tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post3153706605325514519..comments2024-03-28T12:50:25.792-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: TICK TOCKRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-15228740905544424482016-12-24T11:10:33.593-05:002016-12-24T11:10:33.593-05:00Happy Holidays everyone!
I'll be out of town f...Happy Holidays everyone!<br />I'll be out of town for a while.<br />Best wishes,<br />ChrisChrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08250295324149056708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-55279051011866054842016-12-23T21:11:55.943-05:002016-12-23T21:11:55.943-05:00p.s. It's actually not long -- I was wrong ab...p.s. It's actually not long -- I was wrong about that.LFCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-55924098436775896022016-12-23T21:10:46.233-05:002016-12-23T21:10:46.233-05:00The North Carolina piece:
http://www.mcclatchydc....The North Carolina piece:<br /><br />http://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article122618669.html LFCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-20336401320346582542016-12-23T21:05:14.024-05:002016-12-23T21:05:14.024-05:00The most indefensible of the Trump remarks is the ...The most indefensible of the Trump remarks is the one about an arms race. <br />Not even the academic who appeared on the NewsHour tonight to defend the supposed 'need' for a larger arsenal explicitly defended the arms race remark. This prof claimed that US adversaries have been increasing their arsenals while the US hasn't been; but at the extant levels of overkill, it's irrelevant even if true. (Only exception might be in the case of an 'irrational' actor, possibly Kim Jong Un, but in the case of an irrational actor deterrence is ineffective by definition, so levels again don't matter much.) <br /><br />The prof in question said the US is 200 or so warheads below the level permitted by the 2010/11 New Start Treaty whereas Russia is 200 above. Shades of 50 years ago, when people were employed full time worrying about alleged 'missile gaps' (and one criticism of JFK is that he ran on the 'missile gap' theme in 1960 when there really wasn't one). OTOH, whatever blame one assigns JFK for setting the stage for the Cuban Missile Crisis, he did in the end manage to steer out of it.<br /><br />On another subject of poss. interest, I saw elsewhere some reference to a long piece on North Carolina comparing it on various democracy metrics to a semi-authoritarian or authoritarian state. Will try to add link in next box. LFCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-12434555290617454412016-12-23T20:07:41.988-05:002016-12-23T20:07:41.988-05:00Professor
Your same fears oppress me too, especia...Professor<br /><br />Your same fears oppress me too, especially as late night thoughts.<br />Whatever happens will suck for all of us. But this is territory though dark is new.<br />Part of it's terror is it's sheer unpredictability.<br />We have to imagine and conceive ways to outlast Trump. I have an active imagination, so I can imagine tons of ways things that can go wrong.<br />But I can think of ways to resist or mitigate Trump.<br />There is the idea of direct resistance but there is the idea of containment, internationally and by domestic institutions at home.<br />You've done your part by pushing along actvism.<br />I think someone said in the eighties (having to do with fighting racism) that millions of people can't be held down, someone I thought of as an extremist back then<br />Time is on our side and numbers are on our side and justice is on our side <br />He will not be a new Pharaoh I'm sure of thathowienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-54137529545182547812016-12-23T14:06:43.408-05:002016-12-23T14:06:43.408-05:00Amen.Amen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com