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Two From WaPo
In these turbulent times, I think it is vital to subscribe to one or more news sources. I have a subscription to the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Atlantic and give to NPR. I find WaPo's reporting especially insightful. Here are two articles from today ( Read more... ) -
Winter fun
We were originally predicted to get 11 inches of snow yesterday. Instead we got maybe 4 and a severe ice storm.
Which caused one of my trees to come down. Luckily, it missed the house but it did hit my deck. My contractor will be here in a couple of days (he's without power currently) to assess the damage. Oh joy. -
Movie Review: The Favourite
I saw this last night and I really liked it. However, if you don't like your movies weird and you don't have a dark sense of humor, you may not enjoy it. (Let me put it this way - I thought the novel "Gone Girl" was the funniest thing I had read in a long time ( Read more... ) -
Politics: British Jews return to Germany
In what I can only call irony of ironies, as Brexit is unleashing a wave of Antisemitism, descendants of Jews who fled Germany due to rise of Nazism, are now looking to return. Germany is seen by many as currently the most non discriminatory country in Europe.
here is the full article -
The boys are back in town: Spawn News
Many of you have been reading this journal for many years and as a result, have basically seen my sons grow up. And since Carly so sweetly asked, here's an update on the evil duo ( Read more... ) -
Happy New Year!
It's been forever since I posted but I'm going to try to be around more in the new year!
How is everyone? My life has been good but busy aside from being scared about the direction the country is headed in due to the orange idiot. -
Stop Betsy Devos
There are a host of reasons why this supremely unqualified woman should not be Secretary of Education, but all you really need to know is that in Michigan where she has reshaped education since 1993, reading and math scores have plummeted ( Read more... ) -
Movie Review: Arrival
I'm trying to see a bunch of the Oscar noms before the big day, so I saw this a few days ago ( Read more... ) -
FIGHT BACK
I'll be posting about political stuff that people need to be aware of in some other posts, but first ( Read more... ) -
Why this lie is important
Yesterday, press secretary Sean Spicer had this to say to the press: (I am copying this from The Atlantic)
Yesterday, at a time when our nation and the world was watching the peaceful transition of power and, as the president said, the transition and the balance of power from Washington to the citizens of the United States, some members of the ( Read more... )