On July 21, 2021, after Donald Trump had finished his first term as president, he gave an interview at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey to a ghost writer and a publisher who were working on the memoirs of his former chief of staff Mark Meadows. He let them see the secret and still […]
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Dear Everyone Telling My Daughters They Can Be Anything They Want,
Please stop.
I agree with you in spirit, but telling my five and four-year-old daughters they can be anything they want only gets their hopes up, which you’re forcing me to dash. I’m already the bad guy at bedtime, dinner time, and any time that interrupts screen time.
Practically, they can’t be anything they want. For example, as both have requested, neither can become a penguin, an apple tree, or, apparently, the President of the United States. Also, my wife and I are both under 5’5", so a successful basketball player, house painter, and shelf stocker are likely out of the question too. Jockey, you say? We don’t have horse girl(s’) money!
Guess who gets to break the news to my daughters that they can’t intern with Santa? The same person who had to explain that the tooth fairy is a lifetime appointment and no, they’re not currently requesting résumés.
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But our ancient ancestors set the world ablaze 50,000 years ago
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Chatbots profile our personalities, which could give them the keys to drive our thoughts—and actions
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The largest map of the universe reveals giants at the birth of the universe
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Last month the Prime Minister delivered a piece of rhetoric that will define his tenure. In his ‘island of strangers’ speech, Keir Starmer echoed the words of one of British political history’s most divisive figures, Enoch Powell, ahead of the government’s white paper on immigration. One of the key policies announced was the scrapping of […]
Ian in his last post mentioned that our Asian allies are slipping away from us. While we pretend to strategically re-orient the Japanese are engaging in massive rearmament begun by Abe and being continued by the current government. Japan has lost confidence in the American security umbrella because of the deceit we’ve displayed in foreign relations. The Koreans? I lived in Korea. They’re simply apoplectic. Some are even at the point where they are willing to consider a loose confederation with the north, an entente of sorts so the South has the protection of the North’s nuclear umbrella and the North gains goods and services from the South.
This is simply unheard of. When I talked to one of my former students who now works in the foreign ministry and he told me this I was gobsmacked.
In an apparent nod to Israel, some Democrats want to give Trump power to defend “an ally or partner of the United States from imminent attack.”
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Experience a heart attack while working in the herb garden.
Wonder what its middle school bully is doing now.
Show up to court in a white linen suit.
Drape itself face down over an ottoman in a fit of ennui.
Adjourn to the study for brandy and cigars.
Yearn, long, or pine.
Suspect that something evil has happened in this very room.
Fall for Doreen.
Lose its sense of time in a Hudson News and miss its flight.
Have a least-favorite roommate.
Cultivate a neglectful-dad-type mystique.
Admire the voluptuous nature of a cloud.
Climax in unison with its lover.
Hunt down the nautical animal that took its appendage.
Obtain a meditative state and lose it.
Extend a too-firm handshake to its daughter’s boyfriend.
Swiftly transition from self-loathing to acceptance at the sight of its dead and unwatered fig plant.
Twirl a little parasol and play hard-to-get with the boys at the race track.
Rid itself of the feeling that this yoga retreat is a scam.
Chug this Modelo in front of everyone.
Become shy about its weird areolas.