Stuff

Stuff

I started to walk a bit to exercise and took yesterday off. Instead, I went to the local Publix. According to my phone, I walked just as far.

I listened to the radio on the way to Publix. It was some replay of a political program declaring 'breaking news' several days ago. The interview was with a Republican congressman who confided he was just out of the secret conference and Scalise had enough votes to be Speaker.

Sabin looked a little deranged on the sideline against Arkansas this weekend.

Do third base coaches need Spanish translators when they're giving signals.

Was McCarthy ousted by a coalition of far-right and the left? Expalin that.

Probably the best news of the week is that Biden thinks that warming is a greater risk to the world than nuclear war.

Saw an interview with an Arab literature professor, a measured guy who teaches at Columbia and has family in Gaza. He reports UNESCO says over 700 children have been killed in Gaza in the last week by Israeli bombardment. He asks if there is no equivalence in the moral responsibility, both Hamas and Israeli? He believes that Arab outrage will grow.
Under this is an unspoken element, that the governments of vast numbers of people have policies of their own, without regard for their people. The West is seeing this too. Will this dichotomy have some dialectic resolution?