In 1980, I reported on Sacramento’s “public inebriates.” Most of them, a few hundred in all, lived in flophouse hotels. But some slept “in the weeds.” I walked the wooded banks of the rivers that converge in the capital and found just a few dozen spots where men had bedded down on simple mats of cardboard or newspaper. There were no tents or camps. The word “homeless” was rarely used then. It didn’t appear in my article for the Sacramento Bee. By 1982, amid a recession, newcomers who had lost...
Among the issues the House covered on Wednesday was a hearing on the problem of antisemitism at Columbia University.
A Houston playwright, inspired by a mock funeral held by the NAACP in 2007, contemplates that question.
Todd Ternovan would eventually retire a veteran OPP detective-constable, but his start in the work world was as a teen-aged jail guard among gangsters, accused killers, rapists and petty thieves. There was the time two bikers, convicted in a grisly triple murder in Windsor, were transferred from a federal penitentiary back to Windsor Jail pending […]
The Milwaukee Bucks lost handily to the Orlando Magic 88-113. NBA.com Box Score Dame was active to start things off, although that only translated into points from the line. Jonathan CPAC put the Magic on his shoulders, which went only slightly better than expected. Taken together, it was 30-22 Bucks after one. That line would remain for a while as the teams traded airballs and turnovers. Some baskets from Bobby quickly subsided as the Bucks didn’t make a basket for over half of the quarter (en...
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The first shocking thing about Nicholas Shakespeare’s biography of James Bond creator Ian Fleming is that it is over 700 pages long and includes almost another hundred of notes. The second shocking thing is that all of them are necessary.
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“Taxes,” former Tax Foundation President Scott Hodge tells us in his new book, Taxocracy, “rule nearly every aspect of our daily lives.” In the course of 335 pages, Hodge backs up that statement, showing how the tax code can explain everything from the size and shape of buildings to why songwriters all suddenly started selling […]
Google's John Mueller had another one-liner, this one he said, "keep in mind that SEO is not really about magic." This was in response to trying to SEOs trying to find some magic by using various HTML elements and thus seeing some sort of SEO benefit to that "magic."The original question on Reddit was:I'd like to place my H1 inside the first slide (it'll always be the first slide) of a hero carousel (using SplideJS).It'll be in rotation with 3 other slides, all with equal time on display.None of...