Oh my, it’s s so crazy light. I’m going to enjoy this…
Thank you to my awesome wife.
Author: fish1964
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Happy Birthday To Me
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Gophers!
This is an amazing story.
Two years after the eruption of Mount St Helens, local gophers were sent to the area in what must have been quite a confusing day trip, even if the animals were not aware of the news. The gophers were placed in enclosed areas for the experiment and spent their day digging around in the pumice.
Despite only spending one day in the area, the impact they had was remarkable. Six years after their trip, there were over 40,000 plants thriving where the gophers had gotten to work, while the surrounding land remained, for the most part, barren. Studying the area over 40 years later, the team found they had left one hell of a legacy.
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Fire
NYC hasn’t had rain in about 6 weeks. It’s been gorgeous, but now it’s getting dangerous.
Brooklyn smells like smoke today, but not because of that fire. A big wildfire in New Jersey is blowing smoke our way.
We need some rain…
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$DJT is Down?
Given that Truth Social is a horrible business, I was under the impression that the Trump Media & Technology Group ($DJT) stock price was largely based on Trump’s influence overall. Many people viewed that stock price as a better prediction market for the election than the actual prediction markets.
Trump won, he’s going to be president, which would seem to give him maximum influence. So what’s up with this?
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J.P. Morgan Slams RFK Jr.
Today I listened to the J.P. Morgan post-election take on the market. It was the usual dispassionate, well-reasoned discussion on what the next four years might bring. That is, until the very end.
Michael Cembalest, the Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy, who had been presenting the entire time, went on a riff about how vaccines are the greatest achievement in the history of modern health and if RFK Jr. is in charge of anything health related, he’s retiring to an undisclosed location. He provided the following chart and reading list:
RFK Jr bibliography:
“From Paul Offit at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia: A Conversation with RFK Jr“
“How RFK Jr. Falsely Denied His Connection to a Deadly Measles Outbreak in Samoa [MotherJones]“
“RFK Jr. spent years stoking fear and mistrust of vaccines. These people were hurt by his work [AP News]”
“The Anti-Vaccine Propaganda of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr [McGill University]“
“Kennedy’s error-ridden piece on a vaccine-autism link [The Nation]”Bravo, J.P. Morgan…
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Painful
This election really was a national referendum on Constitutional democracy, the U.S.-led international order, and the importance of acknowledging factual reality. It’s just that the American people voted against.
I’ve generally avoided politics on this blog. I suspect that will have to change.
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Damn Yankees
As a Yankee fan, game 5 was painful to watch. Jason Stark called it “very possibly the craziest World Series clincher ever“. I think he’s right.
How many other teams have ever had a game in which they …
• Blew a five-run lead (or larger)
• Coughed up at least five unearned runs
• Stuffed three errors into the ol’ box score
• And included both a balk and catcher’s interference in those festivities?
Of course, the answer is that this has happened exactly once. Last night.
Eventually I’ll look back and remember what a fun season it was. But that game will sting for a while.
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Don’t Be a Sucker
US War Department film from 1947…
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Dizzy and Ella in Jail
This is part of a fascinating story about trying to integrate performance halls in Houston in the 50s:
From left to right: Ella Fitzgerald, Georgiana Henry, Illinois Jacquet, and Dizzy Gillespie The full story is here (with a higher res picture), do read it. They were performing to an integrating hall and were arrested in between sets for “gambling”. The venue owner warned the police there’d be a riot if he had to cancel the show, so they brought them to the station, made them pay a fine (while signing autographs) and got them back in time for the next set.
In Dizzy Gillespie’s out-of-print autobiography, To Be, or not … to Bop, Granz stated that when he rented the Music Hall, he added a non-segregation clause to the contract. Granz removed the racial signs denoting the “white” versus “black” restrooms, and refused to pre-sell tickets in case patrons attempted to section off parts of the venue for whites only
Amazing story of the times. I love Dizzy sitting there in jail, looking great, completely relaxed.
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