"The Christ we love, before whom we prostrate ourselves and who is our example, does not look like an All Blacks rugby forward." ...
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Showing posts with label CULTURAL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CULTURAL. Show all posts
"... The Messenger... is a new publication to me. It's been around since May..."
"... and was started by the former owner of The Hill. I'll keep an eye on it. Here, it seems focused on protecting President Biden....
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The NYT article "Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and a MAGA Meltdown" is a tad disingenuous.
The politics writer, Jonathan Weisman, informs us that Taylor Swift "is driving the movement behind Donald Trump bonkers" and the...
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"I’m going to have to say it, and I’m sorry because I know UFO people roll their eyes at the word balloons."
"But they need to get over it because balloons of various kinds — high-altitude weather balloons, cosmic-ray research balloons, sound-d...
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"Many nurses admit: They feel repulsed by our bodies and do not want to touch us. Doctors are..."
"... more likely to view us as a waste of their time and have less desire to help us. We are hence, unsurprisingly, far more likely to ...
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"No one should have to listen to a few people – standing bravely behind fake names – lob racist or misogynistic taunts at them, or others."
"And a forum for ideas should not involve running debates on whose mother does what to whom. Allowing that only elevates bad behavior a...
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor said she’s 'tired' and 'working harder than I ever had'.... 'And to be almost 70 years old, this isn’t what I expected.'"
Bloomberg reports on an appearance at UC Berkeley law school. "Cases are bigger. They’re more demanding. The number of amici are gre...
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"Mr. Trump’s wing is, by a comfortable margin, the largest and most dominant force in his party."
"No power center in the Republican Party can exist without the blessing of his movement, and we have yet to see a national political fi...
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"There is no threat to humans from wolves. I live in northern Minnesota wolf country, and wolves avoid people like the plague."
"I've come across them when walking in the woods and they always run away. The two most dangerous animals for me are very large and...
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"Cities are no longer filling with vaulting, flowing, gooey, non-orthogonal buildings engineered through advanced computing power."
"Architecture has been hit by a new sobriety. Tradition, apparently, is back.The reaction against ultramodern architecture arrived slow...
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"After months of languid buildup in which he held only a single public campaign event, Mr. Biden has thrown a series of rallies across battleground states, warning that democracy itself is at stake in 2024."
"He sent two of his most trusted White House operatives to take the helm of his re-election campaign in Wilmington, Del., after Mr. Tru...
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"To the annoyance of his neighbours, he let off steam by running around the flat or jumping up and down on the bed..."
"... making a noise that reverberated through the building’s flimsy walls. It was this, Béatrice recalled, that led her to learn what w...
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"Bill Hayes, an actor and singer whose 2,141 episodes of 'Days of Our Lives' over five and a half decades constituted the daytime drama version of an ultramarathon..."
"... and whose top-selling 1955 single, 'The Ballad of Davy Crockett,' remains seared into the memories of the baby boom gener...
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"House Republicans on Sunday released two articles of impeachment against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary..."
"... charging President Biden’s top immigration official with refusing to uphold the law and breaching the public trust in his handling...
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"The justice department found [Andrew] Cuomo 'repeatedly subjected' women in his office to non-consensual sexual contact, ogling and gender-based nicknames...."
From "DOJ says Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed 13 women/The former governor’s lawyer says he was never interviewed" (Politico). I...
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