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Heavens to Murgatroyd.

Swimwear fashion has changed over the generations. I am not acquainted with the bra-for-men epoch. He's posing again. He's...

Early this morning just before going to bed I opened True at First Light and read a little. The book's introduction is written by Patri...

Were you a mo! No, he wasn't. Then why do you pose like that, with your left leg turned in, like a flirty girl, like you're abo...

The Garden of Eden was intended by Ernest Hemingway to be a major work. He began writing it   in 1946. He never finished. The one-third of ...

Why did Tom Jenks cut two-thirds out of The Garden of Eden ? Why won't Scribners publish the whole manuscript unedited?

Ha-ha-ha. Imagine being so stupid that you reprint that goddamn annoying thing on the header of your own website!  Ha-ha-ha.

Ha-ha-ha. Is that not the most goddamn annoying, distracting, twee thing you ever saw!  Ha-ha-ha. Imagine that being on your home page all ...

It's Friday. Let's sway.

Athletes from all over the world are gathered in Rio de Janeiro Brazil for the World Cup of Prostitution. Google honors this event with ...

The Dec. of Ind. is like a tin can tied to a dog's tail. Neither dog nor America have the know-how to get rid of it;  every step taken ...

"We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unaliena...

"Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived."                 -Eleanor Roosevelt.

Time magazine says there is a Democrat to run against the Brat in November, Jack Trammel, so I don't know. Ironically, the general elec...

Can you believe it? No Democrat filed to run against Cantor. That is a major dropped ball. I don't understand it, Cantor won re-electio...

Great headline in Mother Jones: "Eric Cantor Loses GOP Primary. Wait, What!?" Lol.

Eric Cantor, the Majority Leader in the United States House of Representatives, was defeated tonight in the Republican primary election in ...

By the end of the night, Egyptian state media had reported that three women with “grave injuries” had testified to prosecutors about their ...

A video showing a mass sexual assault on a nearly naked woman in the midst of inaugural celebrations for Egypt’s new president is testing h...

I have written under that post heading several times, have read things I've come across, have thought about it with average intelligenc...

Above is the first Google image for search term "sports fans." Below the first image for "English sports fans."

"Working Class Ballet," by Simon Critchley on roadsandkingdoms.com via aldaily: Let me try and explain why football is so impor...

I did not read Thomas Picketty's Capital on Sunday. I am on page 99. I like the first 99 pages. PLIP did not stop two actual Chinese ...

I am reading Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century.  I am interested in the subject. I am glad that Piketty wishes to br...

Just one more... June 6, going back a day, was also International Children's Day, which in the Democratic People's Republic of Raci...

Continuing our popular series "Daily Anniversary Observances," June 7 is the anniversary of Emperor Theodosius II's marriage ...

Today, June 6, is the 70th anniversary of the American-led D-Day invasion of Europe. My Uncle Jack was killed in World War II.

June 5 was the first anniversary of the revelations of NSA spying by Edward Snowden. 

In mid-afternoon I went to Peking University. So much had happened there in the twentieth century. The May Fourth movement, an intense p...

Young is 19 years old, the kind of bright young face who gets picked for glossy campus brochures. He attends Peking University, the top uni...