Happy Palindrome Day: 20200202
A palindromic question is asked, an answer is ventured, a verdict of correct or incorrect is handed down. But there's more to the lives of quiz obsessives... Brilliant Minds of Renners
I AGREE. IF WE ARE EACH ONLY ALLOWED TO WRITE AND READ PEOPLE EXACTLY LIKE OURSELVES, THE WORLD BECOMES A COLLECTION OF CELLS, WHERE WE CAN SEE BUT NOT HEAR OR TOUCH ANYONE ELSE: Artistic Segregation Is a Terrible Idea.
Bridget McKenzie quits frontbench
Bridget McKenzie quits frontbench over report she breached ministerial standards.
Opinion: McKenzie had no discretion to break the rules
Ministers keep saying in relation to the sports-rorts affair that Bridget McKenzie that no rules were broken. This either shows a complete misunderstanding of the powers of ministers within the legal system, or a desire to mislead, writes Anne Twomey.
McKenzie's ministerial career comes to a sudden end after an unexpected beginning
The dual citizenship saga ended some political careers but acted as a catapult for Bridget McKenzie. The party has been wracked with scandals in the years since but it is one of her own that cost the deputy leader her spot on the frontbench.
Documents show scientists' revolt at Trump's 'crazy' hurricane claims
The newly released emails give an inside picture of the scramble to respond to the President's false claims and the turmoil it caused.
What The Font You Use Says About You
“The font you use is a form of non-verbal communication. If you meet in person, tone of voice, clothes and body language carry a huge amount of information. If you write someone a letter you have all these tools available in your handwriting. But as soon as you sit down at a computer, especially if you’re working in a program that defaults to Times New Roman, we suddenly become identical and we don’t like that.” – The Guardian
Don’t Read? What It Means To Love Literature
GIt is no secret that in contemporary America there are many people who hardly read at all, and then another sizable group who, though they keep up with news, sports and the latest fads in self-care or technology, have little interest in serious fiction, poetry or literary commentary. It would be wrong to say such people hate literature, for one has to care about something to truly hate it. – The Point
"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
- Paul Sweeney
EVER NOTICE OUR BETTERS ARE ANYTHING BUT? Vox offers us plebs a glimpse inside the private celebrity Resistance Twitter club known as — we kid you not — ‘the Decency Collective.’
Never mind the joints that ache
the bones more brittle
than they were at twenty.
The memory lapses
and the end resembling the beginning
as we toddle much like toddlers,
the bones more brittle
than they were at twenty.
The memory lapses
and the end resembling the beginning
as we toddle much like toddlers,
Into age and then beyond
all of it is part of the ride.
From that first slap alive we travel
on deaths road. Life like everything
has a beginning, a middle and an end.
Wherever you may think you are
on that chain,
surprises cannot be avoided.
I promise you that growing older
in all ways but one is safe and
easy, something to be savored.
The downside? Outliving friends
that cannot be replaced, those
few that always make and made
a difference.
Ride on.
Live for those who did not complete
the journey, make a difference
for them.
all of it is part of the ride.
From that first slap alive we travel
on deaths road. Life like everything
has a beginning, a middle and an end.
Wherever you may think you are
on that chain,
surprises cannot be avoided.
I promise you that growing older
in all ways but one is safe and
easy, something to be savored.
The downside? Outliving friends
that cannot be replaced, those
few that always make and made
a difference.
Ride on.
Live for those who did not complete
the journey, make a difference
for them.
Sex in your marriage should get better with age
After many years of being together, the lust-factor may have fizzled out between you and your partner, but there are ways to bring spice back to the bedroom.
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