Salman Rushdie’s 2015 novel, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, saw the Indian-born British American author take on the role of Scheherazade by spinning numerous fabulous tales and spawning umpteen exotic characters. It was set in New York in an epoch marked by so-called strangenesses where good and evil genies battled, catastrophic disasters raged, […]
“Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) got into an eye-opening exchange this week with Chief John Chell, head of the New York Police Department. She excoriated Columbia University on X for mobilizing “the most violent” police to deal with students intimidating Jews in support of Hamas terrorists at war with Israel. Chell retorted, “Truly amazing! Columbia […]
“Short guys like us,” a friend of mine said to me recently, “should never get their pictures taken when they’re standing next to someone tall.” “Short guys like us? What’s that supposed to mean?” I said, not exactly in those words. I used a colorful Anglo-Saxon vulgarism in there, once or twice, for emphasis. My […]
The largest smartphone “dating” app for gay people believes it can boost its stock price, it seems, by optimizing even more for promiscuity and sex with strangers. Dating sites typically try to match users with other users who live in the same city. Grindr’s executives worry that this standard is growing stale, according to media […]
I am under no illusion that our allegedly right-wing elected officials can or even want to close the border, end the costly and unnecessary wars, balance the budget, protect the unborn, expand our right to bear arms meaningfully, or any of the other items promised every two, four, or six years. However, there is one […]
On our planet, everything is interconnected, from terrestrial and marine ecosystems and biodiversity to ice sheets, rivers and oceans. But a recent report reveals that the dynamics of these different systems is being destabilised by human activities to such an extent that they are reaching points of no return. On the occasion of Earth Day 2024, two of the report’s co-authors ring the alarm bell.
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