TIP-TOEING WITH LOONS
NADAV: It’s difficult to understand how we aren’t gleefully waltzing toward a global war. VANDANA: And the real thing, not the isolated pseudo-conflicts we’ve been dabbling in for two decades. NADAV: Yeah. VANDANA: Indeed, that’s my sense. And I've been hearing others riffing about this. NADAV: These things just seem to spark off. Do they not? I'm no historian. VANDANA: Folks have to want it, I suppose. But there are loads of triggers and slopes. NADAV: And how many co
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HEZBOLLOCKS-BE-GONE
*beep-beep* *buzzz* *beep-beep*
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HEAT RASH
In recent weeks and months there has been a whole rash of articles about rising temperatures killing people. The reporting started with...
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WHERE ARE YOU FROM?
This is what I understood my ancestry to look like: My father’s family name is extremely English and my mother’s maiden name is a sort of anglicization of an Austrian surname, as I understand it. My maternal grandmother’s maiden name is also extremely English while my paternal grandmother’s could only be Scottish. And all of those folks and some of their parents and grandparents, like my parents and myself, were all born in Canada. Everyone else on the family tree I’m aware o
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