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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
An old high-school classmate/writer writes something almost every day called "Trumperick du Jour," generally told from Trump's POV. They're always really clever and often very scathing. Sometimes they require some thought. Here's one about a boy seeking approval from his father.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 22, 2025, 05:11:20 pm ---An old high-school classmate/writer writes something almost every day called "Trumperick du Jour," generally told from Trump's POV. They're always really clever and often very scathing. Sometimes they require some thought. Here's one about a boy seeking approval from his father.
--- End quote ---
That middle part is a limerick. :D
Jeff Wrangler:
I'm currently reading the March 17 issue article about the Irish Famine of the 1840's--which suddenly strikes me as an appropriate issue to publish that article because the cover date was St. Patrick's Day.
(So that's how far behind I am. :P )
I may or may not have more to say when I finish the article. I'm sure thousands and thousands of Americans are at least aware of the famine because their ancestors came to the U.S. to escape it.
Front-Ranger:
I actually have started rereading that article too. (Mention the word potato and I'm all over it.) What really got to me was where the author said the harvests were really good that year, of wheat, cattle, and other crops. But the wealthy, mostly British landowners wouldn't let the Irish have any of it. They were just supposed to eat potatoes. When that crop failed, the farmers, their families and the citizenry starved. :'(
Jeff Wrangler:
I was interested to learn that the blight was not confined to Ireland. It was all over northern and western Europe. In the Netherlands (the Netherlands!) sixty thousand people died of starvation as a result of the blight.
I wonder where the fungus came from, and what's become of it?
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