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Mysteries of Life: Random weirdness from Harper’s Weekly Review
A drug-dealing, white-supremacist stripper was sentenced for obstruction of justice in Texas… But how did she/he obstruct justice? I really want to know. Tennessee issued a guidance that gives school districts the option to send teachers exposed to COVID-19 back … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, Law, suits and order, Mysteries of Life, Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged Apple secret iPod, asteroid on Election Day eve, Botswana, Butler Act, COVID 19, evolution, Harper's Weekly Review, International Space Station, John Scopes, Martha McSally, NASA, Tennessee Scopes Trial, Tim Cook
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Mysteries of life: Guns in schools
From Harper’s July 2020 Findings: Florida adolescents who sleep four hours a night or less are, compared with those who sleep at least eight hours a night, 85 percent more likely to bring guns to school.
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Tagged guns in schools, Harper's Magazine
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Mysteries of Life: Why does anyone believe The Big Lie?
Big lies are yammered over and over and over. I don’t believe them. I know the facts. Why would anyone else believe them? Because… Repeat something often enough, brazenly enough and aggressively enough to people dazed enough by the cacophony … Continue reading
Posted in How I Learned The Facts of Life, Mysteries of Life, Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged big lies, Goebbels, Hitler, How I Learned the Facts of Life, Roger Cohen, Trump
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