Of shitholes – foreign and our own
Donald Trump doesn’t mince words – in fact they’re usually like a very rare steak with blood still dripping as you slice through. Some months ago, “the controversy of the …
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What to do when your elders commit a thought crime?
If you are a woke Millennial, chances are at least some of your older relatives – parents, grandparents, uncles – are not just an embarrassment but a menace, using their …
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Is this the weather or is this catastrophe?
Caught in a panic, there’s no escape for reality. Or is there? Democrats are far more likely to believe droughts, floods, wildfires, hurricanes and tropical storms have become more frequent …
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The Weakly Chrenk
Perhaps it has been a mistake to call one’s new website The Daily Chrenk, implying that a one-person blog (an increasing rarity these days) can provide enough quality – or …
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If I could have everyone read just one thing about climate change policy…
…this could be it. None of the contents are new or original, but in this longer-than-an-average-op-ed, Bjorn Lomborg distills all the elements of the argument he has been making for …
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Happy 400 years of Solidarity, America!
Aurelia Pucinski, a justice of the Illinois Appellate Court, remembers a little know incident of the early American history, whose anniversary we are celebrating today: Original records of the Jamestown …
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How is your maintenance hole?
Another triumph of human progress from the city that has been a pioneer for so long: A US city has voted to ban a list of common words like “manhole” …
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Miss World America – no dogs or conservatives allowed
Seems like Republicans are not welcome in beauty contests anymore: Miss World America's State/National/Chief Director accused me of being racist, Islamaphobic, and insensitive. They stripped me of my Miss Michigan …
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Pussy Galore in the new Bond
The meh news of the day: Since Daniel Craig announced he was standing down as James Bond, debate has raged whether the next 007 should be a woman, or black. …
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On being told to go back where you come from
Donald Trump and his typing fingers are in trouble again (as they are pretty much every day) for telling “the Squad” of Democrat Congresswomen to “go back where they come from”. …
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Drugs Don’t Work
…was the second single from the Verve’s breakthrough “Urban Hymns” album, with “Bittersweet Symphony” being a very hard act to follow indeed. This is not quite what Richard Ashcroft had …
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Socialism and crystal energy
Jessica Roy at “LA Times” writes an interesting piece on “How millennials replaced religion with astrology and crystals”. To be fair to Gen Ys, they are of course not the …
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Epstein and Clinton, or the tale of two searches
I have written about the scumbag Jeffrey Epstein before; in any case, he’s all over the news again so you can get an update elsewhere. While everyone’s favourite ex-President, Bill …
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Nice guys finish last
A new study, which looks at the satisfaction and longevity of relationships, suggests that nice guys (and gals) finish last – or finish first by finishing last (their relationships, that …
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Happy birthday to a broken escalator
Probably not as funny as residents of Toronto creating an impromptu roadside shrine to a dead raccoon, whom the city council workers have not cleaned up for 12 hours, but in …
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The heart-warming story of a lingerie refugee
A case of bootylicious persecution, followed by down-and-out, but now with a happy ending: Negzzia, 29, has been fleeing the Revolutionary Guards in Iran since 2017 after photos surfaced of …
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The survival of the unfittest
Meet the potential new European Union boss, Frau Merkel’s twin: A polyglot Brussels native who reared seven children and earned a medical degree on the side before storming to the …
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Who’s afraid of the big bad tank?
Donald Trump has brought tanks into Washington DC for the 4th of July celebrations and people are going nuts. None nuttier than a Harvard academic and a former Clinton man, …
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Top 10 Sexiest Nations – and their sexiest politicians
The question has now been settled – by a completely unscientific opinion poll, but nevertheless… The people of Ukraine have been named as the sexiest in the world, according to …
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