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Preparation time: 15 min.Cooking time: about 15 min. Easily-made, this unusual confection is wonderful as a holiday treat. Include it with other candies for a welcome gift. For about ¾ lb. of candy you will need:½ cup pure maple syrup or maple blended syrup½ cup sugar1 Tbsp. Butter or margarine½ tsp. Cinnamon¼ tsp. Ginger⅛ tsp. […]
“They’re going to count up all the votes and, shazam, whoever got more votes is the winner,” the Republican Senate candidate said. “How is that fair?”
A woman lies in bed in a large maternity ward. She’s just risen from a dream, and it overflows from sleep to tint her waking…
by Alan Hutchison · Published on his Matches in the dark website on 27th September 2018 · Updated 20th November 2020 I use this as supporting notes for a very …
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Evidence sharply contradicts PhRMA’s contention that its member companies need unregulated drug prices to generate profits that they then reinvest in drug innovation.
Congress finally takes action, with the predictable PhRMA reaction
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The more destructive the business, the more likely it is to enjoy political protection. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th November 2022 In every conflict over the living world, something is being protected. And most of the time, it’s the wrong thing. The world’s most destructive industries are fiercely protected by governments. The […]
“Welcome back!” read my friend Allan’s email. “So happy to have you back and seeing that hard work paid off. Thank you for all that you do. Please don’t cook this evening. I am bringing you a Honduran dinner — tacos hondureños and baleadas, plus a bottle of wine.” The tacos were tasty indeed, but even more pleasing was my friend’s evident admiration for my recent political activities. My partner and I had just returned from four months in Reno, working with UNITE-HERE, the hospitality industry union, on their 2022 midterm electoral campaign. It’s no exaggeration to say that, with the votes in Nevada’s mostly right-wing rural counties cancelling out those of Democratic-leaning Las Vegas, that union campaign in Reno... Read more
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As the level of segregation in a city increases, the gap in college attainment between Black and white children in those cities also increases.
The Washington Post has a long piece about a Virginia family whose current (substantial but not huge) wealth derives from their slaveholding forebears and who may now be greatly enriched by the discovery of uranium under their land. There’s an interesting discussion of the arguments for and against reparations Buried in the middle of the […]
Immediately after taking over Twitter and pronouncing himself Chief Twit, Elon Musk affirmed his commitment to safeguarding the platform as the “public square” where anything and everything is debated. It was a smart tactic, because it successfully diverted the public’s attention from what Musk is really up to. ATHENS – Elon Musk had good reasons […]
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In 2021 the National Film and Sound Archive released new footage of the last known thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.
‘They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence’, rasps Kyle Reese in The Terminator, referring to the Skynet computer system that launched a nuclear attack against humanity in the catastrophe known as Judgment Day. The trope is as old as science fiction itself, and shadows the genre with all of the tenacity of an Uzi-toting T-800.
When Bob Hawke died in 2019, two days before the federal election, many mainstream commentators took the opportunity to remind the prime ministerial hopefuls that in terms of charisma, persuasiveness and popularity they didn’t exactly measure up to the example of the Silver Bodgie.
In 1741, the exalted members of the Bordeaux Royal Academy of Sciences met to consider sixteen essays written in response to the following question: ‘What is the physical cause of the Negro’s color, the quality of [the Negro’s] hair, and the degeneration of both [Negro hair and skin]?’
‘When profound ideas are introduced to the world for the first time,’ writes Professor Marcia Langton, in her foreword to The First Astronomers, ‘our world is fundamentally changed and the previous understandings consigned to history. There are those who continue to deny the intelligence and scientific traditions of Indigenous people. The idea that the only true science is that of Western thinking must be consigned to history.’
You only see these long lines in Blacklanta, where state law eliminated most dropboxes.
My heart goes out to those who waited for hours to vote in the cold and dark. If all Americans were as committed to democracy as Black Atlantans, our nation would be... READ MORE
The 2020s appear to be a never-ending parade of global groupthink. The Russian Oil Price Cap is yet another stupid and self-destructive idea that should have been suffocated at birth. It cannot possibly achieve what its supporters claim, and it represents emotional value signalling from the Big Hug Club rather than any semblance of rational thought.
Dominique Grubisa is claiming “the system” wants to stop her from sharing information they don’t want the public to know. read now...Now I am back in Australia for a while, I am using this time to continue my studies in the Japanese language to better prepare myself for when I return there to work in 2023. I have to learn 2056…