News Blackout, Day 4, 16 left.

I’m trying to avoid the annoying, and I realize that for the moment the best thing I can do is concentrate on my home and kids, and get ready for the onslaught. Living in MA, my vote doesn’t make a whole lot of difference, so I need to figure out what I can do that will keep the next 4 years from being normalized.

In the meantime, it’s more music. I’ve been reexamining the Prelude and Fugue in F minor from Book II of JS Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. I’d recommend a performance, but I can’t find one online that I really like.

Here’s Bernie Sanders conducting the choral works (not really).

And it’s only 39 days until pitchers and catchers report.

January 4, 2017 0

With Your Help, I’m Going to Haiti

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. It got a lot of attention in 2010 when a devastating earthquake hit the country. Since then, it has kind of fallen off of the map. In a way, that’s understandable–there is no shortage of need everywhere, we’ve had a crazy political environment, and the whims of news cycles are ephemeral.

So if you click on this picture, you can throw a little lucre in the hat, and I’ll make it there. We are already 25% on our way to the goal.

January 3, 2017 0

We Hope for a Better Year in spite of all signs that it’s going to suck royally.

New Year’s Rants

Oh boy. I’m putting myself on a news blackout. The New York Times is my home page, but tonight I think I’m going to have to change it to a comedy. Laughter is good. Best medicine, right? I mean, I could talk about the hell into which we are descending, but if I do that I might as well read the news.

See these results regarding laughter. It’s a good year to learn to use Google Scholar and read a scientific article from peer-reviewed journal, if you don’t already know how to do so.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2013&q=laughter+in+groups&hl=en&as_sdt=0,22

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