The Los Angeles Dodgers Win The 2020 World Series -- Notes From All Over -- Part 2 -- October 27, 2020

To say the least, I'm impressed. MLB got 'er done. Good, bad, or indifferent, one needs to celebrate another American symbol. And I love all the guys not wearing masks, and especially the guys wearing their masks below their chins, and I love the virtue signaling by the media. LOL. 

Intellectual froglegs: not yet posted, but waiting for new episode of "Intellectual Froglegs" tonight. 

McKinsey: re-imagining the auto industry's future. Link here. I was a bit curious why the subtle emphasis on Germany .... until I saw where the authors of the report are based. Spoiler alert: Vienna, Stuttgart, and Munich.

Jerry and Stephen Jones: a look back. 

Covid-19: 1.2 million deaths -- ZeroHedge. 

France: 79% of French believe Islamism has "declared war" on their country. ZeroHedge.  

• Update, October 29, 2020: France placed on maximum security alert after second decapitation attack in two weeks -- ZeroHedge link.
  

Turkey: Russian airstrikes obliterate rebel camp in Idlib, killing over 60. ZeroHedge. From 2018:

• Idlib: back to the future; Obama drew a "reddish" line; Trump will draw a "red" line; John Kerry faults Obama on his "reddish" line -- the Syrians saw Obama's "reddish" as "yellow" -- proceed with caution, but proceed; Inshallah; Idlib on the blog in 2015; also, here;
• for more on Idlib on the blog: link here;
• from today's story: On Monday Russian jets pounded a camp full of Turkish-backed militants in Idlib, killing at least 60. Some media sources are reporting possibly over 70 killed and 100+ injured, making it one of the single deadliest airstrikes of the entire almost decade long war.
• I've long lost the bubble on whose side "we're" on;
  

Why did RBG not retire during the Obama presidency? I've yet to see an essay by any publication that "explains" why RBG did not retire during the Obama presidency. 

It's fairly easy to "break it down" by working the question backwards. It comes down to this, one of two possibilities: a) she simply wanted to make her tenure live up to the proposition that an appointment to the Supreme Court is a lifetime appointment, and no further explanation is needed; or, b) she found herself caught between a Scylla and a Charybdis, a situation out of her control. Once she found herself in that situation, she had no choice but to "simply" let nature take its course. The question then becomes: what was "her Scylla" and what was "her Charybdis"? 

For purposes of argument, let's assume it's not (a) or simply "hubris" as a reader suggests (see first comment). Let's assume it's (b): she was caught between Scylla and Charybdis and had no choice to let nature take its course. Then it gets easier. To answer that question -- who was her Scylla and who was her Charybdis -- that's easy: it is the person who would appoint her "replacement." Now it gets interesting. But as the catch-phrase to the X-Files said, "the truth [answer] is out there."