union Address?
Here are some clues:
“Yeah, yeah: She’s young, she’s a working mom, she’s the first female governor of Arkansas (where she’s not yet through her first month in office). All of that says fresh start.
But nothing else about her does, not if you have a memory and a moral code. She spent nearly two years as Trump’s press secretary, the central figure in excusing his outrages and laundering his lies. She spent much of her campaign for governor invoking his name, appearing with him, even sending money his way — for the catering of fund-raisers for her at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump was her cause and then Trump was her springboard, and that’s what’s so fascinating about where she is now and what she’s being asked to do. She’s supposed to carry Republicans beyond Trump when she so carefully carries Trump inside her. It’s ludicrous. It’s perfect. It’s what makes her such a fitting mascot for a party that won’t come clean about the compromises it has made, the values it has trashed and the madness it has abetted.”
When Somebody Doesn’t Know It’s Time To Leave
Second in a series. Jim Boeheim.
The Proverbial Tip of the Iceburg
A judge just used ChatGPT to make a court decision.
An early and eager ChatGPT adaptor has a suggestion on how to leverage it when reading history.
The rise of the robo-Rabbi.
Required Weekend Reading
Yunchan Lim
“I made up my mind that I will live my life only for the sake of music, and I decided that I will give up everything for music… I wanted my music to become deeper, and if that desire reached the audience, I’m satisfied.”
Yunchan Lim
18 years old. Give him a listen.
The Toll of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine began February 24, 2022. The New York Times reports that “nearly 200,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded.” 58,220 U.S. soldiers died in the Viet Nam War between 1955-1975.
The Best Teachers Adapt To The Times
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Friday Required Reading
- Say it ain’t so.
- The “Greta Thunberg of Sport”. “I don’t want that on my conscience.”
- Yep.
Siddhartha Mukherjee Writes In Bed
I sang his praises here. He won a well-deserved Pulitzer for general nonfiction for Empire of All Maladies. And he deserves a Nobel Prize for science writing for helping a knucklehead like me (mostly) understand cellular biology.
I’m just settling in with The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human.
