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Sunday, November 26, 2017

Old

Still struggling with a head cold, still taking it easy today, prepping lectures and watching the tee vee under a blanket. This means Eric and I will miss our Sunday brunch and long walk this week, which is a bit disappointing. As end of term approaches, student e-mails are already multiplying into their eventual torrent of heartfelt freakouts, pleas for extensions, unreasonable demands, and a general ratcheting up of the madness factor. All is conspiring to make me feel exhausted and old and ready to retire to watch hundreds of episodes of Suchet's Poirot on a continuous loop on the couch till I kick the bucket.

Speaking of kicking the bucket, according to Christopher Bates:
On Friday, George H. W. Bush became the longest-lived president in U.S. history, at 93 years, 166 days. He surpassed Gerald Ford on that day, having passed #3 Ronald Reagan (93 years, 120 days) about a month and a half ago. Close on Bush Sr.'s heels is Jimmy Carter, who trails him by 111 days, at 93 years, 56 days. That means, for those who are keeping track, that each of the four presidents who followed Richard Nixon lived to be at least 93 (and all four lived twice as long as shortest-lived president JFK, who was shot in year 46, on day 177). It will now be up to Bush Sr. and/or Carter to try to become the first ex-president to make it to 94. For those who are wondering, Donald Trump would reach George H. W. Bush's current age on November 28, 2039; George W. Bush would tie pops on December 19, 2039; Bill Clinton would catch up on February 2, 2040; while it would take Barack Obama until October 14, 2057.
  I myself arrive at the magic moment, if I am very lucky indeed and without any Presidential gravitas in tow, just a couple years after Obama does. At last! Something that doesn't make me feel superannuated this morning.  

3 comments:

jollyspaniard said...

It also warms my heart to know that Trump will live for twenty years in disgrace whilst Obama will be regarded and conducting himself infinitely better.

Anonymous said...

It is a good thing that you are getting old. People like you -- fake "progressive" defenders of the old corporate/neocon DP -- need to grow old quickly, and die. Get out of the way so that a sane progressive alternative can actually come to the fore. People like you are in the way. I don't actually wish death or ill on anyone; I just want them out of the way so that those who work for a better world can have a chance. That does NOT include you, fucker.

Dale Carrico said...

I hope you have something more positive to do when you are not on the internet. And I'm sorry you hate a stranger so much.