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  1. Say Nothing The book really hit me when I read it a couple of years ago. The show was good: too much Dolours and not enough of the family, compared to the book. And that's fine; they have to entertain as well as inform. And it got there in the end.
  2. They're so bad they're not even entertaining. They've just lost 1-0 to one of the spursiest spurs squads ever without throwing a punch, let alone landing one. Amazing.
  3. That save by Alisson today is an indicator of a subtle change. He used to have to make those regularly. A more conservative approach to attack means less of them now.
  4. Adama Traore is turning into a fairly effective winger (at least on the evidence of the past couple of matches I've watched). He beats the first defender, and instead of trying to then beat the next three, he gets the ball into the box. Another fantastic cross today for their first goal.
  5. One Republican who seems to understand is Katie Britt, the senator from Alabama. Last weekend, a reporter from AL.com asked her to react to news that the National Institutes of Health was sharply reducing its research grants. The University of Alabama-Birmingham is a top recipient of NIH grants, and also Alabama’s largest employer. Britt said she was all for cutting waste, to make sure taxpayer dollars are “spent efficiently, judiciously and accountably.” But she added that she wanted to work with the administration on “a smart, targeted approach … in order to not hinder lifesaving, groundbreaking research at high-achieving institutions like those in Alabama.” More disease and fewer jobs in Alabama, a state's that been solidly Republican for 20 years, and gave Trump a 31% margin of victory in this last election. It's what they voted for?
  6. Howe firmly slamming the door shut after the horse has long-since bolted. Good job Eddie.
  7. If you’re a normal American with a normal life and normal day-to-day worries, you probably haven’t heard that Donald Trump and his White House are punishing The Associated Press, the world’s premier wire service, for not getting in line and calling the Gulf of Mexico, as it’s been known for centuries, the “Gulf of America,” as per the new presidential decree. The White House has barred the AP’s reporter from participating in the White House pool since Tuesday. On Thursday, the administration upped the punishment to keep the AP out of a news conference open to the entire press corps. And Friday, it announced that the banishment is now indefinite and has expanded to the AP’s traditional seat on Air Force One. Report what we want, how we want, or you don't get access.
  8. Not content to let them score themselves, Trippier's now deflected in a second for City.
  9. Guardiola going to die of dehydration--he's doing that weird spit-ball thing at light speed.
  10. Trippier just has to run with him instead of trying to head the ball.
  11. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee Dee Brown At the time it was published, it was a remarkable book because it told the story of the demise of the native tribes in various parts of the US sympathetically, and in part in the words of the indians themselves. It's a very good book, sad and disheartening, as history often is. Relevant to today as well, of course, with the US president once again blithely discussing the displacement of millions of people.
  12. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power Daniel Yergin An excellent general history of oil as a commodity and it's centrality in the events of the last 100 years. Highly recommend. One minor quibble: he mentions Canada only a couple of times, and then only as an assumed appendage to the US industry. Which it is. But that in itself is worth mentioning, as a large part of the book is about how most other oil-producing nations gradually took control of their resource and it's exploitation. Given the current climate, perhaps we should be taking a leaf from their book.
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