Seventy-five years of reading newspapers and only today I find out the National Equirer was the "go-to" national tabloid.
…I think I might describe this as passive agressive. But I don't, so I'll just call it dense.
It's Columbia University's Center for Student Success and Intervention.
Which looks to me like a disciplinary board.
But a really, really. really nice one.
This decline is “accelerating,” warns the study. “The essential problem is seen in starkly different terms by different segments of society and groups of political leaders.” There’s a right-wing narrative of decline and a left-wing one. Though they agree that something is broken in America, the two sides disagree, often in the extreme, on what to do about it.
Empires end, history records, but how?
Washington, D.C., April 26, 2024 - High-level officials inside the Nixon administration debated climate change and the impacts of sea level rise, extreme temperatures, and fossil fuel consumption as early as 1969, according to declassified documents posted today by the National Security Archive’s Climate Change Transparency Project.
Earth Day was earlier this week, the 22nd.
This identity is on the asexual spectrum, and it has its own flag: The colors are four stripes of blue, cyan, white, and gray. The blue represents strangers, the cyan acquaintances, white for lack of attraction, and gray for sexual attraction confusion.
…keeping up with this.
Avoid.
(I was fooling around with Edge, Microsoft's default web browser. It's one of the many variants of Google's Chrome currently littering the virtual landscape…and not a bad one, as these things go. This story just popped up on its overly busy Home Screen.)
It's mirrored on multiple servers. A search-engine query or just clicking on the link above will get you there. It's also in our Work Avoidance Hall of Fame, without the "the": Filed under J.
Answers every (relevant) question you ever had.
The cost of drinking contaminated water can last for decades. There is no safe level of exposure to lead, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It can cause developmental delays, difficulty learning and behavioral problems. Even low-level exposure can cause permanent cognitive damage, especially in developing children…
Is it any wonder we're "stuck"?
…is all it takes…
…for "ask" to become "demand."Students protesting on campuses across US ask colleges to cut investments supporting Israel
Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in pro-Palestinian encampments with a unified demand to end investments supporting Israel’s war in Gaza.
WASHINGTON — President Biden hailed Wednesday as “a good day for world peace” after signing into law a $95 billion foreign aid package…
…which includes $87 billion for war fighting (Ukraine and Israel), plus $8 billion for Taiwan (just in case) and, oh yeah, $1 billion for "humanitarian aid." (Maybe that's the world peace part.)
And something about TikTok. Who knows.
Pictures and footage of the horses were shared widely on social media. At least two horses were seen bolting through the streets and sidewalks. One smashed into a double-decker tourist bus.
Two of them, at least. Doing the careening. Household Cavalry fell off.
…I am — war both literally and figuratively — which is why I am firmly resolved to avoid as much of this acutely combative political year as I can. Which doesn't mean I won't vote in November — I will, and at the polls, like old people do. But it won't take me any six months to decide. And it doesn't mean I won't enjoy the ridiculousness of the thing, at least a little.
Like this lede in a Washington Post story this morning about the beginning of Trump's "hush money" trial that began yesterday.
NEW YORK — Donald Trump oversaw a “planned, coordinated, long-running conspiracy to influence the 2016 election…”“…It was election fraud, pure and simple,” Assistant District Attorney Matthew Colangelo told the jury inside a packed and heavily-guarded courtroom.
Change "conspiracy" to "campaign" and that's what every politician does, isn't it? The higher the office involved, the more planned, coordinated, and long-running it is. Some people, in fact, never stop campaigning. Or conspiring. (Not naming names here.)
And speaking of names, it's not really a hush money trial, is it? It's a bookkeeping trial. Thirty-four felony counts of not calling hush money "hush money."
Clearly, he wasn't trying to sell newspapers. As all the newspapers are.
This, from Ars Technica:
As Mr. Doctorow put it, “The legitimate world looks so much like a scam that it’s much easier to make a scam look like the legit world.”
Additionally, to help move dairy products that are less and less in demand, the Clinton Administration started Dairy Management Inc. in the 1990s. With an annual budget of $140 million, this offshoot of the Dept. of Agriculture works to get Americans to consume more dairy, even though the Dept. of Health and Human Services has conducted studies showing dairy is not very healthy to be consumed regularly, and 36% of Americans are lactose intolerant.
* This article was written in 2021. How are we doing so far? Well, I'm doing my part. The rest is up to you.
UPDATE: New York is not helping here.
