An old Arabian Fable adapted from a translation by W. Somerset Maugham in 1933. There was a merchant in Bagdad who went to the Market to buy provisions and he was jostled. When he turned he saw it was Death and Death made a threatening gesture, Shaken he took his fastest horse and fled to …
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Jul 09 2020
A Win, Win?
I peg you as a “Glass is Half Empty” kinda guy. What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same and nothing you did mattered? “Pretty much sums it up for me.” So far, MSNBC has been “Glass is Half Empty” based on it not being …
Jul 09 2020
Please don’t make me stay home from school again.
Oh, yeah. > NEA Prez: ‘I Double Dog Dare Donald Trump To Sit In A Class Of 39 Sixth Graders And Breathe’ By Susie Madrak, Crooks and Liars 7/08/20 So now Trump is going to bully state governors into reopening the schools — without paying for adequate preparation. New Day’s Alysin Camerota asked Lily Eskelsen …
Jul 08 2020
Back To School
Sending children to rot for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week in a cesspool of pus is an incredibly stupid idea that I would not allow any child of mine to participate in (no matter how much they wanted to hang with their friends) and would sue to prevent should the District get …
Jul 08 2020
Cartnoon
Circus folk. My Aunty Mame has been wearing Harlequin Whiteface for 50 years. Walking a tightrope: circuses warn they will go bust ‘within two weeks’ by Dalya Alberge, The Guardian Wed 8 Jul 2020 The government is facing urgent calls to save Britain’s 250-year-old circus tradition with companies warning that they will go bust within …
Jul 07 2020
More Corona
Sung to the tune of My Sharonna. From PBS Frontline– The Virus: What Went Wrong? The lime is only there to keep out the bugs. You’re not supposed to shove it in the bottle. Ick.
Jul 07 2020
Saving Cristo Redentor
“Bring out your Dead!” Well thank goodness we’ll be around to do it as Bolsonaro might be indisposed for a while. Brazil’s Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus By Terrence McCoy, Washington Post July 7, 2020 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has sought repeatedly to minimize the coronavirus as he urges the country back to work, …
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