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Tuesday, 25 September 2018
Protesters chanting "We believe survivors" drive Ted Cruz out of a D.C. restaurant.
BREAKING. Activists just chased @TedCruz out of a fancy Washington DC restaurant, chanting “We Believe Survivors!”Cruz has been friends with creep Kavanaugh for 20 years. Now Cruz is on judiciary committee hearing his testimony. Fascists not welcome! #CancelKavanugh pic.twitter.com/7mx6Tc32za— Smash Racism DC (@SmashRacismDC) September 25, 2018 Here's...
Tea or Chai?
The word used for 'tea' in most languages around the world is derived from Chinese. However not all languages derive the word 'tea' from the same Chinese word. Some languages get their word for tea from the Mandarin 'chá', while in other languages the word tea derives from the Min Nan Chinese word 'te'. The result is that in most languages around...
Monday, 24 September 2018
I've always been afraid to go for a walk alone in the woods...
... but I did it today. At Blue Mound:I had the Indian Marker Tree Trail completely to myself. Beautiful!Talk about anything you want in the comments.The long vi...
The point at which Brett Kavanaugh almost moves himself to tears: "I was focused on trying to be number 1 in my class and being captain of the varsity basketball team."
From the Fox News interview that aired just now.ADDED: Kavanaugh (and his wife) gave a strong performance. He stuck to absolute denials, and he was asked the question I wanted to hear — did he ever drink to the point of a memory blackout — and he said he did not.AND: There are so many things that might have made him cry, and clearly he didn't...
"Brett Kavanaugh said Monday he was a virgin in high school and college..."
The full Kavanaugh interview will air at 7 Eastern on Fox News.And, I'm listening to Fox News now and hearing Brit Hume saying something very close to what I said this morning. I said:The new allegations — from Avenatti and The New Yorker — are, I think, helping Kavanaugh's case.... After all the careful work creating credence and empathy for Christine...
3 brothers demonstrate the problem of men — as opposed to boys — in shorts.
From a huge collection of adults recreating their childhood photographs (which made me laugh out loud about 20 times).The problem of men in shorts is — as I've been saying for years — that they look like enlarged boys. It's self-infantilizing. But that's hilarious as a...
"These are smears, pure and simple. And they debase our public discourse ... But they are also a threat to any man or woman who wishes to serve our country."
"Such grotesque and obvious character assassination — if allowed to succeed — will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from service. I will not be intimidated into withdrawing from this process. The coordinated effort to destroy my good name will not drive me out. The vile threats of violence against my family will not drive...
China's Religious Re-Education Camps
Up to one million people in China have been detained by the Chinese government because of their religion. Uighurs, Kazakhs and other Muslims in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have been arrested by the Chinese authorities and imprisoned in re-education camps. People have been arrested and imprisoned for having 'abnormal' beards, for wearing...
Life in the Year 2100
According to most current models of climate change life in the year 2100 is going to resemble the most dystopian visions of the future cooked up by writers of science fiction. We can look forward to a world which suffers from extreme heat, rising seas and practically unbreathable air.For example, MIT recently modeled how climate change could impact...
