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FOX News loses Cohen viewership ratings

It probably wouldn’t be smart to make too much of it, but it seems somehow fitting, maybe even predictable, that FOX NEWS had the lowest viewership during Michael Cohen’s testimony before the House. CNN finished first in the key demographic … Continue reading

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Quote for the day

Moving in a milieu that considered homosexuality to be intrinsically bad, and reading theology books that defined it as a sin, for a long time I experienced it as guilt. The path that I chose to leave that guilt was … Continue reading

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A win for the “Oxford comma”

The Oxford comma is the one that follows the next-to-last item in a list, e.g., “I went to the bookstore, the deli, and the doctor.” The comma following “deli” is the Oxford comma, and most of us are taught in … Continue reading

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Disappointing tweet of the day

The Latest: Kremlin says talks at the U.S.-North Korean nuclear summit in Vietnam appear to have failed because the parties proved unwilling to compromise and make concessions. Follow #TrumpKimSummit coverage here: https://t.co/o9HVn77258 https://t.co/EKlDOD7LjX — The Associated Press (@AP) February 28, … Continue reading

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The rights of water bodies?

As a young engineer, w-a-a-a-y back in the Pleistocene, I worked on the design of a dike made of flyash along the edge of Lake Erie. It was a slick and intricate project, technically, and I learned a lot, contributed … Continue reading

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