On 17 July 1936, the day the Spanish Civil War broke out, W. H. Auden arrived, by milk cart, to Hólar. He spent the morning inspecting the wooden carvings in the local church. Their violence shocked him.
When he returned to his hotel for lunch, he found the staff busily preparing for the arrival of a small party of Nazis.
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Addressing one of the US’s true emergencies, five former mayors told Chicago how they had reduced the murder rate in their cities.
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It’s 1957 and I remember it this way . . .
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Whenever I heard “Michael Cohen” it was if it were a name not my own.
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It’s always interesting to hear the term “free market” used in The New York Times, as well as other major media outlets. It’s rarely, if ever, done in a negative sense.
Birds on a Wire
There’s an image I saw somewhere online: two or three dozen blackbirds are perched up on powerlines. All are on the highest powerline except for one; on the bottom wire, there’s a lone blackbird smack in the middle. A caption reads, “Who did you notice more?”
Sometimes pain blunts my memory of myself.
I’m not trying to minimize your woes, but I’ll see your bad knees and rosacea and raise you no boobs, scar tissue, and fragile post-chemo hair.
“The safest way for you to golf is with a physician by your side,” he replied.
If you take down Confederate statues, who gets on the pedestal? Steve Harvey reports on Madre Luz.
