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It's a studiously apolitical book but Marc Levinson's THE BOX (2016), a detailed history of containerized shipping, is a really great way to understand how the global supply chain works - and how terrifyingly precarious it is.
Those store shelves could be empty a *lot* more quickly than many people think.
press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691170817/the-box?srsltid=AfmBOoqXsS0CLVSoje_8d4RVV7xiLFh... ...
"There's more to life than being able to buy cheap garbage," sagely intones your friend from high school who became homicidally angry and had a complete mental breakdown from which he has never recovered because he couldn't go to big box stores and chain restaurants for 3 weeks in 2020. ...
Peggy says:
OMFG those places piss me off. I'm also all upset in general because (another) one of my students is pregnant right now and her mom's all "I'm not taking you to the doctor, you just want attention" and she's all "I want to do what's right for my [putative, as-yet-unconfirmed-by-a-doctor-but-almost-certainly-there-in-fetus-form] baaaaaaaaaaby, so I don't believe in ADOPTION because that would be ABANDONING IT" and I'm all WHAT. THE. FUCK.
Anyway. Sorry, venting. The point is: I wish people would start distributing HELPFUL INFORMATION about these things. Kids In Question were apparently using TWO methods of birth control. Uh, need I add–using them WRONG? Because… shockingly… no one has taught them how to do it properly.
[bangs head against table repeatedly]
BK says:
Another pearl of wisdom from Huck-a-back (in addition to his already outstanding HIV quarantine program):
"I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution," Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. "But I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that's what we need to do — to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view."
Ed says:
I liked that quote from Huckabee better in the original Arabic.