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Just wonderful writing on the 60 Minutes piece on President aMusk dismantling of USAID "The world's richest man cut off aid for the world's poorest people." Well done.

submitted 7 days ago • 312 comments

TUNE INTO NANCY AND SLUGGO THURSDAY

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller February 10,1944

submitted 14 days ago • 12 comments

STEP 1: Donald does something stupid. STEP 2: Donald is surprised there are consequences. STEP 3: Donald backs down. STEP 4: Donald lies, claiming things already agreed to are new concessions he forced by the stupid thing he did. STOP 5: REPEAT

submitted 20 days ago • 235 comments

New presidents always start by trying to unite the country. I just didn't think he'd start by uniting Canada, Mexico, Panama, Denmark, and China.

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It's not too late to cancel your flights

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

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I’ve been back in Illinois for a couple of days because my mom had a stroke, and we were all very worried. But this morning when I walked into her room she said her first complete sentence to me since I got here, which was “look at that big belly” so I think she’s going to be fine

submitted 27 days ago • 615 comments

I couldn’t resist. Free article.

submitted 28 days ago • 121 comments

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submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

The next four years. (Gahan Wilson)

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When Russia invaded Ukraine, the fear was that China would be emboldened to seize Taiwan. No one saw an incoming US President threatening to take Greenland by making Denmark an offer they couldn't refuse. And there was something about showerheads....

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Guess who's being asked to subsidize upgrades to the electric grid for data centers used by Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and crypto? Got a mirror?

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Paul Theroux on the expat. Much has been written about Huck and Jim (including Percival Everett's wonderfull novel James), but I was happy to see Theroux' mention of Pap Finn. Pap had no redeeming qualities and a good book could be written on Pap's feral childhood on that wild river.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

A shelf of Paul Theroux. Theroux, Morris, Newby, Heat-Moon, Eric Hansen, Dervla Murphy... It's been a golden age of travel writing.

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If up to RFK Jr., we will never have this success again. Thank you, Trump voters.

submitted 59 days ago • 64 comments

"Mistletoe (Viscum album). A parasitic plant which grows on trees. Druids used it to prepare magical drinks which gave strength, healed all illnesses, ... and made humans and animals fertile... It became a symbol of the winter solstice." Christian Ratsch, Dictionary of Sacred and Magical Plants

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submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Just ran into a buddy who showed me photos of the boat he's building inside a house he's renovating. Now instead of my usual 3 AM list of six decades of blunders, embarrassments, and stupid shit I've said, I can add this: How's he going to get that boat out of the house?

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