On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

I have to wonder if - with today's installment of Candorville - Lemont (and series author Darrin Bell) isn't being a tad too optimistic with panel five about the indigenous peoples of North America if the American Revolution hadn't come off as it did in reality. We'd still have people who thought like Sir John A. Macdonald and Duncan Campbell Scott and Philip Sheridan did, although the specific people in power enforcing such atrocities as settlers' law would likely be different.

As for the rest of it?

I think it's already happened to me, effective end of May.

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/do-you-worry-you-could-lose-your-job-to-a-robot-1.4008979

Yes, I recommend listening to this.

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/what-is-the-key-to-creating-the-best-education-for-first-nation-communities-1.3994425

Apparently Google and Monotype decided to try to make it happen with their "No More Tofu" project.

Impressive.

Thanks to rfmcdpei for reminding me that this is a reality:

http://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/2016/03/social-networks-interlocking-directorates-and-the-power-elite.html

davidbrin has pointed out such issues more than once on his own weblog, of course, but the reminders are still useful. Especially where a law like the USA's Clayton Act is concerned. And since the USA has a federal election underway, maybe some renewed attention to the Clayton Act's enforcement - or lack of it - is due as part of the debates?

The books we read all use a calendar system that puts events in the timeline on either side of the Battle of Yavin from A New Hope. I am becoming increasing convinced that the characters themselves are not using any such calendar-dating convention within the events of their lives.

What are some workable alternatives?

Right, so I finally watched that episode. And enjoyed it.

( Some thoughts about the state of SHIELD... )

That's it.