Whatever I think whenever I think it
I’d read and seen videos of the Danube’s low water level, so I knew about the remnants, some dangerous, from World War II, exposed to our view. What I didn’t know was this, from Harper’s Weekly Review: Europe’s biggest rivers … Continue reading → The post Animal news. Sort of first appeared on Sidebar for Plaintiffs .
Doesn’t it seem that campaign cash numbers have eclipsed polling numbers when we look at elections? A new “truth” has emerged: the guy with the biggest war chest is winning the campaign. Notice I didn’t say that the guy with … Continue reading → The post $Money$Money$Money$ first appeared on Sidebar for Plaintiffs .
If you want to experience the contrast between two GOP administrations who have lied, watch the 2010 thriller, Fair Game. It’s the true story of how George W. Bush and his cohorts, Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, et al. … Continue reading → The post Last night I revisited a previous world of lies. Still has an impact first appeared on Sidebar for Plaintiffs .
Long, long, long before my encounter with a classic schoolyard bully, my grandfather Jacob took ship from Paris to Boston. At fourteen years old, he was escaping the strictures of Judaic Orthodoxy — which he had reckoned was unhealthy, especially … Continue reading → The post Of immigrants, education, fighting and mobsters first appeared on Sidebar for Plaintiffs .
From Harper’s Weekly Review: In Utah, a woman used a tampon to set fire to the church where her wedding was to take place the following day; and in Detroit, a nude man crashed his car into a church after … Continue reading → The post Christianity in the news! first appeared on Sidebar for Plaintiffs .
From Harper’s Weekly Review: In Australia, a three-year-old beagle was taken to the emergency room after eating 2.4 pounds of gummy worms and showing “no regrets,” according to a nurse. The post Animal news: “No regrets.” first appeared on Sidebar for Plaintiffs .
Tommy was his name. His father made millions of, and in, matches with which to light a fire or a cigarette, packed in those little boxes we all had in our kitchens. The Match King’s princeling was blond, loud and … Continue reading → The post The Match King’s Son first appeared on Sidebar for Plaintiffs .
Harper’s Weekly Review told me, and I immediately told you, about some humanoid action going on, including the introduction of a humanoid teaching assistant in Salamanca, a town in far-southwestern New York State. So far southwest it’s almost skidding off … Continue reading → The post That humanoid teaching assistant? Uh first appeared on Sidebar for Plaintiffs .
Delivered to my email by Harper’s Weekly Review, probably using a humanoid to do it: Astronomers announced that a four-carbon sugar typically found in raspberries was discovered in interstellar space; it was announced that a meteorite that crashed in New … Continue reading → The post To semi-quote Dubya, “This is some weird shit.” first appeared on Sidebar for Plaintiffs .
In the past half year alone we’ve witnessed two populist heroes, one of them mighty, felled by their history of sexually abusing women. The mighty one was the late Cesar Chavez; the lesser one, Graham Platner. Chavez was revered as … Continue reading → The post The Hero and The Heel first appeared on Sidebar for Plaintiffs .