AdamSmith

Close old friend. Faculty of Harvard Kennedy School. Inspiring, in this moment of crisis in government and general public faith.

I, a crazy unabashed unashamed Liberal, agree 1000% with @RA1 on this point. If the Japanese did not want military resistance, they ought not have aggressed. You do know, our dear @MsGuy, that they started their own very committed A-bomb research program, with full intent to use in combat. But were stymied by the slightly inconvenient fact of no access to uranium ores. Where is to be located the comparative moralism you imply?

Grateful for the background. All the various books about the Bomb have noted how capable yet temperamental was that craft. In the A-bomb practice flights from Tinian, there would routinely be like almost one crash a week from an inattentive flight engineer failing to prevent the magnetos from drifting slightly out of phase during takeoff roll & early ascent. Thus Tibbets's choice of one very expert Wyatt Duzenbery for that post on the Hiroshima run. Very nice book on the whole shebang (so to speak) from Tibbets's viewpoint... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116231.Enola_Gay

Here a more 'traditional' reading of the same piece, very good both technically and aesthetically. Top-line rendition of how this piece is generally interpreted & performed. And with considerably very good individuality of interpretation as well. But the blonde kid I think brings a subtly but truly new understanding of the piece, that seems quite extraordinary to me. Whose old ears are not used to getting truly new views on Bach, this many centuries afterward.

Any product named 'Cummins Onan' can be trusted innately, one would think. One would of course observe the proper regularly scheduled startup/testing procedures, and keep the fuel supply in-date. Erectile dysfunction in the emergency generator is a thing to be avoided at all cost.

Dinna werry, ze nearest Starbucks is on U.S. Highway 1, a short walk away -- a corridor that will not lose power. So you will not even temporarily be rid of me that easily.

If I am still here.

Pity I ain't a scat queen. Specially from hogs. We are jest about to get walloped. I have bought all the supplies I can think of, but anticipate like 2 weeks without circulating electrons. Very next thing I am going to buy after this passes is a diesel generator.

Think, on relook, this is very much worth a repost.

My maternal grandmother, born in 1902 in Franklinton, NC, held Lincoln as her lifelong hero. She told me that she, from early age, dreamed of becoming a lawyer, like him. 'To help people.' (Circumstance instead had her working in the local cotton mill, from age 15 to 73 (!). She said, near her deathbed at 96, 'If I had my life to live over again, I wouldn't do anything different. Maybe a few little things, but nothing really.')

Once more, with feeling: What were you doing age 3?

Outed!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=PtgKkifJ0Pw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvpOlzsWn4U