I find it incredibly inspiring that a guy who
- struggled with a stutter his whole life
- lost his wife and daughter in a tragic car crash
- lost his son to brain cancer
- was on the verge of losing in the 2020 primaries

He kept getting knocked down by life, but Joe Biden…

A neuroscientist explains how Trump is using existential fear to win the election | Opinion msn.com/en-ca/news/pol… Paradoxically, atheistic existentialism is not Evangelical love of Christ, not by a long shot. How do people reconcile the two when wanting to vote for DJT again?

Must-see TV: Michael Douglas as Ben Franklin and Amazon's 'Fallout' series tops this week's watch list msn.com/en-ca/entertai… I'd like to see this, but I don't want to pay for Apple+TV. (I also don't use an iPhone.) What would you do? The idea of 'free' often winds up difficult.

Israel blames aid worker deaths on 'operational failures' msn.com/en-ca/video/ne… Does YHWH condone
'operational failures'? (I never saw that term in Tanakh or even the so-called New Testament/Covenant.)

I am learning about Paul Celan. There is a good essay by Yoko Tawada about the translatability of his Hochdeutsch poetry into Japanese. She has a new book out soon: Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel. I look forward to reading it.

Umberto Eco is one of my favorite philosophers, semioticians, novelists, and all around thinker of stimulating thoughts.

Umberto Eco Kant and the Platypus

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Kant and the Platypus Essays on Language and Cognition part 1 Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen

Thank G-D that our enemies are that dumb.

I Agree but only if he's deceased...

Putin Has Already Lost nytimes.com/2024/02/22/opi… A war is not won only on the battlefield. Putin has made sure that if there were some Ukrainians who still loved Russia nostalgically, that can no longer be the case.

Please rt if you see this. This person and what was done to them can't be shrugged off and forgotten.😞🌈

Molly Ploofkins™ Talk about their god's decree to 'love thy neighbor', but walk all over Americans of different faiths or none at all.

Highly offensive and disrespectful.

#FakeChristians

Is it reasonable to invent the phrase 'antisamaritanism'? The 'Samaritans' were a group deemed to not be Jewish. That is why Jesus tells the story of a Samaritan (a non-Jew) helping a Jewish man. That was 2,000 or so years ago, I believe (1975 years ago?)

Putin Caught Off Guard as His 'Mini-NATO' Falls Apart msn.com/en-us/news/wor… We do not hear much about Armenia, or the ways in which various former Soviet states now do not just do what Putin asks.

Lying about universal ESA vouchers won't hide the truth azcapitoltimes.com/news/2023/07/2… This is worth reading. I did not at first know what an ESA voucher is.

Cornered in Gaza, 3 Key Hamas Leaders Plan to Fight to the End msn.com/en-us/news/wor… '...its armed forces, known as the Al-Qassam Brigades' include Yahya Sinwar, Moh. Deif, Marwan Issa, Mahmoud al-Zeahars, Zaher Jarein, & Khaled Meshaal. OK, but ALSO 29,400 civilians. Why?

#Ukraine aid is not only vital for #Ukraine , it's also good for #Arkansas . Senator John Boozman supported it, French Hill is pushing for it & Rep. Bruce Westerman is expressing support. Tom Cotton stands alone in opposition. Our House members should take the lead in ending the blockade.

bbc.com/news/world-us-… '...you can't cuddle an embryo, you can't breastfeed an embryo. It took me five embryos to get to my one child I hold in my arms.' The very notion of an 'embryo' was not something ANYONE knew about when they wrote books assembled in a collection of books.

As Republicans put the future of IVF clinics at risk with their extremist views, let me introduce you to Mike Pence’s son Michael, who was a product of IVF.