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Jul. 13th, 2018 01:21 pmVarious noteworthy items:
1) I see that Russian GRU agents commute to work on flying brooms. Who knew?
2) Regarding this article on Why America didn't become part of the modern world, I said: "Generally a very good post, but a minor quibble. Europe decided to abolish poverty because they didn't have a choice. After the war, pretty much all of Europe lay in ruins, and everybody was poor. After all, the bombs fell on the manor house and the poor house, and both nice and bad streets got fought in.
It is no accident that Great Britain, one of the few countries that didn't get invaded, is trying to leave Europe. They were less poor (although still badly off) after WWII, and so the lesson didn't stick quite as well."
3) Forbes magazine apparently dubbed Kylie Jenner a "self-made woman." Well, she had a huge amount of help from her sister Kim Kardashian. To steal a phrase from Molly Ivins, Kyle was born on third base and got to home on a sacrifice fly.
1) I see that Russian GRU agents commute to work on flying brooms. Who knew?
2) Regarding this article on Why America didn't become part of the modern world, I said: "Generally a very good post, but a minor quibble. Europe decided to abolish poverty because they didn't have a choice. After the war, pretty much all of Europe lay in ruins, and everybody was poor. After all, the bombs fell on the manor house and the poor house, and both nice and bad streets got fought in.
It is no accident that Great Britain, one of the few countries that didn't get invaded, is trying to leave Europe. They were less poor (although still badly off) after WWII, and so the lesson didn't stick quite as well."
3) Forbes magazine apparently dubbed Kylie Jenner a "self-made woman." Well, she had a huge amount of help from her sister Kim Kardashian. To steal a phrase from Molly Ivins, Kyle was born on third base and got to home on a sacrifice fly.
