Daily Archive: May 15, 2018

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Andrew Donaldson

/// May 15, 2018

Tom Wolfe Dead at 88

Journalist, author, and influencer Tom Wolfe has died following a hospital stay for an infection. He was 88 years old when he passed on Monday.

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Andrew Donaldson

/// May 15, 2018

Taxing in the Name Of: Seattle “Head Tax” Approved

Dubbed the “Seattle head tax”, the measure was touted to raise funds, combat homelessness, and build affordable housing by instituting a per-employee tax on companies such as Starbucks and Amazon, among others.

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Bernie Sanders accepts Joe Rogan’s endorsement
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Bernie Sanders accepts Joe Rogan’s endorsement
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From Bernie Sanders on Twitter:

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Boris Johnson announces that the Withdrawal Agreement has received Royal Assent
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Boris Johnson announces that the Withdrawal Agreement has received Royal Assent
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From Twitter:

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Grist for the Moral Mill
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Grist for the Moral Mill
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From here (courtesy of Hanley):

Rather, I want to explore two ideas that are ubiquitous among the morally (self) righteous, of whatever stripe, and which may somewhat explain why they behave so awfully so often.

The first is that the rightness of one’s cause justifies and even ennobles terrible behavior on one’s own part.

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The second – and it is intimately related to and entwined with the first – is that those whom the (self) righteous believe are Bad People deserve neither quarter nor pity. The idea isn’t just that The Bad deserve what they get, a kind of melancholic observation of what comes of bad Karma, but that we should put the boot in (especially when they are down) and should be brutal in doing it…and pitiless afterwards.

Extending grace only to those you like is not how grace works.

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From the Daily Mail: Mexico and Colombia may have their first coronavirus cases
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From the Daily Mail: Mexico and Colombia may have their first coronavirus cases
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From the Daily Mail:

Mexico and Colombia may have their first coronavirus cases as the contagious illness that has killed 17 spreads from China to at least 531 people around the world

  • Mexican and Colombian officials are investigating their countriess first possible case of the new coronavirus
  • In Mexico, the patients is on the northern border state of Tamaulipa, which borders Texas
  • The Colombian case concerns a 19-year-old Chinese citizen, who traveled to Bogotá from Turkey
  • As of Wednesday, 531 worldwide have caught the viral illness and 17 have died 
  • Cases have been confirmed in Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the US, which reported its first patient, a man in his 30s in Washington state, on Tuesday
  • One person in Australia is reportedly in isolation and may have the virus  

 

(Featured image is coronavirus, from the Science Photo Library.)

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Terry Jones, Founding Monty Python Member, Passes at Age 77
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Terry Jones, Founding Monty Python Member, Passes at Age 77
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From the BBC:

Monty Python star Terry Jones has died at the age of 77, four years after being diagnosed with dementia.

A statement from his family said: "We have all lost a kind, funny, warm, creative and truly loving man."

(Featured image is Terry Jones, taken by Myung Jung Kim/PA Wire URN:49759970 (Press Association via AP Images)).

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