Monthly Archives: August 2017

Word Cloud: WORDPLAY

Posted on August 25, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD American schoolchildren now go back to school before Labor Day in a number of school districts in 13 states. Between 1900 and 1990, most U.S. schools had a summer break beginning sometime in June and going … Continue reading →

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Charlottesville and the Crisis of Identity and Tribalism in America

Posted on August 24, 2017 by Steven D. Searls

I’ve given a great deal of thought to the events that went down in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12th, when the now infamous “Unite the Right” rally degenerated into a street fight as police stood by and did nothing. We … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: August 24, 2017

Posted on August 24, 2017 by wordcloud9

August 24th is Pluto Demoted Day * Strange Music Day * Vesuvius Day * Waffle Iron Day * William Willberforce Day * Sack Like a Visigoth Day * new! ________________________________________________________________ MORE! William Wilberforce, Jean Rhys and Abbie Hoffman, click

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ON THIS DAY: August 23, 2017

Posted on August 23, 2017 by wordcloud9

August 23rd is Spongecake Day National Ride the Wind Day * Valentino Day * International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & Its Abolition * ________________________________________________________________ MORE!  Arnold Toynbee, Malvina Reynolds and Mahatma Gandhi, click

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ON THIS DAY: August 22, 2017

Posted on August 22, 2017 by wordcloud9

August 22nd is Be an Angel Day * Eat a Peach Day Pecan Torte Day Tooth Fairy Day National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Claude Debussy, Dorothy Parker and Count Basie, click

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ON THIS DAY: August 21, 2017

Posted on August 21, 2017 by wordcloud9

August 21st is National Senior Citizens Day * National Spumoni Day Sweet Tea Day World P.O.E.T. Day (Piss Off Early Today) ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Aubrey Beardsley, Lili Boulanger and Count Basie, click

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TCS: Tribute to a Soul Full of Wonder on Eclipse Day 2017

Posted on August 21, 2017 by wordcloud9

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 →

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Eclipse Day is upon us. Is a dragon going to eat the sun?

Posted on August 20, 2017 by Chuck Stanley

  by Chuck Stanley Unless you live in a cave somewhere, with no way to connect to the outside world, you know the total solar eclipse will be here tomorrow. The countdown is picking up speed. If you are near … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: August 20, 2017

Posted on August 20, 2017 by wordcloud9

August 20th is National Honey Bee Day * Chocolate Pecan Pie Day National Lemonade Day * National Radio Day International Homeless Animals Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Bernardo O’Higgins, Connie Chung and Akira Kurosawa, click

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Trump trapped by his own prevarications

Posted on August 19, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   The protests against those protesting Confederate statuary removal are justified to eradicate the “… systematic propaganda campaign to advance the racial cause of the Confederacy”, despite Trump’s apparent and continued sympathy for it using false equivalence. … Continue reading →

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