AdamSmith

Really an astute summary of how one ought to manage & steer one’s entire life course. Astounding how many give no thought, but just flounder along. TV all evening instead of occasionally glancing into a book, etc etc. We are not here forever.

@stevenkesslar, please herefrom disregard my silly bitchiness about your ‘v’ (I know I need not post the whole word ). We are on the same side of history. Let us hope to God that 2020 sets things back toward the right heading.

& of course the occasional Prepaid Invoice.

This is possibly the most eloquent & insightful thing I have ever read here. Or anywhere else. No kidding. Greatest thanks. Do not stop. Ever.

I welcome this. Not with pushback. This response of yours has honesty.

This reminds indirectly of something I read from either Cronkite or Bob Schieffer (can’t recall which) about being on-air for hours on end in marathon coverage of elections or moon landings or whatever: They NEVER ate from the rich, heavy, sleep-inducing buffet lines the network would lay out, but instead from surreptitiously snatching a light handful of nuts from their suit jacket during commercial breaks.

Mhmm... LAW AND ORDER Hillary Clinton’s Zombie Impeachment Memo That Could Help Fell Trump A congressional report Clinton helped pen during Watergate was later used to justify impeaching her husband. Now it's guiding Democrats angling to oust Trump. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/16/hillary-clinton-impeachment-memo-trump-228107

It is almost that bad at teeny-tiny public airports in small cities where one is constrained to go — and wait, and wait to take off for back home — in one’s work as a consultant. My solution is to buy a big bag of power bars, nuts, etc. etc. from one’s local grocery; & stuff them into the carry-on luggage before heading to the airport at the start of the trip. And buy enough not to eat them ALL on the outbound leg.

Along same lines. (Think this a repost.)

Esoteric, but interesting if you grok this kind of thing.

YUM! Thank you.

Repost, just out of my sheer lust for this kid... ...and for his organs.

...imagine being fucked by him!

The chain that connects the flush handle to the flapper, no doubt. The ankle-bone’s connected to the shin-bone...

In showing me how to read Paradise Lost, he also showed me by analogy how to do market research on engineering-design software. Capisce?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/14/the-many-lives-of-michael-bloomberg-review-new-york-mayor-trump-president

Much worth a repost:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift

Agree entirely. Wonder, yet again, whire you cannot summate more concretely?

I thought I said that.

To repeat the news article: On Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders revealed a sweeping, 6,000-word reform plan aiming at totally overhauling the criminal justice system. The plan featured many progressive touchstones, from abolishing the death penalty to ending cash bail to legalizing marijuana and expunging sentences for drug possession. However, there was one criminal-justice issue it did not touch on: sex work, specifically sex-work decriminalization. A few days later, Sen. Elizabeth Warren also released her own expansive criminal justice reform plan, which similarly did not mention the issue. This omission from Sanders and Warren — two of the most progressive 2020 Democratic candidates — was glaring, in part because both candidates had previously made statements indicating they were open to the idea of decriminalizing sex work. Earlier this year, Sanders said that decriminalization “should be considered”; as recently as Saturday, he had fielded the question in a live-streamed Q&Ahosted by the Working Families Party, saying that he considered sex work decriminalization “an issue that is worthy of serious study,” to audience applause. Similarly, last June, Warren indicated she was open to decriminalization, telling the Washington Post, “Sex workers, like all workers, deserve autonomy but they are particularly vulnerable to physical and financial abuse and hardship. We need to make sure that we don’t undermine legal protections for the most vulnerable.” Bernie and Warren know the real score full well. I know, at second hand but from a trusted source (from 30 years of my residence in MA), that Warren is livid over current legal persecution of sex workers. They are just playing the trumpet themes they know they have to play during the campaign to win over hoi poloi on the left, to get elected.