A ship in port is safe; but that is not that ships are built for.--Grace Hopper, computer scientist and U.S. Rear Admiral
Thomas has been offered a job and he's pleased.
Leah is in Florida with Mom.
Crazy men are working for Brian.
The Pens win tough. The Pirates win silly.
China, now the world's most populous state, faces rapid demographic decline. Last year's birth rate was the lowest since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. The country's population will peak in 2029, according to the World Population Prospects 2017, published by the United Nations Population Division. Once China begins to shrink, it will shrink fast. In 2018, China's population was 4.3 times larger than America's. By 2100, China is projected to have a population only 2.3 times larger.
President Donald Trump said Thursday he will nominate Herman Cain, the former Republican presidential candidate, to a seat on the Federal Reserve Board.
A trivial problem meets a mailed fist response.
Amanpour to Comey: "Of course, ‘lock her up’ was a feature of the 2016 Trump campaign. Do you, in retrospect, wish that people like yourself, the FBI, I mean, the people in charge of law and order, had shut down that language—that it was dangerous potentially, that it could’ve created violence, that it’s kind of hate speech. Should that have been allowed?"
This is a very well regarded woman asking a simply crazy question, a question that most apparently thought reasonable. (The quotes can be found only on Right leaning news.) This is a reporter, a member of the Press, assuming the value of censorship--censorship of a silly exuberance.
Comey to Amanpour: "That’s not the role for government to play. The beauty of this country is people can say what they want, even if it’s misleading and it’s demagoguery. The people who should have shut it down were Republicans who understand the rule of law and the values that they claim to stand for. Shame on them, but it wasn’t a role for government to play.”
You can take the girl out of Iran, but you can't take Iran out of the girl.
More than 60 percent of more than 7,000 IPOs from 1975 to 2011 had negative absolute returns after five years in the secondary market, according to a UBS analysis using data from University of Florida professor Jay Ritter.
Can the Congress just subpoena anybody's tax return it feels like?
A 2018 paper by Cato Institute analyst Vanessa Brown Calder reviews the literature on the impact of paid leave. She found that a government-provided solution to the issue won’t result in the proverbial free lunch for which supporters hope. Trade-offs for paid leave policies vary depending on policy specifics, but they include discrimination against workers of childbearing age and, as such, may favor older workers, resulting in fewer leadership roles, higher unemployment and lesser pay for women.
Ah, ha! Angelina Jolie is not ruling out running for public office! The actress and U.N. special envoy told People magazine “never say never!” However, Jolie says she’s “looking to others for leadership.”
As are we all.
In 1859 on this day, Naturalist Charles Darwin sent his publishers the first three chapters of Origin of Species, which will become one of the most influential books ever published.
Hamlet Texts Ophelia
I always thought of Shakespeare as a Pre-Enlightenment thinker thunderstruck by post-Enlightenment problems. His universality and genius is somewhat a function of his being out of time. The internal revolution implicit in the advancement of science is one area of his mental hand-to-hand death struggle.
The dramatic and psychological implications here are worth a book: This is not spoken, it is written in a letter. And Hamlet does not read it, it is read by another. It is a whirling storm of angles and perspective. But, if read using the second meaning of the word "doubt" at the time, i.e. "suspect," the entire poem reverses itself. And the very nature of our understanding--and of his love--is changed.
Thomas has been offered a job and he's pleased.
Leah is in Florida with Mom.
Crazy men are working for Brian.
The Pens win tough. The Pirates win silly.
China, now the world's most populous state, faces rapid demographic decline. Last year's birth rate was the lowest since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. The country's population will peak in 2029, according to the World Population Prospects 2017, published by the United Nations Population Division. Once China begins to shrink, it will shrink fast. In 2018, China's population was 4.3 times larger than America's. By 2100, China is projected to have a population only 2.3 times larger.
President Donald Trump said Thursday he will nominate Herman Cain, the former Republican presidential candidate, to a seat on the Federal Reserve Board.
A trivial problem meets a mailed fist response.
Amanpour to Comey: "Of course, ‘lock her up’ was a feature of the 2016 Trump campaign. Do you, in retrospect, wish that people like yourself, the FBI, I mean, the people in charge of law and order, had shut down that language—that it was dangerous potentially, that it could’ve created violence, that it’s kind of hate speech. Should that have been allowed?"
This is a very well regarded woman asking a simply crazy question, a question that most apparently thought reasonable. (The quotes can be found only on Right leaning news.) This is a reporter, a member of the Press, assuming the value of censorship--censorship of a silly exuberance.
Comey to Amanpour: "That’s not the role for government to play. The beauty of this country is people can say what they want, even if it’s misleading and it’s demagoguery. The people who should have shut it down were Republicans who understand the rule of law and the values that they claim to stand for. Shame on them, but it wasn’t a role for government to play.”
You can take the girl out of Iran, but you can't take Iran out of the girl.
More than 60 percent of more than 7,000 IPOs from 1975 to 2011 had negative absolute returns after five years in the secondary market, according to a UBS analysis using data from University of Florida professor Jay Ritter.
Can the Congress just subpoena anybody's tax return it feels like?
A 2018 paper by Cato Institute analyst Vanessa Brown Calder reviews the literature on the impact of paid leave. She found that a government-provided solution to the issue won’t result in the proverbial free lunch for which supporters hope. Trade-offs for paid leave policies vary depending on policy specifics, but they include discrimination against workers of childbearing age and, as such, may favor older workers, resulting in fewer leadership roles, higher unemployment and lesser pay for women.
Ah, ha! Angelina Jolie is not ruling out running for public office! The actress and U.N. special envoy told People magazine “never say never!” However, Jolie says she’s “looking to others for leadership.”
As are we all.
In 1859 on this day, Naturalist Charles Darwin sent his publishers the first three chapters of Origin of Species, which will become one of the most influential books ever published.
Hamlet Texts Ophelia
I always thought of Shakespeare as a Pre-Enlightenment thinker thunderstruck by post-Enlightenment problems. His universality and genius is somewhat a function of his being out of time. The internal revolution implicit in the advancement of science is one area of his mental hand-to-hand death struggle.
An example is Hamlet's letter to Ophelia:
Doubt that the stars are fire
Doubt that the sun doth move
Doubt that the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love
The dramatic and psychological implications here are worth a book: This is not spoken, it is written in a letter. And Hamlet does not read it, it is read by another. It is a whirling storm of angles and perspective. But, if read using the second meaning of the word "doubt" at the time, i.e. "suspect," the entire poem reverses itself. And the very nature of our understanding--and of his love--is changed.
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