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Amid the current horror and propaganda, the pogroms, kidnapping and bombings, and the (at best reckless) violence against civilian populations it is important not to lose sight of what a justish solution might be in Israel/Palestine and it seems to me that this is actually a rather simple matter at least as soon as we […]
Bored? Who has time to be bored? Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi left her post with a historic legacy of accomplishment. There is much there to admire. I wish she’d go back to San Francisco. Or at least leave Congress. She could take Steny Hoyer, Dick Durbin, and Chuck Schumer with her for the good of her party. (Let Republicans clean their own houses.) Political life in this country is dominated by a gerontocracy that is stunting its growth. Local Democrats are forever lamenting the lack of young blood in their ranks. But look around at the dominance of wrinkles at most any meeting. It’s not a particularly inviting environment for people under 50. And with the oldsters tending to stay in positions of power well beyond their “best by” dates, the young have nowhere to go. Why bother wasting the time? The Washington Post reports that the trend extends beyond politics: Yet even beyond Washington, a geriatric elite also controls many other aspects of an aging society, to such an extent that in some professions there are deep concerns about how those roles will be filled in decades to come.
Big Finish's epic Doctor Who - Once and Future: The Union stars Paul McGann, Tom Baker, Alex Kingston, Carole Ann Ford, and more (???).
John Burnside was born in 1955 and became a published poet almost by accident. For a while, he worked as software engineer. After long days—or in the midst of—crunching numbers and signs, he would write poems to allay the ennui. He sent a poem to a friend in publishing, who then asked to see a book—and published it without telling John. Since then, he has published over a dozen books of poetry, as well as seven novels, three volumes of memoir, and two collections of short stories. There’s a pagan sensibility, playful and heretical, to Burnside’s work—the poems have been, from the beginning, full of equinoxes, solstices, and the rituals of living, and a sign of the environmental concerns which are both the bedrock and the backdrop of his spirit. He’s written meditations on Bible verses, and also meditations on how LSD unlocks the psyche. But beneath all of these themes, carrying them, there is ever a hankering for music. If a poem isn’t musical, it doesn’t interest Burnside, who now teaches the art at St. Andrews in Scotland, the third oldest university in the English-speaking world.
File under ‘Sunk-cost fallacy’ Jenna Ellis this week is the fourth Trump attorney to learn the hard way that loyalty to Donald Trump is a fool’s game. David Graham writes in The Atlantic, “Loyalty to Trump is seldom returned, with disastrous results for those who offer it.” Ellis pleaded guilty to a single felony in an Atlanta courtroom and offered a tearful apology: “As an attorney who is also a Christian, I take my responsibilities as a lawyer very seriously and I endeavor to be a person of sound moral and ethical character in all of my dealings,” she said, her voice breaking with emotion. “If I knew then what I know now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post-election challenges. I look back on this whole experience with deep remorse.” Another former Trump attorney who received jail time in exchange for his years of fealty to Trump testified against him in the New York fraud trial yesterday in Manhattan. Graham observes: If Ellis and Cohen are not in good company, they are at least in big company.
Left-wing and Muslim MPs and councillors are urging the Labour leader to back a pause in the Israeli bombing of Gaza, following Hamas' terror attacks.
I love this time of year, when leaves change color and die right in front of me. Nothing prettier than a deceased leaf hanging from a tree in its final few moments on earth. It makes me want to wrap an oversized scarf around my neck and take a walk through the carnage. Stunning.
What I like most in this season of decay is how cozy I feel in a sweater. The air is crisp, the sun is bright, and the death rattle of falling leaves reminds me that there’s a season for everything. And this one is for dying and being dead. Makes me feel like going to an orchard and murdering some apples for pie.
Do you hear the wind gently rustling the trees? That’s the sound of a million leaves meeting their maker. Soon, I’ll rake their shriveled, broken husks, then let them rot and mold on the lawn while repeatedly saying, “I should really bag up those leaves.” What a magical time of year, when the world gives up and dies.
Sultan Al Jaber, CEO of the UAE’s national oil company, secured the COP28 presidency despite questions over his green credentials.
The post Inside the Campaign That Put an Oil Boss in Charge of a Climate Summit appeared first on The Intercept.
. Comme le montre ce programme, il y a vraiment de nombreux signes que l’intelligence humaine est en déclin. Ce déclin est probablement le résultat d’une convergence de facteurs sociaux et culturels. L’une des principales raisons est la dépendance croissante à la technologie. Alors que les avancées technologiques ont indéniablement amélioré notre qualité de vie, […]
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Yousef Munayyer joins Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain to discuss how the political and regional implications of the war in Palestine extend far beyond its borders.
The post Death Toll in Gaza Now Exceeds 5,000 appeared first on The Intercept.
Belgian Malinois Nova is hardworking, devoted and a little mischievous, says her handler, Senior Officer Christopher F. The duo make up the newest St. Louis Fed K-9 Unit team.
Weapons and tech interests are skirting advertising rules and using Washington, D.C.’s subway system to influence policymakers.
Former Liberal Democrat senior parliamentary researcher Gareth Roberts sees lessons to be learned from how the two parties coalesced ahead of the 1997 General Election
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