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Main audience: USA people If you are a USA voter, we need to pay close attention to what’s happening from now through at least the end of election day in November. Shenanigans are afoot and will increase. To cast our … Continued

Main audience: UK people What I have been writing about can wait—we have British weather again! Until Thursday the only rain north Shropshire got all summer were a few tantalizing showers that barely made anything faintly damp for a few … Continued

Main audience: everyone Dolly Parton was a role model. She wasn’t ready to leave this world. Her death is a loss for us all. There is a way to honor her life which is suitable for multiple countries and impeccably … Continued

Main audience: everyone Although the impending financial crisis is being discussed, few people talk about how it could become a pivot point comparable to (or bigger than) the Gilded Age and Great Depression leading to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New … Continued

Main audience: everyone The Swiss found that among societal factors in the COVID pandemic’s crisis phase, group affiliation strongly affects willingness to “adopt prudent protective measures.” Such dynamics also apply in other crises such as the multifaceted maelstrom in the … Continued

Main audience: everyone Science says Grandma was right to teach us as kids that buffet manners matter, but there’s more to it than anyone knew at the time. Click here to read more.

Main audience: everyone Today I tried to write a serious post and it doesn’t feel worthy to show to anyone. It may be salvageable some other day when I feel less trashed. Today, well, here we are. I overdid, and … Continued

Main audience: UK people In a field of 34 candidates, none from a major party, where his main challenger was a man dressed as a rubbish bin, Nigel Farage got re-elected as MP. Let the Parliamentary investigation resume. Were the … Continued

Main audience: everyone We got to see the solar eclipse because UK weather this summer is so unlike usual British weather. I’m thinking about how much else is creaking with strain, demanding our attention. I’m thinking about what’s broken & … Continued

Main audience: USA people If you are American, reasons for skyrocketing food prices are not “just” climate change and the war against Iran. The federal government is also using taxpayer money to keep prices up. Click here to read more.