Orange Snowflake 0
Connie Schultz comments on Donald Trump’s search for a safe space.
Looking Stuff Up Is Important 0
I’m currently listening to The Mystery of 31 New Inn by R. Austin Freeman, who is distinguished as the first mystery novelist to employ forensic science in his novels.
All the Librivox audio books are read by volunteers. In this particular reading, reference is made to Trichinopoly cigars (those of you who have read The Canon may recall references to them).
The volunteer who reads this chapter refers to them as try-KEEN-o-poh-ly cigars.
Words fail me.
(Otherwise, the reader does an excellent job.)
The Pusher Men 0
The Bangor Daily News reminds us that today’s Big Pharma is but the most recent manifestation of a long American tradition of making fortunes from opiates.
Oath Keepers
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Shaun Mullen notes that those mentioned in the title are scarce amongst the majority party in the United States Senate.
False Idol 0
Farron suggests that hardcore Trump supporters have morphed into a cult.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Exercise courtesy on our highways and byways.
Facebook Frolics 0
The Des Moines Register’s Rekha Basu recounts a tale of tangling with Facebook’s how-dare-the-Zuckerborg-call-them-standards for advertisements.
Honest to Pete, Dali never created anything so surreal.
