Today is Superbowl Sunday, but I only caught the last 10 seconds, nothing in play as the Buccaneers were up by a lot.
My day was spent doing office work, bouncing off a new guy, and writing a piece for Medium. Then I was in Python teacher mode, and online, with my bevy of teens. After that ended, I composed a thank you for Session 4 email, then tuned to CBS on my upstairs digital receiver ancient television (not flat).
I've been using the term "buckaneer" somewhat informally, meaning "someone into the Bucky stuff", aware of the pirate motif. I've got my pirate ship USA party also, no candidates, only planks. Only structure and substance. Mostly ghosts. Appropriately.
I haven't made sense of the Biden Administration's position yet, on where the grid is to get its nuclear fuel. We're not giving any cartel a monopoly on enrichment, the last anyone checked.
Is nuclear fuel a problem? The percentages we're talking about are less concerning than the ignorance of the journalism surrounding the whole issue.
The Quaker prof in an elite school, is how I rattle around in Blue House these days. The Oregon Curriculum Network has had a headquarters here for over 25 years by this time. The products are everywhere online.
They were talking about activist profs working with Antifa in recent maneuvers. You've got my blogs here saying I haven't met any leadership, and my circles around Occupy Portland in 2009 were different. I'm not trying to be in the streets or in any rallies or meetings. Portland treats the pandemic seriously.
However I still get to be an activist prof, even if I'm not taking my cues from locals exclusively. I've stopped trying to contribute to the racism conversation, for example, given how rickety that whole concept is. Once the house of cards starts falling, there's no need to stick around to watch them fall. You know how entropy works.
It's hard to be against something that doesn't exist. They say "atheist" is a misnomer for that same reason. However I can be against apartheid, such as I've come to know it.
Speaking of apartheid, my Class of 1980 at Princeton still takes some pride in pioneering the BDS movement against apartheid South Africa at that time. Our focus was the D in BDS: Divestment. The holder of investments: Princeton University. The nature of the assets invested in: companies making money on the basis of that apartheid business model.
The attitude to take towards the nuke supply chain, is stringent vigilance and note sharing. We know the nuke weapons are illegal per the UN, and expect collaborating agencies to take stock in which private sector business are willfully rogue. Their use of nationalist symbols as a thin cover helps to call attention to the job sites (the inventories of banned radio-toxins).
Iran's role in all of this is not that different from anyone else's. Comply with the TPNW and assist in the spread of prohibitive costs to the Dr. Evils out there.
