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RIP

02/16/24 07:48

I didn’t watch Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin, so I don’t know if he asked him about Alexei Navalny, last year’s true Person of the Year.

 

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modest proposal

02/14/24 09:03

What if on Valentine’s Day, instead of flowers, people gave books with the word “love” in their subtitles?

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bad timing

02/13/24 09:39

Today is Fat Tuesday, which means that tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, the season during which Christians traditionally give up things they love – often foods, frequently chocolate. Tomorrow is also Valentine’s Day, so some “fasts” may be delayed 24 hours.  

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the Polish way

02/08/24 09:00

Today is Fat Thursday (Tłusty Czwartek) in Poland. Why the Poles celebrate on Thursday and not on Tuesday I never found out, probably because I was too busy eating the traditional doughnuts (pączki) filled with rose-petal jam.  

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A while back, we had dinner with friends who were heading to Montreal to visit their daughter, who had married a Canadian. Hania asked if the couple were thinking about returning to the States at some point (they had met in Miami). Vivian said it wasn’t likely; now that their children were both in school, they liked the safety that Canada afforded.

In the ’60s and ’70s, young Americans went to Canada to avoid the violence of a foreign war. Today, they go to Canada to avoid the violence of the United States.

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