Good morning.
Whitewater’s Tuesday will be mostly sunny with a high of fifty-three. Sunrise is 7:05 AM and sunset is 4:22 PM, for 9h 17m 13s of daytime. The moon is new, with none of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1961, Enos the Chimpanzee becomes the second chimp launched into space, and the first to orbit the planet. On this day in 1848, the first opera house opens in Milwaukee.
Worth reading in full —
A style guide from the Associated Press cautions about Writing about the ‘alt-right’: “The “alt-right” or “alternative right” is a name currently embraced by some white supremacists and white nationalists to refer to themselves and their ideology, which emphasizes preserving and protecting the white race in the United States….“Alt-right” (quotation marks, hyphen and lower case) may be used in quotes or modified as in the “self-described” or “so-called alt-right” in stories discussing what the movement says about itself. Avoid using the term generically and without definition, however, because it is not well known and the term may exist primarily as a public-relations device to make its supporters’ actual beliefs less clear and more acceptable to a broader audience. In the past we have called such beliefs racist, neo-Nazi or white supremacist.”
Along these same lines, Erin Schrode writes (of herself) that This Filthy Jewess Is Done With ‘Alt-Right’ Bullsh*t: “I am done with the term “Alt-Right” for those who are effectively modern-day Nazis and Ku Klux Klan, for those who attack me personally with unspeakable, unabating venom, for those who brutally and inexcusably denigrate Jews, women, people of color, LGBT, immigrants, Muslims, the list goes on.”
Yale’s Timothy Snyder offers A Yale history professor’s powerful, 20-point guide to defending democracy…: “Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so. Here are twenty lessons from the twentieth century, adapted to the circumstances of today: 1. Do not obey in advance. Much of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then start to do it without being asked. You’ve already done this, haven’t you? Stop. Anticipatory obedience teaches authorities what is possible and accelerates unfreedom….”
Melissa Lantsman writes that Millennials [are] looking to be insulated from scary ideas: ““Trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” and denying invitations to those whose views are different is undeniably ridiculous. And it simply doesn’t exist outside the walls of any university. For everyone else: I’m talking about the utter disregard for free speech and the comfortable rise in censorship on our university campuses. This isn’t new. Safe spaces or trigger warnings are attempts to make everything on university campuses inclusive. But unfortunately they do that by excluding unwanted people, real facts, or challenging ideas. This is turning learning institutions intended at preparing young adults for the real world into very expensive private kindergartens. Take for example the headlines after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory at campuses across the United States. Cancelled classes, postponed exams and grieving circles — all because students absolutely could not go on knowing they will have to live in a world where the president was not the president they wanted. I wouldn’t vote for him if I could [Ms. Lantsman is Canadian], but I still went to work the next day.”
North Korea’s totalitarian government severely limits the Internet. Here’s how severely: