https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article225147640.html

«“It was one of the greatest honors of my life, for my friend Walter Jones to ask me to administer his oath,” Butterfield said at the time.»

One of the last of the old-time moderates, I guess. 😦

[Followup: well, maybe not a moderate, per se, but a politician whose principles made him take some positions at odds with today’s “conservatives”. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/02/walter-jones-north-carolina-obituary-freedom-fries/581569/]

https://dice.camp/@gunnar/101561119141925249

I guess this one goes around a bit. 🙂

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/dining/drinks/cocktail-safety-bartender.html

Interesting.

«This isn’t the first generation of bartenders to take chances. Many pre-Prohibition cocktail books included recipes for homemade cordials and spirits that called for questionable ingredients like peach kernels, calamus root, ammonia and turpentine.»

Am now the proud owner of a cast-off corporate Lenovo T440s running Linux Mint 19.1. W00t!

https://twitter.com/PrepSportsPlus/status/1093737895800655874?s=17

I guess it really is too hard to resist.

(Um….)

Sports Plus (@PrepSportsPlus) Tweeted:

You stay classy New York Post.

#JeffBezos #laurensanchez https://t.co/4HNkldRGOR

https://twitter.com/lpolgreen/status/1093653891948851201?s=17

<belly-laugh/>

Lydia Polgreen (@lpolgreen) Tweeted:
What a day. https://t.co/kQcZ42SSDo https://t.co/FFDS0W3Hm4

https://fred.publichealth.pitt.edu/measles

Fun.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/facts-alone-wont-convince-people-to-vaccinate-their-kids/

«Lewandowsky [not that Lewandowsky] said that making the simulation relevant to where you live taps into a well-established principle of cognitive psychology called “construal theory.” When a problem feels local, Lewandowsky said, people are more likely to be proactive.»

“All politics is local.”