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Want a pluperfect example of opportunism?
From Harper’s Weekly Review: [T]he German company whose mechanical ladder was used in the Louvre heist utilized a photograph from the museum theft in an ad touting the machine’s ability to function as “quiet as a whisper” for “when you … Continue reading
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Tagged Harper's, Louvre heist
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For my fellow urbanites: same genius, different subject
Holmes had been buried in the morning papers all the way down, but after we passed the Hampshire border he threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked … Continue reading
Posted in Crime & Punishment, Culture, MAGA, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Are cities more dangerous than country life?, Arthur Conan Doyle, Baker Street London, Dr. Watson, is Portland a "war zone"?, Sherlock Holmes
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Police actions around the nation
From Harper’s Weekly Review: [P]olice officers in Parma Heights, Ohio, stopped and detained a giant inflatable pumpkin. [I]n San Bruno, California, police pulled over a self-driving car for making an illegal U-turn but were unable to issue a ticket without … Continue reading
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Tagged giant inflatable pumpkin, Harper's, self-driving car
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