The models were wrong, eh?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/09/18/immediacy-threat-climate-change-exaggerated-faulty-models/

Climate change not as threatening to planet as previously thought, new research suggests

Gender Studies majors are going to hate this.

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/why-are-good-men-so-hard-to-find/article36365252/

I figured it out. Nambia is our 57th state.

> our 57th

Boom! ☑ Send him out a windbreaker, Amy.

In other news: Day in and day out, this is the internet's best so-called "web page."

> our 57th

Boom! ☑ Send him out a windbreaker, Amy.

In other news: Day in and day out, this is the internet's best so-called "web page."

> our 57th

Boom! ☑ Send him out a windbreaker, Amy.

In other news: Day in and day out, this is the internet's best so-called "web page."

@Crid: could you repeat that, please?

Meanwhile, Hollyweird weighs in on the NFL controversy:

Celebrities Join Anti-Trump National Anthem Protest: ‘Kneel So Hard Sunday the Earth Shakes’

#BoycottHollywood #BoycottNFL

Pet, it wouldn't update & show the posting, because airport wifi.

So here I am, ending a 4 hour layover in DFW with nothing to do but drink wine from skinny Texan girls with pretty arms in the TGIF in terminal C, then go listen to music from the laptop in the lounge with the good leather lobby chairs. And they have the start of the Raiders/Redskins game on wunna them flatscreens, and for the anthem the networks are mixing shots of players resolutely on their feet (most of Washington) with those resolutely on a knee (most of Oakland), but with both postures locking arms with teammates on both sides. And occasionally they dissolve to a live exterior of the White House.

And as person who HATES social pressure to conform, I think today's entire NFL microscandal is wonderful. As I type while waiting on the tarmac, the first quarter is underway: All these guys have to get along well enough to play football, and that's what they're doing.

Some young men think the promise of opportunity in America has been largely fulfilled.

Other young men want to point out that we have a way to go yet.



What's not to love? This is excellent.

America is the best nation on the planet at working out differences in cultures. People forget that. We're the best. There are no contenders.

Imperfect, but still the best.

Imperfect, but still the best.

Okay, I think what's going on here is that American Airline's "GogoInflight" wifi service, aside from being very expensive, only buffers a page one time...

So changes to a page in a short while, even if you've made them yourself, are NOT apparent in page reloads.

Know that.

Aha! I was right.

When loading the page through the portable TOR browser, which routes the page load through a randomized international location, the updated information is present, as the page is transferred anew.

We live, we learn. Sorry for the duplications.

But honestly, aren't my comments worth reading more than once?

Sure they are.

Sure they are.

This guy is NOT the most enchanting speaker in the world... But he's much, much better than you are at something you wish you were good at.

Compare and contrast.

Pritchett is a guy you should follow, because he knows more about his beat than you do.

And his beat is the military, from budgets to grunts. He won't choke your twitter feed, as he is not a chatterbox. And I think it's poignant that he's offering expertise tonight on humanitarian deployment... Years ago, Robert D. Kaplan had warned us about that: Our military, the Navy in particular, was going to be fulfilling missions in the locations of a lot of natural disasters, and not just in United States territories.

When you pay attention to the right people, you can see the future.

(He's also into NFL football... For the game, not the incidental politics.)

But no shit, I was weeping in the airport lounge during the national anthem for Oak/DC.

Merlot, right?

Totally. But we live in a sensational nation, absolutely the best.

Football then, football now.

Pritchett ‏ #1

Pritchett ‏ #2

Gogo: Ah, that explains it. Is there any part of the Internet infrastructure less efficient?

"microscandal"

The operative word. #ThingsThatDontMatter

I think one thing people aren't getting is that Trump is speaking for people in this NFL flap. People who feel that the fringe groups, the loudly aggrieved, have gotten all the attention of politicians of late and that they, hard working Joe Lunchpails, are being ignored; they who consider themselves hard-working Americans who spend a few years in the military, go to work, maintain their lawns, go to church on Sunday, and don't complain about every little thing that goes wrong.

Politicians of late have spent all their time and energy on outlier groups, prodigal sons, forgetting the son who stayed home and worked the farm.

Whether this is an accurate vision we can debate. After all, slaves helped build the country, too. And immigrant Chinese laborers laid the tracks for the transcontinental railroad. And the American Southwest owes a debt of gratitude to its Hispanic ancestry.

The idea that only white working class people built the country obscures the valuable contributions of these others and diminishes those groups. The idea that we must celebrate those others loudly while complaining that pictures of working men in the '30s don't have women and people of color in them only stirs up resentments.

Three firefighters raised a flag on 9/11. An iconic photograph showed them raising the flag. A statue was proposed using that photograph. The statue was cancelled over arguments about changing two of the men in the photograph to an African-American and a Hispanic-American or even a woman, you know, to honor everybody so future generations don't look at the statue and think only white men did anything of value that day.

So, working class men and women see their contributions downgraded in favor of diversity. They see themselves being airbrushed out of history (welcome to the club, boys). They see the things they value (patriotism, hard work, family, tradition, respect, etc.) being denigrated and devalued.

These folks want someone to tell them that they matter, that what they value is valued by the politicians. And Trump gives them that. He's a loose cannon. He's not presidential. But he's also not kowtowing to the diversity mandarins. To them, that means he's standing up for what they believe in, for them.

Until the party elites understand that, they'll never understand Trump and how he got elected; and why the business-as-usual politicians in both parties lost.