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July 14th, 2021 - 7:32 pm § in Donald Trump, News Media, Politics

Top general likened Trump to Hitler

     Comparing with Hitler has long been taboo in American politics, and for good reasons. Nazism, the Holocaust, and World War 2 were uniquely evil. And when the Hitler analogy is used, it’s often misused, sometimes ludicrously as when rightwing provocateur Marjorie Taylor Greene recently [...]

July 14th, 2021 - 3:50 pm § in Health, Politics, Schools & Colleges

GOP governor forces students to mingle with infected people

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (photo), a Republican, just approved a law prohibiting that state’s public schools and universities from requiring Covid-19 vaccinations (see story here). There’s a case to be made. Making people get vaccinations is intrusive. While that’s not exactly what bus[...]

July 14th, 2021 - 2:39 pm § in Humor, Misc.

Why didn’t Lincoln get a Nobel Prize for his Gettysburg address?

One reason is because Nobel Prizes didn’t exist then. They were created by a will that Alfred Nobel signed on Nov. 27, 1895; came into being when the will was officially approved by Norwegian authorities on April 26, 1897; and weren’t awarded until 1901 (read history here). The recipient[...]

July 14th, 2021 - 11:28 am § in Biden, China, Foreign Affairs

No “hotline” to Beijing?

     “The Biden administration is examining the possibility of setting up an emergency hotline with the Chinese government similar to the so-called ‘red phone’ established between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, which allowed for direct communication with the Kr[...]

July 14th, 2021 - 12:47 am § in Humor, Misc.

Video: A day in the life of a cat

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