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by liberal japonicus Living in Japan, I was awake for all of this as I had classes and meetings, such that I had to stop looking at anything around noon. I came home, commiserated with my wife (it was a very quiet evening) and went to bed early. How did I sleep? As Tommy Lasorda … Read more

by wj JanieM gave us a great upbeat musical post.  But we have this election tomorrow, and I expect that everybody is going to feel compelled to talk about it.  Wednesday, if not before.  So, to keep from polluting her thread, here’s an Open Thread for you. Just to kick it off, here’s a chance … Read more

by JanieM Farmstand in October – better version here. I was trying to write a post about nanny tech – a phrase I thought I had invented until I googled it. But it’s hard to have orderly thoughts about anything this close to the election, so instead of that post, I’ve made a YouTube playlist … Read more

by liberal japonicus The title is from Michelle Obama's speech. Pretty powerful stuff. It is pretty interesting what different pieces take away as the key point. The whole process of a headline is pretty destructive to a speech that was a defense of Harris' qualifications, a call out of Trump, a call to arms for … Read more

by liberal japonicus I don't know about y'all, but I am having that feeling that I get watching a horror movie and not sure who is going to die. I won't try and give you even a short list of what I've been reading, just this https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/20/elon-musk-promises-to-award-1m-every-day-to-voters-as-he-steps-up-campaigning-for-trump Elon Musk said his Trump-supporting political action committee … Read more

by liberal japonicus Before COVID, I did martial arts. I'm afraid I've stopped, but in compensation, I spend an inordinate amount of time watching Youtube videos about them and came across this one, where Neil Adams, a British judoka who was a world champion and an Olympian silver medalist was being interviewed by Lex Fridman. … Read more

by liberal japonicus The previous thread is getting creaky, so I have a separate thread in mind to write after this, but I (and I'm not sure if this is a great idea) am going to put up this thread about Ta-Nehisi Coates' new book, The Message. While the book follows in the footsteps of … Read more

by liberal japonicus Folks who have been here awhile might now that I've written a few times about my parents, and how people are formed by their parents is something that I take a great interest in. Here's probably the post that is closest to this (with some links to other things I wrote in … Read more

by liberal japonicus The last thread on the VP debate didn't take off, and I don't blame you, I threw up in my mouth a little to hear Vance lay out his plans for Lebensraum. But rather than talk about that, I wanted to talk a bit about another topic, health insurance. I read somewhere … Read more

by liberal japonicus I've heard that there was a debate happening somewhere, so this is a thread for it.