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30 Dec 20, 6 tweets, 2 min read
The military, wisely, bought its own vaccine and is getting vaccinations done in the manner you would expect.
Ta-dah, planning, what is it
Logistics win wars

reut.rs/2Js1xzA
... works at home and abroad
Hey let’s get 100mil extra doses of vaccine just in case

defense.gov/Newsroom/Contr…
This is not rocket science

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29 Dec 20
Here’s how to understand the PERCEPTION of a clash of values that will be hyped in coming months:

The Trump administration — out of laziness, incompetence, sheer misunderstanding of governance, you decide — has devolved responsibility for everything COVID-related downward. /1
This is not some reflection of federalism or libertarian values — in plenty of cases this admin has been happy to centralize influence and control, and Republicans have whistled along.

This is specifically about not being responsible for COVID outcomes. It’s very transparent. /2
Testing. Data collection. Vaccine distribution. Regulations and rules and controls. Lockdowns or not. Benefits or not. “The states will decide!”

Of course they do this without offering the data, guidance, and standards that afford the states the ability to do this better. /3
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25 Dec 20
My parents got home from their honeymoon just in time for a 1st Christmas together. They bought a random 8-track of carols from a local shop. My mom loved the album.

They hauled that stereo around for 50yrs—across 10000 miles & multiple moves—only to play the 8-track on xmas. /1
As technology “improved,” my dad must have bought 100 other Christmas albums — vinyl, cassettes, CDs; classic, hip.

Mom scoffed at them all.

It wasn’t Christmas until the 8-track was fired up, endlessly looping between maybe 30 min of tracks with that fabulous analog sound /2
The album never made it to cassette or CD. We could never find a copy anywhere. So the 8-track had to be preserved. /3
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8 Dec 20
It’s the 79th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, and just wanted to remember my grandfather, who wrote the initial damages report on the attack and spent the rest of WWII in the Pacific.

He almost never talked about the war at all, except with my father.
His stories were so good, but really my dad is the one who keeps them now.

I have all of my grandmother’s letters to him — which he kept all his life, hidden in his navy trunk so she wouldn’t throw them away. I wish she had kept his — but she was not sentimental about the past.
One of the stories I remember was about why he knew how to play chess.

For part of the war, he & like 5 other guys were dumped on some rock in the Pacific so the Japanese wouldn’t take it. One of the guys was a chess savant, could play with no pieces on the board. He taught them
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6 Dec 20
It feels like 37 out but nonetheless my neighbor pod is doing outdoor tikisgiving, which celebrates the 1950s obsession with pineapple (following Hawaii joining the union and WWII pacific storytelling).

We use recipes out of the 1960s housewife cookbooks, which are terrifying.
good first courses — pineapple can molded Jell-O shots, “triple orange ambrosial salad”, a curry dip in a hollowed out pineapple, updated Polynesian rumaki with pork belly instead of liver, “Polynesian ham loaf” aka baked spam and pineapple, with Polynesian paradise cocktails
Also, I don’t know who decided marshmallows and whipped cream go together, but, yes
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30 Nov 20
Crazy DC sky tonight, layers of clouds streaming in totally different directions catching the setting sun at weird angles. Totally trippy stuff
Wild sky
Gorgeous, the contrast in the layers
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25 Nov 20
I was feeling oddly nostalgic for the totally bizarre regional sub-diet of the Cincinnati Germans, so I made a deviled ham salad sandwich the same way my grandmother used to make them for us when we were little — with 2 generous layers of cool ranch Doritos (“the new flavor”)
My grandmother, of course, would never deign eat a flavored corn chip. But she was stuck with us for a few weeks. She asked the deli guy where she was buying the ham salad salad if kids liked it.

Not really, he said. Maybe bribe them with chips.

He recommended “the new flavor”
The “new flavor” was cool ranch — the first non-original flavored Doritos.

I would not say I like this flavor. It’s so weird.

But it was a big gesture from my grandmother to get them. They weren’t good alone. Neither was the deviled ham salad. But mashed together — genius.
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