Examples today of:
Is there a common theme here?
Today I had an appointment at CMPC for the procedure I was scheduled to have done a week ago, but which was derailed by some emergency in the catheter lab, as I wrote about here.
This marked the second anniversary of my heart transplant. I wrote about having the same procedure done a year ago, on the first anniversary, but see now I got some details confused.
Why are small town values exalted by politicians? Most Americans are in big cities, where the issues of the 21st century are taking place.
So why does a megalomaniac would-be dictator like Trump have so many fans? (Especially so many who consider themselves Christians?) I’m always open to explanations, though I have plenty of provisional ones.
AlterNet, Bobby Azarian, 12 Jun 2023: Opinion | Why loyalty to Donald Trump is often unbreakable: neuroscientist
Snopes, 9 Jun 2023: Yes, Trump Said ‘No One Will Be Above the Law’ Regarding Protection of Classified Information, subtitled “This genuine remark from the future president came during an August 2016 campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina.”
Items today:
Died today.
NY Times: George Winston, Pianist With a Popular Soothing Sound, Dies at 74, subtitled “He won a Grammy in the new age category, and his top-selling records helped define the genre. But his interests also included Hawaiian guitar and the Doors.” Continue reading
NY Times, Benyamin Cohen (a specialist on Einstein), 4 Jun 2023: Einstein and a Theory of Disinformation
The essay opens:
A decade ago, Ivanka Trump offered her Twitter followers a bit of wisdom from one of the world’s favorite geniuses to impress her legions of Twitter followers. “If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts. — Albert Einstein.”
There was one problem: Einstein never said that.
