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Right on schedule, we’ve developed the great, great, greatest plan for medical care in the world. We haven’t copied England’s failing National Health, with its long, long waits for things like hip and knee replacements. We haven’t followed the Canadi... More »
You know when I look back at photos of my great-grandparents’ generation, I can’t help but to feel a bond and comradery. They were tough. I mean they shaved with straight razors. My great-grandpa was a farmer and a lumberjack and a carpenter and a fisherma... More »
Animal Cruelty I am against eating Non Veg, but still I used to be sitting against Non Veg eaters in restaurant as I don’t have any option. Most of my friends are Non Vegetarian and they will be eating mutton. I have love for goat but I can’t stop ... More »
The January 2017 edition of Coastlines, the UCSB alumni magazine, doesn’t display a sensational sunset view, plans for a new building or honor a Nobel laureate with a cover photo. Instead, the editors chose a drawing of a woolly mammoth with the alluring hea... More »
If Congress was composed of teenagers, laws intended to rein-in outrageous parental behavior would be passed with lightening speed, proving that teens are actually capable of doing something quickly. Breaking news stories such as the following would flood main... More »
Though spending a month abroad could be possible, a year away fanciful, or four years in another country beyond imagining, at least two million Americans are suddenly thinking seriously about renting a villa on the other side of their nearest ocean or continen... More »
Even if your town has public consolation spaces where you can be bear-hugged by like-minded total strangers, that really doesn’t help PESS, especially if the hosts include complimentary coffee. The coffee only keeps you awake longer. Here psychologists and l... More »
By Edward Stanton 19 September 2016 It’s been almost sixty years since William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick’s The Ugly American rose to the top of bestseller lists, ran through twenty printings and stunned both the reading public and the foreign policy co... More »
I’m the “malware” infecting your computer. I’m using the “quotes” because, frankly, I find the term a little snippy and judgmental. And, when I say “computer,” of course, what I really mean is: computer, laptop, netbook, tablet, phone, that wei... More »
Not yet Arikara, with three lone speakers left, or Lushootseed, with none at all; not even critically endangered like Wintu-Nomaki, Upper Tanana, and hundreds of others; until last week, English had narrowly escaped listing as an imperiled language. Although... More »
In a recent excerpt from Maria Popova’s “Brainpickings,” she cleverly urges the reader to discover one of novelist John Steinbeck’s most intimate explorations, which were originally written as letters addressed to his two young sons. The culmination of... More »
trump: noun; deceit, fraud, trickery; of no value; rubbish; nonsense. The Second Edition of Webster’s New International Edition of the English Language: Unabridged appeared in 1934; contained more than 300,000 entries, and took decades to assemble. Now a... More »