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[Americana:] After 3 tours in Iraq, Appalachian Trail victim Ronnie Sanchez...
Arelis R. Hernández and Tom Jackman, The Washington Post, May 18 at 5:53 PMThe physical injuries kept Ronnie Sanchez Jr. from moving as fast as he wanted on the Appalachian Trail, but it was the unseen...
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Updated 5/18/2019: Breaking News!!! On DC Litter Record Pick-up (the LPU...
See also: an encouraging article under the title: "Plastic Gets a Do-Over: Breakthrough Discovery Recycles Plastic From the Inside Out."image fromOn my quite not infrequent 45-minute jog (stroll might...
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I oversaw the U.S. nuclear power industry. Now I think it should be banned.
The danger from climate change no longer outweighs the risks of nuclear accidents.By Gregory Jaczko, The Washington Post, May 17Gregory Jaczko served on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 2005 to...
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Image of the past year: A Powerful President -- A Powerful Russia!
Igor Khakimov / TASSvia SL (spasibo!); from; some would say that a proper translation of sil'nyi is "strong"; but I prefer the "stronger" emphasis ... "powerful," an adjective bound to appeal to the...
View Article‘Playing Catch-Up in the Game of Life.’ Millennials Approach Middle Age in...
New data show they’re in worse financial shape than every preceding living generation and may never recoverJanet Adamy and Paul Overberg, The Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2019 2:35 p.m. ET; original...
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For Teens, Romances Where the Couple Never Meets Are Now Normal
A generation that lives online is redefining dating; ‘We only met for 20 minutes and that was the first and last time we ever saw each otherOnline relationships that bloom before the two parties ever...
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Quotation for the Day (machines vs. philosophy)
"Introduction to Philosophy was dropped for Society in the Age of Intelligent Machines."image (not from cited article) from--Liz Bowie, "Maryland’s small colleges saw the future, and it was bleak. Now,...
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[Americana:] Divorce cure: My year of the five boy friends
(iStock)By Leslie Morgan, The Washington PostMay 20 at 8:00 AMTwenty years into a marriage that included children, a minivan and three cats, my husband announced the following:Obviously, I haven’t...
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Where to spend Your Perfect Honeymoon
dailymail.co.ukNASA scientist claims astronauts could live in tunnel-like CAVES on the moon caused by ancient lavaThe idea was raised during a Reddit 'ask me anything' session with NASA experts Lava...
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How to make your lawyer snicker (so that, maybe, s/he'll reduce her/his fee) ...
image fromQ: What did the two lawyers call their daughter? A: Sue
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Image for the day: Ukrainian/Russian "Reconcialition"
atlanticcouncil.orgNazi-Soviet Pact Anniversary Can Help Zelenskiy Heal Ukraine’s Totalitarian TraumaBy Peter Dickinson // @Biz_Ukraine_Mag To mark the country’s WWII Memorial Day on May 8,...
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What Is Europe? Freedom, Slavery, Austerity or Nothing at All
As Europeans go to the polls in a Continental election, a New York Times reporter set out to find out what Europe means to Europeans in 2019.Katrin Bennhold, photographs by Andrew Testa, The New York...
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Workers ditching gig economy
from linkedinWorkers ditching gig economyShareUpdated 21 days agoAre gig companies between a rock and a hard place? A tightening U.S. labor market, with unemployment at a half-century low, is spiriting...
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Updated 5/26/2019: DC Litter Near-daily Pick-up (the LPU initiative) in the...
Sunday, May 19, 2019 See also: an encouraging article under the title: "Plastic Gets a Do-Over: Breakthrough Discovery Recycles Plastic From the Inside Out." See also (1)image fromOn my quite not...
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Trump as a "useful idiot"
E.J. Dionne Jr., "The Trump coverup no one is talking about: The emperor has no money,"The Washington Post, May 26; on the term "useful idiot," seeimage (not from article) fromExcerpt:“Normal”...
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Image for the day [From "The surreal life of George Papadopoulos"; below...
From The Washington Post
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Breaking News! Ex-police Reporter D. Brooks ("I the people") Repeats the...
The Welfare State Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It.A social entrepreneur in Britain shows the way.Dy David BrooksOpinion Columnist, The New York TimesMay 27, 2019; on Brooks' overuse of the word...
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Blast from the Past: Options for Ukraine (2005)
Foreign Policy in Focusimage (not from entry) fromUkraine should seriously consider the option of working with all parties involved in its current crisis–including the European Union, Russia, and the...
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What is hell?
image fromHell is looking at oneself in the mirror first thing in the morning [anon]
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How ‘Reset’ Man McFaul Helped Torpedo U.S.-Russia Relations
To get a sense of why Putin meddled in our elections one need go no further than the Obama administration's hijinks.Scott Ridder, The American Conservative, May 28, 2019; see alsoPresident Obama is...
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An electric scooter caught fire in downtown D.C. [or, "Come on Baby, light my...
It’s unclear what caused the Skip device to burst into flames, but the fire appeared to be concentrated around the battery.The fire appears to have started at the battery pack on the scooter. (Teddy...
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Sanctimonious, faux shrink, ex police reporter D. Brooks repeats the word...
The word is "person" (repeated four times) ...David Brooks, "When Trolls and Crybullies Rule the Earth: How technology reshapes consciousness."The New York Times, May 30, 2019; see also, on Brooks's...
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Image for the day: The Rough Riders
A 1898 cyanotype portrait of Rough Rider officers, including Theodore Roosevelt, left of center, under a tent in Montauk, on the eastern end of Long Island.Credit Frances Benjamin Johnston/Library of...
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[Russica] -- Dating back 200 years ago: The old PH-Russia ties
MANILA -- This week marks the 43rd year of establishment of diplomatic relations between the Philippines and Russia.It was on June 2, 1976, when the government of the Philippines forged formal...
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