Mars, Paris, Dixie
Yesterday: China, Puerto Rico, and the land of Borealis. Today:
HOW WE’LL LIVE ON MARS
The author says little more than 20 years. But even if it winds up being 50 — or 100! — that’s basically tomorrow. Can’t wait to read the book.
IS IT TIME FOR THE JEWS TO LEAVE FRANCE?
My great friend Marie Brenner wrote this just-published — riveting — piece for Vanity Fair. Is it beginning all over? Again? I like to think the good people of France will not allow it — just as the good people of South Carolina have decided to lower the flag.
THAT FLAG
When you read in Vanity Fair about Amedy Coulibaly, who killed four at a Jewish supermarket in Paris . . . and then here, in an impassioned post by Douglas A. Blackmon, about Dylann Roof, who killed nine in a church in Charleston . . . you realize how much they have in common. A black Muslim murderer from Mali; a white Lutheran murderer from South Carolina. Both certain they were doing something good.
In a world where such things are possible, we cannot have a backup world soon enough. Just in case the good people of Earth are somehow unable to prevent catastrophe.
If only Mars were a little warmer. (But forget Venus!) And, under the cirucmstances, should we change its name from Mars to Pax?
*CORRECTION*
Mike Martin: “I believe yesterday’s Hunan fireworks video is fake: notice that YouTube describes it as ‘FWSim’ which is software for simulating fireworks displays on your computer.” Oops.
But have a great weekend anyway.
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It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.
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