Orts #985
- from the No-Good-Deed-Goes-Unpunished Department -
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/opinion/sunday/us-bank-fired-employee.html
a 97-year-old philosopher contemplates his own death
-- a touching 18-minute video, with exquisite music --
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/604840/being-97/
Glice: the future of the Winter Olympics in an age of global warming?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/business/glice-fake-ice-skating-.html
- from the Eponymy Department –
“In January or February [1851] an article appeared editorially in the Seneca County Courier on ‘Female Attire,’ in which the writer showed up the inconvenience, unhealthfulness, and discomfort of woman’s dress, and advocated a change to Turkish pantaloons and a skirt reaching a little below the knee,” Amelia Bloomer, an advocate for women’s rights (and women’s pants), wrote in 1851.