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Tue Mar 21 07:21:49 EDT 2017 Slept from ten-thirty to six-thirty without waking. Mostly sunny. High of fifty-two. Work: - Emergency call system Yeah, although I've been lured into considering a re-write in Go. Twenty minute walk at lunch. Nice out. Home: - SEMIBUG at 7PM, Michael W. Lucas on the OpenBSD web stack Done. Brezelbier city name: Otterbrine? https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/03/16/why-is-the-trump-presidency-such-a-rolling-disaster/?tid=hybrid_content_1_na > People keep wondering if the latest Trump outburst is a clever ploy to distract the country from whatever piece of bad news is currently vexing the administration. But the one who’s easily distractible is the president himself, and then he in turn distracts his staff and congressional allies. Just look at what’s happening with his accusation that President Barack Obama tapped his phones. On impulse, after reading an article on a white nationalist website, Trump levels a ludicrous and baseless charge, then everyone in the White House has to pretend that it’s serious and legitimate, and they’re forced to answer questions about it for weeks. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/us/trump-obama-wiretap-comey.html > People close to the president say Mr. Trump’s Twitter torrent had less to do with fact, strategy or tactic than a sense of persecution bordering on faith: He simply believes that he was bugged in some way, by someone, and that evidence will soon appear to back him up. https://newrepublic.com/article/141398/trump-might-realizes-hes-losing > There is an argument underway on the right over whether Trump is being led astray by his courtiers or is working in sync with them on an agenda that they lack the skill and public support to pass. We have no clear sense of what an erratic man like Trump will do if the agenda fails; and if he is by and large a poorly served dupe, we don’t know how he’ll react when he finally realizes it. Fifteen minute walk after work. Breakfast: carrots, spinach, yogurt, coffee Lunch: turkey and avocado sandwich Dinner: hotdogs, fries

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