His Very Best

An apt title for a *biography about a barefoot boy who became a Naval Academy graduate, a nuclear submariner., a peanut farmer, a president, a builder of homes for the needy and a global promotor for human rights and peace.

Last night Rachel Maddow reported this which illustrates and confirms the book’s title:

Rachel Maddow tells the story of a young Navy lieutenant from Georgia named Jimmy who played a key role in helping prevent a nuclear catastrophe in 1952. 

*His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life by Jonathan Alter

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Quantum Questions

“In quantum mechanics, Schrödinger’s cat is a thought experiment that illustrates a paradox of quantum superposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical cat may be considered simultaneously both alive and dead, while it is unobserved in a closed box, as a result of its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur.” [Wiki]

An intrepid ‘toonist applies the above to China (but same paradox might also apply to Ukraine or Russia or Biden or any of the GOPer 2024 candidates):

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