In the interview with Marie-Claire magazine’s French edition, Moix, the author of several prize-winning novels, added that women in their 50s were “invisible” to him. “I prefer younger women’s bodies, that’s all. End of. The body of a 25-year-old woman is extraordinary. The body of a woman of 50 isContinue Reading
The latest quote from Trump concerning the stalemate over funding his WALL: “I may declare a national emergency dependent on what’s going to happen over the next few days, we’re looking at it very strongly. We have a crisis at the border of drugs, of human beings being trafficked allContinue Reading
The military is something that never made any sense to me. I was never able to see any sensible reason for it. My dad spent time in uniform after being drafted during WWII. He never made much sense of it. We were all tremendously lucky that as an IT guyContinue Reading
Driving a new Ferrari Portofino, which starts at $215,000 Dave toured some of the burnt landscape on the elevated areas devastated by California’s recent horrific wild fires. Half way through the review he states…‘Of course, some of you are reading and thinking me crass for driving a Ferrari — ofContinue Reading
Following on the article Luis posted the divergence of identity between PC language and the values it identifies, this tale strikes my as an inversion what is elaborated in the first. In this instance, words are instrumentalized into a PC language, — a Politically Centrist vocabulary; its faithfulness to centrism,Continue Reading
Concerning the political power of words and the ramifications both positive and negative…..Doug Saunders in the Globe reveals stats that show that 80% of Americans believe the growing culture of political correctness and its terminology is a real problem nationwide.https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-culture-war-has-been-won-so-now-we-fight-about-words/ Stephanie Nolen writes a piece in the Globe about theContinue Reading
A new book by P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking sheds light on the background and current uses of subversive propaganda via social media. An early example of ‘fake news’ was used during WW2 by Germany via radio broadcast to British citizens featuring a commentator known as Lord Haw-Haw. NPRContinue Reading
‘No great civilization of the past has ever pulled this off, none!’ William Rathje former Univ. of Arizona garbage researcher commenting on the probability of success in the quest to achieve an optimal level of waste reduction. Matt Malone is an American dumpster diver who has been doing pretty wellContinue Reading
Our second week was spent in Larisa, Lena’s home, and Platamona, the beach town where her family spent their summers. We also went up to her mom’s reconstructed mountain village of Palaios [Old] Panteleimonas. The latter two are in a geographically stunning location, pretty much on the flank of MountContinue Reading
It is perhaps worthwhile thinking about how it became possible for the German banks to peddle loans for Greeks to buy their exports. A multiplicity of factors enter into any dynamic and the current economically driven social crisis involves some unique elements. Greece was crippled by WWII and the civilContinue Reading