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Shingles
This morning a continuation of the wonderful weather everyoneโs been enjoying the past few weeks; mid-October, early fall, Indian summer. Cool, mid-fifty degree mornings; warm, mid-70s afternoons, balmy breezes (even when itโs windy it feels great), ...
The Response of the captain of โSea-Watch 3โ to the Mayor of Paris who wants to give her a medal
A friend of Hard Crackers in Paris has forwarded us the following article. Pia Klemp, who faces twenty years in prison in Italy, has refused the medal that the mayor of Paris wanted to award her. ...
Connections
So, this is an odd piece. On a late summer Saturday in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, my daughter and her husband did a swim-and-run in a state park. My wife and I watched their kids, three of ...
This Place is Poisoning Our Loved Ones
Below is a post from the โLook Out For One Anotherโ FB group in Huntsville, Alabama. Most of the responses gave specific information about who to contact, but a few made larger points such as the ...
A Gory Gift to Trump: A Cruel, Militarized, Expensive, and Decades Old, Bipartisan Border Policy
A review of John Carlos Frey, Sand and Blood: Americaโs Stealth War on the Mexico Border, New York: Bold Type Books, 2019, 243 pages. John Carlos Freyโs Sand and Blood relates the roughly 140-year history of ...
After El Paso and Dayton
1.ย praise for the first responders; 2.ย exhortations from local political leaders that “this will not affect who we are” and “we will recoverโ; 3.ย a promise of thorough investigation; 4.ย detailed speculation about what charges ...
Life in America
The following is from the affidavit appealing for a reduced sentence submitted by the lawyers for Cesar Sayoc, the man accused of sending fake pipe bombs to dozens of top Democrats at the time of the ...
The Moral Economy in the Black Rural South
(Reprinted from the July-August 2019 โThe Brooklyn Rail) Once you drive out of Huntsville, within 15 minutes you run into deeply rural areas. Open fields, some cultivated, some wild; mobile homes and modest bungalows mix with ...
The black hole of my job
The event horizon of a black hole is the line beyond which all possible paths forward in time lead to the center of the black hole. It is the dividing line between regions of space where ...
Growing old in โpost-recessionโ America
Like so many other children of aging parents, I will at some point assume the responsibility of looking after my mom. Her Social Security benefits are insufficient for her to live on and she relies on ...