This week's cover of The Economist. Kinda says it all.
Jessie Newburn
If you don't understand what gaslighting is, check this video out.
Karoline Leavitt yammers on about how "leakers" at the Pentagon won't be tolerated when -- as we know -- part of what was "leaked" was how Pete Hegseth broke national security and Defense Department communication and security protocols in using Signal to discuss/share specific military…
If you haven't yet discovered the show, The Americas on NBC, treat yourself!
Exquisite photography, storytelling, music.
Phenomenal insights into nature. Beautifully told, shown, shared.
This is not your mother's National Geographic show, or if you're my age, the Wild Kingdom of my childhood.
Oh, and Tom Hanks narrates the show. Just lovely.
Ima WTF on FB.
My feed, as I'm sure yours is too, is filled with ads, posts from pages I don't follow and a whole lot of irrelevant whatnot.
So, I select the "Friends" feed option, and my feed is filled with posts from 4 days ago, 2 days ago, 5 days ago, 3 days ago. NOTHING…
More rabbit hole bits. (I'm organizing and cleaning out some articles and notes I've gathered.)
The colony of Rhode Island was founded between 1636 and 1642 by five separate and COMBATIVE groups, all of whom had been expelled by or left the Massachusetts Bay colony for "disputative reasons."
Independent, combative, banished.
They did go on to become fierce…
Yep, I dressed like this in 1982… In college, no less, while living in a dorm.
I wore my knickers a LOT! I don't think people had nearly as many clothing items then as they do now. I had a wardrobe that I was building. Pieces matched and went together. I probably had, at most, half…
George F. Will - America's long-balanced Conservative on Trump's tariffs:
"In Trump’s first term, when China canceled purchases of almost 500,000 metric tons of U.S. soybeans during a trade spat, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 (#𝟒𝟓) 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐣𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬.
"Today, exports generate more than 20 percent of farm income, China has announced a 34 percent…
I attended the most lovely, sweet and generous Irish wake memorial yesterday for the most lovely, sweet and generous of people, KJ Donoghue.
Memorials, while sad for the life lost, can be extraordinary for bringing people together and sharing stories. We don't know the length of our lives, and while KJ's was shorter than many others'…
There are many forms of intelligence, right? You may have heard of people who have --
Musical intelligence,
Logical-mathematical intelligence,
Interpersonal intelligence,
Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence and/or
Spatial intelligence
There is, of course, business intelligence, which often includes --
Dashboards
Reporting …
For as ubiquitous as generational influence is, we have little shared understanding of what makes a generation ... a generation. Yet, the information is available and knowable. Here are some basics:
First, we need to understand that generations, like people, have a life path. --
They are born.
They have a childhood.…
Every American, imo, should listen to Heather Cox Richardson's eight-part video series, The American Paradox. Yeah, it's history. Yeah, there's lots of details in there. Yeah, it can get a little long here and there, but multitask and do the dishes while you're listening, listen while you're driving, or something. But listen.
The Republican party of…
I wrote this "comment" on a /trump-lovin' friend's FB post in response to his glorification of Elon and calling out those advocating destruction of Teslas, dealerships and such. (I agree on the "let's not vandalize and destroy" part. Didn't agree on what else he wrote.)
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While I think many people are delighted to see folks selling…