The WP Post on my feed is 'The Scourge of Automatic Hand Dryers'

Amazing.

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Thanks! Reading currently ‘There are Rivers in the Sky’ by same.

Seconded!

One can certainly read that chapter stand-alone.and the one after that which is how LBJ uses that situation to help climb the power.

For those who haven’t read him, Caro is pretty explicit that he is more interested in power than biography per se- even with his many words written on Moses and LBJ.

Caro is in the discussion for best non nonfiction writer in English living- despite the Coke Stevenson criticism.

If nothing else, his chapter ‘ the sad irons’ from the first volume of the LBJ series is so engaging.(on rural Texas women in the Hill Country before electricity arrived.

See also the chapter’ The Sad Irons’ in Robert Caro’s ‘Path to Power’’- chapter based on his interviews w/rural Texas farm prior to electrification not even a century ago. (book is on President LBJ that chapter is ninety percent about them,the rest how easy to lose the ability to sell milk then

Thanks for the tip!

Did the current administration’s attacks on NOAA already kneecap predictions? Or just a worry for more of same in future? Would it be irresponsible not to speculate?

Also- not really a celebrity encounter. I was mistaken for one, Paul Giammati, in concert bar venue. Said person was very disappointed and increasingly over the course of the evening that I denied being Paul Giammati, “you ARE Paul Giammati it’s a disgrace you (would deny being him)

Once sold a small popcorn and soda to Christopher Lloyd in movie theater for the late showing on July 4th. He was appearing in a local (live) theatre at the time. To share.