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Open thread 9/12/22
There’s so much we don’t know about the past. But it’s also amazing how much we do know about the past:
Continue reading →Tomorrow it will have been 21 years since 9/11
Tomorrow is 9/11. Twenty-one years is a long long time, and a lot has happened since then to America and to the world. And yet 9/11 still marks a kind of turning point. Never such innocence again, after 9/11. Here’s … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/10/22
This is from 1940, when the dial telephone was introduced. It seems not only from another time, but from another planet. Here’s the part where a woman goes on and on explaining much more than you ever needed to know … Continue reading →
Roundup
(1) New British PM Elizabeth (there’s that name again!) Truss has lifted the fracking ban. That certainly seems reasonable. But it’s not all that common for leaders to do something reasonable, is it? The end of the fracking moratorium is … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/9/22
She is so impressive and also so good at breaking down what she’s doing in order to teach othes:
Continue reading →Open thread 9/8/22
This Bee Gees song from 1974 is obscure, but I love it. They sound like a choir:
Continue reading →Murder in Memphis
A woman named Eliza Fletcher was forcibly abducted while jogging in the early morning in Memphis, and her suspected killer has been apprehended, with a wealth of evidence to tie him to the violent crime, including video of the abduction … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/7/22
Open thread 9/6/22
Happy Labor Day!
[NOTE: This is a slightly edited version of a previous post.] Labor Day is the bookend standing at the opposite end of summer from its holiday beginning, Memorial Day. July Fourth is summer’s early peak, with the promise of long … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/5/22
This guy has quite a story: He became a well-regarded professor of literature at Princeton after the war. He also wrote this memoir. Oh, and in the video he’s 98 years old.
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