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serious crayons:
Thanks for the deeper description and tales, FRiend! I actually do think quite often about how lucky we are to fresh, drinkable water handy — usually at numerous sites in our homes!
Jeff Wrangler:
I highly recommend that everyone read the last paragraph of the article about Brad Parscale in the March 9 issue. The article itself is too long, but I highly recommend the last paragraph.
Front-Ranger:
I was just reading that article too, and there were several hauntingly prophetic sentences, odd for a profile of a rube from Topeka, Kansas.
serious crayons:
I finally finished the profile of Yuval Noah Harari and can report that I hated it. It was a deliberate cheap-shot takedown. It wasn’t a straight-up profile, nor was it a straight-up critique of his work. It was a pretend profile laced with snide, condescending little digs, some of which may have some truth to them but were not well argued in the piece. Don’t get me wrong — I like Harari’s book so am naturally inclined to defend him. But if, say, Adam Gopnik or Louis Menand had written a fair and thoughtful essay debunking it, that would be OK. This writer wasn’t good enough to do that.
Front-Ranger:
That was the impression I got, as well.
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