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• Do we have fair elections? Can we? Do we have equal representation? Can we?

  By ljd42 on June 1, 2019

  

  Continuing with my 50th reunion, check out this map of Pennsylvania’s second Congressional district, which is actually not the most gerrymandered in the country, although it’s in the running. It illustrates what I had expected when I decided to go… Read More ›

• Still more about the reunion. (Will it ever end? Yes, it really will… but not yet.)

  By ljd42 on May 31, 2019

  

  “True-blue American Yalie George Bush versus pinko-Crimson Harvard Mike Dukakis.” That‘s what some Republicans were saying back in 1988 when George H.W. Bush was running against Michael Dukakis. The color prejudices are understandable, and maybe even the college prejudices, but… Read More ›

• “We were going to change the world. What went wrong?”

  By ljd42 on May 30, 2019

  

  Not everything went wrong. In many ways we did change the world. Continuing to describe my 50th reunion of the Harvard Class, let’s move on to a Tuesday symposium titled “We were going to change the world. What went right?… Read More ›

• “Vote early and often,” he said; “support whoever the Democratic nominee is.”

  By ljd42 on May 29, 2019

  

  No, it wasn’t a political rally. It was a reunion: the 50th reunion of the Harvard Class of 1969. One speaker, Bob Hughes, exemplified a running theme of the entire reunion by pointing out what we can do:  “Vote early… Read More ›

• Vietnam War legacy, Al Gore, and more: The first 24 hours of the reunion

  By ljd42 on May 28, 2019

  

  Exhausting and overwhelming! That’s what the first day of my 50th Reunion was like. Not so much for the usual reason that exhausts and overwhelms us introverts — too many people — but because of the intensity of the experiences… Read More ›

• We all love long words.

  By ljd42 on May 26, 2019

  

  We all love impressively long words, don’t we? We especially love words from languages like German and Turkish, which are known for harboring such beasts —like Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän and muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine. But those are not particularly natural words in German and Turkish respectively,… Read More ›

• Tolkien, the movie

  By ljd42 on May 24, 2019

  

  The new biopic, Tolkien, was clearly written for me. But you’ll enjoy it too. What, you may wonder, do I mean by claiming that it was written for me? Of course that is not literally true: the film-makers don’t know… Read More ›

• How many ml in a liter?

  By ljd42 on May 23, 2019

  

  So I’m in a certain store in Jamaica Plain today — name kept anonymous to protect the oh-so-innocent — and I ask the clerk if they sell Hennessy Privilege (a cognac, for those of you who don’t know). She says… Read More ›

• High School SCOTUS

  By ljd42 on May 21, 2019

  

  Can high-school students conduct an excellent interview and write an excellent article about it? Anna Salvatore and Joe Hanlon certainly can! No, I have never taught these two. I have never even met them. But I highly recommend Anna’s blog, High… Read More ›

• A Raspberry Pi class

  By ljd42 on May 19, 2019

  

  This time the student teaches the teacher! I had a great time yesterday at MakeIt Labs in Nashua, participating in a four-hour class taught by a former student of mine, Johnathan Vail, who was in two or three courses of… Read More ›

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