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• Sunrise rime, it's sublime.
• "For April Fools’ Day in 2016, Wardle made Robin... Two strangers were paired in a small chatroom and then given three options..."
• $200 million — that makes sense.
• "Graphically, the 'Z' is clearly closer to the swastika than to any prominent Soviet symbol, such as the five-pointed star, the hammer and sickle, or the red flag."
• "Richard Keller, a medical historian at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, says that much of the current pandemic rhetoric..."
• "The prospect of women conceiving without men has moved a step closer after Chinese researchers produced a baby mouse from an unfertilised egg for the first time."
• Yesterday, we seemed to have state park all to ourselves.
• "The nurse, they were all telling us, like, ‘Oh, if you had fallen back to sleep,’ which I totally was going to just go back to sleep, because when I was sleeping I felt better. They said if we went back to sleep, we probably would’ve died in our sleep."
• "Former California Gov. Jerry Brown is living off the grid in retirement... 'I’m very happy where I am — it’s a very amazing place. I can’t imagine being in a better place'...."
• "I don't know whether the backlash this piece has inspired is ridiculous or depressing. The truth is..."
• "President Joe Biden will announce a Russian oil import ban on Tuesday, avoiding a fight with Congress and his own party, which was poised to act if he didn’t."
• "There is a longstanding tradition with the U.S. left as well as in Europe that NATO has played a role... in emphasizing militarized solutions when diplomacy could lead to more long-term stability."
• "Hate for Putin’s Russia Consumes Ukraine/Much of the bitterness is directed at President Vladimir V. Putin, but Ukrainians also chastise ordinary Russians, calling them complicit."
• "People should try to learn to live with them. If they‘re literally in your way, I can see taking a web down and moving them to the side, but they're just going to be back next year."
• At the Sunset Café...
• "The relics believed to be of St. Nicholas were brought from present-day Turkey by sailors 1,000 years ago, and his bones have been entombed in Bari ever since...."
• "There is less and less access to accurate information from the West amid the relentless pounding from increasingly hysterical state propaganda, which admittedly, is having its effect...."
• "Then I saw a leg lying on the tarmac in front of me. It had my shoe on. That was it. I might be able to lie here thinking that some day I’ll get a prosthesis and walk..."
• After the snowfall...
• "Even as a parent we don’t know, straight off the bat, if our kids are medically fragile or compromised in some sort of way... That’s the scary part about COVID."
• "Inversion is building earth-orbiting capsules to deliver goods anywhere in the world from outer space."
• "[T]here has been surprisingly little discussion of the fact that [Ketanji Brown Jackson] would join Justice Amy Coney Barrett as the court’s second working mother."
• "The phrase wuxin gongzuo – ‘working with your mind on Ukraine’ – has been trending on Chinese social media network Weibo."
• "Mr. Ortiz was classified as a sex offender, and a New York law barred him from living within 1,000 feet of a school while on parole."
• "Prices at the pump already top four dollars a gallon in some states, and Joe Biden’s approval rating stands at just forty-two per cent... so it’s easy to see..."

Sunrise rime, it's sublime. Posted: 08 Mar 2022 10:18 AM PST

"For April Fools’ Day in 2016, Wardle made Robin... Two strangers were paired in a small chatroom and then given three options..." Posted: 08 Mar 2022 10:46 AM PST "... stay in the small room, merge with others to form a bigger room, or abandon the chat. The moral of the game was that bigger is not always better, and people seemed to get it. 'Much like reddit, it starts small and you can talk to people, then it gets bigger and shittier and noisier,' the top-voted comment read. 'Can confirm,' the next comment read. 'Started with 2 people, was pleasantries. With 16, its a noise chamber.' Wardle told me, 'Very quickly, as eight becomes sixteen becomes thirty-two, you start to see spam, name-calling—all the classic terrible Internet stuff.' Still, he added, most people chose to keep merging: 'There seems to be something compelling about the competition to become the biggest room, even if you know it's going to be painful.'" From "Does Wordle Prove That We Can Have Nice Things on the Internet?/Josh Wardle created the viral game as part of his ongoing quest to design online spaces that don't devolve into spam and swastikas" (The New Yorker).

$200 million — that makes sense. Posted: 08 Mar 2022 10:06 AM PST Aaron Rodgers and the Packers have agreed on a 4-year, $200M deal to make him the highest-paid NFL player ever, per @RapSheet @brgridiron pic.twitter.com/MVuRdjiDGk — Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) March 8, 2022

"Graphically, the 'Z' is clearly closer to the swastika than to any prominent Soviet symbol, such as the five-pointed star, the hammer and sickle, or the red flag." Posted: 08 Mar 2022 07:55 AM PST "Its use seems to require a double inversion: first, the people of Ukraine—a nation that suffered some of the greatest losses at the hands of Nazi Germany and one that is currently led by a Jewish President—are rendered as Nazis; then, the Russians, who claim to be fighting for peace and 'de-Nazification,' adopt a visual symbol that appears to reference the swastika.... It took only a week for the 'Z' to become the symbol of the new Russian totalitarianism. But totalitarian symbols are usually created at the top. The red flag and the swastika—the two main visual symbols of twentieth-century totalitarianism—emerged from years of ideological, aesthetic, and even spiritual movement-shaping. The 'Z' is a different animal, a ready-made symbol picked up by a society that has already reconstituted itself as totalitarian." Writes Masha Gessen in "'Z' Is the Symbol of the New Russian Politics of Aggression/In the days following the latest Russian invasion of Ukraine, the letter came to stand for devotion to the state, murderous rage, and unchecked power" (The New Yorker).

"Richard Keller, a medical historian at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, says that much of the current pandemic rhetoric..." Posted: 08 Mar 2022 07:49 AM PST "... the premature talk of endemicity; the focus on comorbidities; the from-COVID-or-with-COVID debate—treats COVID deaths as dismissible and 'so inevitable as to not merit precaution,' he has written. 'Like gun violence, overdose, extreme heat death, heart disease, and smoking, [COVID] becomes increasingly associated with behavioral choice and individual responsibility, and therefore increasingly invisible.' We don't honor deaths that we ascribe to individual failings, which could explain, Keller argues, why national moments of mourning have been scarce. There have been few pandemic memorials, save some moving but temporary art projects. Resolutions to turn the first Monday of March into a COVID-19 Victims and Survivors Memorial Day have stalled in the House and Senate. Instead, the U.S. is engaged in what Keller calls 'an active process of forgetting.' If safety is now a matter of personal responsibility, then so is remembrance." From "How Did This Many Deaths Become Normal?/The U.S. is nearing 1 million recorded COVID-19 deaths without the social reckoning that such a tragedy should provoke. Why?" by Ed Yong (The Atlantic).

"The prospect of women conceiving without men has moved a step closer after Chinese researchers produced a baby mouse from an unfertilised egg for the first time." Posted: 08 Mar 2022 07:37 AM PST "Parthenogenesis, the Ancient Greek term for a virgin birth, is used by scientists to describe a process where eggs spontaneously divide, without fertilisation by sperm, to form an embryo... 'Could this be moved straight to humans? The answer is no, because you're talking about having hundreds of miscarriages to get one baby.... Other people who've commented on it have said this could be moved to humans within ten years. I disagree with that. But it does make it more realistic that a similar approach could eventually be done in humans.'" The London Times reports.

Yesterday, we seemed to have state park all to ourselves. Posted: 08 Mar 2022 07:14 AM PST

"The nurse, they were all telling us, like, ‘Oh, if you had fallen back to sleep,’ which I totally was going to just go back to sleep, because when I was sleeping I felt better. They said if we went back to sleep, we probably would’ve died in our sleep." Posted: 08 Mar 2022 07:10 AM PST From "UW System conducting facilities review after gas leak sent 17 students to hospital" (Madison.com).

"Former California Gov. Jerry Brown is living off the grid in retirement... 'I’m very happy where I am — it’s a very amazing place. I can’t imagine being in a better place'...." Posted: 08 Mar 2022 07:07 AM PST "He then wondered aloud whether he could have avoided the same mistakes as those who became president. Then he quickly switched to considering why a hummingbird that caught his eye was moving so quickly from tree to tree." That should be a poem. But it's just an AP article — "Climate change is like war, California's Jerry Brown says."

"I don't know whether the backlash this piece has inspired is ridiculous or depressing. The truth is..." Posted: 08 Mar 2022 07:18 AM PST "... that anyone who has spent time on a college campus in the last few years knows what this author is talking about. There is an ever-narrowing range of permissible opinion, and any apparent divergence from it risks serious social repercussions. No one really speaks their mind, except those who are most religious in their adherence to the favored ideology. I taught a university seminar recently where students repeatedly thanked me — in private — for putting tough questions to guest speakers. The students were afraid to challenge the speakers themselves — not because they were afraid of them, but because they were afraid of the other students in the room." From the most-liked comment at "I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead" by University of Virginia senior Emma Camp (NYT). ADDED: Some of that backlash might be envy, as in: Why does this college kid get a NYT op-ed when I could have said the same thing? But the fact is, you have say it! There's real place in the world for people who just plainly state the obvious. If you can do it too, do it too!

"President Joe Biden will announce a Russian oil import ban on Tuesday, avoiding a fight with Congress and his own party, which was poised to act if he didn’t." Posted: 08 Mar 2022 07:27 AM PST "The announcement will complete a shift for the White House which just days ago expressed fear that an import ban would send gas prices skyrocketing. Officials were hopeful to enact a ban in lockstep with European allies. But they are adjusting to what has become an overwhelming bipartisan interest on Capitol Hill, and within corners of the administration, in ridding U.S. markets of Russian oil as Vladimir Putin continues his assault on Ukraine."  Politico reports. According to a new Quinnipiac poll:   ... Americans say 71 - 22 percent that they would support a ban on Russian oil even if it meant higher gasoline prices in the United States.... Democrats (82 - 12 percent), independents (70 - 22 percent), and Republicans (66 - 30 percent) all support banning Russian oil.  MEANWHILE: "Moscow has stoked fears of an energy war by threatening to close a major gas pipeline to Germany after the US pushed its European allies to consider banning Russian oil imports over its invasion of Ukraine" (The Guardian).

"There is a longstanding tradition with the U.S. left as well as in Europe that NATO has played a role... in emphasizing militarized solutions when diplomacy could lead to more long-term stability." Posted: 08 Mar 2022 06:37 AM PST "It feels a little bit absurd for people to be acting like it's a political crime to criticize NATO." Said Ashik Saddique, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America's National Political Committee, quoted in "Socialists' Response to War in Ukraine Has Put Some Democrats on Edge/The Democratic Socialists of America's view that U.S. 'imperialist expansionism' through NATO fueled Russia's invasion has created challenges for politicians aligned with the group" (NYT). After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the D.S.A. took the position that the United States should "withdraw from NATO and to end the imperialist expansionism that set the stage for this conflict." With a majority of Americans backing Ukraine as it struggles to repel a bloody, often live-streamed Russian invasion, the D.S.A.'s desire for a policy discussion about NATO appears to have sown unease in campaign circles: None of the nine New York City candidates the D.S.A. endorsed this year would consent to an interview on the topic, even as more centrist Democrats are now using the subject as a cudgel.

"Hate for Putin’s Russia Consumes Ukraine/Much of the bitterness is directed at President Vladimir V. Putin, but Ukrainians also chastise ordinary Russians, calling them complicit." Posted: 08 Mar 2022 03:58 AM PST The NYT reports.  Some Ukrainians... have vented by writing on the reviews pages for websites of Moscow restaurants. And they have been mocking Russians in scathing terms for complaining about hardships with banking transactions or the collapsing ruble currency because of international sanctions. "Damn, what's wrong with Apple Pay?" Stanislav Bobrytsky, a Ukrainian computer programmer also trapped in the fighting around the capital, Kyiv, wrote sarcastically about how Russians are responding to the war. "I cannot pay for a latte in my favorite coffee shop."... Many Ukrainians chastise Russians for increasingly accepting middle-class comforts afforded by the country's oil wealth in exchange for declining to resist limits on their freedoms. They blame millions of Russians, who Ukrainians say gave up on the post-Soviet dreams of freedom and openness to the West, for enabling the war. "Are your iPhones all right?" another Ukrainian writer, Andriy Bondar, asked Russians on his Facebook page, after a thinly attended antiwar rally in Moscow that was broken up by the riot police.

"People should try to learn to live with them. If they‘re literally in your way, I can see taking a web down and moving them to the side, but they're just going to be back next year." Posted: 08 Mar 2022 05:25 AM PST Said Andy Davis, University of Georgia research scientist, quoted in "Millions of Palm-Sized, Flying Spiders Could Invade the East Coast/A huge invasive spider that invaded Georgia from East Asia could soon take over most of the U.S. East Coast, a new study has revealed" (Scientific American). It says that the "palm-sized Joro spider" is a "3-inch" spider, which is an annoying discrepancy, but must have to do with whether you're including the legs. Still, that's pretty big. But with all that's going on in the world, hordes of big, flying spiders may be a welcome diversion. You can worry and express anxiety, but the thing is right here in front of you — "jet-black body... with bright yellow stripes, and... intense red markings" — and, though a classic fear (spiders!), quite harmless. The opposite of the unseen and deadly covid. It's an antidote of an anxiety, perhaps just what we need to reset our brain. ADDED: From the "big and small" archive here at Althouse: "Large boulder the size of a small boulder." I'm just helping any of you commenters who happen to be here at 5 in the morning and working on a comment sort of like "Large spider the size of a small spider." Do you even know what I'm talking about? As I said at the time — January 2020 — "If you ever want to get me to laugh at your jokes, just remember 'Large boulder the size of a small boulder.'" Ah! January 2020 — just before the descent of the Great Unfunniness. ALSO: I'm pushed back in the comments about whether palms in fact do tend to be 3 inches. I'll just post a photo of a Joro spider on a palm, where you can see the the spider body without including the legs is quite a bit smaller than the palm, but including the legs, the spider is larger:

At the Sunset Café... Posted: 07 Mar 2022 06:17 PM PST   ... you can talk about whatever you want. The photo was taken — by Meade — at 5:56 p.m.

"The relics believed to be of St. Nicholas were brought from present-day Turkey by sailors 1,000 years ago, and his bones have been entombed in Bari ever since...." Posted: 07 Mar 2022 12:41 PM PST "The presence of the relics has long made Bari an unusual linchpin in relations between Italy and Russia and between the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches. In 2007, Mr. Putin himself came to Bari and knelt in front of St. Nicholas's tomb, just as the faithful did during the prayer for peace.... Larisa Dimetruk, 62, from Lutsk in northwestern Ukraine, said she came to beseech St. Nicholas to make the Russians 'stop their president.' 'Only the people can stop him," she said. 'We didn't come here to pray together. We came here for a miracle.'... Others simply felt torn and had no interest in talking politics. 'We've all run out of tears,' said Olga Sebekina, from St. Petersburg, Russia, who said her grandmother was Ukrainian and that she still had family there. 'Which side of my heart should break more?'"  From "Italian City Tied to Russia by a Revered Saint Feels the Sting of War in Ukraine/The port of Bari holds relics venerated by Orthodox Christians throughout the former Soviet bloc. Today it is also home to a spillover of tensions from Russia's invasion" (NYT).

"There is less and less access to accurate information from the West amid the relentless pounding from increasingly hysterical state propaganda, which admittedly, is having its effect...." Posted: 07 Mar 2022 12:23 PM PST "We have a long way to go before we get to 1937, but for the first time the road is clear. You can see far ahead, like on a cold, crisp winter morning, and there, in the distance, you can just about make out the outlines of the guillotines." Said Sergey Radchenko, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Europe, quoted in "With New Limits on Media, Putin Closes a Door on Russia's 'Openness' The Russian leader is undoing the social freedoms introduced at the end of the Soviet Union, risking a return to total control and ideological isolation" by Steven Lee Myers (NYT). The article says that by "1937," Radchenko meant the year of Stalin's Great Terror and links to this pieced from September 13, 1937, "Soviet 'Cleansing' Sweeps Through All Strata of Life/Starting With Generals and High Leaders, Stalin's Purge Is Now Hitting Cooks and Nurses-People Getting Inured to Arrests": Here's the continuation of the article on page 8, replete with the splurge of handmade lingerie:

"Then I saw a leg lying on the tarmac in front of me. It had my shoe on. That was it. I might be able to lie here thinking that some day I’ll get a prosthesis and walk..." Posted: 07 Mar 2022 11:57 AM PST "... and work again, but all I hear is artillery outside, and the thought of my immediate future is terrifying. I am wondering more whether I shall live, than if I will walk again." Said Dima Zadoroznyi, 41, a painter and decorator, quoted in "War in Ukraine: Kharkiv's hospitals reveal the hideous cost of Putin's invasion/The brutality of the invasion is etched on the faces of victims in the city's hospitals. They have lost limbs, eyes and hope, writes Anthony Loyd" (London Times).  If you go to that link, you'll see a horrific photograph of Yelena Bolyachenko, 55, a sales manager, who is quoted: "I crawled around unable to see, my head covered in blood and felt my face full of gaping holes. Eventually I found a towel and mopped away the blood hoping I'd be able to see. But I can't. I've been completely blinded in one eye and can no longer see properly in the other. The doctors cannot tell me if I'll ever get even 50 per cent of my sight back."

After the snowfall... Posted: 07 Mar 2022 09:09 AM PST

"Even as a parent we don’t know, straight off the bat, if our kids are medically fragile or compromised in some sort of way... That’s the scary part about COVID." Posted: 07 Mar 2022 08:22 AM PST "You just don't know how it's gonna affect your children or how it's gonna affect you. We don't know enough about this virus to be like, 'Oh yeah, this person will have a mild [case] and this person will end up with long COVID suffering for years, decades of their life, or losing their life.'... All of the mitigation measures need to be there. And then, if we have the right ventilation, if we have all of the testing and we still have really low community spread that is data informed, then sure. We can talk about unmasking, that'd be great." Said Kaliris Salas-Ramirez, a professor at the CUNY School of Medicine, quoted in "'I Don't Feel Like This Is a Safe Choice Yet'/The end of NYC's school-mask mandate is a relief for many, but some worry the move is premature" (NY Magazine). She says her son will be going back to school, but "with a mask and with his five spare ones in all the different pockets in his backpack."

"Inversion is building earth-orbiting capsules to deliver goods anywhere in the world from outer space." Posted: 07 Mar 2022 08:04 AM PST "To make that a reality, Inversion's capsule will come through the earth's atmosphere at about 25 times as fast as the speed of sound, making the parachute essential for a soft landing and undisturbed cargo.... Inversion aims to develop a four-foot-diameter capsule carrying a payload equivalent to the size of a few carry-on suitcases by 2025. Once in orbit, the capsule could, the company hopes, navigate itself to a private commercial space station or stay in orbit with solar panels until summoned back to earth.... If Inversion is successful, it's possible to imagine hundreds or thousands of containers floating around space for up to five years — like some (really) distant storage lockers." Not a joke. A big article in the NYT: "Dreaming of Suitcases in Space/A California start-up company believes it can one day speed delivery of important items by storing them in orbit."

"[T]here has been surprisingly little discussion of the fact that [Ketanji Brown Jackson] would join Justice Amy Coney Barrett as the court’s second working mother." Posted: 07 Mar 2022 07:47 AM PST Writes by lawprof Melissa Murray in "Another Working Mom for the Supreme Court?" (NYT).  While Democrats have touted [Jackson's] sterling qualifications and the historic nature of her nomination as the first Black woman to the court, few have leaned into her identity as a mother, as the Republicans did with Justice Barrett. Murray knows there are 2 big differences. One is that Barrett has 7 children — and the youngest was only 8 at the time of confirmation, 2 were adopted (from Haiti), and 1 has Down Syndrome. Jackson, by contrast, has 2 children, ages 21 and 17.   The other big difference is, as Murray puts it: "Democrats may be less inclined to flag a nominee's family status as evidence of professional accomplishment or acumen." What I'd say there is that liberals and progressives are more likely to criticize people who call attention to a woman's status as a mother: Why are you talking about the fact that a woman is a parent when you don't talk about men that way?! In fact, I have to wonder about Murray, touting Jackson's momhood. Does she write NYT columns about the dadhood of male nominees? What's the point of stressing that a woman is able to further her career while also having children? Is it that she has super capacity for hard word and long hours? If that's the point, I need to know if the children's father stayed home with the children. I don't assume he did not. Did he take a less demanding career and handle more of the childcare work? Or were there 2 high-powered careers and hired childcare? If so, how elite was that childcare compared to what ordinary Americans can afford? If you want Jackson's supporters to "lean[] into her identity as a mother," those are the kind of questions you're inviting. And you'll also invite the comparison to Barrett, the one with the 7 children. And you'd better be careful not to stumble into sounding as though you're trying to one-up Kagan and Sotomayor, who have no children. But Murray thinks that "leaning into Judge Jackson's status as a working mother could serve several ends, further burnishing her impressive credentials and varied professional experiences, while rebutting charges that diversity is the only reason for her nomination." Why would her being a mother rebut the "charge" that "diversity is the only reason for her nomination." That sounds more like an effort to credit Jackson with an additional diversity factor — motherhood — and to take a backhanded swipe at Kagan and Sotomayor. Is there some idea that the Court needs a liberal woman with children to offset the conservative woman with children? By the way, Ruth Bader Ginsburg had 2 children. Sandra Day O'Connor had 3.

"The phrase wuxin gongzuo – ‘working with your mind on Ukraine’ – has been trending on Chinese social media network Weibo." Posted: 07 Mar 2022 06:52 AM PST "Essentially what it means is 'distraction from work because you're obsessed with the war.'...  There's little doubt that in Zhongnanhai, the leadership compound in Beijing, Chinese Communist party higher-ups are, in a more literal sense, working with their minds on Ukraine.... A few weeks ago, a prominent Chinese nationalist told me that the Ukrainians were 'Russians really.' It doesn't seem that way today... Beijing has in the past argued, in terms like those used by Moscow about Ukraine, that long-standing historical ties and linguistic similarities make the case for unification. Yet regardless of the legal differences between Taiwan and Ukraine's international standing, the scenes from Kiev and Kharkiv show a very different narrative to the world, including to China: people in a democratic, developed state refusing to accept annexation by a powerful, autocratic neighbour.... Any assault on Taipei would receive massive coverage. Russia cares little about global PR. China, despite its increasing assertiveness, is still keen to promote its image as a peaceful power that seeks economic partnership. Footage of terrified civilians hiding in the Taipei metro would hardly burnish that image. The brutality evident in the streets of Ukraine may have given Taiwan a breathing space." From "Could the Ukraine war save Taiwan?" by Rana Mitter, Oxford history professor and author of "China's Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism" (The Spectator).

"Mr. Ortiz was classified as a sex offender, and a New York law barred him from living within 1,000 feet of a school while on parole." Posted: 07 Mar 2022 06:38 AM PST "Prison officials would not let him go until he identified a suitable address. They did almost nothing to help him.... Mr. Ortiz served an extra 25 months because he could not find a place to live. He wanted to return to New York City, where his mother and daughter lived. But most of the city was off limits because almost all residential areas are within 1,000 feet of a school.... [There is] 'a cruel Catch-22' for people classified as sex offenders, Allison Frankel wrote in 2019 in The Yale Law Journal Forum, because corrections officials will 'not release them from prison until they obtained approved housing, but their poverty, disabilities and sex-offender registration status made finding housing impossible.'" From "Their Time Served, Sex Offenders Are Kept in Prison in 'Cruel Catch-22'/New York prisons will not release people convicted of some sex offenses until they find housing far from schools. But that is hard to do, especially from behind bars" by Adam Liptak (NYT).

"Prices at the pump already top four dollars a gallon in some states, and Joe Biden’s approval rating stands at just forty-two per cent... so it’s easy to see..." Posted: 07 Mar 2022 06:28 AM PST "... why the prospect of another rise in prices would alarm some people in the White House. But, with Russia's government reliant on energy exports for about forty per cent of its income, the moral argument for cutting off these mammoth revenue streams is hard to counter. 'The world is paying Russia seven hundred million dollars a day for oil and four hundred million dollars for natural gas,' Oleg Ustenko, an economic adviser to the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, told me, in a telephone interview from Kyiv this weekend. 'You are paying all this money to a murderous leader who is still killing people in my country.'" From "The Economic Challenge and Climate Opportunity in Supporting Ukraine/Putin's dependence on oil-and-gas exports presents a chance to make the U.S. less beholden to fossil fuels and the autocratic governments that control them" by John Cassidy (The New Yorker).

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