Wow, what an analysis. It helps make me more optimistic (and grateful) for the current situation, which I've been seeing as the capture of a hill followed by a fall into a swamp full of alligators. I think the major media deserve to be called the cardinal archbishop of that Cathedral. On January 22 our NBC-TV affiliate showed what seemed like half a dozen video clips of pro-abortion rallies, EVENTUALLY showing one brief shot of the March for Life.
At those rallies, a frequent message on signs was that it's time to go beyond Roe (which of course is what the pending "Women's Health Protection Act" in Congress would do). That leaves a lot of middle ground for the pro-life movement to seize in blue or purple states, including increased support for pregnant and parenting women so they don't think abortion is their only choice.
New footnote features?!? Maybe I missed an update? How exciting!
As someone from the outside of your fight this was a very useful, interesting, and fair-seeming rerun. Took a while to get through it all but that’s what happens when there’s this much of a history!
The new footnote feature was quite a thrill, because, shortly before Christmas, *all* existing footnotes on all my published articles broke simultaneously. I filed a support ticket, and Substack spent a couple weeks answering (because of the Christmas hols) -- and had to escalate to developers, so even more time.
When it was fixed, the new feature was left behind like a present under the Epiphany tree!
An epiphany tree indeed! It’s interesting what did and didn’t get rebuilt by the Dev team. There are more times than I care to admit where I’m reading along and notice I missed a footnote somewhere because the superscript value has incremented more than the +1 I was expecting. While I absolutely love this new stylized format I would rely on jumping down to the bottom, scrolling only a few lines to then click the previous footnote to jump me back up to the relevant section, a quick hop/skip/jump later and I’m right back on track. I noticed it this time where the first footnote I ran across was #2 and I had to scroll (like a common pleb) all the way back searching for the first footnote! Yet from down at the bottom of the article it’s all just a one-way pipe back up in to the meat of things. Just interesting they didn’t include a double-click feature on the pop up to take one down to where they are all stored. Why keep that lower piece at all? 538 doesn’t have that with their style… anyway, good content in here too! Sorry to always wax so much on the format
YMMV (I don't know how it works on all platforms), but, if you click on a footnote, it *should* still take you down to the bottom. The cool floating block should only appear on hover. (They must never get rid of the bottom, because I have navigated through Substacks -- including my own! -- the same way you describe, more times than I can count, and I need that ability to footnote-warp through the article!) (P.S. Also, some of my footnotes are physically too long to fit in one of the blocks.)
If that stopped working, I might file a ticket.
I'm very excited about Substack's random format features and am always glad I can count on you to be excited about them in the comments, too.
P.S. I've started to wonder whether it might be time soon for a Trivia Team This-Week-Only Reunion Tour.
P.S. The IJN *absolutely* should have detected Task Force 17 at 6:15 AM. One of their scout planes passed *directly* over their position at about that time. Admiral Fletcher, thank heaven, had deliberately positioned his ships in the line of developing clouds, and, again thank heaven, that cloud cover actually formed, obscuring his carriers until Admiral Nagumo's head was fully inserted into the bear trap.
I thought it was Fletcher in this case, although tbqh I am not an expert and find naval fleet command structures confusing. Fletcher was in command of TF17 and in operational tactical command of all U.S. forces at Midway. Nimitz was fleet commander.
To the best of my knowledge, the two carrier skippers out at sea at the time were Spruance (at Halsey's recommendation after he was hospitalized with shingles) with the Enterprise and Hornet, and Fletcher with the Yorktown (taking command of the task force upon his arrival to Point Luck 3 days after Spruance arrived there). Wasn't Nimitz back at Pearl?
A quick google turns up that Nimitz was CINCPACFLT (Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet) after Pearl. So, it was his call to meet the Japs at Midway, but any tactics would have been the call by the ranking officer at sea, either Spruance or Fletcher, depending on the time.
I've also heard that there were mechanical issues with the Japanese navy at Midway, where both the launching of the scout plane which eventually found the Yorktown was delayed, and then subsequently that same plane had a non-functional radio, preventing it from alerting the fleet until it was back within visual contact of its own fleet. That being said, hollywood ("Midway", 1976) is my source here, which may be less than reliable.
James, that was such a masterful analysis, I decided not to mention the one or two quibbles I have with your hypotheticals. I would feel like a heel if I did so!
Our God is an awesome God. He used the most utterly unworthy President in American history to bring about the Supreme Court that decisively overturned Roe v Wade. And He did so while preventing that unworthy President, the only one to openly attack our Constitutional government, from doing permanent damage to that government (even while his presence exacerbated the COVID pandemic and the 2020 racial tensions).
And He made sure that unworthy President was only in office for a single term. America as we know it would not have survived a second Trump term. It very nearly didn't survive that single term.
Wow, what an analysis. It helps make me more optimistic (and grateful) for the current situation, which I've been seeing as the capture of a hill followed by a fall into a swamp full of alligators. I think the major media deserve to be called the cardinal archbishop of that Cathedral. On January 22 our NBC-TV affiliate showed what seemed like half a dozen video clips of pro-abortion rallies, EVENTUALLY showing one brief shot of the March for Life.
At those rallies, a frequent message on signs was that it's time to go beyond Roe (which of course is what the pending "Women's Health Protection Act" in Congress would do). That leaves a lot of middle ground for the pro-life movement to seize in blue or purple states, including increased support for pregnant and parenting women so they don't think abortion is their only choice.
New footnote features?!? Maybe I missed an update? How exciting!
As someone from the outside of your fight this was a very useful, interesting, and fair-seeming rerun. Took a while to get through it all but that’s what happens when there’s this much of a history!
The new footnote feature was quite a thrill, because, shortly before Christmas, *all* existing footnotes on all my published articles broke simultaneously. I filed a support ticket, and Substack spent a couple weeks answering (because of the Christmas hols) -- and had to escalate to developers, so even more time.
When it was fixed, the new feature was left behind like a present under the Epiphany tree!
An epiphany tree indeed! It’s interesting what did and didn’t get rebuilt by the Dev team. There are more times than I care to admit where I’m reading along and notice I missed a footnote somewhere because the superscript value has incremented more than the +1 I was expecting. While I absolutely love this new stylized format I would rely on jumping down to the bottom, scrolling only a few lines to then click the previous footnote to jump me back up to the relevant section, a quick hop/skip/jump later and I’m right back on track. I noticed it this time where the first footnote I ran across was #2 and I had to scroll (like a common pleb) all the way back searching for the first footnote! Yet from down at the bottom of the article it’s all just a one-way pipe back up in to the meat of things. Just interesting they didn’t include a double-click feature on the pop up to take one down to where they are all stored. Why keep that lower piece at all? 538 doesn’t have that with their style… anyway, good content in here too! Sorry to always wax so much on the format
YMMV (I don't know how it works on all platforms), but, if you click on a footnote, it *should* still take you down to the bottom. The cool floating block should only appear on hover. (They must never get rid of the bottom, because I have navigated through Substacks -- including my own! -- the same way you describe, more times than I can count, and I need that ability to footnote-warp through the article!) (P.S. Also, some of my footnotes are physically too long to fit in one of the blocks.)
If that stopped working, I might file a ticket.
I'm very excited about Substack's random format features and am always glad I can count on you to be excited about them in the comments, too.
P.S. I've started to wonder whether it might be time soon for a Trivia Team This-Week-Only Reunion Tour.
P.S. The IJN *absolutely* should have detected Task Force 17 at 6:15 AM. One of their scout planes passed *directly* over their position at about that time. Admiral Fletcher, thank heaven, had deliberately positioned his ships in the line of developing clouds, and, again thank heaven, that cloud cover actually formed, obscuring his carriers until Admiral Nagumo's head was fully inserted into the bear trap.
Nimitz? Or Fletcher?
I thought it was Fletcher in this case, although tbqh I am not an expert and find naval fleet command structures confusing. Fletcher was in command of TF17 and in operational tactical command of all U.S. forces at Midway. Nimitz was fleet commander.
But I just checked Montemayor's video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHO6xrSF7Sw&t=6m40s) and he credits Nimitz, so you're probably right: it was Nimitz.
To the best of my knowledge, the two carrier skippers out at sea at the time were Spruance (at Halsey's recommendation after he was hospitalized with shingles) with the Enterprise and Hornet, and Fletcher with the Yorktown (taking command of the task force upon his arrival to Point Luck 3 days after Spruance arrived there). Wasn't Nimitz back at Pearl?
I DON'T KNOW!
At some point here I'm going to have to go pull out Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway to see whether it settles this.
Thank you for your input, though! I'm glad I'm not the only one confused!
A quick google turns up that Nimitz was CINCPACFLT (Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet) after Pearl. So, it was his call to meet the Japs at Midway, but any tactics would have been the call by the ranking officer at sea, either Spruance or Fletcher, depending on the time.
I've also heard that there were mechanical issues with the Japanese navy at Midway, where both the launching of the scout plane which eventually found the Yorktown was delayed, and then subsequently that same plane had a non-functional radio, preventing it from alerting the fleet until it was back within visual contact of its own fleet. That being said, hollywood ("Midway", 1976) is my source here, which may be less than reliable.
James, that was such a masterful analysis, I decided not to mention the one or two quibbles I have with your hypotheticals. I would feel like a heel if I did so!
Our God is an awesome God. He used the most utterly unworthy President in American history to bring about the Supreme Court that decisively overturned Roe v Wade. And He did so while preventing that unworthy President, the only one to openly attack our Constitutional government, from doing permanent damage to that government (even while his presence exacerbated the COVID pandemic and the 2020 racial tensions).
And He made sure that unworthy President was only in office for a single term. America as we know it would not have survived a second Trump term. It very nearly didn't survive that single term.