AdamSmith

If you could be a little more specific, I might be able to understand, and reply.

It might be useful to add that I don’t have ‘buddies’ here, or there. except the handful I have met & gotten to know in person.

I have no idea. How would I? P.S. If you can identify where I ‘defended’ him, I will readily concede. I have no memory of doing such.

I was not aware he was my buddy. P.S. Whom are you accusing of ‘defending’ him?

Fairly effective way to deal with things that annoy you, if they don’t directly affect you: Ignore them. Life is short.

‘Where’ve you been the past few days?’ ’In hospital. I had to have an operation on my upper plethora.’

Yes

Another unused organ dangling off the gastrointestinal tract. Or:

Interview Malcolm McDowell: 'I have no memory of doing most of my films' Xan Brooks He was once the embodiment of youthful rage and rebellion. Now, the Clockwork Orange star is reconciled to a life of golf, gangster flicks and the odd glimpse of genius https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/17/malcolm-mcdowell-i-have-no-memory-of-doing-most-of-my-films

A great relief.

Caring for mama is the role for the next decade. With love. and loving to be home.

No, many many gaps

Ditto, for variable reasons. Have been all over America, Caribbean, Western Europe, Asia. Enough travel (mostly business, but plenty of vacation time too) for 3 lifetimes. If, now just about to turn 61, I never see an airport again, I will go out in joyous celebration. (And, repeating, one intends to live 4 more decades at least. )

Again, vhen Wernher von Braun did somezing... ...it werked! Compare mit today.

Back when things worked...

What a many-layered expression!

I think he as most great writers was most subtle. At the same time as flaming across the sky as a comet. Like Hemingway, Faulkner, the 19th-century greats, on and on. All the way back to Gawain & Chaucer & before. For many reasons, reader-influencing etc etc etc

War generates far more debt than growth.

Also this notion of the ‘virgin birth’ was a ridiculously 2nd-century (If memory recalls) misreading of Mary simply being ‘pure.’ meaning faithful.

Look through the scholarship. The perception of the “miracles” then were just from that they perceived “reality” in entirely alien ways from how we do today.

Very intriguing find, but after considerable thought, not much credenced by the archeological or other scholars. The family & individual names engraved thereon were very common/frequent in that region during that time.

‘Begin Again’ Calls on James Baldwin to Make Sense of Today https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/books/review-begin-again-james-baldwin-eddie-glaude-jr.amp.html

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