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They say that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. But that night, as I sat around the seder table—single, thirty, and once again eating a dinner of crackers and four glasses of wine—I started to think that maybe the biggest inevitability is monotony. I couldn’t help but wonder: How is this night different from all other nights?
After dunking my parsley in the salt water for the second time that evening, I was reminded of Samantha’s monologue on the pleasures of polyamory. Was it possible that she was right? Does there come a point when “the one” turns into “the two”? It got me thinking: Why is it that only on Passover are we encouraged to double-dip?
It turns out matzah wasn’t the only thing that didn’t rise that night. But in today’s sex-obsessed culture, were we overlooking sad little flatbreads for the everything bagels of the world? I mean, why is it that on all other nights, we indulge in tall, beefy hunks of sourdough—and only tonight, we’re suddenly gaga for the flimsy stuff?
Anton Jäger discusses his new book "Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income" co-authored with Daniel Zamora Vargas.
The threat of imprisonment for contempt of court again looms over me if I tell you (again) too much of the truth about the arrest of Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell. But I can make a few observations. As I stated on twitter on March 19 (I am not going to repeat all my tweets […]
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He could have paid off Stormy Daniels without legal troubles.
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EXODUS: THE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE is an interactive exhibit that allows you to experience the story of Exodus like NEVER BEFORE because you NEVER PAID ATTENTION to all those seders your parents forced you to sit through while Jacob Feldstein dropped GEFILTE FISH down the BACK OF YOUR SHIRT.
Opening just in time for Passover, our curated journey will TRANSPORT YOU to the Egypt of the Pharaohs. Toil relentlessly under the BURNING SUN. Sleep on a ROCK PILLOW. Suffer the incessant blistering rash of BODY LICE.
One problem with covering Covid right now is that it’s becoming harder and harder to get good stats, because governments want to pretend it’s over. In Canada, the best reporting provincial government is Quebec, so we’ll look at that and I’m quite sure this is effectively the picture everywhere, though the bumps may not synchronize. The important line is the orange one, that’s excess mortality. It’s over 35%. And these numbers are a known understatement.
Sorry. The picture above was NOT Canada's fast-reporting provinces. It was Quebec, Canada's fastest-reporting provinces and the only province that still tries to track and report COVID in a transparent, complete fashion.
The Nordic state's accession into NATO was Tuesday’s most significant and historic event — by far.
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Four years ago, the Finnish left was content. For decades, Finland had been ruled by governments who, in the name of efficiency and globalisation, slowly but steadily chipped away at the framework of labour negotiations, state ownership and indicative planning that underpinned the welfare state. The social and health care system was creaking and weariness […]