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Thursday, October 11, 2018

The Writer's Life 10/11 - Squeeze 'em

In The Godfather Part II (1974) Nevada Senator Geary says to Michael 
Corleone: "I intend to squeeze you." As everyone knows, a lot of that 
happens in every walk of life.


If anyone needed any more proof that America was wise to pull out of the 
Paris Climate Accord, Stephen Moore provides it in an op-ed piece in
today's NY PostHere's a summary: In 2017 the country that reduced its 
greenhouse-gas emissions the most wasn’t Canada or Britain or Germany 
or Australia or France. It was the USA. That’s right — the one country that 
pulled out of the phony Paris Climate Accord reduced its carbon emissions 
by 0.5%, the most of all major countries. President Trump predicted other 
nations would cheat and all the costs would fall on the U.S.. He was right. 
According to a 2018 report from Climate Action Network Europe, “All EU 
counties are failing to increase their climate action in line with the Paris 
Agreement goal.” Only five of the 25 major nations have even managed to 
reach 50% of their pollution-reduction promise. Moore concludes the piece 
with: "If we have to depend on the United Nations and global politicians, the 
planet really is doomed." Amen. 



Here's a telling headline from Yahoo Sports about a budding superstar 
3B: "Kris Bryant turned down $200M extension from Cubs." What a 
country.

The scaffold did the trick again today for the big squeeze that is the 
floating book shop. While the side at the curb got wet, the one close 
to the building stayed dry. My thanks to the woman who bought a 
thriller in Russian early in the session, which I was sure would be the 
only sale; and to the gentleman who pulled up on his bike and found 
three to his liking from that same box; and to the guy who calls me Irv, 
who purchased an entry in Dee Henderson's sci-fi The Protector series; 
and to the guy who donated his fourth large bag of books this week, 
which included a lot of marketable paperbacks and non-fiction; and to 
Barry, who overcompensated me for two from that batch, a collection of 
short stories by Jewish writers and Yiddish Wisdom: Yiddishe Chochma 
by Kristina Swarner.


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