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    Ed Frey on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026

    Sort of a academic twist on the story of King Solomon who proposed cutting a living child in half to…

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    Anonymous on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 18, 2026

    Oh, I forgot to put at the top. My comment was a response to Walnut's question/statement. "I’ll be interested in…

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    Anonymous on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 18, 2026

    To be fair and this is coming from me. Hitler wasn't in Spain for the Spanish, or even really to…

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    oldcowboy3 on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 18, 2026

    Later, Orwell wrote that he went to Spain as a journalist with an idea of fighting if he figured it…

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    Avi on Quebec CityMay 18, 2026

    But how? San Sebastián is on the Basque coast, a sea harbour with an exquisite cuisine culture and a tradition…

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    Anonymous on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 18, 2026

    Animal Farm was 10 years later, and as some might point out many, found it to be more anti Stalinist…

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    oldcowboy3 on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 18, 2026

    Hmmm, I rather doubt that one gets characters like Boxer and Benjamin from an author that is simply"an unapologetic communist"…

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    cliff arroyo on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 18, 2026

    "Why is the reaction to these events so overinflated almost a hundred years later?" My guess is oppositional identity formation.…

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    Anonymous on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 17, 2026

    Everything you need to know about the Spanish civil war you can learn by Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, though most…

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    oldcowboy3 on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 17, 2026

    "Why did things get so extreme? Why is the reaction to these events so overinflated almost a hundred years later?"…

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    Anonymous on Discarded LivesMay 17, 2026

    I'm reminded I need to clean out some closets... ethyl

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    Mitch4 on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 17, 2026

    I have friends on the generalized American Left who still maintain a romanticisation of the International Brigades, and try to…

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    cliff arroyo on Discarded LivesMay 17, 2026

    "why was the evidence of their unusual lives discarded like this" Not sure if that would be my takeaway. The…

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    cliff arroyo on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 17, 2026

    OT: A Cinderella story (if Cinderella had big boobs and danced up a storm) https://cliffarroyo.wordpress.com/2026/05/17/eurovision-2026-god-bless-the-contest-thats-got-its-bangaranga/

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    cliff arroyo on O’HareMay 17, 2026

    "Extremely expensive" I'm shocked... if you can't find good value for money at an airport restaurant then I don't know…

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    oldcowboy3 on O’HareMay 16, 2026

    Yes, and the larger the airport/city, the higher the cost and the lower the quality of both the food and…

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    Clarissa on O’HareMay 16, 2026

    Extremely expensive. But my choices are very limited at an airport.

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    cliff arroyo on O’HareMay 16, 2026

    "shrimp salad" That is a crime against shrimp and a crime against salad. At least it was probably very cheap.

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    Anonymous on Difference Between the PartiesMay 16, 2026

    He's got a Substack. You should check him out. You might like him. ethyl

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    Clarissa on Discarded LivesMay 16, 2026

    I'm sure that Harry and Edna weren't childless by choice either. Back then it wasn't that much of a choice…

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    Clarissa on Difference Between the PartiesMay 16, 2026

    Yes! That's the one I've been trying to remember!! Thank you, I've been going crazy grasping for the name in…

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    Clarissa on Tucker vs O’LearyMay 16, 2026

    It's a totalitarian state.

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    Anonymous on Difference Between the PartiesMay 16, 2026

    I don't use social media and I don't know who Simplicius is.

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    Anonymous on Difference Between the PartiesMay 16, 2026

    For capsule important-news-item brief purposes, I love Jeff Childers over at coffee&covid.

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    Anonymous on Tucker vs O’LearyMay 16, 2026

    What do you mean by "there is no such thing as a Chinese university"?

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    Anonymous on Discarded LivesMay 16, 2026

    I had a great aunt and uncle like that. Good jobs, not fantastically rich, but well off. They were infertile.…

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    Anonymous on Dumb DescendantsMay 16, 2026

    On the Lincoln side, Abe's dad could also create some concern.

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    oldcowboy3 on Difference Between the PartiesMay 16, 2026

    Actually my uncles' spreads are now farmed by two university educated cousins. The family are now tumbleweeds, scattered over four…

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    Clarissa on Catching Up on Q&AMay 16, 2026

    Absolutely. We do not read like the original readers of Cervantes did. There's a whole branch of literary criticism that…

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    Peter on Difference Between the PartiesMay 16, 2026

    From a UK perspective it is hurting, but that is mostly self-inflicted. Strangely enough, if you increase costs of employment,…

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