By Edward Stanton 19 September 2016 It’s been almost sixty years since William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick’s The Ugly American rose to the top…
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I’m the “malware” infecting your computer. I’m using the “quotes” because, frankly, I find the term a little snippy and judgmental. And, when I say…
Not yet Arikara, with three lone speakers left, or Lushootseed, with none at all; not even critically endangered like Wintu-Nomaki, Upper Tanana, and hundreds of…
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Donald Trump’s Interview with Jake Tapper of CNN “This is how demagogues rise to power. It is also the pattern of Anti-Christ. I’m not comparing…
Within the few short weeks following the New York Times February 17th Science section revelation that DNA in non-African people comes from Neanderthals, the number…
When were bench seats in cars abandoned to prevent dangerous sliding in and out? The last sedan with a front bench seat was the 2012…
I think it started in 1992 with her line about not standing by her man, an allusion to that notoriously blasphemous song “Stand by Your…
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Where are the witty reviewers of yore; the Alexander Woollcotts, the Dorothy Parkers, the Walter Kerrs, and the rest of an erudite and often acerbic…
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