Saturday, January 22, 2022
35 Across - Words read with feeling
Sunday, January 23, 2022
Here is "2022's Best & Worst States to Raise a Family."
If I tell you that, based on 51 measures affecting the quality of family life, Massachusetts and Mississippi are at opposite ends of the survey, want to guess which is where?
Monday, January 24, 2022
In November, Kelly Canon, a Texas Republican Party official, wrote in Facebook,
"No jabby-jabby for me! Praise GOD!” She died of Covid-based pneumonia on January 10th.
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Not unlike the students in Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, I am certain that my readers are all above average and scrupulous, as well. Therefore, I want an honest response to the question (which stumped me, by the way): What is Stellantis? Let's have a show of hands. Aha! You are as behind the times as I am.
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Ken K., who survived the witches brew of an education from the Yeshiva of Flatbush, Brooklyn College and Yale Law School, accompanied me on a visit to a semi-incapicitated friend. We not only brought some cheer into his confined circumstances, but we got free Covid testing before we were even allowed onto the premises. We were positively Negative.
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Today is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army in 1945. While well more than 1 million people had passed through, mostly Jews, mostly killed, 7,000 prisoners were found alive in the camp. One lingering memory of my visit in 2005 was the size of the camp. Just about everything that could be burned to the ground in that 60-year interval had been, but the brick foundations of the barracks remained and extended in all directions.
Of course, there is a huge inventory of far more terrible Nazi-related memories and, tragically, a desire by some to turn history into current events. In many instances, the past is not even relegated to the past. The Forward reports today that the number of "statues, monuments and other public showcasing of Nazis and their collaborators around the world" now totals "1,455 in 25 countries, including the
United States and five Western European nations." https://forward.com/news/
Clearly, the American South is not the only place that pays homage to traitors, losers and criminals, although Werner von Braun, Nazi rocket scientist ("he aimed for the stars and hit London") remains celebrated in Huntsville, Alabama even after its most prominent Confederate monument was removed. https://www.wsfa.com/2020/10/
Some folks are not just satisfied honoring traitors, losers and criminals, they take the trouble to dishonor genuine heroes, such as Jackie Robinson. https://one2seek.com/a-marker-honoring-jackie-robinson-was-defaced-m-l-b-helped-replace-it-23760.html
And, it was far from the first time.
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From a political point of view, I applaud the decision of Stephen Breyer to retire from the United States Supreme Court. But, what's so old about 83?
When I read about the death of Olavo de Carvalho, a self-styled political pundit from Brazil, I was struck by his contention that Pepsi-Cola is flavored with aborted fetuses (is there a Portuguese word for meshuggenah?). https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/world/americas/olavo-de-carvalho-dead.html
However, I learned that he wasn't alone in discovering the secret ingredients in some of our favorite foods. https://www.genuinechristianitynow.com/2019/10/07/aborted-babies-in-pepsi-kraft-and-nestle-shocking-report/
By the way, Senhor de Carvalho, who derided Covid-19 as “moronavirus,” died from it. Praise GOD.
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Answer = BRAILLE
