My sister attended UNH for 3 years, but after 5 years in the “real world,” got her degree from Northeastern. She worked for a company in Peabody for 2+ decades, and lived in Ipswich for 2 decades. The closest time frame would have been UNH, but even there they were separated by 5 years.

Small world, as they say.

Yes, we miss them.

Sorry for your loss.

By the way, the only reason I learned of Fred’s death was that I was on his email list and a relative had access to his email and informed people on it that he had died.

Here’s a book that might be of interest.

When I go, there will be no one to inform anyone, so my online presence will just languish. This is becoming a bigger problem for online businesses as well. Now companies on the web that have to worry about bots also should start worrying about zombies. We need a living online will that will stipulate how long to wait with no interaction to pull the plug. I have many other ideas, but people should start thinking about this. (Urrk, I feel a LinkedIn post coming on.)

File under: “Biden”eering…as expected.

…and there’s dozens more articles of this nature (if not hundreds) on a whole variety of topics…
Though it DOES help to keep in mind that “Biden” is the perennial OPPOSITION, the perennial VIVA-LA-REVOLUCION party, the perennial ADOLESCENT that never stops playing with (Orwellian) matches and gasoline.

(And so, apparently, things can ALWAYS get more insane…until they simply can’t…AKA “The point beyond no return”?)

That was frightening — all of your and Neo’s posts referencing Haffner are.
I used to wonder just how the very enlightened, religious, sophisticated, progressive German state fell to the Nazis so quickly.
I don’t wonder anymore.

Once they get into control, no matter how it’s done — the fall is like Hemingway’s description of going bankrupt: gradually, then suddenly.
We seem to be on the “sudden” part of that cycle.

June 18, 2020 by David Foster

Surely this passage [about the WW2 situation in Germany] comes close to describing the feeling and actions of many genuine scholars while watching their university departments be taken over by the forces of political correctness, or the emotions of many experienced government officials and corporate managers as these institutions also are subjected to the rack of ideological absolutism.

There can be no serious doubt that the election of a Democratic President..especially if coupled with Democrat control of Congress…would greatly strengthen the push toward an America in which the expression of unapproved opinions is dangerous and the affirmation of approved opinions is mandatory. We are already heading in that direction at alarming speed: a Democrat presidency–with all that means in terms of empowerment of the ‘progressive’ wing of the Democratic party and its allies in media and academia–would accelerate the trend greatly and quite possibly make it unrecoverable.

(An earlier version of this post was published here in 2016; the current post is cross-posted at Ricochet)

That last sentence references the “gradually” part of the cycle.
You didn’t have to do much to bring the older post up to date — looks like our reprieve only lasted four years.

There can be no serious doubt that the election of Hillary Clinton would greatly contribute to a climate in which expression of unapproved opinions is dangerous and the affirmation of approved opinions is mandatory. We are already heading in that direction at alarming speed: a Hillary Clinton presidency–with all that means in terms of empowerment of the ‘progressive’ wing of the Democratic party and its allies in media and academia–would accelerate the trend greatly and quite possibly make it unrecoverable.

https://www.manchesterbeat.com/index.php/my-story/pete-bocking-a-tribute