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29 Sep 2023, 4:00 am
Bob Menendez Singlehandedly Blocked Bipartisan Bill to Regulate Foreign Influence in D.C. [read post]
22 May 2023, 2:19 pm
When arguing for the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill in March last year, Shona Robison, now Scotland’s deputy first minister, told MSPs that predatory men ‘have never had to pretend to be anything else to carry out abusive and predatory behaviour’. [read post]
19 May 2023, 6:00 am
Fred Nelson, @JessicaSweidan, @torbjorngjefsen, Bryson Ogden @Ran9erB & @SolangeBandiaky on moving from pledges to action Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities For Purpose Law Group: CA’s Budget & Nonprofits: Part Three NY Times: Black taxpayers have been far more likely to be audited than others, the IRS said on Monday. [read post]
25 Mar 2023, 3:37 pm
.' And ask any deep thinker about the benefits of what Bill Bryson calls the 'tranquil tedium' walking elicits. [read post]
13 Mar 2023, 5:42 pm
Recent incidents like the killing of 15-year-old transgender girl Brianna Grey in Chester but also political developments such as the UK Government’s decision to block a Scottish Bill that would allow gender self-identification and the concerns over the housing in prison of transgender sex offender Isla Bryson have featured widely in the news media, confirming the latter’s function as a key arena in which transgender issues are defined, debated and negotiated. [read post]
31 Jan 2023, 3:43 am
— Equality Network (@LGBTIScotland) January 27, 2023 Under the new measures, Bryson is under segregation at Cornton Vale. [read post]
7 Nov 2021, 9:10 am
The stage manager is Bill Burton, founder of Bryson Gillette, a Democrat-linked consultancy, and former deputy press secretary in the Obama White House. [read post]
18 Jun 2021, 9:02 am
(Derrick Bryson Taylor, NY Times) Watch a Never-Before-Aired James Baldwin Interview From 1979 (Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire) The Racial Reckoning That Wasn’t (Code Switch) Black women have always led the fight for reparations. [read post]
13 Feb 2021, 4:58 am
Reading, listening, and watching recommendations from: David: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Fred: The Southern Tour Podcast hosted by Jonathan Chatwin Jonathan: Cobra Kai on Netflix We’ll see you next week when we sit down with Nadja Vietz from Monereo Meyer Abogados to discuss recent developments in foreign direct investment (FDI) in Spain. [read post]
31 Dec 2020, 5:30 pm
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson (2019) [cd unabridged]36. [read post]
14 Nov 2020, 3:13 am
"And, yes, I have read Bill Bryson's "A Walk in the Woods," and I know he insults Thoreau:The inestimably priggish and tiresome Henry David Thoreau thought nature was splendid, splendid indeed, so long as he could stroll to town for cakes and barley wine, but when he experienced real wilderness, on a visit to Katahdin in 1846, he was unnerved to the core. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 4:11 am
Reading, listening, and watching recommendations from: Nathan The Story of Human Language, an Audible Great Course by John McWhorter Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson Fred – Cádiz are Finally Back, But Not in the Way That They Dreamed Of (The Guardian) Jonathan – The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull If you have comments on this episode or if you’d like to suggest topics for future episodes, please… [read post]
12 Aug 2020, 5:59 am
"Walkers in Britain, it seems, are killed by cows all the time," writes Bill Bryson in "The Road to Little Dribbling":Four people were fatally trampled in one eight-week period in 2009 alone. [read post]
23 Apr 2020, 2:04 am
No hay que enchufarlas, ni resetearlas, ni teclear… basta con cogerlas por el lomo, y pasar el índice, mientras la imaginación se despierta… Si me disculpan, ahora tengo que elegir entre tres amigos que aguardan calladitos, como Lázaro para que los haga caminar: El impostor, de Jeffrey Archer (novela de suspense, 2009); Mediohombre: la batalla que Inglaterra ocultó al mundo, de Alber Vázquez (novela histórica, sobre la proeza de Blas de… [read post]
26 Aug 2019, 3:56 pm
Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 26, 2019ADDED: I am reminded of this passage from "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid," Bill Bryson's memoir of growing up in the 1950s:Edward Teller, the semi-crazed Hungarian-born physicist who was one of the presiding geniuses behind the development of the H-bomb... and his acolytes at the Atomic Energy Commission envisioned using H-bombs to enable massive civil engineering projects on a scale never before conceived—to… [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 4:03 pm
' Meet the people who have stopped washing/A growing number of people are eschewing soap and trusting bacteria to do the job instead – and an entire industry has sprung up to accommodate them" (The Guardian).That made me want to copy a passage from Bill Bryson's "At Home: A Short History of Private Life":“Wash your hands often, your feet seldom, and your head never” was a common English proverb. [read post]
30 Dec 2018, 6:08 am
In the process, the court warned the PTO that its generalized approach to labeling “methods of organizing human activities” as abstract ideas, but found that this particular method fit the bill. [read post]
30 Jul 2018, 6:58 am
I've been reading Bill Bryson's "Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States":Fans in the sense of enthusiasts is presumed to be a shortening of fanatics, but the conclusion is only speculative. [read post]
29 Jul 2018, 6:01 am
When he said it more clearly "Shed Legacy," I had a genuinely hilarious fraction of a second of thinking of "Shed Legacy" as the name for a city.ADDED: My willingness to see Shed Legacy as the name for a town comes in part from just recently having read this, in Bill Bryson's "Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States":There is almost nothing, it would appear, that hasn’t inspired an American place… [read post]
10 Jun 2018, 8:24 am
A line from Bill Bryson's "At Home: A Short History of Private Life" that sprang to mind this morning when I saw the tweeting about Justin Trudeau:Justin Trudeau’s left eyebrow detached after meeting Trump — so what? [read post]
