Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Visits from grandparents are the joy of many families. For us, it was usually the other way around. After we we bounced from Chicago to Chattanooga to Palm Beach, we lived on the other side of the Palm Beach Country Club from my father's mother. With my mother's parents, we usually went to Arkansas to …
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It's back in the news again: So what’s the matter with Broward? Republicans tend to blame one-party Democratic rule, and even some Democrats agree that the lack of serious partisan competition has led to bad incentives and bad habits for county leaders, just as uninterrupted Republican rule at the state level has helped make Tallahassee’s …
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Amidst all the other election results, this, from Florida: Amendment 13, a highly charged proposal to end greyhound racing in Florida, passed. It means the roughly dozen racing tracks in Florida will have to shutter by 2020. Animal protection groups celebrated the victory, calling the win a “historic effort.” “Tonight, in an historic vote, Florida …
Some readers of the blog are doubtless buffaloed at my blasé attitude regarding what Anglicans call WO (women's ordination.) I explain some of my rationale here but some of that comes from being a product of the Palm Beach social system. That system--exclusivistic and highly non-industrial--moulds everyone who lives there in ways that aren't obvious …
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Some British schools are taking analogue clocks out of schools: Schools are removing analogue clocks from examination halls because teenagers are unable to tell the time, a head teachers’ union has said. Teachers are now installing digital devices after pupils sitting their GCSE and A-level exams complained that they were struggling to read the correct …
In the Balearic Islands, along with other parts of Spain, the locals have had enough: More than 500 people have taken to the streets to protest against the impact of overtourism in Ibiza – the first rally of its kind on the Balearic island famed for its hedonistic 24-hour lifestyle. The rally, organised by local …
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Washington Post columnist and fellow Palm Beach Day Academy alum Catherine Rampell hits on the "facts" during her hometown address: Rampell, who focuses on data-driven journalism, said she is worried about Trump’s stance on federal agencies such as the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Economic Analysis. She said his attitude toward …
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The soon to be former President finds out that a slice of exclusive American history has consequences: It was founded more than century ago as a refuge for Jewish American golfers being discriminated against, but now a Maryland country club is facing its own exclusion row over whether to admit Barack Obama. Several members at …
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Wikileaks' revelations that Hillary Clinton and her operatives take a dim view of social conservatives--following her characterization of large portions of the population as "deplorables"--has ignited a great deal of anger. As someone who started out life growing up with the elites, I think some perspective is in order. Let me start by putting up …
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@timothypomalley is lachrymose for his party's call to repeal the Hyde Amendment: I had hoped for this. Until this week. Like many pro-life Democrats, I had been dispirited by the inclusion in the 2016 Democratic Party Platform of the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which has previously disallowed federal funds to pay for abortion except …
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