Interesting series on Netflix about a young woman with a 3-year-old daughter who separates from an abusive man. The series has good writing and plot twists, and doesn’t skirt the issue of money, with many financial and other travails encounter by the woman in dealing with her situation. Worth a watch.
Author: Henry Barnard
I am a voracious reader and also enjoy writing. I often have a very different point of view than the popular one. I do see value in debate, and thought it might add to the public debate on controversial issues if I were to express my contrarian opinions. I also started keeping my poems recently (I've written little pieces my whole adult life but never kept any); and I've been a photographer now for over 25 years. So I will be adding an occasional poem and hopefully interesting photograph to the blog along the way, just to spice things up.
Scruptious
If you want to treat yourself to the most delectable dessert, try the Mitica Date Walnut Cake. Got mine at Whole Foods. Probably the most delicious food I’ve ever eaten. Major dopamine rush. (So beware this could turn into a major addiction.)
Mitica also has a fig-oriented cake if you prefer figs to dates.
Black Swan Coming?
Nutritious Vegan Meals
Nutritious vegan meals already prepared.
Another Meat Substitute
Seitan.
Greatest?
Nature is the greatest artist.
Red Sox Preculiarity
I’ve noticed something very unique about the RS in the last few years. They have a predilection for players who throw right but bat left. I’m wondering now if their scouts are told to look for this, as it isn’t all that common. It must be based on the assumption by RS management that such players are somehow naturally superior, although I don’t know why this would be so. Yet a statistical analysis might prove it.
Embarrassing
Our Commander in Chief at the White House should be called instead the Embarrassment in Chief. We traded this for a real leader in Trump. Go figure. But Trump wasn’t polite but rude and often nasty so he had to go. Duh.
Afghanistan — What It Tells You
What the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban tells you about the limits of American power is that we can’t change the ethos of other countries — that is well beyond our capability. We can’t take a deeply conservative, male-oriented, and archly Islamic country and make it over into our image of a Western democracy with equal rights for everyone and freedom of religion. And we shouldn’t try to. It’s bound to fail.
They are all now blaming Biden for this defeat, but, to be honest, he was a very late player in this comedy of errors. The initial error was to expand our enemies list from al-Qaeda to the Taliban. The Taliban never attacked the US; al-Qaeda did.
Another Vietnam?
Afghanistan is turning into another Vietnam.
I suppose there is a plus side to all of this. Americans now know where Afghanistan is located.
