Tuesday, July 31, 2018

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Opinion

How Trump Could Be Like Reagan

By STEPHEN MOORE, ARTHUR B. LAFFER and STEVE FORBES | Jul 31st 2018
Just as Ronald Reagan once pushed for abolishing nuclear weapons, President Trump should call for ending tariffs.

Fan fiction

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Books

The ‘Social Hygiene’ Campaign That Sent Thousands of American Women to Jail

By CYNTHIA GORNEY | Jul 31st 2018
Scott W. Stern’s “The Trials of Nina McCall” is the first book-length history of the “American Plan,” under which women suspected of having venereal disease were forcibly examined and imprisoned.

Morals police are a bad idea.

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Opinion

Getting Into the Ivy League

Jul 31st 2018
A former Princeton admission officer describes the process from decades ago.

Yes.

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Opinion

Sharing a Parent’s Bed

Jul 31st 2018
A reader proposes better counsel about co-sleeping.

First get some facts.

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Movies

Review: In ‘No Date, No Signature,’ a Doctor Seethes With Guilt Over a Boy’s Death

By BEN KENIGSBERG | Jul 31st 2018
A sturdy morality play, the film explores the lives of two men, each with a limited sense of what the other knows.

Your choice to see or not.

The abuse of Iran is undeserved.
Twisting the lion's tail is an old bad practice.

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Food

Ample Hills Opens Its Red Hook Factory

By FLORENCE FABRICANT | Jul 31st 2018
Lombardi’s unveils a lavish Chelsea location, a rooftop bar named after a well-connected interior designer and other restaurant news.

I have little patience with Red Hook, Brooklyn.

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Food

A French-Trained Chef With an Eye for Fresh Produce

Jul 31st 2018
Alex Baker brings a bistronomie sensibility to Yves in TriBeCa.

You can treat me.

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Food

A Tuscan Revival, a French Debut

By PETE WELLS | Jul 31st 2018
Pino Luongo’s Coco Pazzo Trattoria brings a 1990s favorite back to SoHo; Yves in TriBeCa gets a promising new chef.

Road food will not kill me soon.

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Science

Largest King Penguin Colony in the World Drops by 90%

By KAREN WEINTRAUB | Jul 31st 2018
Researchers hadn’t visited the remote island in 30 years when there were 500,000 breeding pairs. Satellite images now indicate perhaps as few as 60,000 pairs.

Global warming is real.

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Opinion

Changing How Capital Gains Are Taxed

Jul 31st 2018
Readers say such a move would benefit only the rich and suggest ways to help other Americans, too.

More, not less tax will help. 

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Science

Video: How Empathetic Is Your Dog?

By JAMES GORMAN and CHRISTOPHER WHITWORTH | Jul 31st 2018
An experiment involving 34 dogs of various breeds tested whether they would push through a magnetically sealed door to “save” their owners.

Text works better .

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/science/lassie-help-dog.html

It is worth the test.
Try it with selected samples.
Empathetic and solipsistic dogs should be different.
Training should also make a difference.

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Style

How Do I Stop Wanting to Cheat?

By CHERYL STRAYED and STEVE ALMOND | Jul 31st 2018
A reader loves her boyfriend but misses other men. Is it better to come clean to her partner, or suppress her feelings forever?

Good advice.
"Talk helps."

Sooner is better.   As soon as you can is best.

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U.S.

Facebook Has Identified Ongoing Political Influence Campaign

By NICHOLAS FANDOS and KEVIN ROOSE | Jul 31st 2018
Facebook has identified a coordinated political influence campaign that includes stoking division around white supremacy and the Abolish ICE movement.

FaceBook is a bad Idea.
It is a virtual flash mob.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Crowd

"
"Flash Crowd" is a 1973 English-language novella by science fiction author Larry Niven,[1] one of a series about the social consequence of inventing an instant, practically free transfer booth.[2]
One consequence not foreseen by the builders of the system was that with the almost immediate reporting of newsworthy events, tens of thousands of people worldwide — along with criminals — would teleport to the scene of anything interesting, thus creating disorder and confusion. The plot centers around a television journalist who, after being fired for his inadvertent role in inciting a post-robbery riot in Los Angeles, seeks to independently investigate the teleportation system for the flaws in its design allowing for such spontaneous riots to occur. His investigation takes him to destinations and people around the world within the matter of less than 12 hours before he gets his chance to plead his case on television, and he encounters the wide-ranging effects of displacements upon aspects of human behavior such as settlement, crime, natural resources, agriculture, waste management and tourism."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_mob

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Style

The Fight for the One-Piece Swimsuit Emoji

By VANESSA FRIEDMAN | Jul 31st 2018
Why is the only bathing suit available in the emoji lexicon a polka-dot bikini? Two women have finally proposed an alternative. Not everyone is convinced.

"If you build it, they will come."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICkWjdQuK7Q&spfreload=5

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Opinion

Video: Need a Lawyer? Better Call Rudy.

By TAIGE JENSEN and JAPHET WEEKS | Jul 31st 2018
Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani took viewers of Fox and Friends and CNN on a wild ride Monday morning. Here’s his not-so-definitive guide to legal defense.

Collusion is the appearance of conspiracy.

Giullani is  not  helping.

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New York

He Used Tinder to Hunt the Women He Raped and Killed, Police Say

By ASHLEY SOUTHALL | Jul 31st 2018
Danueal Drayton, 27, strangled a nurse in Queens and raped others in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, investigators say. They are looking for other victims.

Some monsters think.
They are evil.

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Movies

Review: ‘Nico, 1988’ Dramatizes the Singer’s Tormented Final Years

By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS | Jul 31st 2018
A biopic about the Velvet Underground vocalist thrums with nervous energy as it depicts her struggles with heroin and a jagged relationship with her suicidal son.

The general picture was enough.
I don't want the details now.

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Business Day

How Companies Are Making Customers Pay for Trump’s Trade War

By PETER EAVIS | Jul 30th 2018
As second-quarter earnings pour in, executives are telling investors that they can raise prices to offset the impact of tariffs.

Fiduciary responsibility gives the companies no other choice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary

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Arts

Alan Alda Reveals He Has Parkinson’s Disease

By ALEX MARSHALL | Jul 31st 2018
“I thought it’s probably only a matter of time before somebody does a story about this from a sad point of view; but that’s not where I am,” the M*A*S*H actor said.

Forty five years is a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M*A*S*H_%28TV_series%29

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Arts

Three Shows to Watch This Week

By MARGARET LYONS | Jul 30th 2018
Do you fancy television about crafts, murder or prison?

Off to explore us 17 and I86.  Back 8/6/18.

Taking a small computer and my cell phone.

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Business Day

Bob Woodward’s New Book Will Detail ‘Harrowing Life’ Inside Trump White House

By MATT STEVENS and JASON M. BAILEY | Jul 31st 2018
Simon & Schuster plans to publish “Fear: Trump in the White House,” on Sept 11. The book is Mr. Woodward’s 19th.

I don't need to know the details.
The details are entertaining.
They may be profitable in the short term.

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Smarter Living

How I Turned My Tiny Apartment Bedroom Into a Relaxing Retreat

By ALAN HENRY | Jul 31st 2018
Your tiny bedroom doesn’t have to just be a place to sleep and get dressed. A few thoughtful upgrades can make it a relaxing, peaceful place to start your day or unwind at the end of it.

If expenses exceed income one is in debt.
Unpayable debts are bankruptcy.
Invest carefully.


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Style

Work Is Weird. Alison Green of Ask a Manager Can Help.

By JOLIE KERR | Jul 31st 2018
Humans are odd in so many different ways, and no place brings that out more than the office. Here’s how to deal with the routine strangeness of desk jobs.

Income is better than no income.

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Food

Turn Dinner Into an Odyssey

By FLORENCE FABRICANT | Jul 30th 2018
At Ruffian in the East Village, Homer’s classic work provides the inspiration for a special menu through the month of August.

Eating the children does not appeal.

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Business Day

Key Question for Les Moonves of CBS: What Were You Thinking?

By JAMES B. STEWART | Jul 31st 2018
Mr. Moonves started a civil war by suing the network’s controlling shareholder while knowing that harassment allegations were swirling.

http://nfs.sparknotes.com/othello/page_142.html

"
165
IAGO
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
Who steals my purse steals trash. 'Tis something, nothing:
'Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands.
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed.
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"War is diplomacy by other means"
                        Bismark
 
Not much. "Sex."


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Health

Maybe You Were Thinking About Eating Raw Centipedes. Don’t.

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. | Jul 30th 2018
Dried or powdered centipedes are used in Chinese traditional medicine. But uncooked specimens may contain a parasite that infects the brain, scientists report.

"Asked why anyone would sell live centipedes — which have a venomous bite — Dr. Lu explained that some traditionalists boil them in teas or pickle them in wine to use as home remedies.
“In my opinion, it would be rude to tell the customer, ‘Don’t eat them raw,’” she said. “It would say the customer is stupid.”"


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Health

Vaginal Laser Treatments Can Cause Burns and Scarring, the F.D.A. Says

By SHEILA KAPLAN | Jul 30th 2018
The agency told seven companies that sell lasers for cosmetic gynecology and related procedures to stop marketing them for unapproved uses.

"Sex sells"

Try coconut oil as recommended by The Wing.
               (I have hearsay only)

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U.S.

‘Bigfoot Erotica’ Becomes an Issue in Virginia Congressional Campaign

By LIAM STACK | Jul 30th 2018
Monster-themed pornography does exist. But Denver Riggleman, a Republican, said his writing on Bigfoot has not been pornographic.

Define pornography.
Like humor and art it is in the mind of the viewer.

Denver Riggleman is guilty.


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Obituaries

Kathy Kriger, ‘Madame Rick’ at Her Casablanca Cafe, Is Dead at 72

By ROD NORDLAND | Jul 30th 2018
A former American diplomat, she created a real Rick’s Cafe, evoking the cinematic Moroccan gin joint made famous by Bogart and Bergman.

She will have heirs.

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The Upshot

A Census Question That Could Change How Power Is Divided in America

By EMILY BADGER | Jul 31st 2018
‘Is this person a citizen?’ The answer could mean less representation for populous states and big cities.

This was settled law from the constitutional convention of 1787.
A count of all resident persons every ten years.
A slave was 5/8 of a person.

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Today’s Paper

Quotation of the Day: Why Global Greening Isn’t as Great as It Sounds

Jul 31st 2018
Quotation of the Day for Tuesday, July 31, 2018.

China is only part of the problem.  India, Africa, the Americas, and Europe are as large in carbon emmissions.

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Food

Meet Caulilini, a Lacy New Cauliflower 

By FLORENCE FABRICANT | Jul 30th 2018
This new vegetable has stems like broccoli and florets that are lacier than cauliflower florets.

It is all cabbage. 

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Food

A Mild-Mannered, but Sophisticated Midwestern Cheese

By FLORENCE FABRICANT | Jul 30th 2018
Roth Kase Monroe is creamy, with fruity notes that would pair nicely with a glass of Sauternes.

There is a veal chop in every pound.

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Food

A Richer Prosciutto Arrives in New York

By FLORENCE FABRICANT | Jul 30th 2018
Prosciutto di Carpegna from the Adriatic Coast of Italy is a ham cured with a rub of seasoned lard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parasites_of_humans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichinosis

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U.S.

The Rest of the Ivy League Comes to Harvard’s Aid in Admissions Challenge

By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS | Jul 30th 2018
A joint brief by the seven other Ivies and nine private universities said that a ruling against Harvard’s admissions process would reverberate across academia.

The Chinese are smart and motivated.

Just as smart as the rest of humanity.

Natural and unnatural selection.

Smart children live longer.

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Food

Dried Fruits With More Texture

By FLORENCE FABRICANT | Jul 30th 2018
Rind, a new fruit snack that includes the peel, is a treat suitable for a cheese board or a nibble on the go.

Fructose and fiber.

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U.S.

How Trump Allies Shifted Their Defense as Evidence of Contacts With Russians Grew

By MARK MAZZETTI | Jul 31st 2018
The president’s lead lawyer in the special counsel investigation, Rudolph W. Giuliani, presented a defense on Monday: Collusion is not a crime.

Treason:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason

High crimes and misdemeanors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misdemeanor

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Arts

Alex Trebek, Saying He May Leave ‘Jeopardy!’ in 2020, Suggests 2 Replacements

By DANIEL VICTOR | Jul 30th 2018
Neither of the potential names floated by the 78-year-old trivia show host had been on the radar of most fans.

Time and tide.

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Food

A Curry Hot Sauce With Serious Kick

By FLORENCE FABRICANT | Jul 30th 2018
Moruga scorpion peppers give this vindaloo curry hot sauce its powerful heat.

A diet aide.

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Arts

Violin Worth $200,000 Is Sold to Pawnshop for $50. The Catch? It Was Stolen.

By LAURA M. HOLSON | Jul 30th 2018
An 18th century instrument finds its way back to its owners amid an investigation by the Somerville Police Department into a spate of burglaries in the Massachusetts city.

Art theft does not work.

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Monday, July 30, 2018

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Arts

Review: The D.I.Y. Joys of ‘Making It’

By MARGARET LYONS | Jul 30th 2018
Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman host this crafty contest show.

Smelly puns.
I will try the dvd.
The creativity will need to be better.
The bakers test craft.

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Opinion

Trump’s Supreme Betrayal

By PAUL KRUGMAN | Jul 30th 2018
The Kavanaugh nomination is the opposite of populism.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/22/opinion/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court.html

Trump is a treacherous populist.

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Opinion

The Morning After Trump Loses

By DAVID LEONHARDT | Jul 30th 2018
Bret Stephens imagined Trump’s re-election. I imagine the opposite.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/29/opinion/columnists/trump-loss-re-election-2020.html

Trump is not funny.
He is in a bubble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_closure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology

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Style

Vogue’s Top Talent Goes Freelance

By MATTHEW SCHNEIER | Jul 30th 2018
As print takes a back seat to digital, two of Vogue’s most influential longtime staffers are leaving their roles for freelance positions.

https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/bof-exclusive/two-veteran-american-vogue-editors-are-stepping-down

Amazon is destroying retail.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_6_3?url=search-alias%3Dfashion&field-keywords=dresses+for+women+casual+summer&sprefix=dre%2Caps%2C171&crid=W1S1EH49MFDF

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Food

What to Cook Right Now

By SAM SIFTON | Jul 30th 2018
It’s Alton Brown’s birthday today, just the moment to make his Arctic char burgers and breakfast carbonara.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018325-char-burgers

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018326-breakfast-carbonara

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Smarter Living

How to Beat F.O.B.O., From the Expert Who Coined It

By TIM HERRERA | Jul 30th 2018
The Fear of Better Options is always out there, but you can get around it.

Flip a coin is more traditional.
Roll a die is also good.
A fidget spinner has no randomness.

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Well

Recognizing Eating Disorders in Time to Help

By JANE E. BRODY | Jul 30th 2018
Experts say an eating disorder should not be considered normal adolescent behavior, and they urge adults to try to stop the problem before it becomes entrenched.

Eating disorders seem to be a power thing.
Don't get into a power struggle with a baby.
The baby wins every time.

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Opinion

Michael Cohen Takes a Bullet

By CHARLES M. BLOW | Jul 29th 2018
If Trump’s personal lawyer really puts family and country first, he could earn a sliver of redemption.

Trump is cheaping out again.

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Opinion

Good Restaurant Music?

Jul 30th 2018
A reader explains why no music is better in this case.

I tend to agree.

White noise would be better than dead silence.
It would provide a bit of privacyalong with soft rough surfaces.

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Travel

These Olive Oil Estates and Wineries in Italy Would Love You to Stay the Night

By SHIVANI VORA | Jul 30th 2018
These olive oil estates or wineries offer special activities and intimate experiences for travelers willing to slow down and stay a night or two.

If I learned the language I might feel differently about rustication.
I have not learned the language.

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World

Fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Remains a Mystery, Panel Says

By AUSTIN RAMZY | Jul 30th 2018
Family members say a 495-page report offers no closure four years after a flight bound for Beijing vanished.

The fate of Malaysia flight 370 is known.
It is not politically acceptable.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/acceptable

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Style

Nail Art Is Now Hand Art

By CRYSTAL MARTIN | Jul 30th 2018
When is nail art not nail art? When it creeps up your fingers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding

Manipulation is the start of curiosity.

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The Upshot

Shopping for Health Care Simply Doesn’t Work. So What Might?

By AUSTIN FRAKT | Jul 30th 2018
It’s often too complicated. And even when it isn’t, almost no one does it.

"Even if 40 percent of health care is shoppable, people are not shopping. What seems likelier to work is doing more to influence what doctors advise.
For example, we could provide physicians with price, quality and distance information for the services they recommend. Further, with financial bonuses, we could give physicians (instead of, or in addition to, patients) some incentive to identify and suggest lower-cost care.
Leaving decisions to patients, and making them spend more of their own money, doesn’t work."

The Republican party is using the wrong model.
The use of that model is rationing of a commodity that is perceived to be scarce.

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Opinion

Automakers Must Deliver on the Promise of Self-Driving Car Technology

By HENRY CLAYPOOL | Jul 30th 2018
The people who stand to benefit most from self-driving cars need to be heard.

Wrong.
Accessibility for the handicapped is available.
It is called a chauffeur.  
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chauffeur

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Crosswords & Games

Narrow Escape

By DEB AMLEN | Jul 29th 2018
Gary Cee opens our solving week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218

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World

Pope Accepts Resignation of Australian Archbishop for Covering Up Sex Abuse

By GAIA PIANIGIANI | Jul 30th 2018
Philip Edward Wilson, the archbishop of Adelaide, Australia, was the second prelate whose resignation Pope Francis accepted in three days.

The clergy of the Roman Catholic Church may be gay.

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Arts

Video: Dogs Took Over the Internet. Our Souls Are at Stake.

By AMANDA HESS and SHANE O’NEILL | Jul 30th 2018
Dogs are order. Cats are chaos. Dogs are loyal and compliant. Cats are … not. Why has the internet suddenly switched its allegiance?

Copyright law.

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Opinion

Taiwan Leaves on a Jet Plane

By HENG | Jul 29th 2018
Thanks to China, it doesn’t know when it will be back again.

More treachery.
Blame Richard Nixon.
He set out to break the unions.

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Obituaries

Bruce Lietzke, Laid-Back Winner on the PGA Tour, Dies at 67

By REUTERS | Jul 29th 2018
He won 13 tournaments but, by his account, rarely practiced and liked to take summer vacations — at the height of the tour — to be with his family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glioblastoma
Golf probably did not kill him.

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Opinion

Denying Asylum to Abused Women

Jul 29th 2018
Under stricter asylum standards, “we will be complicit in sending those most vulnerable back to face violent abuse.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/us/immigration-asylum-children.html

The Republican party is self destructive.

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