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Members of the Detection Club: Ask a Policeman
Reading Progress Update: 8% “The murder — if it was murder — of a man like Lord Comstock was an event of world-wide importance. The newspapers controlled by the millionaire journalist exerted an influence out of all proportion to their real value. Inspired by Comstock himself, they claimed at frequent intervals to be the real […]
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Public Spirit
The Guardian is one of my go-to sources for international news; refreshingly, they’ve so far refrained from putting up a paywall. I’d like their content to be able to continue being freely available on the web, but more importantly, I think these days it’s more important than ever to support journalists and media organizations that […]
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So, they carried the day.
Neanderthals for Trump: How our primitive brains are ruining American politics Salon.com, April 19, 2016 Donald Trump’s appeal isn’t just ideological but biological. “Political Animals” author Rick Shenkman explains. From the interview: “… it was during that period [= the Stone Age] that we mainly evolved. And we evolved to address the problems of hunter-gatherers […]
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Donald Trump’s Greatest Self-Contradictions – POLITICO Magazine
The many, many, MANY sides of the likely Republican nominee, in his own words. By Michael Kruse and Noah Weiland (May 05, 2016) Source: Donald Trump’s Greatest Self-Contradictions – POLITICO Magazine “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor […]
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Jeannie Come Lately Post: BookLikes Round Robin — Favorite Pre-1980s Movies
Pretty much everybody has seen it at this point I guess, but anyway, here is Book Cupidity’s idea: “Let’s list favorite old (or older) movies. The list can be long or short, with a narrative or no, anything goes. The parameters is that it has to have been made prior to 1980, I sort of […]
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