Rumble: the Indians who rocked the world

 

A remarkable legacy.

The Supreme Court Is Picking a Fight It Is Destined to Lose

 Article from 27 October 2020: How to fix the Supreme Court, by Emily Bazelon. 

Emily Bazelon is an American journalist. She is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, a senior research fellow at Yale Law School, and co-host of the Slate podcast Political Gabfest. She is a former senior editor of Slate. Her work as a writer focuses on law, women, and family issues.

 

Food for thought.

David N. Dinkins, New York’s First Black Mayor, Dies at 93

 Giuliani gets credit, and takes credit, for much that Mayor Dinkins started. This past month has shown what a buffoon Giuliani truly is, he of his three ex-wives and dubious conspiracy theories (and bleeding hair dye).

Trivia

The lint that collects in the bottom of your pockets has a name — gnurr.

There are more public libraries than McDonald's in the US.

A "butt load" is an actual unit of measurement, equivalent to 126 gallons.

Now I know.

What a loser!

 

Swing and a miss.

Who?

 

Help fight fraud (gimme money)

 

A gorgeous Catskills sunset

 

Cleaning up the swamp

 

Same old song

 

He said that?

 

Just won’t give up, but he’s a loser

 

America is great again

 

Reactions to Biden election victory

 Germany:

Brazil:

New York:

She was the first female star of jazz drumming.

Viola Smith, girl drummer, dies at 107.

When people called her the “female Gene Krupa,” she corrected them: Krupa, she said, was the male Viola Smith.

She played with Frances Carroll an the Coquettes in the 1940s. She shone in this video , which is (of course) on YouTube.

The Clocktower Lady

Elsa Raven, ‘Back to the Future’ Character Actress, Dies at 91. She built a steady career of Everywoman roles. Perhaps none of them made a bigger impression than her performance as “Clocktower Lady.”

Ms. Raven was not in the two “Back to the Future” sequels, but she did participate in reunions of the cast and crew from the original film, including one last year at the Hollywood Museum, at which she spoke about the lasting impact of the movie.

“We didn’t know how significant it was going to be,” she told United Press International then. “We knew it was a good, solid movie. Of course we were delighted when it was such a big success. It’s an evergreen. It’s not today. It’s any day.”

Changes, part 1

 From 1990, my Pioneer SX-2800 stereo tuner, which paired with Bose speakers:

Those speakers were great (arguments were had by partisans of different brands; I always favored Bose)

From 2020, a small Bluetooth speaker, which has excellent sound; I stream music from my iPhone to it:

I think the tuner cost a couple of hundred bucks back then; the speaker cost thirty five bucks.

Chess

 After watching The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix (which was terrific), I borrowed two films from the Phoenicia Library:

Bridges of Dutchess County

 Along back roads in Dutchess County (FDR’s home county):

On Salisbury Turnpike, a stone bridge:

Further along on Salisbury Pike:

  And on Willow Brook Road:

Getting cold early

 Thanks, Yogi.