AdamSmith

I wholly agree.

Every escort of every race I've ever known has had to find some way to deal with those troubles. Asian guys face their own subtle, unique versions of racism when escorting in America. What you and Jamahl, as black men in America, have to deal with is just unimaginable to me. Actually, not entirely unimaginable. More than once, when I was with black and brown friends in Harlem or Inwood or Washington Heights, and we were out on the street making noise late at night, a cop came up to us and told us to take our party inside the house. It was obvious that the presence of my little white ass as participant -- and credible witness in court -- was the thing that stopped the cop and his partner from doing a stop-and-frisk, or more.

Those sound like very positive and constructive actions. If each of us doesn't protect ourself and stand up for our own interests, the world is certainly full of enough pointlessly destructive people who want to take down everybody they come in contact with (you and me) while they take themselves down in flames. Those are the people we have to detect at the earliest possible instant, then cut off contact with. Exactly as you describe here. None of us has enough time or energy or saintliness to deal with those people, much less try to fix them.

Everything you said here is well considered and well thought out, and true, and I do genuinely agree with you here. And I apologize that the tone I used in responding to you Over There was condescending, antagonistic, and not helpful. The reason I responded at all was I thought that, by posting, you really meant to ask for advice. I accept and understand very well what you said here just above about the daily challenges of trying to survive and remain human, while doing the work that you do now. The one thing I might be able to constructively offer is that you go back to my last post to you Over There, and look at it to see if it has any ideas you can use. I mean the idea that it really is possible to change how you manage and run your business, so as to minimize and even eliminate these sources of friction and irritation that come with really any job. I've done it, and I've seen escort friends do it, as they figured out ways to eliminate those client/prospect-caused sources of irritation from their lives.

Certainly not!

'2001' re-release trailer 2014...

It's just getting into the groove of the local culture & vibe. I'm no tomcal, but even I figured out how to do it once I got settled in NYC. Like, I got to where I could tell just from looking which 50% of the likely underage twinks selling loosie cigarettes out of nooks and crannies around Times Square were also for sale themselves. You honestly haven't figured out even yet how to do it in your little corner of ole Miss?

Partridge Family! And concurrently Bobby Sherman in Here Cum the Brides.

Also I like Dropbox because they keep it stable and do not needlessly fiddle with it. It seems like the other cloud storage services are always making little edits and tweaks, and sometimes not so little, to how they function and how the user interface works. That annoys me very much. Once I learn how to use a piece of software, I want the user presentation layer never to change again ever in my lifetime. I hate having to relearn something like that. In having to figure out the new thing, the cost in time, attention, and interruption of whatever I was trying to get done is almost inevitably much greater than whatever tiny benefit the "upgrade" yields, if any at all.

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Just see that it doesn't happen again.

And read lots of science fiction! It helps me not dwell on the brief but deep hopelessness we have to live through now.

Dropbox. Easy to use, fast, familiar to others (trade-press editors to whom I send big image files and article files via Dropbox), no funny-business pricing gotchas.

Front edge of what we are in for, for four years. Dying historical regimes have their most violent & locally destructive paroxysms in their last years and days. They do not go quietly. These are what we are living through right now. Work for the moment, and hold onto hope for the -- very near -- future.

"I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: 'Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.'" -- Boswell, Life of Johnson Also, as Dr Johnson said of Paradise Lost: "None ever wished it longer."

Webb was NASA's Administrator 1961-1968, the Big Years. His Wikipedia bio reminds what it was like back when American public servants were broadly Competent and Effective, and could Get Things Done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Webb

And the original...

And because why not.

I condemn Nixon especially because he did not cancel the expenditures for the Apollo Applications Program out of ignorance, or out of insensitivity to all its potential benefits, scientific and body-politic emotional and spiritual. To his credit, he was very much alive to all those both concrete and ineffable paybacks of the Apollo investment. He spoke with Armstrong by phone during the moonwalk; he personally flew out to the recovery carrier in the Pacific to greet the Apollo 11 crew on their return; he was deeply and I'm convinced sincerely engaged throughout, and in his public remarks at the successful conclusion of, the Apollo 13 crisis. Not to discount the self-aggrandizing aspect of all that, but he was in no way unalive to all that Apollo meant to both the nation and humankind in that era. So doubly my disappointment and disgust that he did not defend the program in the face of the general troubles wrought by the early 1970s recession, spiking energy prices, broad public disillusionment with most everything engendered by the Vietnam war, etc. He could have. He had the capacity and energy and imagination to rise to meet the occasion, as he showed when he was at his best as a statesman. Such a vast pity.

In some small encouraging countermeasure to all my comment on how we have Broken The Planet, a sliver of human progress: The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb was one of the very effective generation of early NASA administrators) is entering the physical-testing stage of development. With a much bigger mirror surface than Hubble, it should reveal wonders untold. For starry-eyed futurists such as your umble narrator, it is encouraging at the same time as a depressing reminder of all we lost when Nixon cancelled, in a failure of both imagination and nerve (which phrase Arthur C. Clarke used in his book Profiles of the Future to describe the twin demons that cause otherwise qualified scientists and technicians to fail to accurately forecast the future in their field of endeavor), phase two of Apollo, the "Apollo Applications Program." Which could have led to permanently manned moon colonies for purposes such as constructing and operating telescopes which, given the low lunar gravity, could have mirror diameters measured not in meters but literally in acres. Not to mention the infinite improvement in resolving capacity from operating in vacuum instead of through atmosphere. Ditto in spades for what could have been miles-across radiotelescopes, operating on the moon's far side to shield them from the radio racket emanating from earth. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/04/nasa-testing-james-webb-space-telescope-gold

And a tiny cool spell followed by summer heat again here in November in NC has our azaleas blooming now. We have broken the planet.

Just remembered that was our beloved Tom Lehrer. Whenever I can't recall a source, I should probably just assume it was him.

"...The story of the Mojave desert tortoise is a microcosm of a much larger natural crisis, according to a new report by the WWF and Zoological Society of London, which predicts that the number of animals living in the wild will decrease by two-thirds in the next four years due to the impact of humans." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/01/mojave-desert-tortoise-california-endangered-lasers-ravens

If a finding comes down before the election that Comey did violate the Hatch Act, I think Obama -- post-election, of course -- will quite possibly do her the favor of firing himself (of course "only very reluctantly" etc etc ).