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Word Cloud: EXTRAVAGANT
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD There is just a breath of Purtianism lurking in most American poetry. We admire the winnowing of excess words, the spareness of poets like Frost and Sandburg and the prose of Hemingway and Steinbeck. American poets … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Syria, Word Cloud
Tagged Extravagant, Jane Austen, Nizar Qabbani, Omar Khayyam, Six Day War, William Shakespeare
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#TrumpRussia … Agent Orange whines about his lies hoping you won’t notice Kaspersky’s problems
By ann summers a full page of the Sunday NY Times was devoted to Trump’s lies Trump is beginning to get touchy about the tabulation of verifiable lies … as the history of other network shenanigans occurs online and … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, Congress, Conspiracy, Corruption, DOJ, History, Internet, Jurisprudence, Media, NSA, Political Science, Politics, Propaganda, Russia, Society, United States
Tagged Conspiracy Theories, Donald Trump, Journalism, Media, Politics, trumprussia
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ON THIS DAY: June 28, 2017
June 28th is: Paul Bunyan Day Tapioca Day Parchment Cooking Day International Body Piercing Day ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Adolphe Sax, Gilda Radner and Nelson Mandela, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Adolphe Sax, Bette Greene, Floyd Dell, Gilda Radner, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Peter Paul Rubens
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ON THIS DAY: June 26, 2017
June 26th is Beautician’s Day National Canoe Day Chocolate Pudding Day Same Sex Marriage Day * International Day in Support of Victims of Torture * International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Tiberius, Shirley Jackson and The … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holidays
Tagged Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Madame Marie Rodet Geoffrin, Pearl S. Buck, Shirley Jackson, The Beatles, Tiberius, William Lear
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TCS: GUMPTION
Good Morning! ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
Posted in The Coffee Shop, United States
Tagged GUMPTION, John Lewis, Life Isn't Fair, Patricia Schroeder, TCS, The Holiday, The Simpsons
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Day 31 of Trump’s war against ISIS … Twenty-Twenty … Fore!
By ann summers Trump surviving Kremlingate until 2020 remains a possibility, even as he obstructs justice, lies, and demonstrates either incompetence or malevolence. And then there’s all that golfing against ISIS. If he sacrifices enough underlings (and the American Experiment … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, CIA, Congress, Countries, Crime, DHS, DOJ, Foreign Policy, Government, History, Jurisprudence, Media, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Russia, United States
Tagged Donald Trump, golf, Politics, Religion, trumprussia
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ON THIS DAY: June 25, 2017
June 25th is National Catfish Day Color TV Day Global Beatles Day International Day of the Seafarer Please Take My Children to Work Day ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Antonio Gaudi, Sonia Sotomayor and Ho Chi Minh, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Antonio Gaudi, Crystal Eastman, George Abbott, George Orwell, Ho Chi Minh, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Sonia Sotomayor
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