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An excerpt from Heather Cox Richardson's April 13 " Letters from an American " - Just as there is a blueprint for destroying d...

Details from Deutsche Welle : At 69 years old , Lady Fatou on Monday became not only the Berlin Zoo's longest-residing tenant but also m...

Screencap this afternoon from the France 24 site.  Putin's ally Orban loses despite Trump's support: “My Administration stands ready...

Here you go, sweetheart.  Read this and weep.  This is a spontaneous public rant by a person who is supposed to represent the dignity of the...

I can't imagine anyone had serious hopes that peace could be negotiated during the recent summit in Pakistan, when the U.S. positions in...

I came across an interesting quote from one of my favorite authors : “ As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invent...

A very interesting headline in The Hill this morning.  Details re the implementation at the link. I came of age during the 1960s, when the ...

I'm not particularly surprised that the U.S. leads the world in this metric, but the numbers are unexpected.  Per capita usage of 141 r...

If I'm going to blog words tonight (in order to avoid you-know-what/you-know-who), we might as well look at this wonderful word meaning ...

It's a word most people recognize and vaguely understand, but I was curious about the etymology. From French déranger , from Old French ...

TYWKWDBI doesn't do any product promotions or have sponsored posts, but I'm going to post this video because the technology behind t...

One of the winning photos in the 2026 Sony World Photography Awards open competition. Celestial Dance . Shortlist, Motion. This young Lusita...

These are the scientists in the Science Evaluation Room, built by NASA specifically for Artemis missions, designed to support lunar science ...

Yesterday TYWKIWDBI received a comment from reader Jim, who was addressing points relevant to the recent post about international mail disru...

An extended (8-minute) discussion of current economic and market conditions by Mohamed El-Erian .  He makes note of the little-appreciated ...