"O beauty, passing beauty! Sweetest sweet! How can thou let me waste my youth in sighs?" ~Alfred Lord Tennyson. ~~~~~ *Warning- the following post may be offensive to people who respect Chocolate Cake. I've taken the liberty of altering just a few of Donald Trump's comments about women...although he would never denigrate chocolate cake … Continue reading When Chocolate Cake is Really Beautiful…
Henry Rousso, French Jewish Holocaust era Historian was detained by US immigration officials in Houston's George Busch International Airport this past Wednesday for more than 10 hours. Rousso, one of France’s preeminent scholars and public intellectuals, was en route from Paris to lecture at an academic symposium at Texas A&M University's Hagler Institute for Advanced … Continue reading Traveling to Trumpland
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, ensuring that there is no prohibition on the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble, or prohibiting the … Continue reading The Seven Countries in Trump’s Travel Ban
"The appearance of insider trading", "a privileged offer", or good old fashioned governmental corruption? I pick C. "The head of an Australian pharmaceutical company is forcefully denying to CNN that Rep. Tom Price, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Human Services, was offered a special discounted rate of the firm's stocks." CNN … Continue reading Tom Price / Reply All
Red = Banned: Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Somalia—are the countries on Trump's no immigrant list. Banned are the countries of Muslims who have not perpetrated terrorist acts, but who do not do business with Trump. Yellow = Welcomed: Egypt, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan—are countries not affected by Trump's ban. Welcomed … Continue reading What Countries Has Trump Banned, and Why?
I must say buh bye to my beloved avocado. I cherish you, my avocado: chunks in salads, sliced in a flatbread wrap with humus, smooshed into guacamole...I could go on, but there really is no reason to torture myself because I have to break it with off—you with your good fat, yellow inside, and bumpy dark … Continue reading Farewell to My Avocado
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