Category Archives: Countries

TCS: Ecology, Blue Beads and Honey Buzzards

Posted on August 13, 2018 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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a bored Trump now wants to replace the FBI building in DC

Posted on July 30, 2018 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Lord Dampnut is now more Master Builder than baiter, considering the lack of adult entertainment at the WH. As if chocolate cake and 134 days of golf weren’t enough, the unhingery continues with Trump indulging himself with … Continue reading →

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TCS: English Lessons in Japan – Weird, Alarming – and Funny

Posted on July 30, 2018 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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Trump thinks Montenegro will start WW III because it’s “aggressive”

Posted on July 18, 2018 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Trump implied that Montenegro – NATO’s newest member, which joined last year – is an aggressive place which may drag America into World War III. Trump in his current “wouldn’t” mode, winds up taking the Russian position … Continue reading →

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in #TrumpRussia, there’s too much there, there, beyond Trump’s lies

Posted on July 11, 2018 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Tom Nichol’s extended tweet thread of responses to Jonathan Chait’s article on Trump the Russian asset has now come out as a piece in Politico. Beginning with Jonathan Chait’s original article and the various responses, Nichols’ piece … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Power, Japan, and Korea

Posted on July 6, 2018 by Terry Welshans

By Terry Welshans By the mid-1930s most nations with an interest in such things, were trying to understand how nuclear energy worked. Physicists in Germany, Denmark, Hungary, Japan, England, and the United States were writing and reading scientific papers on … Continue reading →

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Will Cohen suck on Trump’s Lemon, or does Helsinki meet mean that 45* must talk to his boss first

Posted on July 2, 2018 by ann li-summers

By ann summers The week begins with network interviews of Michael Cohen as he hectors Trump to pay his legal tab (or at least task Kushner to find a Qatari willing to forgo that new stable of Lambos or a Russian … Continue reading →

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A Poem for the Summer Solstice

Posted on June 21, 2018 by wordcloud9

In Summer by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 – 1906) Oh, summer has clothed the earth In a cloak from the loom of the sun! And a mantle, too, of the skies’ soft blue, And a belt where the rivers run. And now for … Continue reading →

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Reaping the Whirlwind

Posted on June 19, 2018 by wordcloud9

This administration may quote the New Testament in a desperate attempt to sanctify their illegal and immoral Border War Against Children and Families, they may claim what they are doing is different from the Third Reich because the Nazis were … Continue reading →

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TCS: Talking With Trees

Posted on June 18, 2018 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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