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• Full moon at dawn.
• The riot at your doorstep is an insurrection.
• Questions.
• Equity.
• Crackers.
• "Do you support the government’s intervening to override the parent’s consent to give a child puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and/or amputation surgery of breasts and genitalia?"
• "The asymmetry of the table not centered under the window is troubling, no?"
• "President Biden has decided that the diplomatic cost of directly penalizing Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is too high..."
• "Video Killed the Radio Star."

Full moon at dawn. Posted: 27 Feb 2021 07:55 AM PST   This morning at 6:42. The sun looked like this:   Talk about anything you want in the comments.

The riot at your doorstep is an insurrection. Posted: 27 Feb 2021 06:48 AM PST Any "riot" is bad. But while traveling across US, I hear some say Congress overreacted like little kings & their experience was far milder than what many went thru in the past yr without the same fervor for hearings, to prosecute, find organizers, etc. What do you think? — Sharyl Attkisson🕵️‍♂️ (@SharylAttkisson) February 27, 2021

Questions. Posted: 27 Feb 2021 06:39 AM PST Same vibe, different question: pic.twitter.com/9COUzYoTlU — 💖 (@cheesus_baby) February 27, 2021

Equity. Posted: 27 Feb 2021 06:34 AM PST Equity = punishing kids for doing well in school. If they're white or Asian. https://t.co/EAPbs83IRB — Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) February 27, 2021

Crackers. Posted: 27 Feb 2021 06:11 AM PST

"Do you support the government’s intervening to override the parent’s consent to give a child puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and/or amputation surgery of breasts and genitalia?" Posted: 27 Feb 2021 06:06 AM PST That was Rand Paul's question to Rachel Levine, Biden's nominee for assistant health secretary. He's quoted at "The Absurd Criticism of Rand Paul's Rachel Levine Questioning" (National Review).  It's a precise question. If it can't be answered, why can't it be answered? If it's an outrageous question, that must be because the answer is plainly "no," so why couldn't Levine forthrightly say "no"? There are some questions where the right answer is to refuse to answer — for example questions that nose into an individual's private life — but was Rand Paul's question a question like that? Is anyone making a clear statement of why these were questions that should not have been dignified with answers?

"The asymmetry of the table not centered under the window is troubling, no?" Posted: 27 Feb 2021 05:25 AM PST Said R C Belaire, looking at this photograph in yesterday's Lunchtime Café:    Meade had, in fact, been troubled by the asymmetry, and, even before seeing Belaire's comment, had embarked on the project of repositioning the table. Here's Meade's photograph, to dispel all your troubles that are about window-table asymmetry at Meadhouse:

"President Biden has decided that the diplomatic cost of directly penalizing Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is too high..." Posted: 27 Feb 2021 06:59 AM PST "... according to senior administration officials, despite a detailed American intelligence finding that he directly approved the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the dissident and Washington Post columnist who was drugged and dismembered in October 2018. The decision by Mr. Biden, who during the 2020 campaign called Saudi Arabia a 'pariah' state with 'no redeeming social value,' came after weeks of debate in which his newly formed national security team advised him that there was no way to formally bar the heir to the Saudi crown from entering the United States, or to weigh criminal charges against him, without breaching the relationship with one of America's key Arab allies. Officials said a consensus developed inside the White House that the cost of that breach, in Saudi cooperation on counterterrorism and in confronting Iran, was simply too high.... Mr. Biden and his aides have repeatedly said that they intend to take a far tougher line with the Saudis than did President Donald J. Trump, who vetoed legislation passed by both houses of Congress to block weapons sales to Saudi Arabia.... Mr. Trump refused to make [the intelligence findings] public, knowing it would fuel the action for sanctions or criminal action against Prince Mohammed." From "Biden Won't Penalize Saudi Crown Prince Over Khashoggi's Killing, Fearing Relations Breach/The decision will disappoint the human rights community and members of his own party who complained during the Trump administration that the U.S. was failing to hold Mohammed bin Salman accountable" (NYT). AND: From "President Biden Lets a Saudi Murderer Walk/The crown prince killed my friend Jamal Khashoggi, and we do next to nothing" by Nicholas Kristof (NYT): Perhaps I'm biased because I knew Jamal. Some may think: It's too bad about the murder, but other leaders have killed people, too. True, but M.B.S. poisons everything he touches. He kidnapped Lebanon's prime minister. He oversaw a feud with Qatar. He caused the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen. He imprisoned women's rights activists. He has tarnished his country's reputation far more effectively than Iran ever could.  So, Mr. Biden, it's not a human rights "gesture" to sanction M.B.S. Jamal was a practical man who didn't believe in mushy gestures — but he did dream of a more democratic Arab world that would benefit Arabs and Americans alike. And by letting a murderer walk, you betray that vision.

"Video Killed the Radio Star." Posted: 27 Feb 2021 03:53 AM PST It's TikTok, so I need to put it after the jump. Here's the famous Buggles version of the song. What I want you to see is pocketsuke: @pocketsuke Reply to @upponervik2007 ##videokilledtheradiostar ##thebuggles ##kazookeylele ##songrequest ##ukulele ##kazoo ##toypiano ##ukulelecover ##kazoocover ##comedy ♬ Kazookeylele Video K The Radio Star - pocketsuke For more from pocketsuke, go here.

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