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May 15 2019
Not Pragmatic
Among my many personal failings is that I rarely resist the opportunity to say ‘I told you so.’ When on the 9th, a little less than a week ago, I drew your attention to the Ocasio-Cortez/Sanders 15% Usury Cap out of a recognition of its fundamental justice and economic sanity. I am gratified but not …
May 15 2019
Cs And Ds Make Degrees
Four Yorkshiremen You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o’clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When …
May 14 2019
Kristallnacht
Y’all stop being Fascist and I’ll stop talking about it. Kristallnacht was- a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians. The German authorities looked on without intervening. The name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows …
May 14 2019
#49 of 196
Fully in the 75th percentile or to give it a letter grade, a solid ‘C’. Oh, that’s the United States Ranking in Gender Inequality. Desi Lydic: Abroad Sweet Georgia Brown
May 13 2019
Letters of Surrender
Gen. Washington to Gen. Cornwallis, October 18, 1781 To avoid unnecessary Discussions and Delays, I shall at Once, in Answer to your Lordship’s Letter of Yesterday, declare the general Basis upon which a Definitive Treaty and Capitulation must take place. The Garrisons of York and Gloucester, including the Seamen, as you propose, will be received …
May 13 2019
Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood
I’m telling you, Gritty is a Leftist/Anarchist Icon! (Really, really HBO? Cersei stands at the balcony and does nothing at all, even blink? This is the lamest last stand since Teutoburger Wald!) Ahem. Bill Nye demonstrates the effect of Mentos on Diet Coke. Later he illustrates how variations in amount of Propellant and levels of …
May 12 2019
Happy Mother’s Day
A DocuDharma tradition now on The Stars Hollow Gazette. I tease my mother by calling her Emily after Emily Gilmore both because overall my family reminds me very much of the Gilmores and because she’s never met a brand name she didn’t like whereas I’m perfectly content to buy generic. I thank her among many …
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