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Writer, picture-taker, lover of beagles. Ottawa-based (not that there is anything wrong with that), Atlantic Canadian adjacent. Quelqu'un qui aime les deux solitudes du Canada.
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Prefer the posters about the space race. "IN THE NAME OF PEACE."
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Calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. Wandering the streets of Kensington market in an oversized bomber jacket makes you a king.
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Leaving this data is beautiful post on left-handedness here. For funsies.
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It is not the creation of a new community, but for those with the means to do so, a donation to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) would help them do their important legal work. They are going to be very busy over the next 4 years.
Donate to the ACLU | search.app/4gm9kAHWZ1zD...
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You don't say. I wonder why that would be?
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Stopped in Syracuse about 2 years ago at a pub in March; while they were primarily a burger joint, they had a special lent menu (including their version of filet o'fish) for the practicing Catholics.
Dominus vobiscum.
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εὕρηκα
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A complicated man, then. Having been reading a lot about those recently.
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Even if I really want it to be true? This seems unfair, somehow.
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For no particular reason, am sending this link to a study about the rise of mafia states done by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace more than a decade ago. Interesting use of emissaries.
Mafia States | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace search.app/4J6C7diBJBvn...
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This is my favorite Lawren Harris piece: North Shore, Lake Superior,1924. In the National Gallery of Canada.
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Wondering where to find them.
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Thank you Adam. Pants deserves all the treats.
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Same. Name is Clark.
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Ouch.
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Pope hats are always appropriate, Ken.
Okay, maybe not for audiences with the (real) Pope.
But otherwise, sure.
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In contrast with the expectation in Ottawa that the Prime Minister send their kids to public schools - a very good school, typically, but that is kind of the point. The current Prime Minister, his predecessor, their predecessors, back to the current PM's father.
A worthwhile Canadian tradition...
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Pride comes before a fall.
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Have you met Senator Kennedy (R-LA), who, despite his degrees from Vanderbilt, University of Virginia Law School, and Magdalen College, Oxford, sounds and acts like a poor country lawyer crossed with Foghorn Leghorn?
It isn't that he is stupid so much as it seems to think his constituents are.
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Mornin'
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My grandmother used to refer Americans as "tax cheats and slave-owners", which I always found a little harsh. But only a little.
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At various points, and for various groups, it has been very convenient that there are two countries that share a (mostly) northern border. Loyalists, enslaved Africans, Indigenous Peoples, Draft dodgers to name a few.
A poet from Vermont noted that good fences make good neighbours. Just so.
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Ah. I see. Goodbye.
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Pograms, but those were mostly against Jews.
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1 Canadian; many with Ukrainian roots live here.
2 Hearst owns lots of newspapers but skipped out on a press presence north of the border.
3) I accept premise that fascist doesn't equal communist, though not sure "people feel better being beaten with a stick because it is called "the people's stick"
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Apologies. But it did seem like a point of difference.
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Fewer Holodomors?
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"...It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
Macbeth (Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow)
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I love the interior shots that you take. Always something surprising / interesting going on.
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Chimera, then?
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We return to things that brought us joy, or at least the possibility of a different perspective.
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An arras is a tapestry that's hung as a decoration, especially one decorated with complex stitched designs. There's a famous reference to an arras in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, when Polonius hides in an alcove behind an arras to eavesdrop.
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The flogging will continue until morale improves.
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Scarberia. Please.
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Assistant to the Manager.
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On the other hand, his pardon of his son suggests Biden is all too aware of what the once and future guy is capable of, and what things are going to be like, post-inauguration.
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A fairytale of new york, you say...
youtu.be/j9jbdgZidu8?...
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Better than "Slaughter of the Innocents" or "Our Lady of Sorrows". Even a St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes.
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Thank you; yes, even in the fog.
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Olfactory ethics?
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Thank you.
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There were always people hoping to "heighten the contradictions"; what is less clear is where the lost generation / Harlem Renaissance / artistic flourishing is happening.