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DJT endorsed Mehmet Oz.

Cu scuze d-lui Lorca:

"No te conoce el matador ni la higuera,

Ni caballos ni hormigas de tu casa.

No to conoce el nino ni la tarde

Porque el toro ha muerto para siempre."

Manfred Hauke wrote a nice intro to mariology (e.g. marianismo, mariolatry) back in 1996. Excerpts (with my emphasis added):

Simone de Beauvoir [...] pointed out the contrast between the ancient goddesses and Mary as early as 1949; whereas the goddesses commanded autonomous power and utilized men for their own purposes, Mary is wholly the servant ( Read more... )

I found out about CKAN by accident (which is Python based). It turns out that there is an attempt to normalize open data offered by govts and others. Here is the official showcase (which includes poor links to govt open data portals in CA, US, UK, SG, NL, AU, DK, RO, FR). It appears that DataPortals.org tracks all the open data portals much better.

Freddie DeBoer writes some strong fan opinions about Star Wars psychology and missed opportunities.

Wes Studi was interviewed by Unreserved back in 2019 and he had some strong opinions about Westerns and USian mythology building (~28').

I recently found out (again?) about DOSBox. It appears that Internet Archive has a whole archive of DOS games ( ( Read more... )

From the gulag, Solzhenitsyn wrote a little poem. Here is a snippet:

Дом не жжен, но трепан, граблен.

Чей-то стон стеной ослаблен :

Мать - не на смерть. На матрасе,

Рота, взвод ли побывал -

Дочь-девчонка наповал.

Сведено к словам простым :

НЕ ЗАБУДЕМ ! НЕ ПРОСТИМ !

КРОВЬ ЗА КРОВЬ и зуб за зуб

Robert Conquest translated it as:

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Long time ago, before the internet, all the puzzles and games were offline (and many did not require more than pencil and paper, or chalk and a sidewalk, or a chess board, or absolutely nothing).  Nowadays, as more and more games and puzzles are available online and a lot of providers are switching to a subscription or ad-funded model, maybe it's ( Read more... )

I am proud to know PJ Parmar and I wish I was half the man he is. Here is his 10 minute TED talk from 2018, and a 2021 Denver Post article about his Ardas family clinic and Mango House. In a previous lifetime, he wrote this book: 101 Countries. Snippets from his TED talk:

A study by Merritt Hawkins found that only 20 percent of the family doctors ( Read more... )