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Life
is wonderful, but sadly it doesn’t last forever! 2019 saw its fair
share of historical greats shaking off this mortal coil in the arts and
entertainment fields , with many iconic...
Shannon
Lee, Bruce Lee’s daughter, is suing a Chinese fast food chain for $30M.
Real Kungfu has been using an image that greatly resembles Bruce Lee
since 2004. Their restaurants...
Utopia – you are standing in it!
Originally
posted on ThinkMarkets: by Arash Molavi Vasséi In a previous post,
Andreas refers to George Selgin’s recent discussion of the place of
fractional reserve banking...
The problems with the MMT-derived banking theory
3 hours ago
United
Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System
Network|Tuesday, December 31, 2019 As Putin Marks 20th Anniversary of
Moscow Apartment Bombings That Helped...
United
Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System
Network|Monday, December 30, 2019 An Attempted Thermidor in Struggle to
Oust Trump: Washington Post, New...
Sustainable Pulse
In
the West African country of Togo, it is now prohibited to ‘import,
market or use glyphosate and any product containing it ‘. The decision
was formalized just before Christmas...
The
disgraced Chinese scientist who led the genetic editing of human babies
was sentenced to three years in prison today for undertaking illegal
medical practices. Source: Daily...
sunshine hours
South / North
South / North
My grandma is an environmental scumbag
3 days ago
Stagecraft and Statecraft
BRAHMA
CHELLANEY, Project Syndicate International law today is powerful
against the powerless, and powerless against the powerful. As long as
this is true, a rules-based global...
Why India-Japan ties matter more than ever
10 days ago
Brahma
Chellaney, The Hindustan Times Whereas India-China and Japan-China ties
are unlikely to become non-adversarial in the near future, the
forthcoming summit between prime...
Ramani's blog
Diane Ravitch's blog
I
just opened my email and discovered this brilliant post by Audrey
Watters, whose critical voice on EdTech is indispensable. Watters lists
the 100 biggest EdTech debacles of the...
Garrison Keillor on the Traditions of New Year’s Eve
20 hours ago
I
recently subscribed to Garrison Keillor’s daily “Writer’s Almanac.” He
sends poems and interesting stories. Here is one from today’s missive:
Today is New Year’s...
Robert Shepherd’s Not Really 2020 Resolutions
21 hours ago
Pasco Phronesis
With
Christmas landing mid-week, the late night shows were in repeats this
week, if not pre-empted. Of the repeats, one that comes close to being
included here is Friday’s (December...
With
the end of the year fast approaching, most shows wrapped their new
episodes for the week last week. As has been the case the last couple
of years, the pickings were slim. A segment...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By
Paul Homewood You’ll be pleased to learn if the Siberian climate does
not get you this year, nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and
rioting most certainly will! After...
By
Paul Homewood Matt Ridley launches the counter attack on the BBC and
the vexatious Bob Ward, with this piece in Reaction: I was asked to
appear on the Today program on Saturday 28...
Outgoing BP CEO: fossil fuels essential for decades
20 hours ago
2019
science: Absolutely no climate alarm No alarm on every aspect: stable
polar ice, normal sea level rise, no consensus, growing snow cover, less
tropical storms, tornadoes...
CO2
concentrations rose from 345 ppm to 398 ppm in the 29 years from 1985
to 2014. Mainstream scientists sympathetic to the anthropogenic global
warming (AGW) paradigm have nonetheless...
NEPC Blog Post of the Day
Curmudgucation:
Fordham: Teachers Are Downloading Junk Fordham Institute, the
right-tilted thinky tank and tireless ed reform advocacy group, just
released a new study that actually...
The
Conversation: 5 New Ways for Schools to Work with Families Text
messages, email alerts, open houses, fundraising appeals, robocalls –
parents know the drill. They are inundated...
Victor
Davis Hanson // Fox News Former FBI Director James Comey and Deputy
Director Andrew McCabe, former CIA Director John Brennan and former
Director of National Intelligence...
A Russian Under Every Bed
13 days ago
Victor
Davis Hanson // National Review The three-year-long effort to abort the
Trump presidency — now culminating with a manipulated impeachment
effort — has warped U.S. foreign...
When Hate Becomes an Agenda
13 days ago
Some
critics of this adaptation have commented that it's unlike the
other Little Women films or that not everything that happens with this
movie is exactly how the novel does it...
Some Housekeeping at the End of the Teens
11 hours ago
As
the 'Teens come to an end, the 'Twenties are not looking very promising
-- that is, to people into peace, health, prosperity, justice and
equality. The post Some Housekeeping at...
The Worst Films of 2019
12 hours ago
Having
tracked the libertarian “movement” for much of my life, I believe it is
now pretty much hollowed out, at least in terms of flow. One branch
split off into Ron Paul-ism and...
Markets in everything
18 hours ago
…if
you stay in the hotel bedroom created by Christopher Samuel, don’t rush
to post a scathing review. He has actually designed it to be as
annoying as possible (while remaining...
Lloyd Lofthouse
Originally
posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Today in the Washington Post, Eric
Holder criticized Bill Barr for his aggressive, partisan support of
Trump. Holder was Obama’s...
Originally
posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Happy Thanksgiving! Today is a day when
we pause and give thanks to whatever deity we worship (or not) for the
blessings we enjoy: our freedom...
Opinions differ about the future. But hasn't that always been the case?
A
news release from the U.S. Census Bureau said that the nation’s
population growth is slowing, especially in California and New York,
which may lose seats in Congress...
MintPress News
While
poverty, inequality and social and economic dislocation that breed fear
and resentment of the other continue to grow, the problem of racist
attacks is bound to increase. The...
In
his column entitled “The Secrets of Jewish Genius,” Bret Stephens
pondered the question why Jews had achieved so much despite constituting
such a small part of the world’s...
Made from Truth and Lies
Bushfires
in Australia so big they generate pyrocumulonimbus starting more
fires(tags:Australia weather fire Doom )Mansplaining convention coming
to Orlando - charges women...
The
Dazzling Designs of Alpine Lake Ice Formations(tags:Ice water beautiful
Germany )Hard work and success - how interlinked are they?(tags:work
success )Syd Mead, Blade Runner...
A
previously unknown autoinflammatory condition has come to the fore
thanks to a team of global experts, who were also able to identify its
root cause...
A
new study finds an association between the Western dietary pattern,
which is high in unhealthful fats and sugars, and age-related vision
loss.
- New research in mice investigates the possibility that MDMA, a potentially addictive drug, may help in the context of mental health therapy.
Why Did the Blackout End?
15 hours ago
It
does, indeed, seem that the Bernie blackout is over, and this has led
to a rash of speculation and paranoid theories. A lot of Sanders
supporters seem to think that the evil forces...
Joe the Schmoe
a day ago
Believe
it or not, Biden’s statement that he would consider a Republican
running mate was not the most damning, disqualifying thing he has said
in the last couple of days.Sure, anybody...
Home Again
2 days ago
- Home again after driving all day and it’s nice to be typing this on my own computer v. Helena’s when we were in Poland, or on my phone when we were in the car which was even awkward just...
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