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Why ‘Measles Parties’ Are A Bad Idea For Parents cbsloc.al/2OYXXLQ#.XK7qQ… I'm baffled by this. For years, the trend among American parents has been toward hyper-vigilance about their kids' safety, to the point of utter neuroticism.
Jungle gyms dismantled. nytimes.com/2011/07/19/sci…. Parents arrested for letting their kids play outside. A whole genre of anguished articles about overscheduled kids, helicopter parents, neurotic snowflake progeny.
Suddenly, a new fad: Parents who deliberately expose their kids to a virulent, deadly, infectious disease. Do they plan then to throw them off a 50-story building? To toughen up their little bones?

I just don't understand this.
I don't mean that sarcastically, either. Parents are, usually, wildly averse to endangering their kids. Why on earth do we have an outbreak of parents who are *trying* to make their kids sick? This goes beyond fear of vaccination.
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Claire Berlinski
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I'd like to see a new tool--some kind of meter--that judges the levels of partisan outrage in America at any given moment and tells me whether Twitter will be to be too self-righteous that day for a swim.
Obviously, it's mostly around 11 these days, which is okay for a short Twitter bath, but if you see it going over 19, like yesterday--get out of Twitter, get your friends out, and do it fast.
The number would represent the risk of going in for a jolly Twitter jape and ending up a righteous prig. (This can happen even if you're a strong, experienced swimmer.)

I don't want to lose anyone else to self-righteous priggishness.
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Claire Berlinski
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He (Packer) is forthright about Holbrooke's vanity. "The best about us was inseparable from the worst." The portrayal of his sense of self-importance is obviously deliberate; you're supposed to have that suspicion. Precisely what I admire is his creation of a *complex* character.
You're seeing precisely the achievement of the essay as a defect.
And of course that character is (as he says explicitly) a meronym of the US during this period.
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Claire Berlinski
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Because of the collapse in the business model for journalism, we get very little foreign news coverage. But at the same time, we have Google Translate--an astonishing advance in machine translation. It's good enough to be used to read most foreign newspapers.
I'm not sure whether people are aware how well Google Translate can handle this kind of task. It's amazing.

I'm going to try putting out a weekly (or even daily) summary of the most interesting articles I find in those papers.
I wonder if this could replace some of the reporting gap.

If you'd like to be on the mailing list, let me know.
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Measles cases hit record high in the Europe

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"Protesting" can't undo the election. It helps with #WalkAway though.😄
Exhibits A, B, C, and D.

Stay classy, Leftists. #WalkAway
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