Eliza Daley

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Modi Is Tulsi Gabbard’s Deepest-Rooted Problem As America’s Top Spy| Countercurrents

2 months ago | countercurrents.org | Pieter Friedrich |J Hester |Frederic Jennings |Eliza Daley

Mainstream critiques of Gabbard’s compromises miss the forest for the treesLast month, when former U.S. congressional representative Tulsi Gabbard spoke at the controversial BAPS temple in Robbinsville, New Jersey, it marked her first major public appearance since being nominated as the country’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Gabbard has faced a wave of critics and skeptics ever since the nomination.
Distaff Day

Jan 8, 2025 | resilience.org | Eliza Daley

Today is Distaff Day, the day of resumption of women’s work. Those who remember this date at all — pretty much just me and sometimes the Old Farmer’s Almanac folks — have a choice of observing it on 7 January, the day after Epiphany, or on the first Tuesday after Epiphany. My grandmother was in the latter camp, claiming that it was Distaff Tuesday and did not happen until the first Tuesday after Epiphany.
Saturnalia

Dec 19, 2024 | resilience.org | Eliza Daley

Saturnalia began on December 17. This year Saturn is sharing the night sky with the much brighter upstart planetary deities, Venus and Jupiter; but Saturn is still brighter than any star in the sky, shining to the south for several hours after sunset. In my part of the world, the earliest sunsets, 4:11pm have already passed and the shortest days are more or less upon us.
Weather Predicting

Dec 11, 2024 | resilience.org | Eliza Daley

The intrusion of AI into weather prognostication is a fairly accurate measure of just how stupid our supposed created intelligence is. I know you’ve seen the results. I hear complaints constantly, often qualified with a “well, they never do get it right” as though to reassure ourselves that weather forecasting has always been inadequate and is not, in fact, getting ever more unreliable — by many orders of magnitude — right now when we most need weather warnings.
Thoughts on Thanksgiving

Nov 26, 2024 | resilience.org | Eliza Daley

I have never been particularly attached to Thanksgiving. It feels all wrong. It is supposedly a harvest festival, but it falls well after the harvest. It is lavished in the colors of autumn — which faded away weeks ago in the real world. It is based on a story that is neither factual nor especially worth stretching the bounds of disbelief. It is all about eating foods that don’t appeal to me. And, for most of us, it falls in the middle of the workweek.
Subsidies

Nov 22, 2024 | resilience.org | Eliza Daley

It began with one of the cockier tellers asking politely to be paid a mileage rate commensurate with driving on Vermont roads, something that might cover at least the gasoline of driving up and down and up again to cover shifts in different bank branches. He hinted that car wear from those mountainous and often caustic roads might also be a cost covered by the bank if tellers were expected to drive.
What Do We Do Now?

Nov 20, 2024 | resilience.org | Eliza Daley

Four years ago, we were adjusting ourselves to a future that did not include Trump. Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election on November 7th, four days after voting ended. However, the counting had not ended. Republicans were filing lawsuits in crucial states, claiming that the counts were corrupted and illegal.
The Bright Sword: Review

Nov 14, 2024 | resilience.org | Eliza Daley

“We’ll stop them,” Collum said. “They’ve always invaded and we’ve always stopped them. There has to be a way.”“Not this time,” Morgan said. “Because they’re not invading.”“Well, what the hell do you call it?!”“Emigrating,” Morgan said. “Fleeing. They can’t stay in Saxony.
The Day of the Dead

Nov 4, 2024 | resilience.org | Eliza Daley

Today is the new Winter Sleep Moon. But it’s also the Day of the Dead. So I am pushing the new moon post off until Monday — which feels appropriate — and here is my post on the Day of the Dead. In Tolstoy’s Calendar of Wisdom, he says that a “man” does not fear death. “Fear of death is our animal nature,” he claims. I don’t know that any part of that is accurate. To be sure, we have a very unhealthy relationship to death.
More on Orthodoxy vs. Orthopraxis

Oct 23, 2024 | resilience.org | Eliza Daley

First, for those who didn’t read yesterday, I got my COVID and flu shots on Saturday, prompted by Son#1 contracting yet another case of COVID at work. (Retail, even banking retail, maybe especially banking retail, is decidedly germy.) The vaccines were every bit as bad as they usually are. I do not recommend doing both at once… But I was not sick, as in “contagious”, just sick as in “feeling like crap”.