One of my favorite podcasts is the In Our Time BBC podcast. It’s Melvyn Bragg questioning a truly amazing collection of experts on a very wide range of topics, and having tea.
One of my favorite podcasts is the In Our Time BBC podcast. It’s Melvyn Bragg questioning a truly amazing collection of experts on a very wide range of topics, and having tea.
… And fire up the “Streisand Effect.” A Canadian cartoonist was fired for a cartoon of Donald Trump.
I sent a few of these out last week; jazzlet, CJH, avalus, mail is on its way to you. If you don’t get a box in … a while, let me know. [rq, I messaged you for an address, if you want one let me know where to send it. Yours is already made and is sitting on my kitchen counter]
You probably recall the NSA’s lie about that they were only monitoring citizen’s “metadata” during their illegal data-collection program.
Trumpish rhetoric:
Many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. So this week it’s Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after?
I’m referring, of course, to the US president.
We’ve finally had a break in the weather for a few days, so the crew jumped on the first bright day to pour the slab.
We should be very, very careful about believing anything we are told regarding aircraft being shot down, and where they are shot down.
My friend Jenna sent me a care package of bones. I immediately started putting them in mold boxes and pouring silicone.
The disaster that is looming ahead of us is nebulous, and its vagueness has made it incomprehensible: we focus on a few signs and indications and hope that better heads and wise leaders prevail.
