People have asked me my opinion of President Biden's criticism of "semi-fascism." Well, I can't overstate my disapproval of the inappropriate use of "semi."
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TRUMP: I demand we nullify the results of the last election and that I be reinstated as president effective immediately
BIDEN: See, that’s the type of thing a dictator would say
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"Game-changer" Paxlovid turns into pandemic enigma
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(This doesn’t seem familiar at all!) If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever newyorker.com/humor/daily-sh via
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I've reached the life stage where my first impulse, in celebrating getting a new, better-paying job with bigger responsibilities and opportunities, is to cancel the trade-in and keep the M1 MacBook as a companion to the new M2 MacBook.
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Many will know of Ehrenreich's very succesful book, "Nickel and Dimed", but I was also very fond "Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermined America, her excellent book excoriating the shallow "just think-positive!" industrial-complex.
Her voice will be missed.
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Sad news. Barbara Ehrenreich, my one and only mother, died on September 1, a few days after her 81st birthday. She was, she made clear, ready to go. She was never much for thoughts and prayers, but you can honor her memory by loving one another, and by fighting like hell.
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I had been tired all day, but finally felt rested and refreshed thanks to my long nap during the first episode of THE RINGS OF POWER.
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Let's pause to offer sympathy to Trump supporters whose idealism and sincere beliefs are derided as bigoted and anti-democratic. It's unfair that their values-driven efforts haven’t diverted enough attention from either their bigotry or their febrile hatred of the right to vote.
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If you're pissed about Biden's speech, he was talking about you.
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And this: "Wise men say, only fools, rush in, but I can't help saying 'Fly, you fools!'" #ElvishPresleyGold
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Also love the Elvish Presley lyrics in a related song when he sings Gandalf's great line: "We can't go on together, in this suspicious mine."
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"You ain't nuthin' but a Balrog!" --Elvish Presley
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Every time an advocate for student debt forgiveness--which I strongly favor--says something negative and categorical about Boomers, my first thought as a Boomer is, couldn't you have spent some of that loan money on a course in rhetoric and persuasion?
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I never imagined that Amazon would become a Tolkien-ring network!
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The main reason those who oppose student-debt forgiveness don't oppose bankruptcy remedies generally--even they're also debt forgiveness--is that Trump is a Chapter 11 frequent flyer but never took a student loan to attend Fordham or Penn.
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Tell us a true story from your life that sounds made up.
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My opponent is *literally* Dr. Oz 🙄
YES, the dude who is known for selling scam diet pills on TV
YES, the dude who is not even from PA + has 10 homes
YES, the dude who said he would ban abortion even in the cases of rape or incest
Say NO to Dr. Oz on Nov. 8th 🛑
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For as long as I've been aware of my preferences, I've always known I love dogs and cats equally. But only during the Biden Administration have I felt the freedom to come out as bipetual.
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The easiest way to avoid being called fascists is to stop being fascists. This is a concept that’s evidently lost on Republicans.
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That sleek black MacBook that was a triumph of lightness and portability 15 years ago but now weighs a ton and won't run an up-to-date OS that isn't Linux. But you keep it because the DVD drive in it works over the LAN.
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Unlike Jonathan I have actually answered 999 calls in Scotland and can assure him plenty of people ask for the polis.
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Scots is patently not a language. But we all know why the SNP is determined that it should masquerade as one. My column in today’s Mail.
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It should have been a surprise to no one that, later in the pandemic, the covert cocktails-in-coffee-cups strategy quickly shifted to to-go cups when local alcohol regs were amended. 2/2
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In the earliest months of the pandemic, some Silver Spring restaurants stayed open to prepare to-go orders, but for a while alcohol sales were prohibited. But if the proprietor knew you, you often could buy, sub rosa, cocktails in coffee cups while you waited for the food. 1/2
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This rapid reaction resulted in some of the fastest alcohol regulation changes in the last hundred years. bit.ly/3QvhoKR
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I don't normally favor transmuting beloved pop nostalgia into industrial dance tracks, but this one I like because the vocalists sound cheerful. youtu.be/IIJa1AfjVEc
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Chess Puzzles - Improve Your Chess by Solving Tactics
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Black Americans paid taxes during segregation for pools they weren't allowed to swim in, fountains they couldn't drink from and buses they had to ride in the back of. So...miss me with this "Why am I paying for school I didn't go to?" At least this is about uplift, not hate.
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I’m sorry, but this is ridiculous. Renters have been paying taxes for YEARS that homeowners can reduce purely based on owning a home and no one says anything. Same is true for having children.
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("Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown." --GHOSTBUSTERS, 1984) Official White House Twitter roasts Marjorie Taylor Greene and other GOP critics of student debt forgiveness
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(This guy funded his yacht-racing hobby by enticing student borrowers into helping the secondary private-student-loan market.) NYTimes, 2007. Reeling In the College-Bound
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Court orders removal of Bolsonaro electoral disinformation videos
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The whole Republican philosophy, such as it exists, is built on scapegoating and resentment of vulnerable populations, as a way to distract attention from their fealty to the very rich. The right-wing discourse today is just more of the same old same old.
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3000 YEARS OF LONGING is okay as the title for this lovely new movie, but it doesn't capture how talky it is. That's why I think George Miller should have gone with the alternative I suggested: MY DJINNING WITH ANDRÉ.
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Congressman Mike Kelly had $987,237 in PPP loans forgiven.
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Asking plumbers and carpenters to pay off the loans of Wall Street advisors and lawyers isn’t just unfair. It’s also bad policy.
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People forget this, but more than 20 years ago lots of folks took Giuliani as emblematic of patriotism. It turns out the emblem symbolized opportunism.
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