- Windows has deprecated WordPad, which makes my life more difficult;
- David French on a German thinker, Carl Schmitt, and the friend-enemy distinction, and how it informs current American politics;
- Latest thoughts from Heather Cox Richardson, about the cancellation of foreign aid, and Connie Willis, about Trump and the California wildfires;
- Music: Bob Dylan’s “Restless Farewell,” and Joan Baez’s sublime cover.
Microsoft Windows stopped me in my tracks a couple days ago to update itself, which took 10 minutes or so of downloading, then installing, the updates. And when I was able to use my computer again, I quickly discovered that they deprecated WordPad! WordPad is gone! This is extremely irritating. I Googled and found a statement from MS about how everything can be done with Word or Notepad. Well yes, but with more effort. Word wants to automatically instantiate http links; I write posts in text to copy into WordPress. NotePad is plain text, which entails hitting returns for every spacing between paragraphs, that WordPress will then require me to take out. Just now, I’ve compiled this post in NotePad, and will now copy here. Let’s see how this works. …Later: drafting posts in NotePad, and then copying into WordPress, seems to work. For now.
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Another variation on the idea that human nature has split into two. Conservative/progressive, tribal/cosmopolitan, whatever. A running theme here.
NY Times, David French, 26 Jan 2025: How a German Thinker Explains MAGA Morality. (Gift link.) (In the print paper today, under the headline “Us and Them Is All the Rage”)
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