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November 10, 2022
David Walliams recorded making derogatory remarks about BGT contestants | David Walliams | The Guardian
You know, I live for these little honest moments. Walliams, one of the UK’s best-known television personalities and children’s book authors, was recorded referring to one contestant as a “cunt” and saying of another: “She thinks you want to fuck her, but you don’t.” Source: David Walliams recorded making derogatory remarks about BGT contestants | …
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November 1, 2022
Northeast U.S. Interurbans | History Tidbits
Even my old hometown of Fairmont, WV had streetcars at one time in history. I remember seeing the old rails, once, when they ripped up the road. At one time, nearly every city in the U.S. with population over 10,000 had at least one streetcar company. It is estimated that in 1920, 90 percent of …
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October 28, 2022
Fall of the East India Company – World History Encyclopedia
As the celebrated Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) noted in his An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, a sovereign that was holding a trade monopoly could not possibly rule with fairness to all its subjects, the two ideas were simply not compatible. Source: Fall …
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October 27, 2022
Democrats Debate Themselves: Why Do We Suck? – POLITICO
Too woke, argued former president Barack Obama in a Pod Save America interview with his former aides. Some Democrats are a “buzzkill,” he suggested, by making people “feel as if they are walking on eggshells” that they might say things “the wrong way.” Too timid on the jobs and economy message, warned Sen. Bernie Sanders. …
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October 26, 2022
Most Candidates Who Think 2020 Was Rigged Are Probably Going To Win In November | FiveThirtyEight
It’s sad to me that so many politicans take advantage of intellectually stunted voters In May, Anna Paulina Luna donned a red-carpet-worthy ball gown to a screening of “2000 Mules,” a debunked documentary that falsely claims to show evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. In June, she made her stance on the …
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October 10, 2022
Where Is All the Book Data? | Public Books
Since its launch in 2001, BookScan has grown in authority. All the major publishing houses now rely on BookScan data, as do many other publishing professionals and authors. But, as I found to my surprise, pretty much everybody else is explicitly banned from using BookScan data, including academics. The toxic combination of this data’s power …
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October 6, 2022
The Guggenheim’s Scapegoat – The Atlantic
A museum curator was forced out of her job over allegations of racism that an investigation deemed unfounded. What did her defenestration accomplish? “In hindsight, the summer of 2020 was revolutionary, in both good and bad ways; noble goals were being pursued, but the ground was constantly shifting, and it was unwise to end up …
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October 5, 2022
The 99% (Writers Division) | Anthony Bruno… Crime Writer
The dead speak. My friend Anthony Bruno was a writer who died in 2014. I stopped by his old blog and found this reflection on the direction of the publishing industry, as germane today as it was nearly a decade ago. Big Publishing will continue to create and promote a 1% just as the music …
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October 4, 2022
Kampung Warna-Warni Jodipan (Village of Color) – Malang, Indonesia – Atlas Obscura
The village of Kampung Warna-Warni (Indonesian for “Village of Color”) was once drab and polluted, lacking the economic resources required to build a healthy community. But eight event management students from a nearby university lent a helping hand by applying their class skills to the real world. The students partnered with a local paint company …
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You’ve Been Assembling Your Hard Shell Tacos All Wrong
If you don’t want your hard shell taco to break apart in your hand, try adding an ingredient that’s usually used as a topping to the bottom of the tortilla. Source: You’ve Been Assembling Your Hard Shell Tacos All Wrong
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