Cultural Differences May Affect The Outcome Of A Pandemic: New Research : Goats and Soda : NPR

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“That's the question posted by a study in The Lancet Planetary Health. In case you're wondering, the United States is characterized as "loose." And...”

Some Interesting societal comparisons.... I would call us a loose agglomeration of feline propensities... 

When Reporting Becomes a Defense for Rioting | The New Yorker

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“John Sullivan claims that he was at the Capitol insurrection as a neutral journalist. Others say he was a riot chaser who urged the mob to "burn...”

This article from the New Yorker Fills out some information on John Sullivan. It is a slightly more comprehensive view of what appears to be a somewhat confused young man. 

Proud Boys and Black Lives Matter activists clashed in a Florida suburb. Only one side was charged.

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“Amid fears that the confrontations could lead to clashes or shootings, police started enforcing the town’s rarely used noise ordinance, which...”

We need to stand up, sit down, be counted as not willing to let the loudest people in the room, the most in your face type of people, get away with furthering the systemic racism that is endemic to this country. The former president has stolen the impetus for change that was fostered by the...

What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell? - The New York Times

Via: Thomas  •  Health, Science & Technology  •  8 Comments  •  4 Likes  •  3 years ago

“The virus's strangest symptom has opened new doors to understanding our most neglected sense.”

An interesting read on an often neglected sense.

Living with a Visionary | The New Yorker

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“For more than fifty years, my wife and I shared a world. Then, as Diana's health declined, her hallucinations became her own reality.”

Just read this story in The New Yorker and thought that I would share it. 

Where do we go from here?

By: Thomas  •  Entertainment  •  22 Comments  •  1 Like  •  3 years ago

“"Let's all get together soon, before it is too late..."”

I think we all need to relax a little. It has been a stressful couple of days.

Dave Barry’s Year in Review 2020

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“And we thought past years were awful.”

We’re trying to think of something nice to say about 2020. Okay, here goes: Nobody got killed by the murder hornets. As far as we know. That’s pretty much it.

The Supreme Court, Gundy v. United States, and the administrative state: The conservative justices may paralyze the Biden administration.

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“Even the most basic government functions would grind to a halt.”

Some Movies Actually Understand Poverty in America - The New York Times

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“The complex realities of subsistence escape "Hillbilly Elegy." But as far back as Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights," filmmakers have been turning a...”

It is funny.. No. Funny is not the right word. Tragic, that with all of the navel gazing that goes on amongst the ones that have means, there is a whole population that seldom gets attention from many people at all.

This Time, Do Not Hate

By: Thomas  •  Religion & Ethics  •  108 Comments  •  9 Likes  •  4 years ago

“ Just because someone else's life matters doesn't make your life matter any less. If we can't allow someone else to have a platform for a while, It...”

First off, the above quote is not mine, but was lifted from a friend of a friendI have had the opportunity in my life to make a great many friends from highly varied and vastly different vocations: from engineer to professor to grocer, and from many different outlooks: from Christian to pagan to...