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Christopher J. Scalia
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Happy #BurnsDay!

"If happiness hae not her seat
An’ centre in the breast,
We may be wise, or rich, or great,
But never can be blest;
Nae treasures, nor pleasures
Could make us happy lang;
The heart aye’s the part aye
That makes us right or wrang."
One of the great close calls of literary history: struggling to maintain his family's farm, Burns had plans to emigrate to Jamaica and work on a plantation. But the enormous success of his first collection of poetry in 1786 convinced him to stay in Scotland. #BurnsDay
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Northam’s interview with the @washingtonpost is really something. Here, he seems to forget that his new story is that it *isn’t* him in that med school pic.
Here he is explaining that the fault isn’t with something he did (or didn’t!) do 30 years ago, but with the commonwealth he governs today.
And here he is explaining that his mistakes 35 years ago mean that his employees, and students throughout the commonwealth, need sensitivity training today. (Because as you know, there’s very little attention paid to diversity in higher education especially.)
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Christopher J. Scalia
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This profile of Kamala Harris is interesting but odd. It discusses her diverse background (father was Jamaican immigrant; mother was Indian immigrant) and her sense of American identity w/o mentioning that she lived in Canada from the ages of 12-18. (1)
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At one point, the story suggests that these Canadian years never happened. Take a look at this passage: it implies that Harris went to college straight from Oakland. In fact, she graduated from HS in Montreal and then moved back to the States to attend Howard. (2)
I don’t subscribe to the belief that living in Canada for formative years makes Harris insufficiently American to be president. But I think it's a mistake for stories like this to omit those years, as if they didn't shape her identity. In fact, (3)
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Christopher J. Scalia
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And Frost’s speaker points out that the wall serves no purpose in *that specific context*—the farmers don’t have wandering livestock and they wouldn’t get their crops confused. Implicit in those points is that good fences *do* make good neighbors in other circumstances.
Also worth pointing out here: Frost’s speaker was kind of a dick who called his neighbor an unenlightened neanderthal.
Full disclosure: my dad once caused a minor stir by quoting Frost’s poem in an opinion.
Anti-Scalia: nytimes.com/1995/04/22/opi…
Pro-Scalia: nytimes.com/1995/04/27/opi…
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