Big Talk

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I found this post, by Steve Randy Waldman, to be interesting:

https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/17/abundance-is-overcapacity/index.html 

Specifically, it introduced me to a phrase, "capital discipline", that I was not really aware of.

My favorite explanation for why his party lost the election comes from an old Indian politician: "When the body has had too much sweet, it craves for pickle."

For reasons I don't really understand, we currently have a politics filled with salty tears, and the bitter tang of half-remembered sins.

https://honoriaplum.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/i-have-dyspepsia/

But we have it in our power to choose a better politics, a politics with more solidarity and more joy, a politics with fewer spoilt brats, and more ballpark brats. Let's get to it.

Every so often I feel the need to read one of my favorite posts, by William Kaminsky, on listening to Johnny Cash sing Beat the Devil, a song written by Kris Kristofferson:

https://williamkaminsky.wordpress.com/2004/10/04/i-aint-sayin-i-beat-the-devil-but-i-drank-his-beer-for-nothing-then-i-stole-his-song/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3JTDo4Kzp0

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Little Talk

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How Much Sleeping In Does A Man Require?

My current answer:

If you feel the need to sleep in, sleep in one or two days a week:

1. Sunday

2. A day-er to be named later (DTBNL)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_to_be_named_later

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