Good Morning All, This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into …
Sunday Evening Open Thread: BET’s SotU Rebuttal
Scooplet: Maxine Waters is giving a national address on BET after Trump's State of the Union—it'll be at the top of special news show hosted by Angela Rye. https://t.co/aeB7gWPxiI — Darren Sands (@darrensands) January 26, 2018 No disrespect to my homeboy Joe Kennedy III, but some people seem to be gleeful that “Auntie Maxine” will …
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Ursula K. LeGuin, Who Walked Away from Omelas
Letter to The Oregonian, published February 1, 2017: A recent letter in The Oregonian compares a politician’s claim to tell “alternative facts” to the inventions of science fiction. The comparison won’t work. We fiction writers make up stuff. Some of it clearly impossible, some of it realistic, but none of it real – all invented, …
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Too Much Information
Do you wear a Fitbit? If you do, satellites may be watching you. Yesterday, Strava, a social network that collects data from devices with GPS, uploaded a heat map of its users around the world to the internet. Intelligence services are now combing that map for data about hidden military bases and other tidbits. It’s …
Bang on the drum all day
We are playing the baby a lot of lullaby type music these days and I made an important discovery: the first five seconds of Jack Johnson’s “Upside Down” are exactly the same as the first five seconds of “Sympathy For The Devil”. The dog really does move to guard the baby whenever he’s in the …
The Turkish Gambit: Erdogan Issues An Ultimatum To the US In Syria
This broke late last night/early this morning: #BREAKING: Turkey says U.S. needs to withdraw from Syria's Manbij region immediately https://t.co/nhRjLasISo pic.twitter.com/6OxHW37VMQ — The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) January 27, 2018 ANKARA – The United States needs to withdraw from northern Syria’s Manbij region immediately, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday. President Tayyip Erdogan on …
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Last Warning: California Dueling Meet-Ups TODAY
Major Major Major Major‘s spontaneous San Francisco meet-up will convene at 3:30, local time, at the Thirsty Bear. The LA meet-up that travelling commentor LAMH requested will collect, starting at 6pm local time, at the Grand Central Market‘s “large seating area on the Hill side of the building”. As a precaution, check back to the …
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