September 17 is the 260th day of the year; as well as Setting Orange, Bureaucracy 41, 3184 YOLD
to discordians.
Really, 17, really? This is always an excuse for me to play Edge of 17. Can I resist?
The consumer sentiment survey is supposed to be useful. It isn't.
British Police Find Putin's Passport at Scene of Salisbury Poison Attack
We've been wrong, Putin really did it
Former prime minister Gordon Brown issued a warning recently.
Book Review: Hodgson, Geoffrey M: Wrong Turnings: How the Left Got Lost. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2018. Print.
As an independent, formerly WFP, I could not vote.
I have more questions than answers.
First, about Nixon, why was everyone in NY progressive circles drooling over a TV actress with no previous experience in public office? Did she ever set foot outside of the NYC metro area? I am not aware that Nixon ever visited upstate.
It was the mid seventies when I moved from Alabama to the northern corner of North Carolina near Boone, the highest county seat east of the Mississippi. It was Smiley that triggered the memory. He lives in the high country. I know a song that has the line “the warm winds of memory drifted past him”. In the case of my experience in Mabel NC, it was the cool winds of memory that came to mind when Smiley reminded me of those days... and flooded me with the pleasure of my learning experiences there. Place has a strong effect on us and I hope this essay reminds us all to choose our place(s) carefully.
Good morning to all!
Here's what I've just finished reading (in the "narrated-by-a-dog" category of books):
