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Politesse replied to the thread Cambodia and Thailand at War.I keep hearing rumors from my students, but the reporting available in the US leaves much to be desired. Feels like there are more fake... -
Politesse replied to the thread Recomendation: 'Dictatorship, it's easier than you think'.Sarah Kendzior is a bright light, an activism-minded anthropologist with a keen eye for the contiunuum between the social and the...
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I think Wordle is almost identical to Positional Jotto, a popular game in my circle almost half a century ago. We also played...
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Politesse replied to the thread Online Puzzles.Lares is Latin, not English. The name of the creche in a Roman home where the family gods sit in state, or by connotation the family...
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Politesse replied to the thread Online Puzzles.I love how fortunes shift quickly on the Wordle. Today my first guess contained no correct letters at all, an unlucky start. But between...
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Politesse replied to the thread Online Puzzles.I feel like the NYT Crossword gets a bit carried away with gimmicks and puns, at times? I enjoy Mr Shortz' segments on NPR though. I do...
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We're another couple of old-timers, or chumps if you will. We still subscribe to our local paper for daily and Sunday. Costs about...
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Politesse replied to the thread Online Puzzles.That $12 is a bit hot. But on the other hand, it does include doorstop delivery out here to the farting end of nowhere. There have to be...
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I barely remember Herb Caen's columns, but a certain Bernard Trink wrote a column for the Bangkok Post and called himself "the Herb Caen...
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Politesse replied to the thread Online Puzzles.I miss the movie reviews, but have never shared the apparently common adoration for Herb Caen. Phil Frank, now, there was a cartoonist...
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Politesse replied to the thread Joke gallery.Huh! I knew a boy scout joke when I was a kid that was likewise a groanworthy shaggy dog story. But in that one, whose details were...
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Politesse replied to the thread Online Puzzles.No, that's Seattle that serves up food in newspapers. San Francisco just sells "value".
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Politesse replied to the thread Online Puzzles.See, that's the thing. I was thinking of letting it go with this last house move, but... Sundays would never quite be the same.
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Politesse replied to the thread Question About the Synoptic Problem and the Priority of Matthew.The truth of my statement about ChatGPT is not affected one way or the next by its performance on this particular issue. But I'm happy...
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Politesse replied to the thread Online Puzzles.A slightly spicy 12 dollars per issue, but it looks about the same as it ever did, to me. People say the paper is thinner, but I've not...
