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May 13 2018
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 …
May 12 2018
Not Health and Fitness
I am absolutely unqualified to talk about things medical other than the lying on a gurney side which I’ve done quite enough of, thank you. Indeed when my physician says, as they did recently, “You have the constitution of a 90 year old,” I deem it a compliment since I’m 120+. Sometimes, when I’m at …
May 11 2018
Our Villagers
People hate you, and they are right to. The servile D.C. media by Ryan Cooper, The Week May 11, 2018 Michael Cohen got what are essentially huge bribes from corporations including AT&T and Novartis, as well as a firm tied closely to a Russian billionaire named Viktor Vekselberg, it was revealed this week. The expectation …
May 10 2018
Rudy needs a new job.
Well, not quite as expected. Giuliani gets fired by his current law firm, Greenberg Traurig, before Trump has a chance to do it. Giuliani’s Law Firm Undercuts His Statements as They Part Ways By Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman, The New York Times May 10, 2018 President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, abruptly …
May 10 2018
Faulkner
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. Black Cube A Visit Upstate The Moos and The Head-Butts A Tail told by, like, a really smart person with a very good brain, a stable genius. The cool mist settled in the hollows of the night as the idiot stood by the fence contemplating (as …
May 09 2018
Exceptional
A definition– American exceptionalism is an ideology holding the United States as unique among nations in positive or negative connotations, with respect to its ideas of democracy and personal freedom. By that definition the United States (America is two continents) can be exceptionally good or exceptionally bad. Here’s an example from the same Wikipedia article …
May 08 2018
More Stupid
Sanctions won’t hurt. All the other parties will ignore them (even if you have hopes for the Europeans, the Russians and Chinese will not participate). Military action is useless. Even proponents like Bolton admit it could only delay development of a nuclear device for 5 years. 0 < 10 as TMC puts it. Not only …