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Default Margins for Flexbox Elements
So I have been frequently frustrated when doing CSS flexbox, in particular, my margins, which may look good on a wide screen suddenly look awful as the screen narrows. Instead of using media queries to change the CSS on narrower windows I began to wonder if I was just missing something basic, so I took some time to back up and think about the problem in general, and I can up with the following default system:
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2021
I keep seeing people anxious for the end of 2020, as if January 1st was a Rubicon that the shit-storm of 2020 won’t follow us across.
Let me disabuse you of any such notion.
Really, what do you expect to change in 2021?
Will global warming be solved? Will corporate concentration disappear? Will income inequality be solved? Will structural racism vanish overnight? Do you expect the GOP to suddenly disavow Trump, back away from fascism, and relinquish Q-Anon?
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Turkey Recipe
Here's my Roasted Turkey recipe. Click on any picture to bring up the lightbox with captions. new LuminousGallery( document.querySelectorAll('.gallery'), { arrowNavigation: true, }, { caption: function (trigger) { return trigger.
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Thoughts on the Election of Joe Biden
Thoughts on the election of Joe Biden.
First, let’s admit it’s pretty amazing that Biden won. If you look historically at US Presidential elections all the forces were tilted toward a Trump win:
Trump was an incumbent, which is a huge advantage.
The economy was doing good.
We had a national catastrophe (Covid) and Americans traditionally rally around the President when faced with such adversity, just think of Bush’s rise in popularity after the 9-11 attacks.
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Thoughts Before the 2020 Election
Some random thoughts before the final day of voting in the 2020 US Presidential election:
At least now more people realize the importance of politics. “How bad could it be?” may have gotten him into the office, but “Oh, that bad!” will probably remove him.
The press, at least the legitimate press, like CNN and the NYTimes, finally overcame their crippling addiction to falling for every single Trump troll.
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