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1. First off, I want to alert readers to this conference. The topic is "knowledge preservation and dissemination" mostly from a Christian theological perspective. I mentioned to the organizers that library science's principles of preservation and access would be relevant here, and now I find that I'm a presenter at the conference. It's going to be in San Francisco, at the Internet Archive hq, on Jan. 31-Feb. 1, that's less than four weeks away.
2. All right, this one's weird. If you can't access the link, or didn't see it recounted in an unidentified "social media" from which this story appears to be taken, two shoplifters took - apparently at a single gulp - "About $1,200 worth of ribeye, other prime beef cuts and more goods" from a supermarket. It interests me because the market was the one around the block where we do most of our shopping. The story doesn't say how the shoplifters managed it. It does say they were arrested and the goods recovered, and there's a photo of the goods spread over the hood of a police car. I hope the store isn't putting the meat back out on the shelves; who knows how long it's been sitting out there unrefrigerated?
3. Justin Trudeau is resigning. Like Jonah, he's casting himself off the sinking ship in hopes that it will be saved without him. (I realize that Jonah didn't do it voluntarily.) It won't work, i.e. his party will not win the forthcoming election. Canadian prime ministers have done this in similar circumstances before. It didn't work for Trudeau's father in 1984, and it certainly didn't work for the opposition party in 1993, which in the ensuing election won only two seats. All it resulted in was a couple of prime ministers with derisorily short terms (2 1/2 months, 4 months and a week). We're in for another one.
4. Political lesson from the US. When Democrats lose, they accept the result peacefully. When Republicans lose, they riot. Heck, even when Republicans win they sometimes riot. ("Brooks Brothers" riot, Florida, November 2000.)
2. All right, this one's weird. If you can't access the link, or didn't see it recounted in an unidentified "social media" from which this story appears to be taken, two shoplifters took - apparently at a single gulp - "About $1,200 worth of ribeye, other prime beef cuts and more goods" from a supermarket. It interests me because the market was the one around the block where we do most of our shopping. The story doesn't say how the shoplifters managed it. It does say they were arrested and the goods recovered, and there's a photo of the goods spread over the hood of a police car. I hope the store isn't putting the meat back out on the shelves; who knows how long it's been sitting out there unrefrigerated?
3. Justin Trudeau is resigning. Like Jonah, he's casting himself off the sinking ship in hopes that it will be saved without him. (I realize that Jonah didn't do it voluntarily.) It won't work, i.e. his party will not win the forthcoming election. Canadian prime ministers have done this in similar circumstances before. It didn't work for Trudeau's father in 1984, and it certainly didn't work for the opposition party in 1993, which in the ensuing election won only two seats. All it resulted in was a couple of prime ministers with derisorily short terms (2 1/2 months, 4 months and a week). We're in for another one.
4. Political lesson from the US. When Democrats lose, they accept the result peacefully. When Republicans lose, they riot. Heck, even when Republicans win they sometimes riot. ("Brooks Brothers" riot, Florida, November 2000.)
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Jonah 1:12. [Jonah] answered, “Heave me overboard, and the sea will calm down for you; for I know that this terrible storm came upon you on my account.”