Category Archives: Journalism

That humanoid teaching assistant? Uh

Harper’s Weekly Review told me, and I immediately told you, about some humanoid action going on, including the introduction of a humanoid teaching assistant in Salamanca, a town in far-southwestern New York State. So far southwest it’s almost skidding off … Continue reading

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To semi-quote Dubya, “This is some weird shit.”

Delivered to my email by Harper’s Weekly Review, probably using a humanoid to do it: Astronomers announced that a four-carbon sugar typically found in raspberries was discovered in interstellar space; it was announced that a meteorite that crashed in New … Continue reading

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Our country today, in two NYT headlines

Here’s What It Means to Be a Democratic Socialist Universal health care, taxing the wealthy and opposition to military aid to Israel are among the movement’s key tenets. Texas Public School Students May Soon Be Required to Read the Bible … Continue reading

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