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This morning I read about how one of the hostages of the Vulgarian right now is Canadian food safety as well as that of Americans. Surprise!

No, I'm not thanking the Vulgarian and his cronies and enablers for this. I'm cursing them and their political fortunes and their "freedom"(!) to endanger the rest of us humans.

Tonight, I will salve my pain and fear with the second season premier episode of Star Trek: Discovery.

Meantime, I've still got a day job to report to.

DSC: "Brother" - An Astronomical Note

As for the neighbourhood of the bulk of the episode's action: if we go by the Starbase 36 reference...and adding 150 lightyears along the Z-axis "above" and "below" Arbitrary Galactic Equatorial...

http://whitten.org/index.php?x_c=-90&y_c=-130&z_c=0&xy_zoom=20&z_zoom=150&m_limit=&select_star=&image_type=normal&image_size=2000&max_line=0&trek_names=1

The Political War Against Education (and Students)

Where's the web page for the people who've organized those pro-science marches? Evidence for Democracy, right?

I think we have another mission that might benefit from their advice...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/pc-government-tuition-fees-1.4981987

It's been a long time since my last community college diploma. And it wasn't easy to pay off the student loan. I was hoping that things would keep getting easier for the kids coming into universities and community colleges after my generation, but it seems there's a bunch of people who are Offended by that very idea. Their taking offence against such things is not acceptable.

So...