Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club), page 33

@cosullivan Happy Mother's Day!

@Canageek @bgcarlisle Personally, I think the relatively narrow range of options for suits would be simpler to resolve than the "8 billion" possibilities of business casual.

@privacyint Is this about US citizens entering the US, non-citizens, or both?

#borders
#bordersearches

@derek If you figure out what happens to Pirate Prentice, let me know.

#preterite
#Pynchon

"Total spending in the Liberal infrastructure program reached $25.6 billion over the last three years"

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/liberal-infrastructure-program-shows-signs-of-progress-but-frustrations-linger-over-delays

#canpol #infrastructure
#civil #engineering
#génie #civil

“Try and find somebody who is lonely,” Vanier said. “And when you go to see them, they will see you as the messiah. Go and visit a little old lady who has no friends or family. Bring her flowers. People say, ‘but that’s nothing.’ It is nothing — but it’s also everything. It always begins with small little things. It all began in Bethlehem. That was pretty small.”

#JeanVanier, RIP
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/father-raymond-j-de-souza-what-jean-vanier-did-for-us-all

@ink_slinger @sconlan "It is no inconsiderable part of wisdom, to know much of an evil ought to be tolerated." Degree of harm, frequency of occurrence, whether injustice would be otherwise discouraged by society, effectiveness of legal remedies, etc. are relevant considerations when we decide where to draw the line between freedom and justice.

#Burke

@ink_slinger @sconlan The NPR article does not suggest that religious people would fail to provide basic, secular services; but it appears that the proposed law would ensure the legality of such a choice. How frequently people would so choose is hard to say.

Like @sconlan, I can't think of a Christian reason to refuse to perform chiropractic services, but there are probably at least a few Christians who feel differently.

Speaking of Dr. Johnson, I'd say that #ChristopherHitchens (at https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/03/demons-and-dictionaries/307272/ ) gets the better of #AdamGopnik (at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/12/08/man-of-fetters ) regarding the Balderston thesis. While even the most outwardly conventional man may have unusual sexual desires, Mrs. Thrale would not have written down anything that suggested her own involvement.

#DrJohnson
#MrsThrale #MrsPiozzi

"Members [of the Club] included Johnson as well as James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, and Adam Smith. These five, according to [Leo] Damosch, were 'arguably the greatest British critic, biographer, political philosopher, historian, and economist of all time.'" -- John J. Miller, in the May 6, 2019 issue of *National Review*

Alas, there are no real records of the conversations of the Club.

#SamuelJohnson

@Azure @Angle I didn't see where the article went from "Some regulations are bad" to "All regulations are bad." But I see that it was edited on May 1st to make it "less strident".

Maybe you'd mostly agree with the current version...

#slatestarcodex