Recommendations
- Ramō=Randy Moeller
- Feb 15
- 2 min read
JOURNAL ARITICLES: From the January ATLANTIC-Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment by Caitlin Flanagan—a favorite contributor of mine and a wonderful memoir.
PODCASTS: Revisionist History—I have a love-hate relationship with Malcolm Gladwell’s work over the years. This last batch is wonderful and out of the park on most points:
Birchers on School Boards back in the 1960’s
The Georgetown Massacre reviews the news event when people were caught bribing Ivy League schools to let their kids in on athletic scholarships—with no intent or skill to actually play. All but one of these wealthy people pled guilty when charged and were seen on the national news periodically going in and out of prison. This podcast reports on the one case that went to trial….
The 1936 Olympics—a series of podcasts and this is very interesting stuff.
Books: If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin—even better as an audiobook.
MOVIES: A Complete Unknown. I was not especially interested but teared up in the first scene with Woody Guthrie. Well done even if somewhat mythical in the making.
ARTICLES: CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal—Right out of MAD Magazine; what can go wrong?
Colombian President Petro's Remarkable Message to Trump or diplomacy by Tweets
Interesting things that happened to me in the last month:
I picked up dead raccoon left on the street with an audience of school children looking on. I was able to estimate the time of death based on rigor mortis and my Safari Ap
I went to a Whiskey tasting and while trying to find parking, Kernie got flashed by a street person (a guy dropping trow--full frontal) as he crossed the crosswalk.
Got two Wordle puzzles on the second try two days in a row —two times in the same month!
Quote of the month: From an Atlantic article on the lessons learned by Democrats in the wake of the election and starting over: ”We have an amazing group of new officers. So far, as you know, our three at large vice chair positions are used to ensure gender balance among seven offices: treasury secretary, national finance chair and vice chair for civic engagement and voter participation and the three at large vice chairs. Our rules specify that when we have a non-binary candidate or officer, the non-binary individual is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining six offices must be gender balanced with the results of the previous four elections. Our elected officers are currently two male and two female. In order to be gender balanced… we must elect one male, one female, and one person of any gender."
MUSIC: Out of Control by Dave Alvin
No Baby I by the Old 97's
And a Bang on the Ear by the Wateraboys (who will have a new album coming out this year)
Nothing Else Matters by Apocalyptica
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