Rebuild or retreat? B.C. communities face tough choices after catastrophic floods | CBC News

Source: Rebuild or retreat? B.C. communities face tough choices after catastrophic floods | CBC News

The Week’s Best Cartoons 6/11

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There always seems to be one topic at the forefront that gets the most attention from the political cartoonists, and this week it is no surprise that it’s the televised hearings of the House Committee that has been tasked with investigating the events leading up to and during the attempted coup on January 6, 2021. And the second most popular topic, again understandably, is the gun insanity that has swept this nation. As she does so brilliantly every week, TokyoSand has gone through them and selected the ‘pick of the litter’ for our cartoon viewing pleasure. Please do click on the link at the end of this post to see all the cartoons, for what I have here is but a small sampling. Thank you once again, TS!


Here’s how editorial cartoonists covered the start of the January 6th Committee hearings.

be sure to check out the rest of the…

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Small Nuclear Reactors Still Have a Big Waste Problem – Mother Jones

Krall, who is now a scientist with Sweden’s nuclear waste company, got an answer: By many measures, the SMR designs produce not less, but potentially much more waste: more than five times the spent fuel per unit of power, and as much as 35 times for other forms of waste. The research was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences earlier this week.

Source: Small Nuclear Reactors Still Have a Big Waste Problem – Mother Jones

Santa Fe shooting survivor visited Uvalde to comfort town struck by tragedy | The Texas Tribune

Flo Rice poses for a portrait at her home June 2, 2022 in Santa Fe, Texas.

Flo Rice at her home in Santa Fe. Rice survived the 2018 mass shooting at Santa Fe High School, where she worked as a substitute teacher, but was shot six times in the legs. Credit: Mark Felix for The Texas Tribune

Source: Santa Fe shooting survivor visited Uvalde to comfort town struck by tragedy | The Texas Tribune

बेबस आंखें / Obliging Eyes

Kaushal Kishore

चोट चाहे कहीं भी लगे,
आंसू बहने लगते हैं
बेबस आंखों से,
गर आंखें भी
बगावत करने लगें,
फिर तूफान आना तय है…

👀👀👀👀👀👀

Wherever the injury occurs,
tears start flowing
from the obliging eyes,
If the eyes
start revolting
then the storm is sure to come…

–Kaushal Kishore

image: pinterest

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♫ You Can Call Me Al ♫

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If you asked me yesterday about a song titled “You Can Call Me Al”, I would have looked at you as if you had two heads, would have scratched my own head, and said, “Huh?”  I’ve heard the song many a time, but if I ever knew its title, I’ve long since forgotten!  Tonight, it’s late (2:30 a.m.) and I’m tired after a nearly sleepless night last night, so when Paul Simon popped into my head (I swear I need to remember to close that door!) I went in search of his best songs.  Of course, ‘best’ is relative and a matter of personal preference.  Anyway … a bit of background from the folks over at SongFacts …

  • Simon started recorded this song in South Africa, where he worked with local musicians and experimented with their sounds. He recorded with many different musicians while he was there, and he loved…

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Why Does It Have To Be This Way?

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We in this nation, around the globe in fact, are so divided that families have crumbled, friendships dissolved like a candy in hot water, marriages and even parent-child relationships gone in a blink of any eye.  Is this really who we are, or are we being led toward one side or another by those whose self-interest far outweighs their concern for us.

While yes, I know there are ideological differences between people based on their ‘order of values’, but beyond those relatively minor details, it seems that it should all be so simple.  For example … I cannot imagine a single human on this planet who wouldn’t grieve for the 19 children murdered in Texas last month, who wouldn’t do anything in their power to stop such a thing from ever occurring again.  And yet … we are so divided on who can own what types of guns and how…

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Te fuiste

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Te fuiste, infancia mía. Te vi partir, cuando más feliz me sentía en tu regazo, en medio de juegos y de risas, como un amor que, inesperadamente, se marcha y no vuelve más. Te fuiste, aunque seas tan mía. Me quedé, simplemente, con los juguetes, los sueños y las diversiones. Son constancia y pedazos de tu inolvidable presencia. Contigo caí y me levanté. Aprendí dentro de mi inocencia. Estás en mis recuerdos y en mis suspiros. Te fuiste, adolescencia querida, precisamente a la hora en que creía que eras una extensión de mi niñez azul y dorada; pero yo crecía y no me daba cuenta de que cada instante significaba la cercanía a una despedida. Fuiste el puente entre mi niñez y mi juventud. Te extraño tanto. Te fuiste, juventud añorada, tesoro mío, cuando pensaba que el mundo podía…

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