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Monthly Archives: May 2023
Why the Carroll verdict might matter

Immediately after a jury in a New York federal court found that Donald Trump had sexually assaulted and then defamed E. Jean Carroll, two reactions …
Why the Carroll verdict might matter
Learning Greek, via Other Languages

I find it difficult to fit in the time to keep up all of my languages, so learning a new one must necessarily include reviewing the old ones, in some…
Learning Greek, via Other Languages
No Time for Truth

We don’t have enough time to fact-check every lie he told. – Jake Tapper, hosting the wrap-up of Trump’s CNN town hall This week’s featured posts are…
No Time for Truth
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SHALL WE EAT CAKE, OR WHAT?
“Let them eat cake” is the most famous quote attributed to Marie-Antoinette, the queen of France during the French Revolution. As the story goes, it was the queen’s response upon being told that her starving peasant subjects had no bread. Because cake is more expensive than bread, the anecdote has been cited as an example of Marie-Antoinette’s obliviousness to the conditions and daily lives of ordinary people. But did she ever actually utter those words? Probably not. From <https://www.britannica.com/story/did-marie-antoinette-really-say-let-them-eat-cake>HOWEVER, obviously the anecdote matched the feelings of many or it would not have trickled down to us.
The quote came to mind when reading about the jazza-ma-tazz of splurges in a number of high-rises, as revealed and commented upon by The Nation earlier this year: “Absurdly opulent offices defy the market’s gloom.” …Or would that be deny the market’s gloom?
“Take a look inside the most expensive…
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Normalizing Trump normalizes political violence | The Weekly Sift

In search of ratings, CNN is enabling the next Trump coup. Wednesday, CNN aired a townhall meeting in which an audience of New Hampshire Trump supporters got to address questions to their hero/demi…
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