(Header Image: Go_A – Ukraine – 2021 Eurovision Grand Final, Photo by EBU / Thomas Hanses) Last year, Meryl got us watching EuroVision, a music contest where finalists from each country in Europe + Australia compete. It is quite the spectacle with candidate videos dropping early in the year. Because of the large number of participants, semi-finals are held over […]
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There’s Water at the Bottom of the Ocean
Brian posted an article about Splenda. Not Scout’s bike Splenda, but the chemical sweetener in the yellow packets. The website he referenced cites a couple of sources, including a Sugar Industry Sponsored Web Site. As I wrote on Brian’s bog, when I read these things on the web, one of my first questions is about the motivation of the entity […]
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There’s this group of addicts whose habit has been discussed openly, but they’ve never been too serious about dealing with it. In fact, in the last several years they’ve started partaking more in an almost wonton fashion. Unfortunately, this last year their substance-of-choice has gotten really expensive and it’s crimping their lifestyle. They now feel they’re “victims” and demand recompense […]
Continue readingThe power of 13.2%
I registered for permanent absentee voting because I don’t enjoy rushing to find my polling place before it closes. Okay, really it’s because there are too many elections. November is the easy-to-remember one because of all those primo election signs. Once every four years, we have the bumper crop (presidential election). The other three are moderate-yield opportunities to elect representatives, […]
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