
Clash of ages/Trash in my cache
Now that Joe Biden had his first gaff of the yet to be announced 2020 Presidential run, rumors are flying all over. Was it an honest slip of the tongue, was it planned, why did news break he might have offered the V.P. spot to Stacie Abrams?
Now, once again, the question of age has come to the surface asking if Joe is too old and if so will he promise to serve only one term? This makes the V.P. choice even more important and opens up even more questions about the unprecedented timing of this not normal choice.
Probably by now you’ve lost interest in this topic because the media can’t stop obsessing over the Mueller report.
Returning to the topic of age, the New York Times has an editorial about the most famous freshmen members of Congress all who happen to be women. It’s a good read because it dispels some widely held beliefs about the relevance of the sex and age of the members of Congress and the presumed effectiveness of women getting things done men can’t seem to finish. It made me drop my personal opinion on the latter point but I still hope for the first woman President and more in Congress.
Since I quit Facebook I’ve been reading articles by folks who have also dropped it. NYT tech writer Brian Chen broke free last year and posted a new piece where he shares his experiences including the fact he didn’t lose any “friends” because he was still in contact with them and didn’t really miss the other “friends” who existed only on Facebook who only seemed to share links to quizzes, political news stories or their opinions on them (the last two I am terminally guilty of doing).
In the end the FOMO (fear of missing out) turned out to be nothing to worry about. His life is moving along nicely, he’s saving a lot of money and the extra time recaptured is being used to do things which are actually productive .
The biggest change he noticed, and most important to me, was being able to escape most of the targeted ads that followed him around the internet on every device he uses. What changed was a big decline in impulse buying.
You might say ads don’t bother you or you might even like them, but they drove me nuts the way they seemed to immediately show up everywhere after you had done a search or clicked a link. Over time the little annoyances do build up and become stressful no matter how much I tell myself they don’t. In his piece he posted a link to one he’d written on what can be done to stop the madness.
Speaking of madness, let’s get back to our Mueller obsessions.
Conservatives: Think before you defend the electoral college
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55 Years Later, Lawyer Will Again Argue Over Redistricting Before Supreme Court
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Finally for this Sunday morning of posting stuff….

From the shoot your party in the foot department
Kamala Harris makes a point in Houston: It’s not just O’Rourke and Sanders who can draw crowds
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Pete Buttigieg for president? Long-shot stands out in crowded field
The mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is just 37 and gay but he has made a strong start in the race to 2020
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The B-Team: are Beto, Biden and Bernie the best Democrats can offer?
The media’s lopsided coverage has skewed the field towards straight white guys. It’s early, lots can happen.
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How Powerful Is Vladimir Putin Really?
Russia today doesn’t seem like “a properly run dictatorship.”
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From the lady I love to hate and hate to love, Maureen Dowd delivers on the baby that was the Mueller report

Now Comes Washington’s Garbo, Robert MuellerSomeone needs to explain the title to me
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For all the Deadwood fans out there…
The Atlantic’s Attack On New Speechwriter For Bernie Sanders Completely Unravels
Infighting on the left is killing the left imho
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Opinion

What Rural America Has to Teach Us
Civic service as a way of life.
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Opinion

America Deserves a Leader as Good as Jacinda Ardern
New Zealand’s prime minister moved swiftly to ban weapons of mass killing after a gunman attacked two mosques.
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Opinion – Kara Swisher

Owning a Car Will Soon Be as Quaint as Owning a Horse
The shift away from private vehicles will happen faster than we think.
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And in the end…..
Mueller Delivers Report on Trump-Russia Investigation to Attorney General
The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has conducted an extensive investigation into Russian efforts to sway the outcome of the 2016 presidential race. Here is the story of how it all started.CreditCreditDoug Mills/The New York Times
The report will prove our worst fears to be true that Republicans won’t believe the truth that indicted 37 people and Democrats will continue to believe crimes were committed that weren’t.
The only rational conclusion at this point is to wait out all the nasty shit that we do know happened and what the consequences will be for it.
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Entertainment

‘She destroyed my life’: Roseanne Barr blames co-star Sara Gilbert for sitcom’s demise
When her show Roseanne was axed last year after she posted a racist tweet, the actor blamed the influence of a sedative. Now, she has found a new scapegoat
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The latest Trump Fuckup

Trump’s Federal Reserve pick linked to indicted boyfriend of Russian agent
Stephen Moore created a controversial political group with Paul Erickson, who is charged with fraud and whose girlfriend, Maria Butina, pleaded guilty to infiltrating the conservative movement
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1. I didn’t know there was a vacancy
2. I don’t know why I bothered to post this article has I detest this asshole who gives conservatives a bad name.
‘The Brexodus is under way’: meet the Brits leaving the UK
In the year after the Brexit vote, 17,000 British people sought citizenship of another EU country – and many have since upped and left. Five ‘Brexiles’ explain why they’re starting a new life overseas
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@chris: Regarding advertisements and Facebook, I have never registered with Facebook yet advertisements chase behind my every internet search for anything whatsoever.
I guess it’s Google. It can’t be Facebook in my circumstances.
I wouldn’t be too sure, you don’t have to use Facebook to get caught in their web. If you use any of their other products your data could be used. They may even get it from other sources, I need to look it up.
Good to see you here. Did you get out early or what?
Hillary Clinton and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Unite to Mock Jared Kushner’s Email Hypocrisy
House Democrats revealed that the president’s son-in-law uses WhatsApp to conduct government business.
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Of course the Mueller report was delivered today at 5 p.m. So damn glad this wait is over. Now let’s see how it rolls out.