I've told you I love the WashPost, but I haven't mentioned a little secret -- I really enjoy the "Style" section, movie reviews, celebs, trends of Whatever ( Read more... )

We've all heard about what billionaire George Soros has done in Eastern Europe (especially in his native Hungary) to promote democracy and liberal ideas ( Read more... )

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/25/a-beloved-canadian-novelist-reckons-with-her-mennonite-pastRead more... )

My apologies to one and all for not posting in the last three weeks. The Mid-term elections yesterday kind of overwhelmed me, and -- suddenly -- they were past ( Read more... )

Today, Wednesday Dec 20, was a horrid day in the ongoing horror that is the Trump presidency. Two aspects are equally sordid and disgusting ( Read more... )

Today's Post carries a superb review by a top book-critic (a man, no less) of new work on American misogyny -- important in today's gender warfare context ( Read more... )

An Aussie doctor, Lisa Pryor, wrote an op-ed in today's NYTimes, very sad for what Trumpsky has been up to ( Read more... )

I just tripped across a "social medium" that I'd not heard of previously. It's kind of like Tumblr, in that you can easily up- and download photos, but it's formatted quite differently -- and evidently is Chinese. Check out their disarmingly simple self-description -- http://yooying.com/aboutus ( Read more... )

OMG we're ending a week that turns out to be even more painful than LAST week (Dallas, remember? Seems awfully long ago, I agree ( Read more... )

Just returned from 25 days at sea in both the Baltic and points west -- route took us from Copenhagen to the German ports of Kiel, Rostock, Lubeck and Waernemunde (a bunch of our fellow cruisers went from there to Berlin for a few hours; having so little time, we were content to explore nearby towns). Also to charming Tallinn, capital of Estonia, ( Read more... )