Wednesday, July 22

Is it because the British became nihilists and the Russians didn't?

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Something a little eerie happened last night as I pondered the British hatred for the Russians. This after I read  Spying, election hacks, a...
Tuesday, July 21

Chief conduit for U.S. meddling argues U.S. should stop meddling. Pundita faints from shock.

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Get the smelling salts away from me; I'm alright, just a little discombobulated. [fanning herself]   The argument has been made by ...
Sunday, July 19

Chilling Out in the Dog Days of Summer

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Then there's always Yoga   But what do dogs and cats know I'll be back the first day the temperature here in Washington...

In America, a flight from the cities

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1968 "Nathan La Franeer" by  Joni Mitchell I hired a coach to take me from confusion to the plane And though we shared a com...
Monday, July 13

Covid Era: U.S. Food companies scramble to ramp up depleted inventories

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"Flour has remained particularly hard to come by, as a surge in home baking caught the sleepy industry off guard. Sales of baking ingre...
Sunday, July 12

From the ashes of failure, a world-changing triumph

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"Reij, Garrity and other scientists working on the ground knew what Wade and other political leaders did not: that farmers in Niger and...
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Now more than ever, "Take it easy policy"

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A.R. Rahman's remake of  Urvasi Urvasi,  which uses crowdsourced lyrics, is still as relevant today as when it was released in 2017. ...
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Tuesday, July 7

How to de-escalate a potentially violent situation

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This is about dealing with one-on-one situations that arise 'spontaneously,' without pre-planning. The kind of situations that are o...
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Monday, July 6

"After deadly clash with India, Beijing asserts right to territory in Bhutan"

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China took a somewhat more forceful tone, emphasizing that it would “continue to vigorously defend its own territorial sovereignty and main...

"FDA warns of 5 more hand sanitizers to avoid, growing list to 14"

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MAKE SURE TO READ THE LABEL . Methanol is very toxic, so what kind of people would put it in a hand sanitizer isn't even a question.  ...
Saturday, July 4

Yorktown wasn't actually the decisive battle of the War of Independence

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"A veritable hydra of resistance." Limping, asthmatic Patriot General Nathanael  Greene The Battle of Yorktown, f...
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I'm so glad those Awful White Men overthrew the British overlords

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The jawdropper is that it only took them seven years to do it. It was touch-and-go during those years, and it can be argued that without hel...
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Friday, July 3

Three entries at Sputnik's Photo Gallery for week of 6/27 - 7/3

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© AP PHOTO / GYORGY VARGA / MTI. The photograph was taken in Nagykanizsa, Hungary but I think it well conveys the mood in many societies...

Top Two T-Shirt Messages in 2021

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#2 Message: I SURVIVED 2020 #1 Message: shut up *********
Thursday, July 2

Scanning city sewers for early signs of a disease outbreak

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This is an idea whose time has come; although it's not completely new it's being taken up to a new level, prodded on by the Covid p...