Later On

Oak Bay’s Wednesday-night market runs through the summer, and The Wife went to it last night, the final market of the year.

Guy Lawson’s terrific article was published yesterday in Rolling Stone.

Alberta’s separatist movement — whose goal is for the province to leave Canada and become a nation in itself (never mind the treaties with First Nations) — has learned nothing from Brexit, whose high costs continue to drag down the UK.

An interesting video ranked religions by the number of people they’ve killed in mass-slaughter events (e.g., war).

A food new to me: green olives, pitted and grilled.

Read this thread by Judd Legum. 1.

Six-part series of short (~6-minute) videos from San Jose City College, a public community college in San Jose, California, on April 20, 2017.

From 5 months ago.

Mark Carney exemplifies strong national leadership.

0:00 – normal rock/pop beat with normal 16th-note fills 0:21 – a little aggressive for a children’s song, but okay 0:22 – normal beat resumes 0:30 – an insane metal drum fill leading up to a hi-hat metal beat, used in a lot of nu-metal songs 0:42 – ride c…

Very interesting technology.

Carney is following the negotiation process as described in Getting to Yes, and in particular the idea that, to improve negotiating leverage, one should focus on improving one’s BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement).

Very interesting discussion on The Young Turks.

John Kiriakou is a wonderful raconteur and has strong (and reality-based) feelings about the CIA, Mossad, the Russians, and many other topics.

How they do it, which is about as amazing as the movie scene.

The Eldest sent me photos of these beans, and of course I was immediately intrigued.

Judd Legum’s Popular Information has an article that would make me avoid State Farm.