{"id":85487,"date":"2020-10-09T02:11:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T23:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/pence-won-the-night-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2020-10-09T02:11:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T23:11:22","slug":"pence-won-the-night-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pence-won-the-night-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#Pence won the night and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22fe229f6f5\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22fe229f6f5\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pence-won-the-night-and-other-commentary\/#2020_watch_Pence_Won_the_Night\" >2020 watch: Pence Won the Night<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pence-won-the-night-and-other-commentary\/#Culture_critic_Van_Halen_Flashed_Red\" >Culture critic: Van Halen Flashed Red<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pence-won-the-night-and-other-commentary\/#Libertarian_Jo_Jorgensen_Spoiler\" >Libertarian: Jo Jorgensen, Spoiler?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pence-won-the-night-and-other-commentary\/#Science_desk_How_Andrea_Ghez_Got_Her_Nobel\" >Science desk: How Andrea Ghez Got Her Nobel<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pence-won-the-night-and-other-commentary\/#Sweet_history_The_%E2%80%98Candy_Bomber_Turns_100\" >Sweet history: The \u2018Candy Bomber\u2019 Turns 100<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Pence won the night and other commentary<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/VP-Pence_debate.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2020_watch_Pence_Won_the_Night\"><\/span><strong>2020 watch: Pence Won the Night<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This week\u2019s debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence was \u201cmore civilized\u201d but at times just as \u201cfrustrating\u201d as last week\u2019s Trump-Biden square-off, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/pence-vp-debate-harris-president-liz-peek\">sighs Liz Peek at Fox News <\/a>\u2014 since \u201cboth candidates were evasive.\u201d Yet Pence has been \u201cin the public eye longer\u201d; we know him. And he \u201clooked presidential,\u201d while she \u201csmirked and frowned and shook her head.\u201d Yes, Harris \u201clanded a few good punches,\u201d but Pence won the night. He boasted of President Trump\u2019s three years of accomplishments, while she was able to talk up Joe Biden\u2019s \u201c47 years of . . . what exactly? Surviving?\u201d If Biden wins but can\u2019t serve out his four years, Harris would become president. Yet \u201cneither her track record nor her demeanor . . . recommends her for that job.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Culture_critic_Van_Halen_Flashed_Red\"><\/span><strong>Culture critic: Van Halen Flashed Red<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cBefore Eddie Van Halen, if one word defined rock guitar aspiration, it was this one: blues,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/10\/van-halens-sound-of-sex\/\">Kyle Smith notes at National Review<\/a>. \u201cRock went best with a frown or a scowl.\u201d It needed \u201ca rip-roaring, full-on party band that could fill a stadium with shameless ecstasy. . . . Edward Lodewijk van Halen and his bandmates gave us that.\u201d He played his \u201csplendidly strange guitar Frankenstein . . . like a teenager taking a stolen Porsche for a joyride with three furious cops on his tail.\u201d The band \u201cdidn\u2019t chase the blues, it flashed red \u2014 the color of lipstick, of fast cars, of excitement, of the blood it got racing.\u201d Its music \u201cwas the sound of fun . . . of young hormones past all control \u2014 the sound of sex.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Libertarian_Jo_Jorgensen_Spoiler\"><\/span><strong>Libertarian: Jo Jorgensen, Spoiler?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Third parties \u201clag in the polls\u201d compared to 2016, when 5.7 percent of the electorate voted for nontraditional presidential candidates, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/10\/07\/jo-jorgensen-beating-the-polling-spread-in-4-states-each-voted-for-trump-in-2016\/\">observes Reason\u2019s Matt Welch<\/a>. But \u201cthere remains potential yet for Libertarians and even Greens to be labeled \u2018spoilers.\u2019\u200a\u201d Libertarian Jo Jorgensen \u201cis polling higher than the gap between\u201d President Trump and Joe Biden \u201cin four key states\u201d Trump won in 2016: \u201cOhio and North Carolina, where Biden currently leads, and Iowa and Georgia, where the incumbent \u00adretains a tiny advantage.\u201d A Cleveland.com writer said last week that \u201cOhio looked like a red state a year ago,\u201d but now \u201cit\u2019s clearly a toss-up.\u201d Welch even puts Alaska in play: After all, 12.2 percent of voters there went for third-party candidates in 2016.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Science_desk_How_Andrea_Ghez_Got_Her_Nobel\"><\/span><strong>Science desk: How Andrea Ghez Got Her Nobel<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Twenty-five years ago, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-andrea-ghez-won-the-nobel-for-an-experiment-nobody-thought-would-work\/\">recalls astronomer Hilton Lewis at Scientific American<\/a>, \u201can unknown, newly minted astronomer\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roached him with \u201can outrageous request\u201d: to put his telescopes to a novel use and risk breaking them. That astronomer was Andrea Ghez, one of three winners of this year\u2019s Nobel Prize in physics, for providing \u201cconclusive experimental evidence of a supermassive black hole with the mass of four million suns at the center of the Milky Way.\u201d Ghez spent the next quarter-century doing what she had proposed to Lewis: namely, removing \u201catmospheric turbulence\u201d from images to track stars in the galactic core. From that \u201ccame the first evidence \u2014 not just hints \u2014 of stars orbiting the black hole.\u201d Not only does Ghez \u201cdo the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>,\u201d gushes Lewis, \u201cshe molds events to make it possible.\u201d Now she stands at the \u201cpinnacle\u201d of her field.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Sweet_history_The_%E2%80%98Candy_Bomber_Turns_100\"><\/span><strong>Sweet history: The \u2018Candy Bomber\u2019 Turns 100<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/utah\/2020\/10\/4\/21498970\/as-utahs-candy-bomber-turns-100-his-sweet-story-remains-timeless\">At the Deseret News, Lee Benson recounts <\/a>a bit of Cold War history: When the Soviet Union in 1948 tried to starve free Berlin \u201cinto submission\u201d by closing roads and railways, Gail \u201cHal\u201d Halvorsen, 27, \u201cwas one of hundreds of C-54 pilots who daily filled the skies ferrying groceries and fuel\u201d to Berliners. But Halvorsen and his crew also tossed \u201csmall parachutes\u201d of chocolate and gum. The brass chewed him out for that at first but then told him to keep doing it. \u201cFrom July 1948 to September 1949, Halvorsen and his successors would drop some 21 tons of candy on Berlin.\u201d In advance of his 100th birthday Saturday, the Candy Bomber advises: \u201cIf you see a need, do something about it. 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