Saturday, July 29, 2023
The population of tractor-owning Jews has increased 100% according to the photographic evidence provided by faithful reader Nancy Heller, showing her mounted, in a manner of speaking.
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What keeps me up at night. "Most people tend to know what to do with traditional investments after someone dies, . . . but when it comes to baseball cards, first-edition books, coins and other collectibles, the loved ones dealing with the estate can be stumped (and annoyed)."
Sunday, July 30, 2023
Here are some reassuring words from the Paris Animals Zoopolis Association. “Rats are sensitive, intelligent, playful, and empathetic beings.”
Monday, July 31, 2023
From The New Yorker: “In Israel, the saying goes, there are four seasons: election, war, strike, and summer.”
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
One small step for mankind.
I took the subway today for the first time post-op. I was headed for NYU Hospital to donate bodily fluids in case they might run short. I actually took one subway ride and three bus rides on the round trip, thus keeping stair climbing to a minimum. On the way back, I stopped for lunch at bb.q Chicken, 25 West 32nd Street, a very reliable source of fried chicken. I kept it simple, just taking a box of Golden Original Half Chicken, crispy, crunchy in the manner of the Old South -- South Korea, real Seoul food ($14.89).
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It's bad enough that there are Gentiles out there shooting at us, but the shooter at a Jewish school in Memphis yesterday was Jewish. The man was apparently traumatized by the death of his father 20 years ago. https://www.msn.com/en-
"Police shot and killed [the father] when he ran out of their house pointing a handgun at his own head." https://jweekly.com/
"Mister, put down the gun pointed at your head or we will shoot and kill you."
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
We New York Mets fans are reeling from the collapse of our team, staffed with the highest payroll in history. Among other measures, the team just traded away two pitchers who will waltz into the Hall of Fame upon retirement, but approached the ordinary while wearing a Mets uniform. Sub-par hitting and fielding also haunted us. However, my sources have revealed the underlying cause of this malaise, too sensitive to be openly discussed, is G**rg* S*r*s.
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Stony Brook Steve accompanied me to lunch today at La Dinastia, 145 West 72nd Street, one of the few remaining Chino-Latino restaurants. A dozen plus booths and tables open up past a long bar at the front of the restaurant. The menu combines plantains with Chinese food and fried rice with Cuban food.
I had shrimp egg foo young with yellow rice, perfectly ordinary, exactly as expected ($19.50). Steve had General Tso's Chicken with brown rice, one of 22 items on the lunch menu ($13.95). Prices too high all around.
Thursday, August 3, 2023
Madam and I, turning back the clock, did something today that we haven't done for years, we went to the movies. We saw "Oppenheimer" on a screen that, if laid flat, could host an NFL game. It’s a very good movie and an important one, combining science, politics, debauchery and loud noises. It's also very long, so get a good, comfortable seat. After you have seen the movie, I suggest that you bring a key part of the story up to date by reading
https://www.newyorker.com/
https://www.newyorker.com/
Friday, August 4, 2023
Pardon me for making a serious error above. G**rg* S*r*s is not responsible for the New York Mets death spiral; it’s really H*nt*r B*d*n.
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The Mets winning percentage is not the only thing that’s taken a dive. New York State fourth grade math test scores declined across all racial and ethnic groups from 2019. Proficiency rates declined 8 percentage points for White students to 39%, 6 points for Hispanic students to 15% and 3 points for Black students to 14%. Asian and Pacific Islander (Hawaiian?) fourth graders experienced the steepest decline in math proficiency, 14 percentage points to 55%, still far ahead of all other groups.
https://www.osc.state.ny.us/
"While it's very clear that a 747 cannot fly properly with the failure of
three engines [https://simpleflying.com/one-engine-747/], how comfortable should we be living in a a society where only a fraction of the population seems to have learned basic mathematics in school?
The population can now rely on AI. Don't have to learn anything at all.
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