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Fortess Italy
Read more: Fortess ItalySince 1988, more than 19,000 people have died trying to reach Europe’s borders. Let’s be clear: Italy is not a Statue of Liberty nation. When wretched refuse flee teeming shores to cross the risky Mediterranean there is no Emma Lazarus waiting in the wings with happy endings or epitaphs. There…
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Acting out
Read more: Acting outSo long misbehavior… it hurts too much. Language is a locomotive on manmade tracks that can take culture on a runaway ride. “You dig?” was once about being in the know, not burrowing. But colloquial language is fickle. “You dig?” got its Beat Generation 15-minutes, after which it was “deep-sixed,”…
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Curiosity killed
Read more: Curiosity killedWhy can’t there just be… Martians? And why won’t they just… attack? Scientists are increasingly sure there’s no methane gas on Mars. So says “Curiosity,” the unmanned crab well into the second year of an unorthodox and somewhat lonely Martian road trip. The missing methane is a slap in the…
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Screwing with parrots
Read more: Screwing with parrotsWhat does this look like? Ireturned home to discover I’d misplaced the parrot. I went to my nearby but he wasn’t home. I decide to leave a note. “May I please borrow your parrot? Even a Phillips?” But I’d also misplaced the Scotch. Or maybe I’d just run out. So…
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Game of bones
Read more: Game of bonesNorth Vietnam frequently accused the United States of criminal acts for its use of napalm, but the UN disagreed. Foreign intervention in the service of the greater good reflects a high-minded, crime-and-punishment society whose backbone is the rule of law, a basic component of American civics. Break the law and…
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Old ghosts
Read more: Old ghostsThe number of civilian casualties caused by NATO’s 1999 Kosovo bombing led to worldwide second-guessing. Knee-jerk intervention in the civil wars of others is rarely a good idea. It usually does more harm than good and risks producing a wave of lethal ripple effects set in motion by those who…
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