we ll be close. this surge is moving west and it s in the north now. i don t see any two which is around it. a cruise ship had an outbreak it of 48 cases on board. 95% of the people on board of were fully vaccinated, so what s the lesson here, do you think? the lesson is that 5% were not, and those people may have been the ones that brought it in. those people may have been the ones that caught it and perhaps an a-minus is not good enough anymore unreally have to be fully vaccinated. we need to be a lot more strict with vaccination requirements in all forms transportation where people are in the same place for a prolonged period of time including airplanes, definitely includes cruise thimpts you have
a-minus. he gets blamed for what does or doesn t happen. we re in the middle of a pandemic. we re all exhausted. what grade do you give president biden? probably a c-plus. he has not shown the physical restraint i would like to see. at the same time he has done well at at least trying to work in a bipartisan manner. one of the things biden has done really, really well is lead with integrity and with maturity and discipline. i would probably go with a c-minus, because he s definitely an improvement over the last maadministration. there s no doubt on that. but i have yet to see any meaningful addressing of our immigration issues. i have yet to see any meaningful
an a-minus but he got an f . he could hardly move because he was so shocked. he finally got up and walked to the front of the class as the other students had left and he said, can i speak to you a minute, teacher? she said, sure. he said i don t understand how you graded my paper, i always got a s, i have been your best student and i worked all weekend on my essay, i put in the right prose and used the right references. she said, no, it was well written. he said, why did you fail me? she looked at him and smiled and said, the problem you got is not that the paper wasn t well written, not that you didn t have the right prose and poetry, the problem is that three years ago i had your brother and your brother wrote an essay like this. this time the young mankind of smiled and said to her,
infrastructure bill worthy of the name through. as of now, i would say the chances are 50/50. you have to give him on the early basis a b-plus, probably an a-minus. duly noted, that grade from you, sir. let me remind our viewers, as i thank you, you are the creator of the steady newsletter on substack, the co-author what unites us: reflections on patriotism and one of my late father s favorite books. always a pleasure, dan rather. thank you, alex. it s always an honor to be with you. thank you. we thought we d never see this again. the return of the sun, sand, surf with no vaccines needed, if you got your vaccine. we ll show you another sign things are getting back to normal. that s next. i am fully vaccinated, so i feel like i m out here protecting myself. i m super excited to be around people. everybody is there s an energy now. everybody s so excited to be out. i m ordering some burritos! oh, nice. burritos?! get a freshly made footlong from subway® instead.
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You’ll be happier if you grade reality on a curve.
So there I was, staring at my mug of tea.
It was 1993. I was sitting over a plate of eggs in the New Piccadilly Café in Soho, London. Things were not going well. As a man, as a person, as a unit of society, I was barely functioning. More acutely, I was having panic attacks, in an era when people didn’t yet say “panic attack.” They just said
Oh, dear. As far as I was concerned, I was going insane.
I took a despairing slurp from my mug, then put it back down. As I did so, the side of my hand touched the Formica tabletop, and I felt the radiant heat from where the mug had been resting a second before. Or, more accurately, I registered it. Through my private cerebral drizzle the continuous, joy-canceling brain-rain that was my mental reality at the time I noted it: energy, life, jiggling molecules, the world. A message from the fire of generosity at the heart of the universe. And the message was this: