Extreme Philately!

Write

Make basket

יום כיפור

Write

Model Pratchett head

ראש השנה

Pick up new computer and load up software

Price tablets bought

Model head

Write

Write

Pick up rest of area around desk

Replace house slippers Deferred to October

Pick a writing project Lion Historian

Do character design for animation

Model the head for the printing project defered until I get a new computer

Make arrangements for electric bill

Write 5 pp

Get baseball tickets

Catch up on menu planning

Call dentist

Add card on Amazon

Write 5 pp

Put in for the 7th

Get kitchen stuff (after 3/1)

Pay down (by 3/3)

Ask

Pay down — postponed for reasons entirely within my control

Put in for the 7th -- postponed for reasons out of my control

Call dentist — postponed for no particular reason

A Facebook friend linked to this Salon piece describing a Paul Krugman op-ed from The New York Times—I swear there's a horse under here somewhere—in which he takes loud exception to the "Republicrat" notion, pointing out the differences between the parties.

I'm actually a firm believer in voting for the candidate, not the party, for executive positions such as President (the calculus gets more complicated with members of legislatures and other bodies; a Republican-controlled legislative house will advance Republican—ergo harmful—policies, even if the specific Republican who represents me has only sensible ideas), though, for what it's worth, a LessWrong post I cannot find suggests there's little practical distinction between voting for the candidate and voting for the party. This seems to somewhat be Krugman's point: the announced and possible (and refused, for that matter, such as Elizabeth Warren) Democratic candidates have positions very similar to each other's, and starkly different from those of the announced and likely Republican candidates.