Somebody’s Always Taking The Joy Out of Life: Take Care

Clare Briggs / October 1, 2018 in Comics / Taking The Joy Out of Life

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Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930.

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Michael Cain
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October 2, 2018 at 9:47 am
I was fortunate to get a version of the opposite of this not too long ago. At the new doctor’s office a nurse was questioning me about being active and putting into the EMR system. I went through the bike riding, and the occasional fencing, and the ongoing landscape rebuilding that involves moving a fair amount of heavy stuff from here to there (and sometimes back). I whined a bit about being slower and having to knock off sooner from the heavy lifting than I used to. “Honey,” she said, “I see people every day younger than you that have let themselves go to the point they can’t even try things like that. You’re doing terrific.” Put a bounce back in my step :^)
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Jaybird
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October 3, 2018 at 8:26 am
I get a distinct autobiographical vibe from all of his comics and this one is no exception. 1875-1930.
Do we know when this one was done? If it was when he was 30ish, I’d know that he had a conversation with an acquaintance and ran with this idea… but if it were done when he were 52…
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Mike Schilling

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+ if we have to go back six to ten generations, any Indian ancestry would likely have been from tribes along the Atlantic coast. That makes [. . .]

if we have to go back six to ten generations, any Indian ancestry would likely have been from tribes along the Atlantic coast.

That makes no sense. Not that the rest of it does, either, but there's an obvious logical hole in that particular sentence.

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What Does it Mean that Elizabeth Warren has a Native American Ancestor?

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James K

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Yeah, pretty much.

What Does it Mean that Elizabeth Warren has a Native American Ancestor?

3 hours ago

George Turner

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+ I think the test established that she has no genetic Cherokee ancestry, as that would've been far more recent than 1 part in 1024, given [. . .]

I think the test established that she has no genetic Cherokee ancestry, as that would've been far more recent than 1 part in 1024, given that she'd claimed that her parents had to elope because her dad's family, while in Oklahoma, said her mother was Cherokee and refused permission to marry. That story itself turns out to be a lie based on period newspaper accounts of the wedding, but if we have to go back six to ten generations, any Indian ancestry would likely have been from tribes along the Atlantic coast. It could even have been ancestry from a South American Indian whose children were brought back to Europe. Heck, the British royal family probably has more non-European ancestry than Warren thanks to Kate being descended from someone from India.

Most American whites have more Native American ancestry than Warren. Virtually all non-Amish Mexicans do.

Vice President of the United States Charles Curtis, who had also been president pro tem of the Senate, didn't need to invent native American ancestry because he was descended from two chiefs, his mother was Kaw and Osage, he grew up on a reservation, and English was his third language, after Kansa and French. He was elected to the House in 1892 and won re-election six times, as an Indian who grew up on a reservation, by the people of Kansas. The Curtis Act of 1898 allowed Oklahoma to become a state. The Kansas legislature elected him to the US Senate twice, and then the people of Kansas, with the direct election of Senators, elected him too. In Washington, the whites elected him Republican whip and then majority leader in the Senate.

Somehow all this laid the grondwork for Warren claiming that her father's family wouldn't let her father marry an Indian, and that she's an Indian.

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Jaybird

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Mueller better have one hell of an October Surprise.

Warren releases results of DNA test

3 hours ago

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Mike Schilling

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The meaning that comes to mind for vigilantism is shooting people, or at least apprehending them, not telling people to watch out for them.

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j r

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+ Whites don’t suffer/benefit much. Of course whites benefits. You've noted that the percentage of Asians is much less than it would be if Harvard [. . .]

Whites don’t suffer/benefit much.

Of course whites benefits. You've noted that the percentage of Asians is much less than it would be if Harvard and other such institutions went purely on grades and test scores. But for some reason, you've decided that only blacks are benefiting. For some reason you've decided that "affirmative action" is a benefit, but the space set aside for legacies and the children of wealthy donors is not.

Do the math. Here is the ethnic breakdown of Cal Tech, which has no affirmative action:

Asian - 43%
White - 29%
Hispanic - 12%
Black - ~1%

The rest is unaccounted for, but the story is pretty clear. When you just go by grades and test scores the over-representation of Asians swamps both black and white admissions. It's the same story at Stuyvesant and the other specialized high schools in NYC that are 2/3 to 3/4 Asian in a city that is 12% Asian.

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Oscar Gordon

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+ When the system offers no remedy, or an inadequate remedy, vigilantism* is a common result. Vigilantism is a symptom, and it will be a [. . .]

When the system offers no remedy, or an inadequate remedy, vigilantism* is a common result. Vigilantism is a symptom, and it will be a problem until the system is fixed.

*Such lists are hardly what I'd call vigilantism.

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Dark Matter

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+ The fact that you’ve left whites out of this equation tells me a lot about where you are coming from on these issues.Weirdly this [. . .]

The fact that you’ve left whites out of this equation tells me a lot about where you are coming from on these issues.

Weirdly this sort of thing is mostly a non-issue for whites.

Asians take it on the chin.

Blacks "benefit" a lot (although it's mostly immigrant or high Soc-Economic Blacks)... and "benefit" includes problems from being mismatched.

Whites don't suffer/benefit much.

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