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| Al Unser, Sr. passed away.
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“Thank you for showing the fellas that you've got more balls than them,” Haley said, to cheers from the crowd.
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| Posted: 12/23/21 12:24 pm ::: |
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We lost one of the greatest. Joan Didion at 87.
Her attraction to trouble spots, disintegrating personalities and incipient chaos came naturally.
In the title essay from “The White Album,” she included her own psychiatric evaluation after arriving at the outpatient clinic of St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica complaining of vertigo and nausea.
It read, in part: “In her view she lives in a world of people moved by strange, conflicted, poorly comprehended, and, above all, devious motivations which commit them inevitably to conflict and failure.”
Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/books/joan-didion-dead.html?
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October 27, 1988
1. It occurred to me during the summer of 1988, in California and Atlanta and New Orleans, in the course of watching first the California primary and then the Democratic and Republican national conventions, that it had not been by accident that the people with whom I had preferred to spend time in high school had, on the whole, hung out in gas stations. They had not run for student body office. They had not gone to Yale or Swarthmore or DePauw, nor had they even applied.
They had gotten drafted, gone through basic at Fort Ord. They had knocked up girls, and married them, had begun what they called the first night of the rest of their lives with a midnight drive to Carson City and a five-dollar ceremony performed by a justice of the peace still in his pajamas. They got jobs at the places that had laid off their uncles.
They paid their bills or did not pay their bills, made down payments on tract houses, led lives on that social and economic edge referred to, in Washington and among those whose preferred locus is Washington, as “out there.” They were never destined to be, in other words, communicants in what we have come to call, when we want to indicate the traditional ways in which power is exchanged and the status quo maintained in the United States, “the process.”
“The process today gives everyone a chance to participate,” Tom Hayden, by way of explaining “the difference” between 1968 and 1988, said to Bryant Gumbel on NBC at 7:50 A.M. on the day after Jesse Jackson spoke at the 1988 Democratic convention in Atlanta. This was, at a convention that had as its controlling principle the notably nonparticipatory goal of “unity,” demonstrably not true, but people inside the process, constituting as they do a self-created and self-referring class, a new kind of managerial elite, tend to speak of the world not necessarily as it is but as they want people out there to believe it is. They tend to prefer the theoretical to the observable, and to dismiss that which might be learned empirically as “anecdotal.”
They tend to speak a language common in Washington but not specifically shared by the rest of us. They talk about “programs,” and “policy,” and how to “implement” them or it, about “tradeoffs” and constituencies and positioning the candidate and distancing the candidate, about the “story,” and how it will “play.” They speak of a candidate’s “performance,” by which they usually mean his skill at circumventing questions, not as citizens but as professional insiders, attuned to signals pitched beyond the range of normal hearing.
“I hear he did all right this afternoon,” they were saying to one another in the press section of the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans on the evening in August 1988 when Dan Quayle was to be nominated for the vice presidency. “I hear he did all right with Brinkley.”
By the time the balloons fell that night the narrative had changed: “Quayle, zip,” the professionals were saying as they brushed the confetti off their laptops.
These were people who spoke of the process as an end in itself, connected only nominally, and vestigially, to the electorate and its possible concerns.
“She used to be an issues person but now she’s involved in the process,” a prominent conservative said to me in New Orleans by way of suggesting why an acquaintance who believed Jack Kemp to be “speaking directly to what people out there want” had nonetheless backed George Bush.
“Anything that brings the process closer to the people is all to the good,” George Bush had declared in his 1987 autobiography, Looking Forward, accepting as given this relatively recent notion that the people and the process need not automatically be on convergent tracks.
When we talk about the process, then, we are talking, increasingly, not about “the democratic process,” or the general mechanism affording the citizens of a state a voice in its affairs, but the reverse: a mechanism seen as so specialized that access to it is correctly limited to its own professionals, to those who manage policy and those who report on it, to those who run the polls and those who quote them, to those who ask and those who answer the questions on the Sunday shows, to the media consultants, to the columnists, to the issues advisers, to those who give the off-the-record breakfasts and those who attend them; to that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life_________________ Every woman who has ever been presented with a career/sex quid pro quo in the entertainment industry should come forward and simply say, “Me, too.” - jammer The New York Times 10/10/17 |
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| Posted: 12/27/21 1:46 am ::: |
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Weddington is the youngest attorney, at age 26, to have argued before the Supreme Court. She took the abortion case of Jane Roe, the anonymized name of Norma McCorvey, soon after she graduated from law school.
As I indicated above, the Roe case may have died this year itself. The Supreme Court voted on whether to overrule it a couple of weeks ago, in the Dobbs case, but their decision won't be published until June. |
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| Posted: 12/31/21 2:12 pm ::: |
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| Basketball Hall of Famer Sam Jones, the Boston Celtics’ “Mr. Clutch” whose sharp shooting fueled the league’s longest dynasty and earned him 10 NBA titles — second only to teammate Bill Russell — has died, the team said. He was 88. |
https://www.nba.com/news/celtics-legend-sam-jones-dies-at-88
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| Posted: 12/31/21 3:36 pm ::: |
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An absolute legend! So sad and two weeks before her 100th birthday.
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| Posted: 12/31/21 6:07 pm ::: |
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That sucks!!!
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| Posted: 12/31/21 8:46 pm ::: |
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This is what I wrote on my Facebook page about the passing of Betty White.
In a legendary career that spanned more than 80 years, she was Sue Ann Nivens the Happy Homemaker on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
She was every bit as vital a cog as a panelist as Richard, Brett, Charles and Nipsey on the original (and unsurpassed) Match Game.
She was our beloved sweetly naive Rose Nylund from St. Olaf, Minnesota on The Golden Girls.
She was the razor sharp and tart-tongued landlord Elka Ostrovsky on Hot in Cleveland.
In between those signature roles, there were so many appearances on TV, in films, commercials and game shows that her Wikipedia page career highlights are broken down by DECADE!
She is Betty White, a superb actress who made generations of fans laugh through her Emmy-winning comedic work.
Betty White passed away today at the age of 99, just 17 days from what would've been her 100th birthday.
Life suddenly seems just a tad bit less funny now.
Rest in Peace Ms. White. Thanks for all those sweet and outrageously funny characters and memories you gave to me and everyone else. |
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