Brad

Hope this doesn’t mean or condescending or anything (that’s not the intent) but I feel bad for you and your sister.

That must have been very tough on your parents.

I had an appointment with my cardiologist last week and you had to wait in the car until they were ready for you and once you were finished, you left by an exit separate from the entrance so you wouldn’t cross paths with anyone else. You had to call to make a follow up appointment.

To paraphrase Lincoln (from his Second Inaugural Address), fondly do we hope ~ fervently do we pray ~ that this mighty scourge may speedily pass away. My dentist has a procedure in effect and my appointment is July 17. https://c1-preview.prosites.com/84300/wy/docs/Dentistry%20of%20Mendham%20COVID%20Reopen%20Plan%20(1)%20(1)%20(1).pdf

A background perspective on removal of Confederate statues. Confederate statues: In 2020, a renewed battle in America’s enduring Civil War If anyone is interested in reading one of the groundbreaking books on how we view the Civil War, I’d suggest David Blight’s Race and Reunion. It’s the groundbreaking book on historical memory. Sometimes how we remember an historical event is almost as important as the event itself. David Blight is also the author of the definitive work on Frederick Douglass, another great book.

I’ve had a few records shipped to me via media mail recently and (at least here in NJ) they have arrived quickly. The bottlenecks plaguing the system seem to have been corrected.

Holy crap, what a mouth on her. I sure hope she doesn’t have grandkids. Talk about trash.

Good question!

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Didn’t the soldiers help to do that? Man injured in toppling of Confederate statue in Virginia

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Cases are supposed to spike even further as a result of the demonstrations. NJ is fully reopening on June 22 but I will be treating it as if we were still back in March. Unfortunately, I see a lot of people in our area who are acting as if it’s over.

The best thing in terms of removing symbols of hate. What NASCAR did is good but removing the statues is better. It represents a beginning of removing the symbolism of hate in our country, of honoring people who sought to perpetuate a regime based on slavery and who were traitors to the US. Symbolism is important and removing these symbols is very important. I see Jefferson Davis came down last night in Richmond. About time.

The best thing is happening that statues are being taken down in the South; the Robert E. Lee statue is being removed by the City of Richmond. Thank goodness.

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I’m not sure that’s what Hofstadter was referring to. Intellectualism is “accepts conflict as a central and enduring reality and understands human society as a form of equipoise based upon the continuing process of compromise. It shuns ultimate showdowns and looks upon the ideal of total partisan victory as unattainable, as merely another variety of threat to the kind of balance with which it is familiar. It is sensitive to nuances and sees things in degrees. It is essentially relativist and skeptical, but at the same time circumspect and humane.” To Hofstadter “intellectualism is not at all the same thing as intelligence or devotion to a particular set of ideas. It is a distinctive habit of mind and thought that actually forbids the kind of complete self-assurance that we often associate with very smart or committed people.” I read it many years ago. Not an easy read. See The Tea Party is timeless Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism In American Life reviewed, from which the above were taken.

If you want to take that attitude, fine, but if you want to have a discussion....

How is a photo of Mnuchin and his wife celebrating new currency pornographic?

Rubens, Barbieri and Tiepolo? Damn right it’s art.

Larry, I was asking what your point was. I was not making any commentary on propensity to violence. What each Marine probably has in common with the others is the experience of being a Marine and their esprit du corps. I’ve never been in the Armed Forces but I think it’s quite different. It’s shared experiences, possibly in war. If you’ve seen the Band of Brothers (and I have multiple times), particularly the last episode, that’s what I mean. Apologies if I took the conversation far afield.

Are you saying in your second to last sentence that you cease to be military when you leave the service? I’ve had more than one ex-Marine day to me that you’re a Marine for life; I once referred to a Marine no longer with the Marines as a “former Marine.” I was quickly corrected. If servicemen and women who are no longer part of the service still consider themselves as such, that means the mindset doesn’t really end either.

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This seems to be a global problem. In European football, black stars such as Raheem Sterling of Manchester City are regularly verbally abused. Here’s a relatively recent story, https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-51066328

It’s the mindset.