Matters of Ongoing Concern

This is jawdroppingly offensive. One case was designed to undo Jim Crow-era segregation; the other to promote racial diversity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/30/supreme-court-term-conservative-targets/

The Constitution treats insurrection and rebellion as political dangers, not protected rights.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/opinion/us-second-amendment.html

Should Internet time synchronization run on rigorously tested and battle-worn but whimsical and arguably bloated code that someone may still struggle to fully understand, even after devoting decades to it?
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-thorny-problem-of-keeping-the-internets-time

Parade’s Personality Change

Parade magazine will cease print publication on November 6.

https://news.yahoo.com/parade-magazine-digital-only-035900562.html

The end of the once-ubiquitous Sunday newspaper insert will come within a couple of weeks of the 59th anniversary of my peak Boomer-era family being featured in its pages. We had the unfortunate timing of appearing during the weekend after JFK’s assasination.

Parade November 24, 1963

That’s me leaning over the tail light.

Bogey Bucks

A habit I have developed from watching old movies is taking inflation into account whenever somebody mentions money. In The Harder They Fall, when Humphrey Bogart’s wife doesn’t sound enthusiastic about the job he’s taken, Bogey says, “don’t knock it, it pays a thousand a month, and expenses.” In 1956, $1000 was equivalent to $11,000 today. Good money for the unemployed boxing columnist Bogart played in his final film role.