Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of thirty-four. Sunrise is 7:06 AM and sunset 4:21 PM, for 9h 15m 47s of daytime. The moon is full with 100% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1803, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to an official from…
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Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 11.29.20
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of forty-five. Sunrise is 7:05 AM and sunset 4:22 PM, for 9h 17m 11s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 99.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1972, Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 11.27.20
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of forty-two. Sunrise is 7:02 AM and sunset 4:23 PM, for 9h 20m 09s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 93.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1924, Macy’s holds its first Thanksgiving Day Parade. Recommended for reading…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 11.22.20
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Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 11.20.20
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Authoritarianism, Law, Liberty, Never Trump, Portland, Trump
Trump’s Illicit Attempts Remain Illicit
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
A man may unsuccessfully attempt a robbery or murder, yet one would rightly see him as a wrongdoer. The failure to achieve an evil end does not absolve those so attempting from moral culpability. See Attempts. So it is with Trump, now: his attempts to subvert the election through lies and (baseless) lawsuits are no…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 11.16.20
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of forty-three. Sunrise is 6:49 AM and sunset 4:29 PM, for 9h 40m 11s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 2.5% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets via audiovisual conferencing at 4:30 PM, and the…
America, Authoritarianism, Conspiracy Theories, Elections, Law, Trump, Unfit
Attempts
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
When a burglar walks through a neighborhood, and tries doorknob after doorknob to see which one might be unlocked, no reasonable person would say that his attempts to enter are innocent acts. On the contrary, he’d rightly been seen as dangerous. In the same way, when Trump challenges election results through lies, his attempts to…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 11.11.20
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Veteran’s Day in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of forty-four. Sunrise is 6:43 AM and sunset 4:34 PM, for 9h 51m 01s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 19.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1964, the Rolling Stones first performed in Wisconsin, to…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 11.7.20
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Elections, Presidential race 2020, Republicans, Trump, Voting Rights
GOP Election Lawyer Ben Ginsberg: My party is destroying itself on the altar of Trump
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Veteran election lawyer Ben Ginsberg writes My party is destroying itself on the altar of Trump: President Trump has failed the test of leadership. His bid for reelection is foundering. And his only solution has been to launch an all-out, multimillion-dollar effort to disenfranchise voters — first by seeking to block state laws to ease…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 10.31.20
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Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 10.30.20
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of forty-two. Sunrise is 7:28 AM and sunset 5:48 PM, for 10h 20m 21s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 98.8% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets via audiovisual conferencing at 9 AM. On this day in 1938,…
Babbittry, Boosterism, City, Culture
Boosterism’s Cousin, Toxic Positivity
by JOHN ADAMS • • 6 Comments
In political life, boosterism is the overzealous promotion of officials or programs while ignoring actual conditions (particularly conditions of the disadvantaged). It’s wrong and repulsive. (An acknowledgement worth making: I have never criticized boosterism because of a personal concern. My life is comfortable; objections to political boosterism are deep-seated in me as a matter of learning.) Civilizations…