Thursday, February 14

As soon as I'm finished with the back massage I'll show you how the camera works

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It's a little late in the day for a greeting but Happy Valentine's Day anyhow!   Yes yes I'll be returning to the blo...
Saturday, February 9

Jeff Bezos, calling the kettle black

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"With  Rekognition, a government can now build a system to automate the identification and tracking of anyone." Jeff Bezos ...
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Pundita is worth more than a million Republican operatives

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If President Trump quits Syria it won't stop me from hating him for what he's done to Syria. I do not forgive such things. But I wou...
Tuesday, February 5

Wenn Trump nur wüsste

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I've been noting a number of attempts to excuse President Trump's actions regarding Syria. The excuses boil down to the one invoked ...
Sunday, February 3

The worse the collective sleep patterns, the crazier the society

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In the old days, humanity had 1 category for craziness -- craziness -- with the causes breaking down into roughly 4 categories:  mischevious...
Sunday, January 27

Gee, that's a gorgeous song and a glorious duet

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Two YouTube Comments, to which I add a hearty "Same here!": Sadly, if it hadn’t been for looking at Wikipedia for details abo...

What's the world coming to? In UAE non-Muslims are increasingly able to worship openly.

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"The U.A.E. will display its more accommodating stance in February when it hosts  Pope Francis for the first visit by a sitting pope  ...

China's slowed growth rate is relative

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Blurb from From The Economist's January 23 Daily Dispatch: China’s economy:  Slowness is in the eye of the beholder China’s growth ...
Thursday, January 24

La Mafia del Poder en California?

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"Yet [Mexico's new president] faces tremendous opposition as well, especially from the political and economic elite, which he call...

The solution is to build the wall between California and the rest of America

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Then put signs all along the Mexican-U.S. that show a little arrow pointing to California with the caption that reads (in Spanish, of course...

When will the U.S. government shutdown end? I can tell you when..

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It will end two days after the American mainstream media are no longer able to hide the fact that a great number of the furloughed "non...

Al Qaeda methodically expanding reach in India by 'going local'

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AL-QAEDA IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT (AQIS): THE NUCLEUS OF JIHAD IN SOUTH ASIA January 23, 2019 The Soufan Center [H/T Joshua Landis /...
Tuesday, January 22

We're living with governments designed to work in the 19th Century. Now what?

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Jakarta, Indonesia Residents converting city space to a food garden Bronx, USA Residents converting a typical city park into fo...