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Dontcha just love how the media's preferred descriptor for the Muskrat has become "mercurial", in lieu of the (far more accurate) "bat-shit crazy"? futurism.com/elon-musk-ca...

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"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad"

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Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of Hell. www.vatican.va/content/fran...

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... by Steve Freeman

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From Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, a meditation on righting historical mistakes -- www.thebulwark.com/p/operation-...

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Some good news for a change -- Back after 12,500 years, Colossal Biosciences announces the de-extinction of the long-lost dire wolf! www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5uC...

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And so it begins ... How far from this to California's declaration of independence? www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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"Optimism and hope are not the same. Optimism is the belief that the world is changing for the better; hope is the belief that together we can make the world better. Optimism is a passive virtue, hope an active one. It needs no courage to be an optimist but it takes a great deal of courage to hope."

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Yale's Jason Stanley (author of "How Fascism Works") & Tim Snyder (author of "On Tyranny") emigrating to Canada. What do they know that we're about to find out? www.thestar.com/news/gta/pro...

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When the cruelty is the point, there need be no point to the cruelty.

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To understand Drumpf's 2025 decimation of the Department of Education, you need merely refer back to the 2016 race: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcM0...

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I know just what they'll do: Their mouths will hang open a minute or two, Then the Whos down in Whoville will all cry "Boo-Hoo!" www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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From Canada's perspective, we might as well be North Korea. In a certain sense, we ARE North Korea! deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-c...

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I know just what they'll do: Their mouths will hang open a minute or two, Then the Whos down in Whoville will all cry "Boo-Hoo!" www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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Ya think? "behind the scenes, administration insiders are starting to express doubts about the Pentagon chief’s judgment." www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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A roadmap from a perhaps unexpected ally -- www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...

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Gotta say I'm no fan of Dawkins -- esp. the way he reduced Anselm's ontological argument to a schoolyard spat -- but he's spot-on here:

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“It has always been the fate of republics hitherto to be destroyed by faction. Party-spirit has overpowered patriotism. It has been, therefore, feared by many of the best and wisest men that we should encounter the same peril and succumb to the same fate.” -- Harper’s Weekly on the election of 1864.

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Get ready for it -- here comes the TrumpJugend! www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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“As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” — Abraham Lincoln, Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838.

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I know just what they'll do: Their mouths will hang open a minute or two, Then the Whos down in Whoville will all cry "Boo-Hoo!" www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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I know just what they'll do: Their mouths will hang open a minute or two, Then the Whos down in Whoville will all cry "Boo-Hoo!" www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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I know just what they'll do: Their mouths will hang open a minute or two, Then the Whos down in Whoville will all cry "Boo-Hoo!" www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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I know just what they'll do: Their mouths will hang open a minute or two, Then the Whos down in Whoville will all cry "Boo-Hoo!" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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In case anyone is keeping score ...

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<sigh> Some days I feel I'm just talking to the wall ...

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An Irish blessing, a day late: May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields, and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of His hand.

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Here’s ta the guid Saint Patrick — Through strategy an’ stealth He druve the snakes from Ireland. Here’s a toastin’ to his health! … But not too many toastin's Lest we lose ourselfs an’ then Forget the guid Saint Patrick An’ see all them snakes again!

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The view from Nepenthe (Greek for "surcease from sorrow") south along the Big Sur coast:

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Too bad it couldn't have happened in Boston ... futurism.com/the-byte/cyb...

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When you think of how many people there must be praying to read a certain obituary in tomorrow morning's news, it really seems like proof that there is no god, doesn't it? Or, at the very least, if there is, he ain't listening.

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Waiting for three p.m. to wish all you Blueskyers a Happy Pi Day! (3 14 1500 ...)

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"More than 30 army chiefs among Washington's closest allies met in Paris on Tuesday without their U.S. counterparts. "The closed-door gathering of 34 army chiefs ... was a rare - and possibly unprecedented - convening without the U.S." www.moneycontrol.com/world/in-rar...

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“Respect for women is essential. Women’s rights and economic development within a country are highly correlated. Treating women properly is not just a moral position—which it is—or an American value—which it is. It is a strategic imperative." -- Gregg Hurwitz, Orphan X

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhlw...

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Seen outside a Canadian sandwich shop:

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I don't think it's enough for Canada simply to refuse to become the 51st state. They need to go on the offensive -- maybe by offering to adopt the US east and west coast states (CA, OR, WA, NY, NJ, PA, MD, MA, VT, NH, & ME) as Canadian provinces.

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