We’ll get to Lebensraum in a bit.
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Big Agriculture Is Leading Us Into the Bird Flu Abyss: The federal government’s deference to agriculture industry interests has put the US at risk of a public health crisis.
How The Polio Vaccine Destroyed Trust In Healthcare (a bit of a misleading title, but not entirely wrong)
“Our real problem is not so much a healthcare crisis as it is a political and economic one.”
A Disastrous Development in Our Response to Disasters
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The art of monotasking: “Being busy” doesn’t necessarily mean we’re doing what matters. Focusing your attention on only one task at a time is the secret to performing tasks correctly.
The Best Reviewed Broadway Shows of 2024
A book on Albany’s railroad history? Yes, please…
Embiggen – defined earlier than the Simpsons
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What era?
A real meditation on American greatness
When people would talk about MAGA, liberals wanted to know which era was the “great” one they wanted to go back to. Many thought they were talking about the 1950s before integration. Or the 1920s before the Great Depression and FDR regulations. Maybe they meant the 1880s and 90s during the Gilded Age.
I would have picked any of those. But I did not have on my bingo card the 1820s. We’re going back to the Monroe Doctrine era. The Daily Signal, a right-wing online publication, favorably suggested the same. The piece by Jarrett Stepman ends: “If Trump does revive some form of the Monroe Doctrine, it could represent a much-needed return to tradition and to a stronger foundation for U.S. security in an increasingly dangerous world.”
Suddenly, the January 7 press conference made sense. djt said he’d be renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.”
“The once and future president also doubled down on his aims to acquire Greenland, retake control of the Panama Canal, and put pressure on Canada to change its trade relations with the United States” which he voiced before Christmas.
Here’s former Trump national security adviser Robert O’Brien on Fox News:
It’s strategically very important to the Arctic which is going to be the critical battleground of the future because as the climate gets warmer, the Arctic is going to be a pathway that maybe cuts down on the usage of the Panama Canal.
Or MAYBE we’re going to become 1930s Germany. Lebensraum is “the policy of Nazi Germany that involved expanding German territories to the east to provide land and material resources for the German people while driving out Jewish and Slavic people.”
PAY to play.
The President Can Self-Pardon, but It Would Be an Impeachable Offense (CATO Institute, Dec 2020)
MUSIC
Bemba Colorá-Sheila E. ft. Gloria Estefan on Jimmy Kimmel; I see Rebecca Jade!
Coronation Procession by Ruth Gipps
You Get What You Give – New Radicals
Love In Action – Utopia
Rocket 88 – Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats
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Down By The Riverside – Elvis Presley · Carl Perkins · Jerry Lee Lewis · Johnny Cash. I bought this CD after I saw the Million Dollar Quartet musical
The theme from the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon show – Midtown
Tomorrow – Julie Benko and Cantor Azi Schwartz
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Sam Moore, who died at age 89, was more than a Soul Man – he was one of the 20th century’s great live performers. When Something Is Wrong With My Baby – Sam And Dave.