Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 07, 2023

ChatGPT and Congress

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 Yesterday there was a report, which I may be garbling, that Google had given ChatGPT the same test questions they give to engineering job a...
Friday, September 09, 2022

Unbelievable--So Much for White Superiority

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The other day the Times had an article discussing the composition of the cabinet selected by PM Truss, which notably had no white males in ...
Wednesday, August 03, 2022

Shirts in the Revolution Were Costly

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 Reading Alan Taylor's "American Revolutions ".  As usual he's quite readable, though there's not much new for me so f...
Wednesday, July 06, 2022

Douglass on USA Mission

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Frederick Douglass had a speech on the US, partially focused on Chinese immigration during a time when that was a big thing.   Our geographi...
Tuesday, July 05, 2022

Hutchinson on Declaration

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Boston 1775 has a post on Hutchinson's view of the Declaration. Denies that the thirteen colonies constitute a "people" and ...
Monday, July 04, 2022

Proud To Be an American

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 In response to a tweet by Will Hurd: I understand and appreciate why 72% of the country thinks we're on the wrong track, but despite th...
Sunday, July 03, 2022

Mainline Christianity--Membership Versus Affiliation

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  My curiosity was triggered by this tweet: In fact, the only denomination among whites that has increased recently is "mainline Prote...
Wednesday, June 08, 2022

Why I Don't Believe in Great (White) Replacement Theory

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 It's true that the current white majority of Americans will diminish as we accept more immigrants from areas other than Europe, and as ...
Friday, April 15, 2022

Taxes Done

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It's not procreastination, really, or so I tell myself.  But we finished our Federal and VA taxes today and filed them.  Our tax rate is...
Sunday, February 06, 2022

Expropriation/Appropriation of Culture/Ideas

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 Reading Johnson's book "The Broken Heart of America "--early on (page 26) he refers to the expropriation of Indian knowledge ...
Friday, January 14, 2022

The First Inaugural Address

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 I ran across a reference to Washington's first inaugural address which roused my curiosity--specifically a reference to the prominent p...
Saturday, January 08, 2022

Woody Holton: Liberty Is Sweet

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Woodie Holton is a historian who has been active in defending the 1619 Project, which led me to read his new book: Liberty Is Sweet ,  If I...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

Past Olympics

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Someone on twitter asked about our focus in the Olympics on gymnastics.  That caused me to recall Olga Korbut . In 1972 she turned us on to ...
Saturday, March 13, 2021

Freedom Versus Fairness--the Pandemic and Fischer

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 Some time ago David Hackett Fischer wrote a book  comparing the USA and New Zealand. I thought of that book when I read this Post opinion p...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

The Importance of Local Government

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 Somewhere in this blog I've mentioned the differences in local government between New York and Virginia.  In New York, outside the citi...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Blacks as Central to American Popular Culture?

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 Prof. Appiah writes a NYTimes review of Isabel Wilkerson's new book:   “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” I'll read the boo...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Five People to Write a Times Article? (And the Past)

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NYTimes has an article on how the Trump administration turned away from the coronavirus, deciding to push responsibility to the states and l...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

On Reopening After the Coronavirus

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The Trump administration's task force has outlined a 3 stage process to reopen the economy.The steps make sense to me.  There's pres...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

America Is Rich Country But Feels Like a Poor Country

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I like the Kottke.org website. He recently spent some time in Vietnam and Singapore with some good pictures. (Saigon was home to lots of ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

We Should Calm Down

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John Fea at the Way of Improvement blog sponsors t his post  on divisions within America. Zack Beauchamp at Vox has this post on the ills ...