Thursday, May 05, 2022

Apparently the secret password was: "Belly Rub?"

 

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  1. Treatment for finger-bending disease may be ‘gamechanger’ [Click] “Clinical trial seems to show Dupuytren’s disease reversed by rheumatoid arthritis drug.” This afflicted my father and another of his male relatives on his father’s side. The reported frequency [presumably in the UK] is amazing.
    --Alan

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  2. ‘A five-day wait for $5,000’: the man who queues for the uber-rich [Click] “Robert Samuel’s business has put him at the forefront of cultural events – and shines a light on the state of capitalism in 2022”
    --Alan

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  3. Beau of the Fifth Column: Let’s talk about Russians and John Deere [Click]
    ---Alan

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  4. ‘Towns just turned to dust’: how factory hog farms help hollow out rural communities [Click] Iowa a case in point. Mechanized agriculture has done the same; the town in Ontario where my grandfather was born, and almost all of the nearby towns, has disappeared.
    ---Alan

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    1. Oh, I like that one too! It looks like a cross between a VW Bug and a Mini Cooper! 😁

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  6. Russian soldiers reportedly turn on Chechen mercenaries [Click] I was wondering if something like this might happen.
    ---Alan

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    1. Now that it has happened, I wonder if any of the soldiers had seen Sergei Eisinstein's Battleship Potemkin [Click] Quite possibly not, since most or perhaps all of them grew up in the post-Soviet era.

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    2. Anonymous = Alan (as if you couldn't figure it out--ha!)

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    3. Maybe it would be a good idea for President Putin to watch it.

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    4. Well, Alan, you were the first to use Anonymous routinely, some years ago. And it was enough that I still think it's you, before seeing anyone's signature.

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  7. There is a saying from Kahil Gibran, "I have spent my days stringing and restringing my lute and the song I came to sing remains unsung". And, buddy, that perfectly describes the way I've been feeling for the past two months. Feeling like I accomplish less than 5% of the things I want to do. Political climate and Ukraine NOT helping.

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    1. In my experience, that's just the way life is after about age 60. What used to take me two days now takes closer to two weeks. It's a shift in focus. At first, it worried me a little...was I slowly losing cognitive function? Now I think it's just that our bodies need a slower pace in our latter decades, and that's largely because our brain works harder. We have a LOT more data to sift through when we think things over. So, naturally, that takes longer. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

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